Another month, another release! We are happy to introduce Movim 0.26, codename Borrelly.

What's new?

Custom Emojis (yay 🎉)!

Movim implemented the Stickers feature a while ago already but always lacked the ability for users to send some custom #emojis to their friends.

This is now implemented thanks to the complete integration of the #XMPP extension XEP-0231: Bits of Binary which was already used partially by the Stickers.

The available emojis packs are imported by the administrator using a new console command that is compatible with the Mastodon or Plemora emojis pack

For example you can import the neofox pack by Volpeon using the following command:

web-user$ php daemon.php importEmojisPack https://volpeon.ink/emojis/neofox/manifest.json

You'll need to run this command using your webserver user, the script will take care of downloading the ZIP file, copy the pictures and seed the database to make them available to all the #Movim instance users.

Each user will then be able to pick their favorites in the Configuration panel and insert them while chating.

When adding a new favorite emoji the user will be able to add a custom :trigger-word: to insert the emoji in its message.

This feature is compatible with a few other XMPP clients sur as Pidgin (!) and Cheogram.

Codeblock support in messages

By using the codeblock syntax it is now possible to insert sourcecode extracts in your messages.

Better handling of spam messages

Some users were experiencing unsolicited and #spam messages issues. This new release doesn't send desktop and push notifications if the messages is not from a contact.

The 1-to-1 discussions can also be filtered to only display the ones you had with your contacts.

Updated message moderation and retraction

Movim now supports the latest version of Message Retraction and Message Moderation and therefore better integrate with the newest clients and servers implementations.

... but also some fixes

As always some issues were also fixed in this release.

The internal code was refactored to comply with the PSR-4 PHP standard. This should remove a lot of warnings when installing and upgrading.

Some shared image URLs were not handled properly in the chat and the preview was broken, this was fixed in the ticket #1314. The sharing of URLs and some embedding features were also greatly improved when writing a new article.

What's next?

We are happy to announce that Movim was selected by NLNet to fund a large set of exciting features around video-conferencing on the platform 🥳, including one-to-many audio and video calls. This will be the biggest project done until now and should keep us busy until next year.

Some more specifics and technical blogs posts will be published soon to explain more in details what all those changes will be about and which exciting features you will see in the upcoming releases.

Thanks a lot to them and don't forget to follow us to get all the latest details about this.

That's all folks!

#nlnet #funding #videoconferencing

A few days after Movim 0.25 Nagata here is a small bugfix release.

In this release you'll find a fix that prevented Firefox to Firefox audio-video calls to happen, a fix for a route parsing issue that was preventing articles to be attached properly in a new publication and a related one that was preventing articles to be shared to chat users.

One small improvement, the one-to-one chat list now includes preview of sent and received images and links.

That's all folks!

#movim #xmpp #bugfix #release

A few days after Movim 0.25 Nagata here is a small bugfix release.

In this release you'll find a fix that prevented Firefox to Firefox audio-video calls to happen, a fix for a route parsing issue that was preventing articles to be attached properly in a new publication and a related one that was preventing articles to be shared to chat users.

One small improvement, the one-to-one chat list now includes preview of sent and received images and links.

That's all folks!

#movim #xmpp #bugfix #release

A few days after Movim 0.25 Nagata here is a small bugfix release.

In this release you'll find a fix that prevented Firefox to Firefox audio-video calls to happen, a fix for a route parsing issue that was preventing articles to be attached properly in a new publication and a related one that was preventing articles to be shared to chat users.

One small improvement, the one-to-one chat list now includes preview of sent and received images and links.

That's all folks!

#movim #xmpp #bugfix #release

Only a few months after #Movim 0.24 here comes Movim 0.25 Nagata!

Let's have a look at all the new features and fixes that you can find in this exciting #release.

What's new?

Message files refactoring

The attached #message files metadata are now moved to the Movim SQL database, this allows way more flexibility to handle then including the upcoming work on the multi-files per message feature.

Along this change comes the support of thumbhash. The general idea is to build a small blurred version of the image that can be transferred and store inside the message metadata and then render it as a placeholder for the image before it gets downloaded.

Internal file upload proxy, bye bye CORS!

When you upload a file on Movim, it is not store in Movim itself but directly on your #XMPP server File Upload Service.

This feature, defined in XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload is pretty useful and widely implemented in the XMPP ecosystem. However XMPP web clients, such as Movim, have to deal with browser related limitations called #CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing) that needs some more configuration on the XMPP servers to allow upload files from domains that are not the same as the XMPP file #upload service one.

This new version comes with an internal file upload proxy, basically your file is first uploaded to a temporary script in Movim that then take care to upload it to your XMPP File Upload Service. This change makes all those configuration obsolete and greatly simplify the Movim deployment and configuration.

One small detail, please ensure that your PHP upload_max_filesize internal setting is large enough to handle the files that will be uploaded to the XMPP servers, somes are allowing up to a few hundreds megabytes for the maximum file sizes.

Automatic Nightmode 🌙

Movim is having a Nightmode toggle for a while already. A few internal changes is now allowing Movim to just follow your browser or operating system directives.

XEP-0410: MUC Self-Ping (Schrödinger's Chat)

As defined in the introduction of the XEP:

The Multi-User Chat (XEP-0045) [1] protocol was not designed to handle s2s interruptions or message loss well. Rather often, the restart of a server or a component causes a client to believe that it is still joined to a given chatroom, while the chatroom service does not know of this occupant.

Movim is now implementing the basic features of this XMPP extension and therefore automatically disconnect your from a chatroom if no activity was detected for a few minutes and if the ping doesn't come back positively. It was reported in the issue 1164.

Various other fixes

This version also fixes a few issues like a bug that prevented sometimes Movim to resynchronize the conversations history for one-to-one discussions, a SRV record certificate validation misconfiguration or a wrong priority of the XEP-0319: Last User Interaction over the XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery presences that were giving wrong information regarding your contact "last activity".

What's next?

This release should be the last one before some exciting huge set of features, with the support of the NLNet Fundation that will be integrated in Movim in the upcoming months. It seems that it should improve a few things regarding audio and video calls, stay tuned! 👀

Hope that you'll enjoy all those changes 😊

That's all folks!

Only a few months after #Movim 0.24 here comes Movim 0.25 Nagata!

Let's have a look at all the new features and fixes that you can find in this exciting #release.

What's new?

Message files refactoring

The attached #message files metadata are now moved to the Movim SQL database, this allows way more flexibility to handle then including the upcoming work on the multi-files per message feature.

Along this change comes the support of thumbhash. The general idea is to build a small blurred version of the image that can be transferred and store inside the message metadata and then render it as a placeholder for the image before it gets downloaded.

Internal file upload proxy, bye bye CORS!

When you upload a file on Movim, it is not store in Movim itself but directly on your #XMPP server File Upload Service.

This feature, defined in XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload is pretty useful and widely implemented in the XMPP ecosystem. However XMPP web clients, such as Movim, have to deal with browser related limitations called #CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing) that needs some more configuration on the XMPP servers to allow upload files from domains that are not the same as the XMPP file #upload service one.

This new version comes with an internal file upload proxy, basically your file is first uploaded to a temporary script in Movim that then take care to upload it to your XMPP File Upload Service. This change makes all those configuration obsolete and greatly simplify the Movim deployment and configuration.

One small detail, please ensure that your PHP upload_max_filesize internal setting is large enough to handle the files that will be uploaded to the XMPP servers, somes are allowing up to a few hundreds megabytes for the maximum file sizes.

Automatic Nightmode 🌙

Movim is having a Nightmode toggle for a while already. A few internal changes is now allowing Movim to just follow your browser or operating system directives.

XEP-0410: MUC Self-Ping (Schrödinger's Chat)

As defined in the introduction of the XEP:

The Multi-User Chat (XEP-0045) [1] protocol was not designed to handle s2s interruptions or message loss well. Rather often, the restart of a server or a component causes a client to believe that it is still joined to a given chatroom, while the chatroom service does not know of this occupant.

Movim is now implementing the basic features of this XMPP extension and therefore automatically disconnect your from a chatroom if no activity was detected for a few minutes and if the ping doesn't come back positively. It was reported in the issue 1164.

Various other fixes

This version also fixes a few issues like a bug that prevented sometimes Movim to resynchronize the conversations history for one-to-one discussions, a SRV record certificate validation misconfiguration or a wrong priority of the XEP-0319: Last User Interaction over the XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery presences that were giving wrong information regarding your contact "last activity".

What's next?

This release should be the last one before some exciting huge set of features, with the support of the NLNet Fundation that will be integrated in Movim in the upcoming months. It seems that it should improve a few things regarding audio and video calls, stay tuned! 👀

Hope that you'll enjoy all those changes 😊

That's all folks!

Only a few months after #Movim 0.24 here comes Movim 0.25 Nagata!

Let's have a look at all the new features and fixes that you can find in this exciting #release.

What's new?

Message files refactoring

The attached #message files metadata are now moved to the Movim SQL database, this allows way more flexibility to handle then including the upcoming work on the multi-files per message feature.

Along this change comes the support of thumbhash. The general idea is to build a small blurred version of the image that can be transferred and store inside the message metadata and then render it as a placeholder for the image before it gets downloaded.

Internal file upload proxy, bye bye CORS!

When you upload a file on Movim, it is not store in Movim itself but directly on your #XMPP server File Upload Service.

This feature, defined in XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload is pretty useful and widely implemented in the XMPP ecosystem. However XMPP web clients, such as Movim, have to deal with browser related limitations called #CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing) that needs some more configuration on the XMPP servers to allow upload files from domains that are not the same as the XMPP file #upload service one.

This new version comes with an internal file upload proxy, basically your file is first uploaded to a temporary script in Movim that then take care to upload it to your XMPP File Upload Service. This change makes all those configuration obsolete and greatly simplify the Movim deployment and configuration.

One small detail, please ensure that your PHP upload_max_filesize internal setting is large enough to handle the files that will be uploaded to the XMPP servers, somes are allowing up to a few hundreds megabytes for the maximum file sizes.

Automatic Nightmode 🌙

Movim is having a Nightmode toggle for a while already. A few internal changes is now allowing Movim to just follow your browser or operating system directives.

XEP-0410: MUC Self-Ping (Schrödinger's Chat)

As defined in the introduction of the XEP:

The Multi-User Chat (XEP-0045) [1] protocol was not designed to handle s2s interruptions or message loss well. Rather often, the restart of a server or a component causes a client to believe that it is still joined to a given chatroom, while the chatroom service does not know of this occupant.

Movim is now implementing the basic features of this XMPP extension and therefore automatically disconnect your from a chatroom if no activity was detected for a few minutes and if the ping doesn't come back positively. It was reported in the issue 1164.

Various other fixes

This version also fixes a few issues like a bug that prevented sometimes Movim to resynchronize the conversations history for one-to-one discussions, a SRV record certificate validation misconfiguration or a wrong priority of the XEP-0319: Last User Interaction over the XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery presences that were giving wrong information regarding your contact "last activity".

What's next?

This release should be the last one before some exciting huge set of features, with the support of the NLNet Fundation that will be integrated in Movim in the upcoming months. It seems that it should improve a few things regarding audio and video calls, stay tuned! 👀

Hope that you'll enjoy all those changes 😊

That's all folks!

A few days after the 0.24 announcement we are releasing a 0.24.1 that fixes a few small things.

bcrypt passwords and null characters

Movim was using the null character (\0) to concatenate some strings to create a hash. Some recent minor PHP #release forbid the presence of such character for this usage in #bcrypt.

This was documented and fixed in the ticket #1311.

Small interface fixes

An error in the Notification tab was preventing users to read the content of the comments that were done under their publications, a placeholder image was added to the Send To drawer if no Communities are currently subscribed and some small CSS padding were fixed to make the interface more consistent.

Enjoy !

A few days after the 0.24 announcement we are releasing a 0.24.1 that fixes a few small things.

bcrypt passwords and null characters

Movim was using the null character (\0) to concatenate some strings to create a hash. Some recent minor PHP #release forbid the presence of such character for this usage in #bcrypt.

This was documented and fixed in the ticket #1311.

Small interface fixes

An error in the Notification tab was preventing users to read the content of the comments that were done under their publications, a placeholder image was added to the Send To drawer if no Communities are currently subscribed and some small CSS padding were fixed to make the interface more consistent.

Enjoy !