Erlang Solutions: Sign up for the RabbitMQ Summit Waiting List
Mark your calendars! The Very Early Bird tickets for the RabbitMQ Summit are set to open on 15th June, 2023. In joining the waiting list, you will receive exclusive access to the conference’s best-priced tickets.
This is your chance to secure your spot at the RabbitMQ Summit at a discounted rate, allowing you to make the most of this incredible learning and networking … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Call for Speakers at the RabbitMQ Summit
Are you a user, operator, developer, engineer, or simply someone with interesting user stories to tell about RabbitMQ? If so, we have some exciting news for you! The RabbitMQ Summit 2023 is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to invite you to submit your talks for this highly anticipated event.
The RabbitMQ Summit brings together a vibrant, diverse community of enthusiasts from all corne … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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 … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How ChatGPT improved my Elixir code. Some hacks are included.
I have been working as an Elixir developer for quite some time and recently came across the ChatGPT model. I want to share some of my experience interacting with it.
During my leisure hours, I am developing an open-source Elixir initiative, Crawly, that facilitates the extraction of structured data from the internet.
Here I want to demonstrate how … ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.8.0
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience. Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim’s core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP file upload, syntax highligh … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Here’s why you should consider investing in RabbitMQ during a recession
Europe and the US are leading the way in the forecasted recession for 2023, due to persistently high inflation and increasing interest rates. With minimal projected GDP growth, modern technologies can play a crucial role in reducing the impact of economic downturns.
As caution looms, it can be tempting to reign in on your investment. Your initial thought is to balance t … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: CVE-2023-32315: Openfire Administration Console authentication bypass
We’ve had an important security issue reported that affects all recent versions of Openfire. We’ve fixed it in the newly published 4.6.8 and 4.7.5 releases. We recommend people upgrade as soon as possible. More info, including mitigati … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.5 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.5 release of Openfire!
This release primarily addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315, but also pulls in a number of improvements and bugfixes
You can find download artifacts [available here](https://ignit … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.8 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.6.8 release of Openfire!
We have made available a new release of this older version to addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315.
We are aware that for some, the process of deploying a new major version of Openfire is not a trivial matter, as it may encompass a lot more than only pe … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Entendiendo procesos y concurrencia
Bienvenidos al segundo capítulo de la serie “ Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje” .
En el primer capítulo hablamos sobre la máquina virtual de Erlang, la BEAM, y las características que Elixir aprovecha de ella para desarrollar sistemas que son:
- Concurrentes
- Tolerantes a fallos
- Escalables y
- Distribuidos
En esta nota explicaremos qué … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Understanding Elixir processes and concurrency
Welcome to the second chapter of the “Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey” series.
In the first chapter, we talk about the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM, and the characteristics that Elixir takes advantage of to develop systems that are:
- Concurrent
- Fault-tolerant
- Scalable and
- Distributed
In this note, I’ll explain … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Entendiendo procesos y concurrencia
Bienvenidos al segundo capítulo de la serie “ Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje” .
En el primer capítulo hablamos sobre la máquina virtual de Erlang, la BEAM, y las características que Elixir aprovecha de ella para desarrollar sistemas que son:
- Concurrentes
- Tolerantes a fallos
- Escalables
- Distribuidos
En esta nota explicaremos qué si … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Understanding Elixir processes and concurrency
Welcome to the second chapter of the “Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey” series.
In the first chapter, we talk about the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM, and the characteristics that Elixir takes advantage of to develop systems that are:
- Concurrent
- Fault-tolerant
- Scalable
- Distributed
In this note, I’ll explain wha … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Messaging Products Update – 19.0 Capabilities
The below is a list of the new capabilities brought to our Messaging products for the 19.0 release. 19.0 adds a lot of extra functionality across the board for our messaging products, along with a complete rewrite of the codebase so that future releases and bug fixes can be developed more quickly. For the full release notes please check the individual product updates, available from the customer portal and evaluation sections of ou … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Directory Products Update – 19.0 Capabilities
The below is a list of the new capabilities brought to our Directory products for the 19.0 release. 19.0 adds a lot of extra functionality across the board for our messaging products, along with a complete rewrite of the codebase so that future releases and bug fixes can be developed more quickly. For the full release notes please check the individual product updates, available from the customer portal and evaluation sections of ou … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.1: Handle more traffic, consume less resources
MongooseIM is a highly customisable instant messaging backend, that can handle millions of messages per minute, exchanged between millions of users from thousands of dynamically configurable XMPP domains. With the new release 6.1.0 it becomes even more cost-efficient, flexible and robust thanks to the new arm64 [Docker containers](https://hub.docker. … ⌘ Read more
Kaidan: Kaidan 0.9: End-to-End Encryption & XMPP Providers
It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management and support of XMPP Providers!
Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero PET and NGI Assure with [public … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Jabber ID Discovery, New Referral Codes
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0
It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.
This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Cra … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Red/Black 2.0 – New Capabilities
This major release adds significant new functionality and improvements to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems. A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview
Support added for Switch type devices, that can connect multiple devices and allow … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.
This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.
There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0
It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.
This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Crawl … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.
- Many SQL database improvements
mod_mamsupport for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
- New
mod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
- Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.
- Many SQL database improvements
mod_mamsupport for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
- New
mod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
- Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_
A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!
We will have several days of good and fruitful exchange … ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: Concord and Spring Road Linear Parks
In my earlier review of Rose Garden and Jonquil public parks I mentioned
the Mountain-to-River Trail
(M2R), a mixed-use bicycle
and walking trail that connects the two parks.
The two parks I’m going to review today are also connected by the M2R trail in
addition to the [Concord Road Trail](https://blog.samwhited.com/cate … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Optimización para lograr concurrencia: comparación y contraste de las máquinas virtuales BEAM y JVM
En esta nota exploraremos los aspectos internos de la máquina virtual BEAM o VM por sus siglas en inglés (Virtual Machine). Y haremos una comparación con la máquina virtual de Java, la JVM.
El éxito de cualquier lenguaje de programación en el ecosistema Erlang puede ser repartido a tres componentes estrechamente ac … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year. One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience. So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: You’ve been curious about LiveView, but you haven’t gotten into it
As a backend developer, I’ve spent most of my programming career away from frontend development. Whether it’s React/Elm for the web or Swift/Kotlin for mobile, these are fields of knowledge that fall outside of what I usually work with.
Nonetheless, I always wanted to have a tool at my disposal for building rich frontends. While the web seemed like the platform with the lowest bar … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Captura de datos con Postgres y Elixir
La captura de datos es el proceso de identificar y capturar cambios de datos en la base de datos.
Con captura de datos, los cambios en los datos pueden ser rastreados casi en tiempo real, y esa información puede ser utilizada para apoyar una variedad de casos de uso, incluyendo auditoría, replicación y sincronización.
Un buen ejemplo de un caso de uso para captura de datos es considerar una aplicación que inserta un registro en la b … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.2 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 3.0.2
The release contains bug fixes and updates two plugins Translator and Roar.
Many Spark translations are incomplete. Please help us translate Spark
Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.
We encourage users and developers to get invo … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2023
The fintech industry is a major disruptor. Each year, it impacts how consumers interact with financial companies and brings new and innovative means to meet ever-growing customer expectations and occupy market space.
As a business owner or executive in this space, you have no choice but to stay on top of your game to increase efficiency.
In simpler terms, if your business doesn’t scale, it could fail.
That mig … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Cómo depurar tu RabbitMQ
Descubre las herramientas y métodos adecuados para la depuración de RabbitMQ.
Lo que aprenderás en este blog.
Nuestros clientes de consultoría de RabbitMQ provienen de una amplia gama de industrias. Como resultado, hemos visto casi todos los comportamientos inesperados que puede presentar. RabbitMQ es un software complejo que emplea concurrencia y cómputo distribuido (a través de Erlang), por lo que depurarlo no siempre es sencillo. Para llegar a la causa … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir
In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable … ⌘ Read more
Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement
I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library.
XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.
Why changing the name?
It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati … ⌘ Read more
Alexander Gnauck: XmppDotNet announcement
I want to announce the availability of the XmppDotNet XMPP library.
XmppDotNet is the new name and next generation of our MatriX vNext XMPP library.
Why changing the name?
It was never intended to keep vNext in the name forever. And there is a lot of confusion between MatriX and MatriX vNext at some of our existing customers. Most of them expect both libraries to be fully API compati … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable Systems with Erlang
Building systems in the earlier days of the internet used to be pretty simple.
While the system was admittedly pretty limited, the demand to scale past one or two servers wasn’t particularly high. But upon entering the 21st century, we saw large companies (think Amazon, Starbucks, Yahoo) and many more find the need to scale not just a few servers, but thousands. Even tens of thousands. Suddenly, the … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Developing Openfire Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality
We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.
Ef … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Presentamos el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ
¿Quiere saber más sobre el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ? Arnaud Cogoluègnes, ingeniero de personal de VMware, desglosa todo lo que hay que saber en la Cumbre RabbitMQ de 2021.
En julio de 2021, se introdujeron streams a RabbitMQ, utilizando un nuevo protocolo extremadamente rápido que se puede utilizar junto con AMQP 0.9.1. Los [streams](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/rabbitmq-quorum-queues-explaine … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Botz version 1.2.0 release
We have just released version 1.2.0 of the Botz framework for Openfire!
The Botz library adds to the already rich and extensible Openfire with the ability to create internal user bots.
In this release, a bug that prevented client sessions for bots from being created was fixed. Hat-tip to
Kris Iyer for working with us on a fix!
Download the latest version of the Botz framework from [its project page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/botz/ … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Creating a simple weather application with Phoenix LiveView
IntroductionIn this article we will discuss our experience building an online weather application in Elixir using Phoenix LiveView. We created a real-time weather application that allows users to see the past, current, and forecast temperature and precipitation data for any UK postcode. The goals of building this app were:
- to further familiarise ourselves with[Phoenix LiveView](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
Isode: M-Guard 1.4 New Capabilities
M-Guard 1.4 is a platform support update release for M-Guard Console and M-Guard Appliance. M-Guard Appliance has been updated to use UEFI instead of BIOS for key system services.
The M-Guard Appliance now supports running on Netgate 6100 and 6100 MAX appliance systems.
M-Guard Appliance on Hyper-V now uses Generation 2 virtual machines.
M-Guard Appliance on VirtualBox now uses EFI.
Use of BIOS for booting is deprecated in favor of UEF … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Se explican las colas de Quorum de RabbitMQ: lo que necesita saber.
Este tipo de cola es importante cuando RabbitMQ se usa en una instalación de clúster. Descubre más en este blog.
Introducción a las Colas de Quorum
En RabbitMQ 3.8.0, una de las nuevas características más significativas fue la introducción de las Colas de Quorum. La Cola de Quorum es un nuevo tipo de cola que se espera que reemplace … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload v1.2.2 released!
We’ve just released version 1.2.2 of the HTTP File Upload plugin for Openfire. This release includes Ukrainian language support, thanks to Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr), as well as a few updated translations for Portuguese, Russian and English.
Grab it from the plugins page in your Openfire Admin Console, or download manually from the HTTP File Upload archive page, [here](https://www.igniterealtime.o … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
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? Rea … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere!
Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.
It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!
[, its lightweight and easy-to-deploy nature makes it a worldwide success across small startups and large enterprises across the globe.
But how do you know if it’s best for your business?
Read on and get the rundown on the reliable messaging software that del … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Cheogram Android: Stickers
One feature people ask about from time to time is stickers. Now, “stickers” isn’t really a feature, nor is it even universally agreed what it means, but we’ve been working on some improvements to Cheogram Android (and the Cheogram service) to make some sticker workflows better, released today in 2.12.1-3. This post will mostly talk about those changes and the technical implications; if you just want to see a demo of som … ⌘ Read more
Debian XMPP Team: XMPP What’s new in Debian 12 bookworm
On Tue 13 July 2021 there was a
blog post
of new XMPP related software releases which have been uploaded to Debian 11 (bullseye).
Today, we will inform you about updates for the upcoming Debian release bookworm.
A lot of new releases have been provided by the upstream projects. There were lot of changes
to the XMPP clients like Dino, Gajim, … ⌘ Read more