Prosody 0.9.5 released

Quite a number of bug fixes and minor improvements have cropped up, so it’s about time for another release, don’t you think?

A summary of changes in this release:

• C2S: Fix traceback if a client opens a stream to component, which could cause a crash in combination with some versions of LuaEvent
• C2S, S2S: Log received invalid stream headers
• S2S: Fix case where stream headers were sometimes sent twice
• DNS: Ensure all pending requests get notified of a timeout when looking up a record
• DNS: Fix duplicated cache insertions by limiting outstanding queries per name to one
• xmppstream: Disable LuaExpat’s buffering
• xmppstream: Disable CharacterData merging after stream restarts
• xmppstream: Pass invalid stream headers to error handling
• Privacy lists: Correctly sort privacy list rules by order
• prosody: Check dependencies later in the startup sequence
• Config: Delay importing LuaFileSystem until needed by an Include line
• Config: Normalize VirtualHost and Component names
• prosodyctl: Normalize JIDs for adduser/passwd/deluser
• POSIX: Fix error reporting from disk space allocation
• POSIX: Verify that ‘pidfile’ is a string, show friendly error otherwise
• Dependency checking: Check that prosody is running under Lua 5.1. We don’t currently support any other versions. (LuaJIT identifies as 5.1)
• Compliance: Reset stream ID when resetting stream
• Compression: Log compression setup errors
• Console: Fix commands for adding and replacing name servers
• Console MUC commands: Fix error when a non-existent host is entered
• Filters: Prevent filters from being added twice
• Network: Transfer all available data between linked sockets
• dataforms: Add support for XEP-0221: Data Forms Media Element

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If you have any questions, comments or other issues with this release, let us know!