The highlights of the Taranis release of Jami include:
Windows 11 support
Phase one of Swarms: synchronized 1-to-1 conversations
The first phase of Swarm support in Jami is now available across all platforms.
Swarms are fully distributed, peer-to-peer chats with conversation histories synchronized across your devices, and the potential to be expanded into group chats in upcoming future releases of Jami. See our earlier article Swarm: a new generation of group conversations to learn more about Swarms.
In the first phase of Swarm support, Swarms enable synchronization of 1-to-1 conversations across multiple devices associated with the same account. See the full release announcement linked above for more details.
Improvements to conferences and rendezvous points:
fine-grained moderation tools for conferences, such as âmoderator muteâ and âkickâ;
âraise handâ feature for indicating intention to speak; and
enhanced screen-sharing now allowing sharing individual windows, in addition to the already-available options of sharing the entire desktop or a selected screen area.
Read more about these enhancements and new features for conferences and rendezvous points in our recent article The Jami conferencing system.
New Android call interface and improved mobile connectivity
Pre-built binaries/packages of Jami Taranis for various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms can be downloaded from our official repositories. Please visit https://jami.net/download for instructions. If you have already installed Jami following the instructions on the website, you can simply upgrade to Taranis much like other releases.
If you previously installed Jami from your GNU/Linux distribution of choiceâs repositories and it has not been updated for a while, we highly recommend installing Jami from our official repositories (on dl.jami.net) instead, for regular updates including bug fixes and improvements, in addition to new major releases.
As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback, and look forward to hearing from you!
A quick question : is this latest instance now avoiding IP tracking?
I mean, up to now, as far as I know, only Briar and Session use TOR-like communication chains.
Both are almost unusable IMHO, Briar by lack of features and Session because it is mangled with a bitcoin-like paying way of getting a readable pseudo.
IP tracking becomes significant as âevenâ my western European country recently used international agreement to demand, and obtain, sender/receiver IPs in a recent very, very small issue (tracking people that wanted to organize demonstrations).
In such a context any channel not scrambling the communication line almost gives false comfortâŠ
Is this swarm concept an answer to this too?
I donât think swarm will resolve this issue: the purpose of swarm is, if I understand it correctly, to enable better conversation syncing and also group chats Nothing in swarms is related to hide your IP
Thanks @Altons ! Still I find Jami is the best covering my main objectives (open source + encrypted + serverless + network-obfuscated). Maybe with an extra VPNâŠ
Thank you @bandali ! Very informative indeed!
For my personal case, being in France with the possibility to use my ISP VPN, I conclude I wouldnât disclose a partnerâs IP if I take care of switching on the VPN here. Thatâs my very worst case scenario
The past had been difficult for Mac users, there had been a number of stability issues. In the last time, I couldnât share my screen, neither change any settings during a conversation, many such things resulted reliably in a kind of unexpected termination with such a message, even ending the itself did this.
Now it seems like there isnât any improved version, but an entirely new one, so far really working very well. It seems like to have taken great efforts of the developers and beta testers, as well as patience of users like me, and itâs right now beginning to bare fruits, contributing to a future I want.
ThÀnks to everybody who was and is contributing to this hidden weapon in a hidden war, to a peace of real and true peace, in my opinion, you are some of the greatest people of our time.
