Prosody is a free and open source, flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua.

Prosody aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers Prosody aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New optional libevent backend
· mod_proxy65: XEP-0065 SOCKS5 Bytestreams proxy
· SASL: Support for Cyrus SASL backend (allows LDAP, PAM, …)
· SASL: Support for SCRAM-SHA-1 mechanism
· SASL: Forbid insecure PLAIN authentication on unencrypted connections by default
· Port multiplexing: Allow multiple services on a single port (XMPP, HTTP)
· MUC: Room destruction, and other features/fixes
· mod_compression: Support stream compression between servers now, as well as clients
· SSL: Disable SSLv2 protocol by default as it is insecure
· PEP: Support for on-demand item retrieval
· Errors: Show the reason server-to-server connections fail
· MUC: Add support for non-anonymous rooms
· mod_bosh: Cross-domain ('proxy-less') request support using CORS.
· mod_privacy: XEP-0016: Privacy Lists
· MUC: Show precise error when users are kicked from rooms