Good news everyone! MQTT v3.1.1 has now become an OASIS Standard.

This marks not just the result of 18 months hard work by the Technical Committee, but also the last 15 years of work started by Andy and Arlen. Congratulations to everyone involved.

You can find the standard specification as either single page HTML or PDF.

A significant milestone has been reached in efforts to standardise MQTT. The OASIS MQTT Technical Committee have approved a Committee Specification Draft which is now open for a 30-day public review.

The public review starts 13 January 2014 at 00:00 GMT and ends 11 February 2014 at 23:59 GMT.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

More details are available in the announcement.

Thanks to a pull-request from friend of MQTT @zer0c00l, GitHub now has the ability to publish an MQTT message whenever a repository has a change pushed to it.

To get your repository publishing, find your way to its admin page.

From there, under the Service Hooks tab, select the MqttPub hook in the list to bring up the configuration options.

The options speak for themselves, but there are some handy notes provided to help you figure it out. Be sure to check the ‘active’ box before hitting Update Settings.

With that done, you should start to get messages published whenever something is committed to the repository. The message itself is a json blob that contains all of the information about the commit that you could possible want.

You can read more about the contents of the blob on GitHub’s Post-Receive Hooks help page.