Dino (dino-im in Debian), the modern and beautiful chat client for the desktop, has some nice, new features. Users of Debian testing (bullseye) might like to try them:

• XEP-0391: Jingle Encrypted Transports (explained here)
• XEP-0402: Bookmarks 2 (explained here)

Note, that users of Dino on Debian 10 (buster) should upgrade to version 0.0.git20181129-1+deb10u1, because of a number of security issues, that have been found (CVE-2019-16235, CVE-2019-16236, CVE-2019-16237).

There have been other XMPP related updates in Debian since release of buster, among them:

• Ejabberd 19.08-2
• Gajim 1.1.3-2 and Gajim OMEMO 2.6.29-1 plugin
• Profanity 0.7.1, now with OMEMO encryption support!

You might be interested in the Octobers XMPP newsletter, also available in German.

The Debian XMPP Team, the people who package Dino, Gajim, Mcabber, Movim, Profanity, Prosody, Psi+, Salut à Toi, Taningia, and a couple of other packages related to XMPP a.k.a. Jabber for Debian, have this blog now. We will try to post interesting stuff here — when it's ready!