---
title: The XMPP Newsletter May 2025
date: 2025-06-10
categories: ['Newsletter']
---

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of May 2025.

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, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more [at the bottom](#help-us-to-build-the-newsletter).

## XMPP Events

- [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).
- The [XMPP Sprint in Berlin](https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2025-05_Berlin) took place during the 23rd-25th of May 2025. Developers from Germany, France & the United Kingdom representing [Conversations](https://conversations.im/), [Dino](https://dino.im/), [ejabberd](https://www.ejabberd.im/), [Kaidan](https://www.kaidan.im/), LiveDashboard, Macaw, [Monal](https://monal-im.org/), [Renga](https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/renga/), and [Prose](https://prose.org/) gathered to make it happen! The sprint was sponsored by [the XSF](https://xmpp.org/), Ammonit Measurement GmbH, and [Wikimedia e.V.](https://www.wikimedia.de/).

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## Videos

- [Goffi](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@goffi@videos.libervia.org), from [Libervia](https://libervia.org/), published a [short progress overview of the new web frontend design](https://videos.libervia.org/w/7fcb981e-5e6a-4c15-b6e5-d27db8a6e804) on the [Libervia video channel](https://videos.libervia.org/c/libervia/videos?s=1).

## Talks

- On Friday, May 16, Vril hosted the [Workshop di XMPP e Free Software all’AntiBiennale di Venezia](https://www.xmpp-it.net/2025/05/20/vril/workshop-di-xmpp-e-free-software-allantibiennale-di-venezia/) (a workshop on XMPP and free software) at Cabasego, in Venice, Italy. The whole workshop lasted around one and a half hours and the slides are freely [available for you to check out](https://cryptpad.disroot.org/slide/#/2/slide/view/LD2suM7gLDdabbevD+OsMX4M1jknPJ57oq0fWJn0mcE/present/). The event took place in a most beautiful house, incredibly located in the center of Venice, inhabited by people who are always willing to leave their door open to Venice’s underground communities. [IT]

## XMPP Articles

- [El gran lío de la mensajería instantánea](https://jdrm.info/el-gran-lio-de-la-mensajeria-instantanea.html) by [Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz](https://jdrm.info/pages/about.html). [ES]
- [Monocles](https://monocles.eu/more/), the project responsible for the XMPP Monocles chat [Web](https://monocles.chat/login) and [Android](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.chat/) clients, started a [crowdfunding campaign](https://www.startnext.com/en/monocles). The main goal is to create a platform where privacy, digital sovereignty and sustainability take center stage. Your privacy is non-negotiable. The funding period will span from March 28 to June 30.
- [XMPP is now featured](https://delightful.club/delightful_xmpp/) on the list of the 'Delightful Lists'.
- [Towards a Password-Mukt XMPP](https://badrihippo.thekambattu.rocks/clog/towards-a-password-mukt-xmpp/) for some thoughts and fantasies by [Badri (Hippo)](https://badrihippo.thekambattu.rocks) on how passwordless XMPP login could be achieved, either via an out-of-band mechanism or by authorizing from an already logged-in client.
- [XMPP packages coming with Debian 13](https://xmpp-team.pages.debian.net/blog/2025/05/xmpp-debian-13-trixie-news.html) as the freeze toward next stable Debian (13 or Trixie) has been engaged, an overview of the XMPP clients, servers and librairies coming with it is provided in this article from the Debian XMPP Team.

## XMPP Software News

### XMPP Clients and Applications

- [Converse.js](https://conversejs.org/) has released version [11.0.0](https://opkode.com/blog/2025-05-21-converse-11/) of its open-source and web-based XMPP chat client. The Desktop version can be downloaded from [here](https://github.com/conversejs/converse-desktop/releases). This release comes packed full of bugfixes, changes and new features. Way too many to list in here. Make sure to check out the [release link](https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/releases) for all the details!

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- [Gajim](https://gajim.org/) has released version [2.2.0](https://gajim.org/post/2025-05-15-gajim-2.2.0-released/). This release brings three new features: message retraction (via [XEP-0424: Message Retraction](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0424.html)), blocking participants in group chats, and updated support for modern group chat avatars (via [XEP-0486: MUC Avatars](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0486.html)), among many other improvements and bugfixes. Head over to their [news section](https://gajim.org/post/) or check the [changelog](https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/blob/master/ChangeLog) for all the details.
- [Monal](https://monal-im.org/) has released version [6.4.11](https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/releases/tag/Build_iOS_1040) for iOS an macOS.
- [Monocles Chat 2.0.7](https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_chat/releases/tag/CodebergRelease-v2.0.7) for Android, has been released. This version brings fixes for lagging, pinned status message, I2P and more.
- [Prose](https://prose.org/) has released versions [0.10.1](https://github.com/prose-im/prose-app-web/releases/tag/0.10.1) of its web frontend [prose-web-app](https://github.com/prose-im/prose-app-web).

### XMPP Servers

- [Prosody IM](https://prosody.im/) is pleased to announce version [13.0.2](https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-13.0.2-released/). This update addresses various issues that have been noticed since the previous release, as well as a few improvements, including some important fixes for invites. Some log messages and prosodyctl commands have been improved as well. Read all the details on the release [changelog](https://prosody.im/doc/release/13.0.2). As always, detailed download and install instructions are available on the [download page](https://prosody.im/download/) for your convenience.

### XMPP Libraries & Tools

- [Pade](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/version-1-8-4-of-openfire-pade-plugin-released/95434) plugin version [1.8.4](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-archive.jsp?plugin=pade) for [Openfire](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/) has been released.
- [peertube-plugin-livechat](https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat) version [12.0.4](https://github.com/JohnXLivingston/peertube-plugin-livechat/releases/tag/v12.0.4) has been released.
- [python-nbxmpp](https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/python-nbxmpp) version [6.2.0](https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/python-nbxmpp/-/releases/6.2.0) has been released.
- [strophejs](https://strophe.im/strophejs/) version [3.1.1](https://github.com/strophe/strophejs/releases/tag/v3.1.1) has been released.

## Extensions and specifications

The XMPP Standards Foundation develops extensions to XMPP in its [XEP series](/extensions/) in addition to [XMPP RFCs](/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](/extensions/xep-0001.html), which contains the formal and canonical definitions for the types, states, and processes. [Read more about the standards process](/about/standards-process.html). Communication around Standards and Extensions happens in the [Standards Mailing List](https://mail.jabber.org/postorius/lists/standards.xmpp.org/) ([online archive](https://mail.jabber.org/hyperkitty/list/standards@xmpp.org/)).

### Proposed

The XEP development process starts by writing up an idea and submitting it to the [XMPP Editor](/about/xsf/editor-team/). Within two weeks, the [Council](/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#council) decides whether to accept this proposal as an Experimental XEP.

- No XEPs 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

- No XEPs updated this month.

### Last Call

Last calls are issued once everyone seems satisfied with the current XEP status. After the [Council](/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#council) decides whether the XEP seems ready, the [XMPP Editor](/about/xsf/editor-team/) 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

- No XEPs moved to Stable this month.

### Deprecated

- No XEPs deprecated this month.

### Rejected

- No XEPs rejected this month.

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- English (original): [xmpp.org](/categories/newsletter/)
  - General contributors: *Adrien Bourmault (neox), Alexander "PapaTutuWawa", Arne, Badri Sunderarajan, Benson Muite, cal0pteryx, emus, Federico, Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi, Jonas Stein, Kris "poVoq", Licaon_Kter, Ludovic Bocquet, Mario Sabatino, melvo, MSavoritias (fae,ve), nicola, Schimon Zachary, 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/)
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- German: [xmpp.org](/categories/newsletter/)
  - Translators: *Millesimus*

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