BeagleIM 4.1 and SiskinIM 6.1 released

New versions of XMPP clients for Apple’s mobile and desktop platforms have been released. The biggest change is introduction of XEP-0215: External Service Discovery which helps with establishing audio and video calls.

BeagleIM

The stable release of BeagleIM 4.1 contains a lot of changes and stability improvements.

New XEPs:

• Added support for XEP-0215: External Service Discovery

Major changes:

• Added shortcut for Last Message Correction with CMD+ARROW UP
• Added support for automatic scaling/recompression of images and videos to reduce size of shared files. (hold alt when sharing image file)

• Added support for sharing multiple files with drag & drop, copy & paste or selection.
• Improved onboarding process
• Simplified updating account password

• Added indication for corrected and retracted messages
• Added support for /me command
• Replaced Me with actual nickname user is using on the account on which chat was opened.

• Redesigned accounts list

• Added support for displaying jabber:iq:version

• Improved presentation of VCard data

• Rewrite of Markdown support to optimize it and fix the crash

Fixes

• Improved VCard support for MUC group chats
• Fixed issue with Reply option clearing clipboard
• Added dropping of errors received on message delivery confirmations not being delivered properly
• Fixed issue with VCard editing leading to disabled Edit button and improved UX
• Workaround for crash on BigSur (missing permission)
• Fixed issues with handling subscription requests
• Fixed issue with joining password protected MUC rooms
• Fixed another crash related to movie preview
• Fixed issue with right part of “new” button not being clickable
• Fixed issue with marking all MIX messages received while offline as read.
• Fixed support for domains ending with .local

SiskinIM

The stable release of SiskinIM 6.1 contains changes and stability improvements.

• Added support for XEP-0215: External Service Discovery
• Added support for automatic scaling/recompression of images and videos to reduce size of shared files.
• Added support for /me command
• Replaced Me with actual nickname user is using on the account on which chat was opened.
• Fixed issue with marking all MIX messages received while offline as read.
• Fixed support for domains ending with .local

Downloads

You can download both application from their respective app-stores: Beagle IM from macOS appstore and Siskin IM from iOS appstore and star them on GitHub: Siskin IM on GitHub and Beagle IM on GitHub

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