diff --git a/parsers/ChangeLog b/parsers/ChangeLog
index 2296fca05077bf3212a11b1f4ffe42d4250a77da..bbc8ab154c89eb6196fed0bb6b787b9791c1cb70 100644
--- a/parsers/ChangeLog
+++ b/parsers/ChangeLog
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ XXXX-YY-ZZ RELEASER <admin@example.com>
         Handshake::from_stream_id_and_password(), with the two parameters
         having been exchanged, and the stream_id is now a String instead of
         &str.
-      - Add a lang property in Presence, to avoid parser errors.
       - pubsub::Owner is now a wrapper for the pubsub::owner::Paylolad enum,
         and all its direct children have been merged into this enum (!532)
       - time::TimeResult has been ported to use xso. Use From/Into to convert
@@ -84,6 +83,8 @@ XXXX-YY-ZZ RELEASER <admin@example.com>
         3. the message::Thread type was converted from a single-element
            tuple-like struct to a struct with named fields to support the
            optional `parent` attribute.
+      - presence::Presence has been ported to use xso (!477). It also uses the
+        message::Lang newtype since !561.
     * New parsers/serialisers:
       - Stream Features (RFC 6120) (!400)
       - Spam Reporting (XEP-0377) (!506)
diff --git a/parsers/src/presence.rs b/parsers/src/presence.rs
index 9385f83bb09353182322e38ee1e862b1ad81edec..67634ddcdf03adb2f70f59544074934d4bf87b58 100644
--- a/parsers/src/presence.rs
+++ b/parsers/src/presence.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 use xso::{error::Error, AsOptionalXmlText, AsXml, AsXmlText, FromXml, FromXmlText};
 
+use crate::message::Lang;
 use crate::ns;
 use alloc::{borrow::Cow, collections::BTreeMap};
 use jid::Jid;
@@ -56,7 +57,6 @@ impl AsXmlText for Show {
     }
 }
 
-type Lang = String;
 type Status = String;
 
 /// Priority of this presence.  This value can go from -128 to 127, defaults to
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ impl AsOptionalXmlText for Type {
 
 /// The main structure representing the `<presence/>` stanza.
 #[derive(FromXml, AsXml, Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
-#[xml(namespace = ns::DEFAULT_NS, name = "presence")]
+#[xml(namespace = ns::DEFAULT_NS, name = "presence", discard(attribute = "xml:lang"))]
 pub struct Presence {
     /// The sender of this presence.
     #[xml(attribute(default))]
@@ -157,18 +157,13 @@ pub struct Presence {
     #[xml(attribute(default, name = "type"))]
     pub type_: Type,
 
-    /// The xml:lang of this presence stanza.
-    // TODO: Remove that, it has no place here but helps parsing valid presences.
-    #[xml(attribute(default, name = "xml:lang"))]
-    pub lang: Option<Lang>,
-
     /// The availability of the sender of this presence.
     #[xml(extract(name = "show", default, fields(text(type_ = Show))))]
     pub show: Option<Show>,
 
     /// A localised list of statuses defined in this presence.
     #[xml(extract(n = .., name = "status", fields(
-        attribute(type_ = String, name = "xml:lang", default),
+        attribute(type_ = Lang, name = "xml:lang", default),
         text(type_ = String),
     )))]
     pub statuses: BTreeMap<Lang, Status>,
@@ -191,7 +186,6 @@ impl Presence {
             to: None,
             id: None,
             type_,
-            lang: None,
             show: None,
             statuses: BTreeMap::new(),
             priority: Priority(0i8),
@@ -305,7 +299,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_size() {
         assert_size!(Show, 1);
         assert_size!(Type, 1);
-        assert_size!(Presence, 84);
+        assert_size!(Presence, 72);
     }
 
     #[cfg(target_pointer_width = "64")]
@@ -313,7 +307,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_size() {
         assert_size!(Show, 1);
         assert_size!(Type, 1);
-        assert_size!(Presence, 168);
+        assert_size!(Presence, 144);
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -588,7 +582,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_serialise_status() {
         let status = Status::from("Hello world!");
         let mut presence = Presence::new(Type::Unavailable);
-        presence.statuses.insert(String::from(""), status);
+        presence.statuses.insert(Lang::from(""), status);
         let elem: Element = presence.into();
         assert!(elem.is("presence", ns::DEFAULT_NS));
         assert!(elem.children().next().unwrap().is("status", ns::DEFAULT_NS));
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_bot.rs b/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_bot.rs
index 4be87a4e1c54b0fe5e659b1dadeb249346214c2a..1ea2bc4522cd1e659c0df2473dec243ea649cd13 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_bot.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_bot.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ fn make_presence() -> Presence {
     presence.show = Some(PresenceShow::Chat);
     presence
         .statuses
-        .insert(String::from("en"), String::from("Echoing messages."));
+        .insert(Lang::from("en"), String::from("Echoing messages."));
     presence
 }
 
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_component.rs b/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_component.rs
index de01d8f8213cb0aaf2f221f59a2bd9b3bf3b2329..fffa8fbe13f87abec4b8eb190a86ec2a09c1c5ef 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_component.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/examples/echo_component.rs
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ fn make_presence(from: Jid, to: Jid) -> Presence {
     presence.show = Some(PresenceShow::Chat);
     presence
         .statuses
-        .insert(String::from("en"), String::from("Echoing messages."));
+        .insert(Lang::from("en"), String::from("Echoing messages."));
     presence
 }