Jami "Taranis" released

The Jami communication tool has released a major new stable version called "Taranis"; the blog post announcement explains: "Taranis, the Gallic and Celtic god of the sky, lightning and thunder, will be the baptismal name of this new version of Jami." The mailing-list announcement describes the tool this way:

Jami is a GNU package for universal communication that respects thefreedom and privacy of its users. Jami is an end-to-end encryptedsecure and distributed voice, video, and chat communication platformthat requires no central server, and leaves the power of privacy andfreedom in the hands of users.

Another recent blog post gives an overview of Jami for video conferences. The new release has improvements throughout the system, including the first phase of Swarm support, which 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".