Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

Reactions and Replies

Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji. They can be used to express agreement or disagreement 👍️👎️, for voting, to express a feeling 🥳🤯, and much more 🦕. You can react with any emoji you want and with as many as you want!

The new Dino release also adds another way for you to interact with messages: Replies. The original message is displayed alongside the reply, and you can click on it to jump up to the original message.

You can add a reaction or reply to a message via the message menu. To access the message menu, hover the message or tap it on touch-screens.

Reactions and replies are always possible in direct conversations. In group chats and channels, the admin decides whether to support the features.

GTK4 and libadwaita

Dino now uses GTK4 instead of GTK3 to display its user interface. To the outside there are no big UI changes. However, we can now make use of new or improved GTK features.

Furthermore, we started using libadwaita, which contains specialized Widgets and provides tools to build mobile-friendly UIs. We already adjusted Dino’s main view for usage on mobile devices.

Ilulissat

Glaciers are fascinating landscapes of flowing ice. We named this Dino release “Ilulissat” after a glacier in Greenland to help spread information on the effects of global warming on glaciers.

Glaciers are created over a span of centuries from fallen snow that compacts and transforms into glacial ice. When the ice reaches a certain thickness, it starts to behave like a liquid. Thus, glaciers are in constant movement, driven downhill by gravity under their own weight.

Very large glaciers, also known as ice sheets, exist on Antarctica and Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet covers about 80% of the island and has an average thickness of 1,5 km.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, like all glaciers, is constantly in motion. It accumulates ice in the interior of the island and flows outwards, eventually reaching the ocean through so-called outlet glaciers. One such outlet glacier is the Ilulissat glacier in West Greenland, the fastest draining outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flow speed of over 20 meters per day.

Unfortunately, the Greenland Ice Sheet has been shrinking for past 26 years [ 1 ]. Rising water and air temperatures are causing outlet glaciers to melt at an accelerating pace, draining the ice sheet more quickly and resulting in increased sea levels [ 2 ]. Between 1992 and 2020, meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet alone increased global sea levels by over 1,3 cm, where every centimeter of sea level rise is estimated to expose 6 Million people to coastal flooding [ 3 ].

Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

Reactions and Replies

Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji. They can be used to express agreement or disagreement 👍️👎️, for voting, to express a feeling 🥳🤯, and much more 🦕. You can react with any emoji you want and with as many as you want!

The new Dino release also adds another way for you to interact with messages: Replies. The original message is displayed alongside the reply, and you can click on it to jump up to the original message.

You can add a reaction or reply to a message via the message menu. To access the message menu, hover the message or tap it on touch-screens.

Reactions and replies are always possible in direct conversations. In group chats and channels, the admin decides whether to support the features.

GTK4 and libadwaita

Dino now uses GTK4 instead of GTK3 to display its user interface. To the outside there are no big UI changes. However, we can now make use of new or improved GTK features.

Furthermore, we started using libadwaita, which contains specialized Widgets and provides tools to build mobile-friendly UIs. We already adjusted Dino’s main view for usage on mobile devices.

Ilulissat

Glaciers are fascinating landscapes of flowing ice. We named this Dino release “Ilulissat” after a glacier in Greenland to help spread information on the effects of global warming on glaciers.

Glaciers are created over a span of centuries from fallen snow that compacts and transforms into glacial ice. When the ice reaches a certain thickness, it starts to behave like a liquid. Thus, glaciers are in constant movement, driven downhill by gravity under their own weight.

Very large glaciers, also known as ice sheets, exist on Antarctica and Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet covers about 80% of the island and has an average thickness of 1,5 km.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, like all glaciers, is constantly in motion. It accumulates ice in the interior of the island and flows outwards, eventually reaching the ocean through so-called outlet glaciers. One such outlet glacier is the Ilulissat glacier in West Greenland, the fastest draining outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flow speed of over 20 meters per day.

Unfortunately, the Greenland Ice Sheet has been shrinking for past 26 years [ 1 ]. Rising water and air temperatures are causing outlet glaciers to melt at an accelerating pace, draining the ice sheet more quickly and resulting in increased sea levels [ 2 ]. Between 1992 and 2020, meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet alone increased global sea levels by over 1,3 cm, where every centimeter of sea level rise is estimated to expose 6 Million people to coastal flooding [ 3 ].

Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.

The 0.4 release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.

Reactions and Replies

Reactions give you a quick and light-weight way to respond to a message with an emoji. They can be used to express agreement or disagreement 👍️👎️, for voting, to express a feeling 🥳🤯, and much more 🦕. You can react with any emoji you want and with as many as you want!

The new Dino release also adds another way for you to interact with messages: Replies. The original message is displayed alongside the reply, and you can click on it to jump up to the original message.

You can add a reaction or reply to a message via the message menu. To access the message menu, hover the message or tap it on touch-screens.

Reactions and replies are always possible in direct conversations. In group chats and channels, the admin decides whether to support the features.

GTK4 and libadwaita

Dino now uses GTK4 instead of GTK3 to display its user interface. To the outside there are no big UI changes. However, we can now make use of new or improved GTK features.

Furthermore, we started using libadwaita, which contains specialized Widgets and provides tools to build mobile-friendly UIs. We already adjusted Dino’s main view for usage on mobile devices.

Ilulissat

Glaciers are fascinating landscapes of flowing ice. We named this Dino release “Ilulissat” after a glacier in Greenland to help spread information on the effects of global warming on glaciers.

Glaciers are created over a span of centuries from fallen snow that compacts and transforms into glacial ice. When the ice reaches a certain thickness, it starts to behave like a liquid. Thus, glaciers are in constant movement, driven downhill by gravity under their own weight.

Very large glaciers, also known as ice sheets, exist on Antarctica and Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet covers about 80% of the island and has an average thickness of 1,5 km.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, like all glaciers, is constantly in motion. It accumulates ice in the interior of the island and flows outwards, eventually reaching the ocean through so-called outlet glaciers. One such outlet glacier is the Ilulissat glacier in West Greenland, the fastest draining outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flow speed of over 20 meters per day.

Unfortunately, the Greenland Ice Sheet has been shrinking for past 26 years [ 1 ]. Rising water and air temperatures are causing outlet glaciers to melt at an accelerating pace, draining the ice sheet more quickly and resulting in increased sea levels [ 2 ]. Between 1992 and 2020, meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet alone increased global sea levels by over 1,3 cm, where every centimeter of sea level rise is estimated to expose 6 Million people to coastal flooding [ 3 ].

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

ALE Management

This major new feature enables management of ALE configuration independent of ALE implementation and allows easy sharing of configuration between nodes.  This capability is supported for modems where Isode provides ALE support.  Key features:

• Web configuration of HF Network for each Icon-5066 node.
• Configuration of Node ALE addressing, with support for 2G, 3G and 4G.
• Support for fixed frequency (not using ALE for a network)
• Configuration of HF Frequency list with options for narrowband and wideband
• Configuration of schedules for used with ALE or fixed frequency.   This enables the frequencies used to be changed at configured times so that appropriate frequencies are used for an ALE network throughout the 24 hour cycle.
• Import/Export of configuration, to enable easy sharing of configuration between nodes.   Model is that you configure ALE setup on one node and the transfer to other nodes.

Security

Two important security enhancements are included:

1. Use of OAuth to control which operators can access Icon-5066.
2. Support of TLS which includes:
   1. HTTPS Web Access
   2. TLS Support for GCXP to support Modem Proxy (crypto bypass) across a Red/Black boundary
   3. Web configuration of PKI setup of TLS

STANAG 5066 Ed4 Compliance

Icon-5066 is compliant to STANAG 5066 Ed4.   An overview of Ed4 is here .   Detailed Icon-5066 compliance is specified here .

Most of these capabilities were in the previous release, but described as STANAG 5066 proposed extensions.   Interoperability has been tested with another Ed4 implementation.

SNR Monitor

A new option is provided to configure Icon-5066 as a modem monitor with a simple TCP monitoring protocol.  This is a general purpose capability, but is specifically targeted to support the ACP 127 FAB (Frequency Assignment Broadcast) capability in M-Switch to enable the FAB broadcast to report on measured link quality using a modem at a remote location.

New Modem/ALE Support

The following ALE capabilities are added:

• 3G ALE support for RapidM RM8 and RM10.
• 4G ALE support for RapidM RM10

A new “Raw TCP” data option, which sends and receives data over simple TCP connection.   This generic capability can be used to exchange data with RapidM RM10 modem.

Management

Support for independent control of multiple STANAG 5066 nodes, so that on a system with multiple nodes nodes can be independently enabled and disabled by the Icon-5066 operator.

Red/Black Driver

A driver is provided for Isode’s Red/Black product to monitor Icon-5066.   Like the Red/Black driver for Isode supported Modems, this driver is distributed with Icon-5066, but will be picked up by a collocated Red/Black server.   It enables a Red/Black operator to enable/disable an Icon-5066 node and to monitor key parameters.

Product Activation

Icon-5066 servers are now controlled by Isode Product Activation.  This control includes:

• Optional enabling of TLS.  This is helpful for export.
• Control of the number of nodes available

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

ALE Management

This major new feature enables management of ALE configuration independent of ALE implementation and allows easy sharing of configuration between nodes.  This capability is supported for modems where Isode provides ALE support.  Key features:

• Web configuration of HF Network for each Icon-5066 node.
• Configuration of Node ALE addressing, with support for 2G, 3G and 4G.
• Support for fixed frequency (not using ALE for a network)
• Configuration of HF Frequency list with options for narrowband and wideband
• Configuration of schedules for used with ALE or fixed frequency.   This enables the frequencies used to be changed at configured times so that appropriate frequencies are used for an ALE network throughout the 24 hour cycle.
• Import/Export of configuration, to enable easy sharing of configuration between nodes.   Model is that you configure ALE setup on one node and the transfer to other nodes.

Security

Two important security enhancements are included:

1. Use of OAuth to control which operators can access Icon-5066.
2. Support of TLS which includes:
   1. HTTPS Web Access
   2. TLS Support for GCXP to support Modem Proxy (crypto bypass) across a Red/Black boundary
   3. Web configuration of PKI setup of TLS

STANAG 5066 Ed4 Compliance

Icon-5066 is compliant to STANAG 5066 Ed4.   An overview of Ed4 is here .   Detailed Icon-5066 compliance is specified here .

Most of these capabilities were in the previous release, but described as STANAG 5066 proposed extensions.   Interoperability has been tested with another Ed4 implementation.

SNR Monitor

A new option is provided to configure Icon-5066 as a modem monitor with a simple TCP monitoring protocol.  This is a general purpose capability, but is specifically targeted to support the ACP 127 FAB (Frequency Assignment Broadcast) capability in M-Switch to enable the FAB broadcast to report on measured link quality using a modem at a remote location.

New Modem/ALE Support

The following ALE capabilities are added:

• 3G ALE support for RapidM RM8 and RM10.
• 4G ALE support for RapidM RM10

A new “Raw TCP” data option, which sends and receives data over simple TCP connection.   This generic capability can be used to exchange data with RapidM RM10 modem.

Management

Support for independent control of multiple STANAG 5066 nodes, so that on a system with multiple nodes nodes can be independently enabled and disabled by the Icon-5066 operator.

Red/Black Driver

A driver is provided for Isode’s Red/Black product to monitor Icon-5066.   Like the Red/Black driver for Isode supported Modems, this driver is distributed with Icon-5066, but will be picked up by a collocated Red/Black server.   It enables a Red/Black operator to enable/disable an Icon-5066 node and to monitor key parameters.

Product Activation

Icon-5066 servers are now controlled by Isode Product Activation.  This control includes:

• Optional enabling of TLS.  This is helpful for export.
• Control of the number of nodes available

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

ALE Management

This major new feature enables management of ALE configuration independent of ALE implementation and allows easy sharing of configuration between nodes.  This capability is supported for modems where Isode provides ALE support.  Key features:

• Web configuration of HF Network for each Icon-5066 node.
• Configuration of Node ALE addressing, with support for 2G, 3G and 4G.
• Support for fixed frequency (not using ALE for a network)
• Configuration of HF Frequency list with options for narrowband and wideband
• Configuration of schedules for used with ALE or fixed frequency.   This enables the frequencies used to be changed at configured times so that appropriate frequencies are used for an ALE network throughout the 24 hour cycle.
• Import/Export of configuration, to enable easy sharing of configuration between nodes.   Model is that you configure ALE setup on one node and the transfer to other nodes.

Security

Two important security enhancements are included:

1. Use of OAuth to control which operators can access Icon-5066.
2. Support of TLS which includes:
   1. HTTPS Web Access
   2. TLS Support for GCXP to support Modem Proxy (crypto bypass) across a Red/Black boundary
   3. Web configuration of PKI setup of TLS

STANAG 5066 Ed4 Compliance

Icon-5066 is compliant to STANAG 5066 Ed4.   An overview of Ed4 is here .   Detailed Icon-5066 compliance is specified here .

Most of these capabilities were in the previous release, but described as STANAG 5066 proposed extensions.   Interoperability has been tested with another Ed4 implementation.

SNR Monitor

A new option is provided to configure Icon-5066 as a modem monitor with a simple TCP monitoring protocol.  This is a general purpose capability, but is specifically targeted to support the ACP 127 FAB (Frequency Assignment Broadcast) capability in M-Switch to enable the FAB broadcast to report on measured link quality using a modem at a remote location.

New Modem/ALE Support

The following ALE capabilities are added:

• 3G ALE support for RapidM RM8 and RM10.
• 4G ALE support for RapidM RM10

A new “Raw TCP” data option, which sends and receives data over simple TCP connection.   This generic capability can be used to exchange data with RapidM RM10 modem.

Management

Support for independent control of multiple STANAG 5066 nodes, so that on a system with multiple nodes nodes can be independently enabled and disabled by the Icon-5066 operator.

Red/Black Driver

A driver is provided for Isode’s Red/Black product to monitor Icon-5066.   Like the Red/Black driver for Isode supported Modems, this driver is distributed with Icon-5066, but will be picked up by a collocated Red/Black server.   It enables a Red/Black operator to enable/disable an Icon-5066 node and to monitor key parameters.

Product Activation

Icon-5066 servers are now controlled by Isode Product Activation.  This control includes:

• Optional enabling of TLS.  This is helpful for export.
• Control of the number of nodes available