XSF Communications Team - 2026-01-02

Hello everyone!

We are still on Draft and nicoco just tagged a new release of slidge-whatsapp .. would it be ok if I add it to the December Newsletter?

https://codeberg.org/slidge/slidge-whatsapp

https://pouet.pas.la/@nicoco/115824344014728596

It's technically in January and this is a December newsletter but...I'll leave it to others to decide 🤔

We are still in Draft: "Create Draft in Pad & GitHub - Last Call for final edits -> 1st - 2nd of the month - Collection of news" as per the PR title

And we still don't have a single review

Come to think of it, I could also add jan 1 releases of go-xmpp and go-sendxmpp ..

emus, your call

Today I wrote my third E-Mail because of the "DI.day" ...

> emus, your call Is okay! ↺

> Today I wrote my third E-Mail because of the "DI.day" ... What mean third email? ↺

A kind reminder to contribute to the 2025 highlights: https://pad.nixnet.services/x87ng-viRoGzVtjeIv7Luw?view#

> Is okay! Perfect!. Just made 2 commits ↺

- go-xmpp version 0.3.2 from Jan 1 - go-sendxmpp version 0.15.5 from Jan 1 - slidge-whatsapp version 0.3.9 from jan 2

and

- Quicksy 1.17.0 from December 28 - Quicksy 1.21.0 from Jan 2

> A kind reminder to contribute to the 2025 highlights: > > https://pad.nixnet.services/x87ng-viRoGzVtjeIv7Luw?view# I've already been gathering some ( at least to me ) highlights, could you please make at least one entry so I can follow the example with the rest of them? ↺

I've got:

Kaidan NLnet - april Gajim 2.0 - april Liverbia NLnet - july ejabberd and convo - july Movim 0.3.1 implements NLNet funded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing. - july XMPP Interop Testing: MOAR TESTS! - july Launch of the XMPP / Fediverse Bridge! - july Conversations requires TLS 1.3 for all connections with setting to opt out 2.19.3 - august Latest OMEMO support to Converse.js - October More Adoption of XMPP Providers in the XMPP Ecosystem - october The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub, explained through the Blog feature - november 8 NLnet fundings granted for 6 XMPP projects (Kaidan, Dino, Libervia, ejabberd, Convo, Converse.js)

and that covers less than half of the year

also, did it on a rush

> Kaidan NLnet - april > Gajim 2.0 - april > Liverbia NLnet - july > ejabberd and convo - july > Movim 0.3.1 implements NLNet funded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing. - july > XMPP Interop Testing: MOAR TESTS! - july > Launch of the XMPP / Fediverse Bridge! - july > Conversations requires TLS 1.3 for all connections with setting to opt out 2.19.3 - august > Latest OMEMO support to Converse.js - October > More Adoption of XMPP Providers in the XMPP Ecosystem - october > The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub, explained through the Blog feature - november > 8 NLnet fundings granted for 6 XMPP projects (Kaidan, Dino, Libervia, ejabberd, Convo, Converse.js) Just drop it there. No big deal I would say ↺

also the new/revamped providers.xmpp.net overview ( which looks awesome )

> Just drop it there. No big deal I would say Will do and we'll see what we can do later on 👍 ↺

emus, cal0pteryx also wanted to ask you, would it be possible to add one more field to providers?

What field do you mean?

A piece of information about the provider

I've been doing quite a few onboardings in the last week and found out that it would be pretty useful to know whether or not a given provider has implemented DANE

As that particular piece of info about a provider could make a difference when the end user needs to decide which provider should chose

emus, added (rushed) some of the highlights I had collected in https://pad.nixnet.services/x87ng-viRoGzVtjeIv7Luw?view

emus, I think I might be done with the highlights .. at least in regard to what I consider the 2025 highlights .. I've already added everything that I remembered and found in different documents.

It is worth noting that one or 2 links may not work due to https://blog.mathieui.net/en/ being down

It isn’t down though?

Link Mauve, idk .. I get in even once in the whole day

gnemmi, I just refreshed it many times and it does work.

Link Mauve, yup .. I still get a "The server at blog.mathieui.net is taking too long to respond."

You can report it to mathieui in any other xsf@ MUC.

I'll give it a few hours. I've been sitting all day working on the highliths and the Newsletter ( as for some unexplainable reason, apparently everybody decided to release today! .. Slidge, Kaidan, Quicksy, go-xmpp, go-sendxmpp, xmpp-dns ... ) and my back is killing me =P