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News, announcements and thoughts from the Prosody IM team

Prosody 0.9.2 released

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release , security .

We are pleased to announce Prosody 0.9.2, the latest release of our stable 0.9 branch. The main focus of this release is on a couple of security improvements. A summary of changes in this release: Debian/Ubuntu packages fixed to always generate per-system certs (see below) TLS: Improved cipher string, and use Prosody’s preferred ciphers (see below) MUC: Fix for Spark clients not displaying room lists Packaged certificates It has always been our policy that Prosody should be secure out of the box, which is why we generate self-signed certificates for “localhost” at installation time, making it easy to get a simple XMPP server up and running in a couple of minutes.

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Prosody 0.9.1 released

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

It’s been a great couple of weeks since Prosody 0.9.0 was released, but we’ve fixed a small number of issues and are happy to present our 0.9.1 release. A summary of changes in this release: Config: Fix the workaround for LuaSec 0.4.x to apply the ssl ‘ciphers’ option correctly Config: Ability to specify the ssl ‘dhparam’ option simply as a path to a file, instead of a callback function Windows: Fix s2s issues Windows: Fix the ability to specify absolute paths to SSL certificates in the config Build: Fix compilation issue on non-Linux systems that have glibc (such as Debian GNU/kFreeBSD) API: Fix to our set library, that caused the :include() and :exclude() methods to behave incorrectly Download instructions for many platforms can be found on our download page

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Prosody 0.9.0 released

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

Yes! Prosody 0.9.0 is here! Over 1500 commits have been made by twelve people since 0.8, and even more have gone into third-party libraries that we have been contributing to such as LuaSocket, LuaSec and LuaEvent. IPv6 Our first big feature to announce is IPv6 support throughout. After releasing 0.8, this was by far our most voted-for issue in our tracker. Many thanks especially go to Florian Zeitz who worked on the bulk of IPv6 support in both Prosody and LuaSocket.

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Prosody 0.9.0rc5 available for testing

by The Prosody Team.

Hi folks, It’s that time of the week! We have a new release for you, with some important and some minor fixes. It is strongly recommended that all 0.9 users upgrade - these issues affect all versions of 0.9 since we released beta1 (~nightly build 119). Prosody 0.8 is not affected. Summary of changes: [major] Fixed a segfault in our SCRAM authentication code that can allow unauthenticated users to crash a Prosody instance.

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Prosody 0.9.0rc4 available for testing

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

We decided there wasn’t enough suspense about the 0.9.0 release yet, so we’ve decided to issue another release candidate to keep you on your toes. In fact, some of the changes we made for rc3 to keep compatible with the new LuaSocket 3.0 didn’t compile on some platforms. This should now be fixed. We also realised that although we have set a number of new defaults for our TLS configuration (see previous release notes), we had not set a list of acceptable ciphers, which led some clients and servers to negotiate ciphers that might be considered weak.

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We like Pie

by The Prosody Team. Tags: packages .

We have just added another target to our package builder, namely armhf packages sutable for Raspian on the Raspberry Pi. The first package available is trunk nightly 391. To try it, simply add our package repository to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://packages.prosody.im/debian wheezy main and then run sudo apt-get install prosody-trunk

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Prosody 0.9.0rc3 available for testing

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

After everyone’s wonderful help at finding bugs (cheer), we’ve another release candidate for you from our 0.9 branch. The primary reason for this RC is to keep compatibility with the just-released LuaSocket 3.0rc1. The new LuaSocket is now available from our package repository, and we have updated our IPv6 documentation accordingly. If you have previously installed lua-socket-prosody, it is now recommended to install the lua-socket package instead. Summary of changes made since rc2:

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Prosody 0.9.0rc2 available for testing

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

After a very successful beta, we decided it’s time for a release candidate. We have made only a few small changes since beta1: With s2s_secure_auth enabled, we required encryption for domains listed in s2s_insecure_domains, even if s2s_require_encryption was not set. Some minor fixes to commands in the telnet console. Automatically disable SSL compression if luasec-prosody is installed. Fix a traceback in mod_bosh when used in combination with some plugins.

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Prosody 0.9.0beta1 available for testing

by The Prosody Team. Tags: release .

It’s the news you’ve all been waiting for! We present the first beta of our upcoming 0.9.0 release. For those of you not already following our development and nightly builds, here are a few of the major changes in this development branch (codenamed ‘Prosody Everyone Edition’) since 0.8: Full IPv6 support for all services (c2s, s2s, HTTP, etc.) Server-to-server authentication using certificates (SASL EXTERNAL) A new and improved HTTP subsystem, supporting virtual hosts and fully-reloadable modules Basic pubsub service Many other fixes and improvements, see our release notes for more information.

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XMPP summit

by Matthew Wild. Tags: summit .

As usual for this time of year, the XMPP Standards Foundation is holding a summit in the US. I’m excited to say that, for the first time, we’ll be there! The summit shall be held just after the 2012 Realtime conference in Portland, Oregon - which I’ll also be attending. For more information on the summit, including how to attend if you are interested, hop over to the XMPP summit #12 wiki page.

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