---
title: The XMPP Newsletter May 2024
date: 2024-06-06
categories: ['Newsletter']
---

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of May 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 will kick-off with coding now:

- [Monal](https://monal-im.org/)
  - [Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium)](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Monal/Media_Gallery)
- [Prav.app](https://prav.app/)
  - [Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium)](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Prav.app/Standards_compliant_SMS_OTP_based_authentication)

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### 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)
- [Prav iOS](https://opencollective.com/prav-ios)

## XMPP Events

- [XMPP Track at FOSSY](https://2024.fossy.us/pages/tracks/): Call for proposals ends June 14th!
- [XMPP Sprint in Berlin](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2024-07_Berlin): On Friday, 12th to Sunday, 14th of July 2024.
- [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 Videos

[Debian and XMPP in Wind and Solar Measurement](https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2024/MiniDebConf-Berlin/38-debian-and-xmpp-in-wind-and-solar-measurement.webm) talk at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024.

## XMPP Articles

- In the [JMP Newsletter](http://blog.jmp.chat/b/may-newsletter-2024) they discuss new upcoming SMS routes, a future XMPP to RCS gateway option, and the Cheogram Android 2.15.3-1 release.
- Aaron P. MacSween [announced webxdc evolve](https://cryptography.dog/blog/announcing-webxdc-evolve/). Besides other it has also been ported to the XMPP-based [Cheogram service](https://cheogram.com/).

## XMPP Software News

### XMPP Clients and Applications

- [Psi+ 1.5.1844 through 1.5 1930 portable](https://sourceforge.net/projects/psiplus/files/Windows/Personal-Builds/tehnick/) have been released.
- [Psi+ 1.5.1834 through 1.5 1937 installer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/psiplus/files/Windows/Personal-Builds/KukuRuzo/) have been released.

### XMPP Servers

- [Scaling up with MongooseIM 6.2.1](https://xmpp.org/2024/05/scaling-up-with-mongooseim-6.2.1/).
- XMPP Web is a third-party webclient that is available as [plugin for Openfire](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/new-openfire-plugin-xmpp-web/93982)!

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### XMPP Libraries & Tools

- [Initial public announcement of Slixfeed News Bot](https://slixfeed.woodpeckersnest.space/posts/slixfeed-news-bot/).

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- QXmpp [1.6.1](https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp/releases/tag/v1.6.1) (with fixed OMEMO group chat support) and [1.7.0](https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp/releases/tag/v1.7.0) (with [MIX](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0369.html), [SASL2](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0388.html) and updated [SFS](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0447.html) for compatibility with deployed protocols) have been released.
- [go-xmpp 0.2.1](https://github.com/xmppo/go-xmpp/releases/tag/v0.2.1).
- [go-sendxmpp 0.11.0](https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch/go-sendxmpp/-/releases/v0.11.0).

## 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

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 XEP was proposed this month.

### New

- No new XEPs this month.

### 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

- Version 2.5.0 of XEP-0030 (Service Discovery)
  - Add note about some entities not advertising the  feature. (pep)
- Version 1.34.6 of XEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat)
  - Remove contradicting keyword on sending subject in §7.2.2. (pep)

### 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.

- XEP-0421: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs
- XEP-0440: SASL Channel-Binding Type Capability

### Stable

- Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0398 (User Avatar to vCard-Based Avatars Conversion)
  - Accept as Stable as per Council Vote from 2024-04-30. (XEP Editor (dg))

### Deprecated

- No XEP deprecated this month.

### Rejected

- No XEP rejected this month.

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### Newsletter Contributors & Translations

This is a community effort, and we would like to thank translators for their contributions. Volunteers an more languages are welcome! Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here (with some delay):

- English (original): [xmpp.org](https://xmpp.org/categories/newsletter/)
  - General contributors: *Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander "PapaTutuWawa", Arne, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris "poVoq", Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Simone Canaletti, singpolyma, XSF iTeam*
- French: [jabberfr.org](https://news.jabberfr.org/category/newsletter/) and [linuxfr.org](https://linuxfr.org/tags/xmpp/public)
  - Translators: *Adrien Bourmault (neox), alkino, anubis, Arkem, Benoît Sibaud, mathieui, nyco, Pierre Jarillon, Ppjet6, Ysabeau*
- Italian: [notes.nicfab.eu](https://notes.nicfab.eu)
  - Translators: *nicola*
- Spanish: [xmpp.org/categories/newsletter/]
  - Translators: *Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi*

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