The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more [at the … ⌘ Read more
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Erlang Solutions: How ChatGPT improved my Elixir code. Some hacks are included.
I have been working as an Elixir developer for quite some time and recently came across the ChatGPT model. I want to share some of my experience interacting with it.
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@Planet_Jabber_XMPP@feeds.twtxt.net No. ChatGPT does not improve your code. Coding is thinking. You offloaded your thought to a machine. You will not be able to reproduce what the machine did for you if you don’t have the machine, so you learned nothing.
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.1: Handle more traffic, consume less resources
MongooseIM is a highly customisable instant messaging backend, that can handle millions of messages per minute, exchanged between millions of users from thousands of dynamically configurable XMPP domains. With the new release 6.1.0 it becomes even more cost-efficient, flexible and robust thanks to the new arm64 [Docker containers](https://hub.docker. … ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Kaidan 0.9: End-to-End Encryption & XMPP Providers
It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management and support of XMPP Providers!
Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero PET and NGI Assure with [public … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.
This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.
There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.
- Many SQL database improvements
mod_mamsupport for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
- New
mod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
- Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.
- Many SQL database improvements
mod_mamsupport for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
- New
mod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
- Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_
A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!
We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange … ⌘ Read more
Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement
I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library.
XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.
Why changing the name?
It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati … ⌘ Read more
Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement
I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library.
XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.
Why changing the name?
It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Developing Openfire Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality
We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.
Ef … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Rea … ⌘ Read more
XEP-0464: Cookies https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0464.html
Debian XMPP Team: XMPP What’s new in Debian 12 bookworm
On Tue 13 July 2021 there was a
blog post
of new XMPP related software releases which have been uploaded to Debian 11 (bullseye).
Today, we will inform you about updates for the upcoming Debian release bookworm.
A lot of new releases have been provided by the upstream projects. There were lot of changes
to the XMPP clients like Dino, Gajim, … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023
XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023
The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!
Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and
prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New: Openfire MUC Real-Time Block List plugin!
A new plugin has been made available for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol. We have named this new plugin the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin.
This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federated XMPP domains. From experience, the XMPP community has learned that bad actors tend to spam a wid … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Dino 0.4 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.
The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.
Reactions and RepliesReactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji.
They … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!
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 … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Writing a Chat Client from Scratch
There are a lot of things that go into building a chat system, such as client, server, and protocol. Even for only making a client there are lots of areas of focus, such as user experience, features, and performance. To keep this post a manageable size, we will just be building a client and will use an existing server and protocol (accessing Jabber network services using the XMPP protocol). We’ll make a practical GUI so we can test things, but not spend too much time on p … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.2.0 released
We have now released version 1.2.0 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!
This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.
This release primarily enhances functionality when running in an Openfire cluster. All changes can be reviewed in [the changelog for this release](https://www.igniterealtime. … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Bringing FASTer authentication to Prosody and XMPP
As our work continues on modernizing XMPP authentication,
we have some more new milestones to share with you. Until now our work has
mostly been focused on internal Prosody improvements, such as the new roles\
and permissions framework. Now we are starting to extend our
work to the actual client-to-server protocol in XMPP.
Prosody and [Snikket](https://snik … ⌘ Read more
Jérôme Poisson: Libervia progress note 2022-W45
Hello, it’s time for a long overdue progress note.
I’ll talk here about the work made on ActivityPub (AP) gateway and on end-to-end encryption around pubsub.
Oh, and if everything goes well, this blog post should be accessible from XMPP and ActivityPub (and HTTP and ATOM feed), using the same identifier goffi@goffi.org.
The work made on the AP gateway has been possible thanks to a NLnet/NGI0 grant (w … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.
The second ma … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 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 t … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.
This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.
There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes five months of work, over 120 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.
This version bring support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.
There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.
The second ma … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.
The second ma … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Mutation Testing in Prosody
This is a post about a new automated testing technique we have recently
adopted to help us during our daily development work on Prosody. It’s probably
most interesting to developers, but anyone technically-inclined should be able
to follow along!
If you’re unfamiliar with our project, it’s an open-source real-time messaging
server, built around the XMPP protocol. It’s used by many organizations and
self-hosting hobbyists, and also powers applications such as [Snikke … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.
The second ma … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 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 mor … ⌘ Read more
Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Client Apps
Our XMPP Chat Apps philosophyWeb based, JavaScript, React and so on app are great… for developers.
We do care about users and we understand that the only way to provide users with great experience is through native apps.
Therefore we have put a lot of effort and dedication to develop native client for each platform separately. Each of our
apps is tailored for the best experience and native feeling. Plus they are optimized for each platform, so they are
lightweight but also powerful and take … ⌘ Read more
Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Server
Tigase XMPP Server is Java based softwareTigase XMPP Server is a standalone application written in Java. It is not a “web server” system. It runs independently
from any other software. In most cases all it needs to run is Java Virtual Machine (JVM). For extended functionality
it may require a few external libraries for the most part it is all in-house developed software.
Java is known and infamous for it’s high resource requirements and slowness. This unfor … ⌘ Read more
Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Libraries
Our software philosophyActually nothing new and nothing surprising here. We want to have as much of a reusable code as possible. And this
reusable code should have a simple but powerful API to be useful for quickly creating software.
That’s it.
And this is how we design and develop our XMPP libraries. Check them out.
Documentation to all our projects is available online and sample codes? Take a look at our XMPP Chat apps which are
open source too. ⌘ Read more
Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.
The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc.
It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 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 … ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Encrypted Audio and Video Calls
Kaidan will receive a grant by NLnet for adding encrypted audio and video calls.
The calls will be end-to-end encrypted and authenticated via OMEMO.
Furthermore, Kaidan will support small group calls.
We strive for interoperability between Kaidan and other XMPP apps supporting calls.
In order to achie … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility
This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)
Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database.
In this case, we are in a unique position:
Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial.
For now, we only … ⌘ Read more
XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers and blabber.im
Easy Onboarding with Android Chat AppA new version of the Android XMPP chat app
blabber.im has been released.
It provides an easy onboarding.
Passwords are generated automatically and XMPP providers are suggested.
Those suggestions are based on our curated list of XMPP providers.
The XMPP Standards Foundation: Mid Term Evaluation Updates
It’s been a month since I wrote my last blog. For those of you who have been following my blogs, thanks a lot for taking the time to read them. In this blog, I will give the updates post mid-term evaluation and the challenges that I have been facing and how I overcame some of them.
For those of you who don’t know much about GSoC, a mid-term evaluat … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Base implementation
The last few weeks were quite busy for me, but there was also a lot of progress.
I’m happy to say that the base of stateless file sharing is implemented and working.
Let’s explore some of the more interesting topics.
File hashes have some practical applications, such as file validation and duplication detection.
As such, they are part of the [metadata element](https://xmpp.org/extensio … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 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 bottom … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a bugfix release for the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!
This plugin adds support for sending push notifications to client software, as described in XEP-0357: “Push Notifications”.
[This update](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/0.9.1/pushnotificatio … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 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 bottom … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
Hey, this is my first development update!
As some of you might already know from my last blog post, my Google Summer of Code project is implementing Stateless File Sharing for Dino.
This is my first XMPP project and as such, I had to learn very basic things about it.
In my blog posts I’ll try to document the things I learned, with the idea that it might help someone else in the future.
I won’t refrain from explaining terms you might take for gran … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!
Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. **Kindly … ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Modernizing XMPP authentication and authorization
We’re excited to announce that we have received funding, from the EU’s
NGI Assure via the NLnet Foundation, to work on
some important enhancements to Prosody and XMPP. Our work will be focusing on
XMPP authentication and authorization, and bringing it up to date with current
and emerging best practices.
What kind of changes are we talking about? Well, there are a few aspects we
are planning to work on. Let’s start with “authent … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework
MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by … ⌘ Read more