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by mathieui

on Mon 25 May 2026

Tags: xmpp-en xmpp poezio

Poezio is a terminal-based XMPP client which aims to replicate the<br>feeling of terminal-based IRC clients such as irssi or weechat; to<br>this end, poezio originally only supported multi-user chats and anonymous<br>authentication.

This new release has mostly internal improvements, but a few improvements and<br>fixes as well.

Thanks to all contributors and users!

Features

Implementation of Message Retraction (XEP-0424) as the sending side.

Various improvements to the react plugin, notably a way to convert :emoji:<br>aliases to real emojis.

Overhaul of the hide_exit_join option (more in the next section).

Updates to hide_exit_join

The hide_exit_join option is meant to avoid displaying all join/part presences<br>since the MUC (XEP-0045) behaviour is heavily presence-based for now.

It is an integer, which can be -1 (display all exit/joins), 0 (display none),<br>and a positive value n (display anything inactive for more than n seconds).

How this worked previously is that poezio did not even add join/exit messages if<br>they matched the criteria, making its a bit difficult if you both did not want<br>to clutter your screen with mostly irrelevant information, while at the same time<br>being able to view them – e.g. if you are moderating the room –.

Now the positive value’s quirky behavior stays the same, but in the case of<br>-1 or 0, the join/exit messages will be kept in the buffer at all times,<br>but not displayed when the value is 0. This option can be set at runtime,<br>and the effects are instantaneous.

Since this is a special kind of value and not a boolean, /toggle will not<br>work on it, therefore two new "aliased keys" have been added for users who want<br>to bind keypresses to this toggling:

_toggle_presences_local to show or hide presences in the current MUC.

_toggle_presences_global to show or hide presences globally.

Fixes

The API used internally for message retraction or moderation is no longer<br>limited to the last 100 messagess.

Fixed the config file handling on Guix or related distributions where the config<br>file could actually be a symlink (in which case it produced undesired behavior).

Custom plugin and theme load should keep working on python 3.15, which removes<br>a number of deprecated APIs in python’s importlib.

The /xhtml command had been broken for a while.

Some coroutines in the admin or irc plugin were not awaited, which<br>broke functionality and produced unwanted errors in the output.

Fixed a traceback when receiving reactions from an unopened conversation.

Fixed a display bug in semi-anonymous rooms showing the room jid<br>(room@server/nick) for users when joining/leaving, which is useless.

Fixed a case where self-ping would be disabled when the room disconnects us,<br>instead of trying to rejoin later.

Packaging

Link Mauve updated both the flatpak and the sticker-picker plugin.

Goran updated the guix package.

Docs

Missing plugins documentation has been added.

Internal

As hinted in my previous post, a large effort was made towards better<br>typing and linting. This means there were a huge number of changes:

% git diff --stat v0.17...v0.18<br>157 files changed, 5366 insertions(+), 3158 deletions(-)

Which is risky, but at the same time since most of those changes added<br>stricter type checking, there are few possible regressions (and a few were<br>caught already, thanks to the kind people running the main branch).

Links

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poezio documentation

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