Blogger
This is the news blogger for the instant messaging service and related website.
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Unexpected Downtime 18/08 2GMT+1 - 7GMT+1
The VPS unexpectedly crashed, we're still investigating on the causes but looks like a problem on the guest machine, we rebooted it as soon as we realised it was down.
Apologies for the … more
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Fixed bug in Registration API that prevented new registrations (20/07)
There was a bug in the Registration API module in Metronome 3.9.13 that prevented new registration to complete successfully, that was now fixed, sorry for the inconvenience. more
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GDPR countermeasures enabled
The coming in effect of GDPR, forced us to employ some measures to become at least partially compliant. What we deployed mainly affects s2s communication, and if you want to contact remote entities … more
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In-Band-Registration enabled
I implemented the necessary safety measures, and now IBR is safe to be enabled you can from now on just register through your xmpp client. more
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Synchronization of passwords between XMPP and Mail accounts implemented
Now both the XMPP and Webmail are synchronized. Whenever you create an IM account the webmail account will immediatly share that password, same will happen when you reset your IM account password. It … more
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Metronome IM v3.7.22 improvements
Metronome, the xmpp server of lightwitch.org, will now support all important suggested features by mobile clients like Conversations that previously weren't supported:
Full support of OMEMO in PEP … more
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Spectre/Meltdown related ISP maintenance window
The provider the xmpp server vps resides on will be performing maintenance to the guest machines related to the discovered Spectre/Meltdown vulnerability at 5 am GMT, ETA is said to be (much) less … more
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ME Webmail login form bug corrected
A bug of the webmail login form came to my attention today, apparently clicking reset made the skin options field to disappear and consequentially broken the webmail if you tried to login, I patched … more
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Update to the Terms of Service 27/12
To include and cover the new Webmail Service, we amended the agreement accordingly, feel free to review the changes here. more
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MIME issues with the registration verification
Today it came to my attention that Firefox based browsers had issues with the registration verification MIME/Content-Type showing only plain text (thanks Pepe), that was probably broken from a while … more