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title: The XMPP Newsletter, 28 February 2018
date: 2018-02-28
author: jcbrand
categories: ["Newsletter"]
aliases:
      - "/2018/02/the-xmpp-newsletter-28-february-2018/"
---

Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter.

*Eve Online*, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game have announced
that they are using [Ejabberd in a new chat backend](https://www.eveonline.com/article/p4i0qx/new-chat-backend-coming-with-the-march-release?utm_source=xmppnewsletter)
and [ProcessOnce have written a a blog article about it](https://blog.process-one.net/eve-online-chat-is-moving-to-ejabberd/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Staying with games, *Epic Games* have written a [postmortem of a service outage](https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu?utm_source=xmppnewsletter)
where they mention certain stats related to their usage of XMPP.

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Alex Rogers, who attended the 22nd XMPP summit and participated in discussions
around the business case for federation, has been featured in an article from
UC Today titled [Integrating the Islands of IM: The Continual Rise of XMPP](https://www.uctoday.com/news/insights/integrating-islands-instant-messaging-rise-xmpp?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Alan R. Earls wrote an article for *IoT Agenda* discussing XMPP as protocol for
Internet-of-Things applications:
[XMPP: IoT protocol winner, or second place to MQTT?](http://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/feature/XMPP-IoT-protocol-winner-or-second-place-to-MQTT?utm_source=xmppnewsletter)

Arnaud Joset has created [Errol, an XMPP Automatic file sender](https://blog.agayon.be/tag/python.html?utm_source=xmppnewsletter)
as well as a [demonstration of website authentication with XMPP account](https://demo.agayon.be/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Christian Schudt has written about his [implementation of XEP-0390 Entity Capabilities 2.0 in Babbler](https://babbler-xmpp.blogspot.de/2018/02/experimenting-with-entity-capabilities.html?utm_source=xmppnewsletter), the Java XMPP library.

Jérôme Poisson has written about the 0.7 release of Salut à Toi, and the fact
that its web frontend Libervia is now a web framework in 
[Build a decentralized internet with Libervia (Salut à Toi)](https://www.goffi.org/b/96207aea-9bd8-4333-a346-63638c041ef7/build-decentralized-internet-with-libervia-salut?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).


Daniel Gakwaya has created a course on Udemy, titled
[XMPP and Smack](https://www.udemy.com/xmpp-and-smack-fundamentals-the-missing-android-course/?couponCode=BLKN.SMCK.XMPP_0785&utm_source=xmppnewsletter)
and has written [a friendly introduction to XMPP](http://www.blikoontech.com/xmpp/xmpp-a-soft-friendly-introduction?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Ivan Vučica compares IRC and XMPP in his blog post: [What can XMPP do that IRC can’t?](https://blog.vucica.net/2018/02/what-can-xmpp-do-that-irc-cant.html?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

JC Brand has created a [badge for linking to your project's XMPP chat](https://opkode.com/blog/xmpp-chat-badge/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter),
and wrote a short summary of the [The 2018 XSF Summit](https://opkode.com/blog/2018-xsf-summit/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Paul Schaub has written about the new [XEPs added to Smack](https://blogs.fsfe.org/vanitasvitae/2018/02/07/more-xeps-for-smack/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

German website *Die Datenschutzhelden* (The privacy heroes) wrote an article comparing
XMPP/OMEMO with Whatsapp. Here is the [Google machine translated version](https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdatenschutzhelden.org%2F2018%2F02%2F06%2Fomemo-xmpp-im-direktvergleich-mit-whatsapp%2F) and the original German article:
[OMEMO: XMPP im Direktvergleich mit WhatsApp](https://datenschutzhelden.org/2018/02/06/omemo-xmpp-im-direktvergleich-mit-whatsapp/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).


Server host _xmpp.is_ wrote [why they don't fully support the "Jabber Spam Fighting Manifesto"](https://xmpp.is/2018/02/21/the-jabber-spam-fighting-manifesto/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

## Software releaseѕ

Erlang Solutions have released [MongooseIM 2.1.1](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/mongooseim-2-1-1-more-than-a-patch.html?utm_source=xmppnewsletter)

[Tigase 7.1.3](https://tigase.net/blog-entry/tigase-xmpp-server-v713-released?utm_source=xmppnewsletter) has been released.

[OpenFire 4.2.2](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/openfire-4-2-2-release/80678?utm_source=xmppnewsletter) has been released.

W. Martin Borgert wrote [Pain in the APT](https://salsa.debian.org/debacle/painintheapt?utm_source=xmppnewsletter), which lets you "pester people about available package updates by email or jabber".

There were [3.3.x releases of Converse.js](https://opkode.com/blog/converse-3.3.1-released/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

Fork Awesome, a fork of Font Awesome which includes more community contributed icons, now has an [XMPP icon](https://forkawesome.github.io/Fork-Awesome/icon/xmpp/?utm_source=xmppnewsletter).

