# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 892
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/Planet_Jabber_XMPP/twtxt.txt&offset=392
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/Planet_Jabber_XMPP/twtxt.txt&offset=492
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/Planet_Jabber_XMPP/twtxt.txt&offset=292
Maxime Buquet: Versioning
_I finally took time to setup a forge and some old drafts turned up. I am
publishing one of them today as is even though it’s 4 years old
(2018-08-07T13:27:43+01:00). I’m not as grumpy as I was at the time but I
still think this applies._

Today I am grumpy at people’s expectation of a free software project, about
versioning and releases. I am mostly concerned about applications rather than
libraries in this article but I am sure some of this would apply to libraries
as well.

Today we were discussing ab ... ⌘ 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.

# chatty\\_server

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
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.

# chatty\_server

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
Monal IM: Monal IM – project moved
We recently started to migrate the App from Anu Pokharel‘s Apple account to Thilo Molitor‘s Apple account.

Aspart of this transition we also deployed some new push servers to not let an old retired developer pay for the infrastructure needed for Monal.

Coming along with this transition from the old developer team to the new one is our new clean website at https://monal-im.org/. From now on, this blog will not be used for Monal anymore.

Many t ... ⌘ Read more
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Async, Metadata with Thumbnails and some UI
## Async

Asynchronous programming is a neat tool, until you work with a foreign project in a foreign language using it.
As a messenger, Dino uses lots of asynchronous code, not always though.
Usually my progress wasn’t interfered by such instances, but sometimes I had to work around it.

Async in Vala

No surprises here.
Functions are annotated with async, and yield expressions that are asyn ... ⌘ 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
OMEMO logo

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
Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Accessing Certificate Stores
Currently, I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work is being funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet. ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire ThreadDump plugin 1.1.0 released
Earlier today, we have released version 1.1.0 of the Openfire Thread Dump plugin. This plugin uses various evaluators to trigger the creation of a Java thread dump. These thread dumps provide valuable information that is typically used when analyzing issues within Openfire’s implementation.

In the new version of the plugin, two new evaluators have been added: one that looks at the usage pattern of Openfire’s TaskEngin ... ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Kaidan's End-to-End Encryption Trust Management
We worked several months on Kaidan’s upcoming end-to-end encryption and trust management.
Once Kaidan 0.9 is released, it will provide the latest OMEMO Encryption.
But it will also make trust decisions in the background for you if it’s possible.
Some trust decisions have to be made manually but there are many others Kaidan automates without decreasing your security.
That is done by automatically sharing ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android
Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android
Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Signup with Cheogram Android
Welcome to JMP.chat! If you are looking for a simple guide on how to sign up for JMP, then you have come to the right place! We will be keeping this guide up-to-date if there is ever a change in how to sign up.

We will first start with signing up from within your Jabber chat application on mobile, where you will never need to leave the client to get set up. I will be using the freedomware Android client Cheogram to do this signup. To star ... ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Implementing Go Fish to Learn Elixir
A walkthrough of how we implemented GoFish as a way of learning Elixir and the concepts of the BEAM and OTP.

* * *

## Intro

In this article, we will outline our initial design and implementation of the card game Go Fish in Elixir using raw processes, and then describe how we were motivated to re-implement the project using the GenServer module instead. The first step is to agree upon the rules of the game, then describe the domain mode ... ⌘ Read more*
JMP: Newsletter: New Employee, Command UI, JMP SIM Card, Multi-account Billing
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
Erlang Solutions: How Can Technology Answer the Questions Still Unanswered in FinTech?**
Leaders in the fintech industry joined us to discuss how technology can answer the remaining questions in fintech. They explored key technologies shaping the sector that could also have an impact on society as a whole. Join our panel moderated by Andrew Vorster (Innovation Catalyst) featuring Jacky Uys (Mambu ... ⌘ 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)

## Storing sfs sources in a database

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 App

A 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.

blabber.im registration integrating XMPP Providers

## More Apps Supporting X ... ⌘ Read more
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.

### The Mid-Term Evaluation

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

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
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.1 released!
Woopsie doodle! It turns out that a rather annoying bug was introduced in version 1.9.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire, that we released earlier today!

To avoid unnecessary issues, we’ve decided to follow up with an immediate new release that addresses this issue. ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.0 released!
We have released version 1.9.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin! This version adds functionality and provides some bug fixes that relates to multi-user chat rooms.

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/pl ... ⌘ 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: Openfire 4.7.3 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Multilingual Transcriptions and Better Voicemail Greetings
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 numb ... ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.7
Gajim 1.4.7 brings performance improvements, better file previews, and many bug fixes. Thanks for all your reports!

## What’s New

Multiple issues with Gajim’s file preview have been fixed. If you want to disable file previews entirely, there is now a setting in Gajim’s preferences.

For people with many contacts in their contact list, this release will bring a significant performance improvement 🚀

Furthermore, notifications on Windows should not appear in the taskbar anymore.

## Fixes ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.3 released!
We recently release version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version extends the MUC search capability to include the natural name of the MUC (instead of just the name). It also updates a number of library dependencies.

The updated plugin should be available for download in your Openfire admin console already. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.ign ... ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Certify Keys with PGPainless
Currently I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work will be funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.

[![](https://nlnet.nl ... ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Updates to the MIM Inbox in version 5.1
## User interfaces in open protocols

When a messaging client starts, it typically presents the user with:

- an inbox
- a summary of chats (in chronological order)
- unread messages in their conversation
- a snippet of the most recent message in the conversation
- information on if a conversation is muted (and if so how long a conversation is muted for)
- other information that users may find useful on their welcome screen

Mongoos ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.

You can find [download artifacts](https://ign ... ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.6
Gajim 1.4.6 fixes some bugs with the status icon and notifications. Emoji short code detection has been improved.

## Fixes and improvements

Several issues have been fixed in this release.

- Improved detection of emoji short codes
- Tray icon withlibappindicator has been fixed
- Groups are now preserved when changing a contact’s name
- Windows: Notifications shouldn’t appear in the taskbar anymore

Have a look at the [chan ... ⌘ [Read more](https://gajim.org/post/2022-07-07-gajim-1.4.6-released/)
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
JMP: Newsletter: Command UI and Better Transcriptions Coming Soon
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 a ... ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: Sirius
NameSiriusDesignationα CMaMake/modelHonda CB1100StyleNaked bikeEngine1140cc air-cooled inline fourTiresMetzeler Roadtec Z8 Interact Tires 110/80-18; 140/70-18

With gas prices as high as they are I recently decided to sell my Honda S2000,
Vela.
Though I normally say that there is never a reason to buy a new vehicle when a
used one can be had that’s just as good, depreciates less, and is cheaper, I’ve
decided to brake my own rule and ordere ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Smack 4.4.6 released
We are happy to announce the release of Smack 4.4.6. For a high-level overview of what’s changed in Smack 4.4.6, check out Smack’s changelog

This release mostly consists of bug fixes, many of them reported by the Jitsi folks. I would like to thank especially Damian Minkov for detailed problem descriptions, for the fruitful collaboration and for various joint bug hunts whi ... ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Fintech From Your Choice of Tech Stack
In our recent white paper ‘Technology Trends in Financial Services 2022’**, we explained the importance of software engineering for gaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the start of the year, a lot has occurred on a macro level strengthening our belief that modern financial services must be based on a solid technical foundation to deliver the user experiences and business rel ... ⌘ 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
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.1 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.1 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version removes the need to authenticate for status endpoints, adds new endpoints for bulk modifications of affiliations on MUC rooms, as well as a healthy number of other bugfixes.

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 pl ... ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Contract Programming an Elixir approach – Part 1
This series explores the concepts found in Contract Programming and adapts them to the Elixir language. Erlang and BEAM languages, in general, are surrounded by philosophies like “fail fast”, “defensive programming”, and “offensive programming”, and contract programming can be a nice addition. The series is also available on Github.

You will find a lot ... ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.

All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:

https://repo.process-one.net

![ejabberd installation log](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.process-one.net/blog/announcing-ejabberd-deb-and-rpm-repositories/)
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.

ejabberd 22.05 released

– 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 reba ... ⌘ 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
Paul Schaub: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story
Reproducibility is an important tool to empower users. Why would a user care about that? Let me elaborate.

For a piece of software to be reproducible means that everyone with access to the software’s source code is able to build the binary form of it (e.g. the executable that gets distributed). What’s the matter? Isn’t that true for any project with accessible source code? Not at all. Reproducibility means that the r ... ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.4
Gajim 1.4.4 comes with many improvements: emoji auto-complete, automatic theme switching when your desktop switches from light to dark in the evening, a completely reworked Gajim remote interface, and many bug fixes.

## What’s New

After many emoji improvements in Gajim 1.4.3, this version comes with an emoji auto-complete while writing messages! As soon as you start typing a :, a popover will show you available emoji shortcodes, just like on Slack or Github 🎉

![Emoji auto-complete](ht ... ⌘ [Read more](https://gajim.org/post/2022-06-18-gajim-1.4.4-released/)
ProcessOne: Announcing ejabberd DEB and RPM Repositories
Today, we are happy to announce our official Linux packages repository: a source of .deb and .rpm packages for ejabberd Community Server. This repository provides a new way for the community to install and upgrade ejabberd.

All details on how to set this up are described on the dedicated website:

https://repo.process-one.net

![ejabberd installation log](http ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.process-one.net/blog/announcing-ejabberd-deb-and-rpm-repositories/)
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.1 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

While the 0.12.0 release has been a huge success, inevitably people found some
aspects that didn’t work quite as intended, or weren’t as polished as they
ought to be. With the appreciation for the help from everyone reporting issues
to us, we’re happy to now release our best version yet - 0.12.1 is here!

Notably, we made a couple of changes that improve compatibility with Jitsi
Meet, we fixed some bugs ... ⌘ 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
Erlang Solutions: Modern Software Engineering Principles for Fintechs by Daniel Pilon at SumUp
Daniel Pilon is a Software Engineering Manager at SumUp. Since 2007 he has worked across several industries before arriving in the fintech space. He has experience in many programming languages, such as C#, Java and JavaScript but since discovering Elixir and the power of functional programming a few years ago, he hasn’t looked back.

Right now he is building SumUp Bank, a complete digital banking solution ... ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 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
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.3
Gajim 1.4.3 comes with some exciting news: Native emoji rendering on Windows! Want to customize your workspaces? Why not use emojis as well? As always, lots of bugs have been fixed in this release.

## What’s New

This release is all about emojis. Gajim is based on GTK, a multi-platform framework for graphical user interfaces (GUI). For rendering text, GTK relies on Pango and underlying, on Cairo. On Wind ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Togethr, SMS-only Ports, Snikket Hosting
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
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.

ejabberd 22.05 released

– 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 reba ... ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!
XSF and GSoC 2022 Logo

The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h ... ⌘ [Read more](https://xmpp.org/2022/05/xmpp-google-summer-of-code-2022-welcome-new-contributors/)
Erlang Solutions: WombatOAM & the machine learning library
WombatOAM, the powerful operations, monitoring, and maintenance platform has a new machine learning library to assist with metric prediction. Learn about the main features, the algorithms used and how you can benefit from it together with WombatOAM’s new UI from Mohamed Ali Khechine, [Tamás Lengyel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tam%C3%A1s-lengyel-715b7 ... ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.2
As promised earlier, releasing new Gajim versions is now much easier! 🎉 Gajim 1.4.2 comes with better performance and an important bugfix. But there is more! After popular demand, we brought back the calendar for browsing history.

## What’s New

Mainly it’s one bug we fixed in this release. We improved how Gajim manages chat messages it displays to you. Before this improvement, messages would sometimes only show after changing focus or resizing the window. This issue has been fixed.

Afte ... ⌘ Read more
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!

## What’s New

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!

https://nlnet.nl/assure/

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.

## Changes in Gajim

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 1/2**
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.

# Many bug fixes and improvements

![Poezio example screenshot](https://bouah.net/202 ... ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19
## Introduction:

Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.

In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 9.1.0-1 released!
Earlier today, version 9.1.0 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 9.1.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternat ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.4.0-1 released!
Earlier today, version 4.4.0 release 1 of the Openfire JSXC plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party JSXC client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 4.4.0!

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can ... ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Message of the Day (MotD) 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”.

# 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.

ejabberd 21.12 released

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](https://blog.samwhited.com/2022/03/joanna/)
Erlang Solutions: FinTech Matters newsletter | March 2022


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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

t
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.

![](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/walnut-logo.pn ... ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Insights into Monal Development
> TLDR:
>
> _Info: Monal will stop support for iOS 12, iOS 13 and macOS Catalina!
>
> We are searching for a SwiftUI developer.
>
> We need a new simplified website.
>
> With better continuous funding, our push servers will move from the US to Europe.
>
> We have a new support mail: info@monal-im.org_

Two years ago we decided to rewrite the Monal app almost entirely and improve it gradually in the process, instead of creating another XMPP Client for iOS and macOS. We suc ... ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Development News February 2022
February brought a unified Groupchat Details window, which offers all the configuration knobs you need. Also this month: less memory leaks and improved OMEMO QR codes.

## Changes in Gajim

In April last year, we introduced Gajim’s new Contact Information window. This month, we took on group chats and their various windows and management pages, introducing a unified ‘Groupchat Details’ window. Groupchat De ... ⌘ Read more
JMP: Why Bidirectional Gateways Matter
A big part of the vision of Sopranica, and Cheogram in particular, is bidirectional gateways.  A bidirectional gateway is one that allows (at a minimum) 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.

# Simple Example

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