{"id":33335,"date":"2021-02-02T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33335"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:11:46","slug":"jabber-xmpp-client-kaidan-0-7-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/jabber-xmpp-client-kaidan-0-7-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabber\/XMPP Client &#8216;Kaidan&#8217; 0.7.0 Released with New Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32661\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kaidan, free and open-source Jabber \/ XMPP client, released version 0.7.0 with enhancements and bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Kaidan is a user-friendly and modern chat app uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber). Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider.<\/p>\n<p>The new version 0.7.0 was released today adds more information in contact profile including nickname, software version, and operation system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kaidan-contact-info.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The favorite emojis now is showing by default, and you can search emoji by typeing :&lt;name&gt;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kaidan-search-emoji.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Kaidan 0.7.0 include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>drag&#8217;n&#8217;drop support for sending files<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Paste images from clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+V) into the chat<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Insert newline with Shift + Enter<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Custom hostname and port.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Improved design of media preview sheets<\/li>\n<li>Restructure message sending bar<\/li>\n<li>And bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install Kaidan in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The software offers non-install Appimage available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaidan.im\/download\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">download at its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It also available as Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox. Open <code style=\"border:None; color:#000;\">terminal<\/code> from system app launcher and run following commands one by one to install it:<\/p>\n<p>1. Run command to install flatpak daemon if you don&#8217;t have it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"102\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Add the flathub repository which hosts the software package:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-450x75.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Finally install Kaidan package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak install flathub im.kaidan.kaidan<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/flatpak-kaidan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open it either from app launcher or by running command <code style=\"border:None; color:#000;\">flatpak run im.kaidan.kaidan<\/code><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall Kaidan:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove the flatpak package, simply run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak uninstall im.kaidan.kaidan<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaidan, free and open-source Jabber \/ XMPP client, released version 0.7.0 with enhancements and bug-fixes. Kaidan is a user-friendly and modern chat app uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber). Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider. The new version 0.7.0 was released today adds more information in contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1979],"class_list":["post-33335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-xmpp"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}