Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to announce the release of aioxmpp 0.9. The current release can be obtained from GitHub [1] (check out the v0.9.0 tag or the master branch) or PyPI [2]. The HTML documentation can be found at [3]. Examples can be found in the GitHub repository, in the examples sub directory.

aioxmpp is a Python library based on asyncio. It implements the client side of the XMPP protocol (RFC 6120 and others). For a more detailed description of the package, please review the README of the package on GitHub [1] or on PyPI [2]. For more information on XMPP, please see [8]. aioxmpp is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3.0 or later.

Version 0.9 is a feature release. Many new XMPP Extensions (XEPs) have been implemented in this release, to a great extent thanks to [@sebastianriese]. A few highlights include:

* Support for [XEP-0163] (Personal Eventing Protocol), which is used for server-side broadcast and storage of account information.

* Support for [XEP-0084] (User Avatar), [XEP-0049] (Private XML Storage, nowadays often replaced by XEP-0163), and [XEP-0048] (Bookmarks).

* A new subpackage (aioxmpp.im) [10] which focuses on modern Instant Messaging features has been introduced. It is still very experimental, but does already support Message Carbons. The Multi-User Chat implemementation has been ported to adhere to that interface. See the linked docs to see where the journey is going, it’s hard to summarize in a single paragraph!

The full list of new features is, as always, included in the changelog [9] included in the official documentation.

Bugs, feature requests, patches and questions can be directed to either the aioxmpp mailing list [4], the GitHub issue tracker [5] or the XMPP Multi-User chat [6], whatever floats your boat. Please direct security-relevant issue reports directly to me (jonas@wielicki.name), preferably encrypted using my GPG public key [7].

best regards and happy-asyncio-ing, Jonas Wielicki

[1]: https://github.com/horazont/aioxmpp [2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aioxmpp [3]: https://docs.zombofant.net/aioxmpp/0.9/ [4]: https://lists.zombofant.net/mailman/listinfo/aioxmpp-devel [5]: https://github.com/horazont/aioxmpp/issues [6]: aioxmpp@conference.zombofant.net [7]: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE5EDE5AC679E300F AA5A 78FF 508D 8CF4 F355 F682 E5ED E5AC 679E 300F [8]: https://xmpp.org/ [9]: https://docs.zombofant.net/aioxmpp/0.9/api/changelog.html#version-0-9 [10]: https://docs.zombofant.net/aioxmpp/0.9/api/public/im.html [XEP-0048]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0048.html [XEP-0049]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0049.html [XEP-0084]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html [XEP-0163]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0163.html @sebastianriese: https://github.com/sebastianriese/