Hello everyone, with support from Anu & Thilo I am organizing the community project to redesign the Monal logo. After the suggestion’s have been made we would like to ask the community to vote and what should be done. No worries, there will be the option to keep the current Continue Reading
Monal 5 will support inline audio and video
Monal 5 will be another big update with a lot of changes under the hood. Thanks to Jim this will add support for inline audio and video playback.
GitHub reorganization
Monal is growing! That means we need to improve the way we collaborate and manage the various projects that build the client and server stack that makes it tick. With that in mind the development team is migrating from a collection of personal accounts to an organization in GitHub. Monal Continue Reading
Monal Stats 1/2021
We don’t track the number of users Monal has. We do see thousands of downloads in the App Store statistics. Any user counting and crash tracking provided by Apple is strictly opt in only. So it always undercounts. However because ever user registers a push device with the push server Continue Reading
Push Outage
There was a push outage for some users today for a few hours. Apple updated their intermediate certificate and it appears to have gone in effect earlier than expected. The new certificate expires in 2030 so this shouldn’t be an issue again. Apologies for the inconvenience.
CVE-2020-26547
We urge you to update to Monal ≥ 4.9 if you haven’t done it yet. We discovered a security bug in Monal < 4.9 dubbed CVE-2020-26547: Monal before 4.9 does not implement proper sender verification on MAM and Message Carbon (XEP-0280) results. This allows a remote attacker(able to send stanzas Continue Reading
Wanted: Monal feedback
Hi fellow Monal-Beta users, we were asked to post an update of our development journey for the next xmpp summit.Because we as the developers of the monal beta are way too proud of our own achievements,we ask you as the community to provide a more realistic view of the monal Continue Reading
Monal 5.0 will be the last version to support ios12
We like to support things as long as we can. However, eventually we do see the need to drop older os support so we can focus efforts on current versions. The long life of Apple devices means we end up supporting very old hardware for a long time. For example, Continue Reading
Mac 4.9 is out
App Store issues have been resolved. 4.9 is out on the Mac. I don’t expect the iOS and Mac releases to be out of synch again
Update on Mac App Store release
We have identified the cause of the crash that was causing Apple to reject Monal when submitted to the Mac App Store. The root cause of the problem was the behavior of action sheet type of alerts. This was changed from a Mac style alert in Catalyst running on Catalina Continue Reading