[ANN] Prosody 0.8.0 released

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

Hi,

We are very pleased to announce the release of Prosody 0.8.0! Many thanks
to the many people who made this release possible.

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Prosody is a flexible XMPP server written in almost entirely in Lua.
It is designed
to be easy to use and extend, perform well and be light on resources.

XMPP is an open realtime communication protocol used in many instant messaging
clients, and also for machine-to-machine communication over the Internet.

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
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This release contains a number of new features, at the core new APIs
for pluggable
authentication and storage. This has allowed us to develop a bunch of
new modules
for integrating Prosody with third-party systems such as directories
and databases.

A detailed review of the new features and documentation can be found in our blog
post at http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-0-released/

A summary of the new features in this release:

  * Support for authentication and storage plugins
  * Auth plugins: plain, hashed, Cyrus SASL, anonymous, LDAP, external, YubiKey
    http://prosody.im/doc/authentication
  * An SQL storage plugin supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3
    http://prosody.im/doc/storage
  * Ad-hoc commands support, to control Prosody from your XMPP client
    http://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_admin_adhoc
  * Members-only, invite-only and password-protected multi-user conferences
    http://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_muc
  * A migrator to move data between different data stores (file<->SQL)
    http://prosody.im/doc/migrator

Feedback is always welcome, and you can give it or find Prosody support via any
of the means listed on http://prosody.im/discuss

We are already working away for 0.9, which will include pubsub, server-to-server
certificate authentication, IPv6 and more. Anyone wishing to help develop or
test these features is invited to join the discussion at the link above.

All downloads for this release are at http://prosody.im/download .

Happy Jabbering,
The Prosody Team