XSF Communications Team - 2025-04-19

> - [Dino](https://dino.im/) has released version [0.5](https://github.com/dino/dino/releases/tag/v0.5.0) featuring improved file transfers and two completely reworked dialogs. See the release [blog post](https://dino.im/blog/2025/04/dino-0.5-release/) for all the details. We should also highlight omemo by default. ↺

Great work! thanks for the PR Feel free to list you name to the newsletter contributors if you have not yet

SVG of newsletter banner https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1516 Let me know if further changes would be helpful. Can improve quality of hidden traced 'Newsletter' text if the original font is preffered.

Thanks Benson! I will open this later today and check it out

(i.e. try to customise it for the announcements, community announcements, and specs graphics)

Is something up with the newsletter pad? I keep getting a "This page is slowing down your browser" and my RAM usage creeps up till it crashes 🙁

Okay so I changed browsers (from LibreWolf to Epiphany) and it's now working; that's weird

badrihippo, yeah, the nixnet pad is not working

hence I left a comment here about dino e2e by default

praveen, it loaded in Epiphany and I've added a line about OMEMO by default there

> [Dino](https://dino.im/) has released version [0.5](https://github.com/dino/dino/releases/tag/v0.5.0) featuring improved file transfers, image preview and other file details before downloading, and two completely reworked dialogs. This release also enables OMEMO encryption by default, a small but significant development that [brings it in line](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/114308227429665995) with other popular XMPP clients. See the release [blog post](https://dino.im/blog/2025/04/dino-0.5-release/) for all the details.

> (i.e. try to customise it for the announcements, community announcements, and specs graphics) Ok. The text is flattened so thst viewing does not require the fonts to be installed. If expect to make changes often, it maybe helpful to script this and use CI to flatten fonts, possibly produce png/jpg outputs as well.

What fonts are you using? I don't think it'll be changed often, but I do need to change it now, hence need to know what fonts to use 🙂

> praveen, it loaded in Epiphany and I've added a line about OMEMO by default there Thanks ↺

By the way, the JPEG is linked to in existing blog posts so maybe we shoudn't remove it (assuming it's the same one)

The jpeg will change a little. Can export a new one.

Yep, that's fine I think

The XMPP text is already flattened. Took it from the existing svg for XMPP logo. The newsletter text uses DejaVu Sans UltraThin, though can change to something else if preffered.

Benson, as a source file it makes more sense to keep the text and the font I think.

Then for publication it can be converted to paths automatically using e.g. inkscape.

What I do sometimes is to keep the text and font, but hidden, and have a version of it converted to path visible on top

Probably better to have a source file, then use CI to create what will be distributed if it will be changed regularly, or create additional distribution files. badrihippo, let me know if you have suggestions for other changes and how many additional customized files you want to create. If it is just text change from "Newsletter" can do that, but if you also want to customize icon and possibly layout, that would be great.

Yes, I'm planning to customise the icon as well. Not sure about the layout, but let's see; maybe I'll get inspired once I open inkscape 😉