We recently started to migrate the App from Anu Pokharel‘s Apple account to Thilo Molitor‘s Apple account. As part of this transition we also deployed some new push servers to not let an old retired developer pay for the infrastructure needed for Monal. Coming along with this transition from the […]
Continue ReadingInsights into Monal Development
TLDR: Info: Monal will stop support for iOS 12, iOS 13 and macOS Catalina!We are searching for a SwiftUI developer.We need a new simplified website.With better continuous funding, our push servers will move from the US to Europe.We have a new support mail: info@monal-im.org Two years ago we decided to […]
Continue ReadingFunding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development
Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post. Dear Monal Community, as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general […]
Continue ReadingMonal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store. Here are the changes in this release: Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera Fixed […]
Continue ReadingMonal 5.0 released with group chat and voice messages
Hello everyone! Well, you read correctly: Monal supports group chat and voice messages now! Apart from this an insane amount of work has been put into this update. Let’s look at the details! But first let’s say many thanks to our core developers who made this update happen: Thilo Molitor […]
Continue ReadingVaxbot on Canadian National News
Vaxbot, a service built by the Monal team to vaccinate people in the US and Canada was featured on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) The National and was broadcast nationwide. This was great exposure for the project and XMPP in general, introducing it to a whole new population that likely […]
Continue ReadingMonal 5.0 RC2 ready
We fixed some bugs in this second release candidate: fixed background image bug fixed wrong message direction displayed for some incoming messages in non-anon mucs fixed reconnect-all button in logs settings fixed changing of roster names of contact via contact details
Continue ReadingMonal 5.0 RC1 ready
We are pleased to announce that we just published a new beta build (746) of Monal 5.0 (iOS and macOS) If nothing big happens, this will be the last beta build of Monal 5.0 and we’ll finally see the release of Monal 5.0 stable next week!
Continue ReadingVaxbot US shutting down
Vaccines are readily available in the US now, you can walk in to a pharmacy anywhere and get it. There is no need for the Vaxbot service (http://vaccine.monal.im) here anymore. After 11 million alerts sent out, we have shutdown US operations last week on May 8th and start focusing on […]
Continue ReadingVaxbot continues to grow
Our Vaxbot (vaccine.monal.im) has continued to grow. We just hit 8 million messages sent and send around 800,000 messages a day. XMPP and Vaxbot have been on TV news in Las Vegas and South Carolina, the radio in Washington as well newspapers all over the country. We mention XMPP and […]
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