Gajim: Gajim 1.4.1
Only a week after the release of Gajim 1.4.0, we’re happy to announce Gajim 1.4.1! 🎉 This release brings several fixes for issues you reported to us. Thanks for your feedback!
In order to make it easier to reach us for help, we added a new menu item “Join Support Chat” under “Help”. Clicking it will directly join our support chat at gajim@conference.gajim.org.
While redesigning the message window, we moved message timestamps to the r … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
- Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
- New installers and container
- Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and rebar3 binaries require Erlang/OTP 22 or higher, and make rel uses different paths. There are no break … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Togethr: Soprani.ca Social
Last week we launched a sister product from the same team that brings you JMP: Togethr. Why are we launching a second product? Why now? What does this have to do with the mission of JMP in particular, or the Sopranica project in general?
Togethr is a managed hosting platform for small Fediverse instances. It is powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, PeerTube, and so many others. While there are sev … ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series
I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an e … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2022.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bot … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Development News April 2022
This month came with a lot of preparations for the release of Gajim 1.4 🚀 Gajim’s release pipeline has been improved in many ways, allowing us to make releases more frequently. Furthermore, April brought improvements for file previews on Windows.
For two and a half years I (wurstsalat) have been writing (and translating) Gajim’s monthly development news. Keeping this up on a monthly basis takes a lot of time and effort. Upcoming development news will … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: New Staff, New Commands
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part 2/2
In the second and final part of this article, we take a look at some of the important developments in how payments work using our fintech industry knowledge and experience working on some of the most performant fintech systems in the world such as Vocalink’s Instant Payments Solution (IPS).
In part 1 we looked at the rapid growth in e-commerce, demand for faster payments and consumer adoption of relativel … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part ½
Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value. Payments are a part of financial services that have undergone rapid and transformational change over recent years, and the Erlang Solutions team has been at the cutting-edge of many of these changes working on exciting cli … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.
This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Computing International Call Rates with a Trie
A few months ago we launched International calling with JMP. One of the big tasks leading up to this launch was computing the rate card: that is, how much calls to different destinations would cost per minute. While there are many countries in the world, there are even more calling destinations. Our main carrier partner for this feature lists no fewer than 59881 unique phone number prefixes in the rates they charge us. This list is, quite frankly, incomprehen … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Updates from the Poezio ecosystem
Releases have happened recently that revolve around Poezio, a TUI
(Terminal UI) client for XMPP, including Poezio itself, its backend XMPP
library Slixmpp, and also the poezio and
slixmpp plugins for OMEMO.
 plugin version 1.2.3 released
Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin dir … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.0 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version adds a new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-arc … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Interoperability in a “Big Tech” world
As an answer to the announce of the EU parliament to force some service
providers to allow others to interact with them, that we call
“interoperability”.
In theory, interoperability is a way to allow different networks to
communicate together. And it’s great, it’s even important for … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed explanation of those … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Cheogram Android Release, Matrix Alpha
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free … ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX)
We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is
XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which
may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.
It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.
Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some
issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.
Ho … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: GoJara plugin for Openfire version 2.2.3 release
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.
Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Al … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.
Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: Joanna
”`
Sipping my tea, I think back and remember Joanna:
Quietness isn’t the same for me now.
You came to America, wondering what you’d find:
Atlanta in a forest of broken dreams,
A people in turmoil, and no one seems to know why.
Communities falter before they’ve begun.
A lawnmower hums and I wake from my reverie.
I’d forgotten, about your America.
Driving to the North, far away from the city.
You looked for meaning in every farm passing by.
I bought you peanuts and gave you a tour of the mountains.
We d … ⌘ Read more”`
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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!
What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.
Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2022.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more a … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.5 and 4.5.0-alpha1 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.5. Thanks to numerous contributors this patch level release includes many fixes and improvements.
For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.4, check out Smack’s changelog
The shortlog for the 4.4.5 release is
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Florian Schmaus (21):
Smack 4.4.5-SNAPSHOT
[core] Remo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/smack-4-4-5-and-4-5-0-alpha1-released/91437)```
Erlang Solutions: Is Elixir the Right Choice for Hypergrowth Startups
We always love to see and share stories that so perfectly capture the benefits of using Elixir. Today, we’ll be taking a look at an example that captures why Elixir is the perfect technology for startups that are anticipating fast growth, including how choosing Elixir allows your development team to focus on improving the product.
 any user of either protocol to contact any user of the other protocol without creating an account. This is not possible with all protocols, but works well when both sides are federated.
Take for instance sip.cheogram.com, which is a bidirectional gateway between XMPP and SIP. Any … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive 4/4 | Innovating with Erlang and Elixir
Why do companies use Erlang & Elixir for their blockchain solutions?Building a robust and scalable blockchain presents a number of challenges that a research and development team typically needs to address. Often the ambitious goals to drive decentralised consensus and governance require unconventional approaches to achieve extra performance and reliability.
Improved Transa … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir
When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.
Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 5 years old today, and now with international calls!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.7.1 released!
Moments ago, we’ve released version 1.7.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version fixes changes to the API (notably the JSON representation of some entities) that inadvertently sneaked into the 1.7.0 release. The API in 1.7.0 should closely resemble that of releases prior to 1.7.0!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternative … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Dino 0.3 Release
Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.
The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!
Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between … ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development
Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.
Dear Monal Community,
as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.
To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.
This would have … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!
We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)
Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and sof … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How HCA Healthcare used the BEAM to fight COVID – Code BEAM V Talk review
We often talk about the suitability of the BEAM VM for the Healthcare industry. Afterall, when it comes to Healthcare, downtime can literally be deadly, and no technology is better equipped to deliver high availability and minimal downtime than the BEAM. At Code BEAM V 2020, Bryan Hunter, an Enterprise fellow at one of the biggest Healthcare providers in the world joi … ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity on Pinephone
Hi all,
So far, in my pinephone I used mainly GUI applications, because I was using a touch screen. Terminal applications are not user-friendly when it comes to one-handed operation.
I tested different distributions on my pinephone (mobian, manjaro, archarm), but usually most based on Phosh. In my opinion it is currently the best mobile graphics environment and stable as well.
In Phosh I tested few xmpp clients:
- the default application installed with Phosh is chat … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Server updates for ARM systems
We have a couple of important announcements relevant to people running the
Snikket server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi. Systems using
ARM processors are increasingly popular for self-hosting due to their
increased efficiency, lower cost and minimal energy consumption.
The Snikket January 2022 server release was an
exciting release for us, but some users on ARM-based systems reported some
difficulties upgrading to … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Snikket Hosting, Billing Overage Limits
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Fr … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.
A summary of changes in this release:
Minor changesPeter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 has been released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is elated to be able to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.0!
This release is the first non-patch release in more than a year, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes.
I’d like to explicitly thank the many people in the community that have supported this release: not only were a significant amount of code contributions provided, the feedback that we get in our [chatr … ⌘ Read more