[The XMPP Newsletter July
2024](https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/)
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers
the month of July 2024.
XSF Announcements
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xsf-announcements
If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member,
[please apply until August 18th,
2024!](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q3_2024).
XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-and-google-summer-of-code-2024
The XSF has been accepted as a [hosting organisation at GSoC in
2024](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024) again! These XMPP
projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding:
- [Monal](https://monal-im.org/)
- [Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours,
medium)](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Monal/Media_Gallery)
- [Blog post
1](https://thevaidik.medium.com/google-summer-of-code-gsoc-my-experience-1-xmpp-standards-foundation-da781ac95560)
- [Blog post
2](https://thevaidik.medium.com/google-summer-of-code-gsoc-my-experience-2-midterm-evaluations-xmpp-standards-foundation-3be8b27dc653)
- [Prav.app](https://prav.app/)
- INFO: Unfortunately, the mid-term evaluation has not been passed and the
project has been stopped
- [Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours,
medium)](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Prav.app/Standards_compliant_SMS_OTP_based_authentication)
- [Blog post
1](https://write.as/assu/gsoc-and-open-source-my-first-steps-into-xmpp)
[XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024]
XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024
XSF Fiscal Hosting Projects
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xsf-fiscal-hosting-projects
The XSF offers [fiscal hosting](https://xmpp.org/community/fiscalhost/) for
XMPP projects. Please apply via [Open
Collective](https://opencollective.com/xmpp). For more information, see the
[announcement blog post](https://xmpp.org/2021/09/the-xsf-as-a-fiscal-host/).
Current projects you can support:
- [Mellium Co-op](https://opencollective.com/mellium)
- [Bifrost bridge](https://opencollective.com/bifrost-mam)
- [Prav iOS](https://opencollective.com/prav-ios)
- [diasp.in](https://opencollective.com/diasp-in)
XMPP Events https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-events
- [XMPP Sprint in Worcester,
UK](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2024-09_Worcester_UK): September, 21st -
22nd 2024 — The Hive, Worcester
- [XMPP Track at FOSSY](https://2024.fossy.us/): August 1-4th 2024 — Portland
State University
- [Berlin XMPP
Meetup](https://mov.im/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/berlin-xmpp-meetup)[DE / EN]:
Monthly meeting of XMPP enthusiasts in Berlin, every 2nd Wednesday of the month
- [XMPP Italian happy hour](https://video.xmpp-it.net/c/happyhour/videos) [IT]:
Monthly Italian XMPP web meeting, every third Monday of the month at 7:00 PM
local time (online event, with web meeting mode and live streaming).
XMPP Articles
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-articles
- [Rivista](https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista) is a new publishing system
which creates a dynamic journal site from XMPP PubSub nodes; Rivista is
compatible with Atom/RSS news readers and HTML browsers as one.
- [A blogpost from Haiku-OS on the XMPP Sprint Berlin July
2024](https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/nephele/2024-07-21_xmpp_coding_sprint_berlin).
Find also July’s XMPP Sprint in Berlin list of
projects](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2024-07_Berlin#Attendees) that got
worked on!
- [JMP.chat: Calls from SIP and a potential new SIM
plan](https://blog.jmp.chat/b/july-newsletter-2024)
- [ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging
Services](https://www.process-one.net/blog/breaking-down-the-costs-of-large-messaging-services/)
XMPP Software News
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-software-news
XMPP Clients and Applications
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-clients-and-applications
- [Rivista 0.1](https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista) has been released.
- [Psi+ 1.5.2033
portable](https://sourceforge.net/projects/psiplus/files/Windows/Personal-Builds/tehnick/)
has been released.
- [Psi+ 1.5.2029 through 1.5 2038
installer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/psiplus/files/Windows/Personal-Builds/KukuRuzo/)
have been released.
- [Gajim 1.9.2](https://gajim.org/post/2024-07-19-gajim-1.9.2-released/) has
been released and comes with an important OMEMO encryption fix, native
notifications on Windows, plus usability improvements. Also, [Gajim
1.9.3](https://gajim.org/post/2024-07-29-gajim-1.9.3-released/) has been
released, which fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some
improvements.
- [Monal 6.4.1](https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/releases/tag/Build_iOS_941)
has been released with quite a few fixes and updated translations. ATTENTION,
this is the last release that will support macOS 11 + 12 and the last release
that will support iOS 14 + 15. Furthermore, [Monal IM](https://monal-im.org/)
got selected in [another funding round](https://nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/)
by the [EU’s NGI](https://ngi.eu) via the [NLnet Foundation NGI0 Entrust
Fund](https://nlnet.nl/entrust/) to work on some important features. Namely:
Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies
and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal’s internals. You can find
out more on the [Monal IM Blog
post](https://monal-im.org/post/00013-nlnet-funding2/).
- [Movim 0.26](https://github.com/movim/movim/releases/tag/v0.26) has been
released. Featuring Custom Emojis, Codeblock support in messages, better
handling of spam messages, updated message moderation and retraction and also
some bug fixes. [Movim](https://movim.eu/) is also happy to announce that it
was selected by the [NLnet Foundation](https://nlnet.nl/) to receive funds
through the [NGI0 Core](https://nlnet.nl/core/) to work on a [large set of
exciting
features](https://mov.im/node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/f619c49c-ccd3-4487-8c2e-20b6d3555da2)
around [video-conferencing](https://nlnet.nl/project/Movim-E2EE-video/) on the
platform, including one-to-many audio and video calls. Some more specifics and
technical blogs posts will be published soon.
[Movim 0.26 with custom emojis]
Movim 0.26 with custom emojis
XMPP Servers
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-servers
- [openfire
4.8.2](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-8-2-release/94171) and
[4.8.3](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-8-3-release/94194)
have been released.
- [ejabberd 24.07](https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-24-07/) has been
released.
- Publication of an ejabberd [extauth script for OIDC password grant
flow](https://codeberg.org/Natureshadow/ejabberd-extauth-oidc-password)
XMPP Libraries & Tools
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#xmpp-libraries--tools
- [nbxmpp 5.0.2](https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/python-nbxmpp/-/tags/5.0.2) and
[5.0.3](https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/python-nbxmpp/-/tags/5.0.3) have been
released.
- [QXmpp 1.7.1](https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp/releases/tag/v1.7.1)
(with improved [OMEMO](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html) support) and
[1.8.0](https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp/releases/tag/v1.8.0) (with
support for [SRV records](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0368.html), [Bind
2](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0386.html),
[FAST](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0484.html), [XMPP
URIs](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0147.html) and account migration to
another server) have been released.
Extensions and specifications
https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#extensions-and-specifications
The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its [XEP
series](https://xmpp.org/extensions/) in addition to [XMPP
RFCs](https://xmpp.org/rfcs/).
Developers and other standards experts from around the world collaborate on
these extensions, developing new specifications for emerging practices, and
refining existing ways of doing things. Proposed by anybody, the particularly
successful ones end up as Final or Active - depending on their type - while
others are carefully archived as Deferred. This life cycle is described in
[XEP-0001](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0001.html), which contains the
formal and canonical definitions for the types, states, and processes. [Read
more about the standards
process](https://xmpp.org/about/standards-process.html). Communication around
Standards and Extensions happens in the [Standards Mailing
List](https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards) ([online
archive](https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/)).
Proposed https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#proposed
The XEP development process starts by writing up an idea and submitting it to
the XMPP Editor. Within two weeks, the Council decides whether to accept this
proposal as an Experimental XEP.
- No XEPs Proposed this month.
New https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#new
- Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0492 (Chat notification settings)
- Promoted to Experimental (XEP Editor: dg)
Deferred https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#deferred
If an experimental XEP is not updated for more than twelve months, it will be
moved off Experimental to Deferred. If there is another update, it will put the
XEP back onto Experimental.
- No XEPs deferred this month.
Updated https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#updated
- Version 0.1.1 of XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens)
- Link to latest draft version (09) of the HT SASL mechanism. (lnj)
- Version 0.2.0 of XEP-0484 (Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens)
- Added an XML Schema.
- Fixed text where ‘count’ was assumed to be an element, not an attribute.
- Fixed indentation in a few examples. (egp)
- Version 0.4.2 of XEP-0440 (SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability)
- Add an XML schema.
- Mention that this specification does add a new namespace that should go to
the registrar.
- Fix indentation, typos, misuse of '' vs. </> for elements, etc. (egp)
- Version 0.1.2 of XEP-0491 (WebXDC)
- Suggest what to use for selfAddr
- Add acknowledgements (spw)
Last Call https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#last-call
Last calls are issued once everyone seems satisfied with the current XEP
status. After the Council decides whether the XEP seems ready, the XMPP Editor
issues a Last Call for comments. The feedback gathered during the Last Call can
help improve the XEP before returning it to the Council for advancement to
Stable.
- No Last Call this month.
Stable https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#stable
- No XEP moved to Stable this month.
Deprecated https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#deprecated
- No XEP deprecated this month.
Rejected https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/#rejected
- No XEP rejected this month.
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mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau
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- Translators: Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi
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