Hello Cabal community! It's been quiet on the news front here, but we've been up to some exciting things on the new Cable protocol. Our highlights from 2024 so far:

Early 2024 saw us wrap up the NLNet grant work that we started in 2023. Many warm thanks to NLNet for believing in & supporting us!

Through the tremendous efforts of both those writing the specs and those reviewing them, we're happy to announce that version 1.0-draft8 of the Cable specifications (likely to be adopted as 1.0) are complete:

We've also implemented much of these protocols already, including now the Handshake protocol this year in Rust and TypeScript, not to mention supporting documentation for spec implementors.

Several long-standing command-line client render fixes around Unicode, now live in [email protected].

We submitted a grant proposal to SplinterCon that, if approved, will advance Cable significantly toward being usable on the usual platforms as well as Web and Mobile, such as

Finally, planned for 2025: launching a new, gorgeous, and informative version of the Cabal website!


A very warm thanks to all of you who are backing Cabal: it makes a difference & we appreciate you.

~ Kira