What would be some good places to donate towards improving #XMPP stuff?

I'm mostly happy, but would like to donate to make sure I can continue to enjoy it all, but don't know where.

Gajim 2.1.0 has been released

This release brings an all-new activity feed and adds support for Message Displayed Synchronization across group chats.

Thank you for all your contributions!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/post/2025-04-08-gajim-2.1.0-released/

Prāv is always open for collaboration, and, at the risk of a somewhat premature announcement, we are happy to have received an expression of interest from possibly the most well-connected personality on the Fediverse!

We hope this potential partnership helps spread awareness about #XMPP to more corners of the Fediverse...once we have figured out how exactly to send a reply!

A recent security audit of #Conversations_im¹ found that wildcard certificate handling didn’t fully comply with the spec.

Conversations was accepting *.a.example for c.b.a.example, even though wildcards are only meant to match a single label.

This issue has been fixed in version 2.18.0, now live on Google Play.

¹: https://conversations.im/2025_audit_conversations.pdf

#XMPP Community

XMPP #Sprint in #Berlin on 23rd - 25th May 2025! It is open to all interested.

More details: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2025-05_Berlin

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard

Tangentially, I think I lean towards, there needs to be a new set of #XMPP RFC specs (can we call it XMPP 3 given that it's the third line of specs, or even a more friendly name¹?). Some XEPs need to be made standard, particularly service discovery, pubsub, and data-forms. (Personally I want to hold off on making MUCs the standard so that MIX can be used instead.) This new RFC set also needs to mandate encryption, define and offer probably MLS-based encryption, and recommend that unencrypted private messages are rejected by sending servers and dropped or rejected by receiving servers. Ideally someone needs to figure out some zero-trust shenanigans to minimize the metadata. Also mandate some form of TLS, channel binding, etc. Pick an extensible profile standard out of the many competing specs (preferably either vCard4 or User Profiles... and I think I'd prefer vCard4 since it reuses an existing standard). Basically modernize it, formalize lots of "final" XEPs into core parts of the spec, reduce conflicts between competing XEPs, stuff like that.

¹ some ideas: Universal Messaging Protocol/Standard (UMP/UMS), "The Messaging Protocol" with no acronym (MessProto?)... or even a clever acronym like Chat Handling and Transceiving (CHAT). Maybe even go back to Jabber somehow. Mostly because XMPP is a mouthful and immediately loses the less nerdy

RE: infosec.town/notes/a6dnzjfwjl5l06cj

Looks like Dino is enabling #OMEMO by default for the next release¹. I think that was the last of the major #XMPP clients to do so. Hopefully we can now put the "But XMPP is not encrypted by default" debate to rest.

¹: https://github.com/dino/dino/commit/fc6447c56e7fdaf6f6d843a2215d870caee4aba0

You are encouraged to self-host #XMPP but you are not required to. We try to make self hosting as easy as possible. I think it is one step above hosting your own website but way easier than hosting your own e-mail.

If you are medium tech-savvy I recommend getting your own domain and going for an XMPP provider that let’s you bring your own domain (for example: https://account.conversations.im/domain/) this gives you the flexibility to self host or switch providers later.

1. cryptocurrency (ponzi scheme)
2. no third-party implementations
3. no usage without telephone number
4. sharing name and phone number with every contact in your address book
5. no reproducible builds on apple devices

• Briar
• Conversations (XMPP, Android)
• Element (Matrix)
• Line
• Monal (XMPP, iOS)
• Signal
• Threema

Our ISP is gone, we will be back as soon as they fix it. #cyberdelia #xmpp

I'm putting the finishing touches on a massive release of the Converse #XMPP chat client.

Here’s what to look forward to:

Groupchat DMs: You can DM other participants without knowing their address
Blocklists for spammers
Accessibility improvements, like support for RTL languages
Media enhancements
Big performance enhancements, particularly for chats with a long history and many participants.
Three new themes, Nordic , Dracula and Cyberpunk

Y a des gens qui utilisent/ont utilisé Movim ici ? Ça vous plait/vous a plu ? Oui/non, pourquoi ?

To late to be in @vermaden Valuable New : but still useful (I hope), but in French:

https://adminblog.foucry.net/posts/info/freebsd-jail-xmpp/

#FreeBSD
#Jail
#XMPP