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TRUNK
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## New

### Administration

- Add 'watch log' command to follow live debug logs at runtime (even if disabled)

### Networking

- Honour 'weight' parameter during SRV record selection
- Support for RFC 8305 "Happy Eyeballs" to improve IPv4/IPv6 connectivity
- Support for TCP Fast Open in server_epoll (pending LuaSocket support)
- Support for deferred accept in server_epoll (pending LuaSocket support)

### MUC

- Permissions updates:
  - Room creation restricted to local users (of the parent host) by default
    - restrict_room_creation = true restricts to admins, false disables all restrictions
  - Persistent rooms can only be created by local users (parent host) by default
    - muc_room_allow_persistent = false restricts to admins
  - Public rooms can only be created by local users (parent host) by default
    - muc_room_allow_public = false restricts to admins
- Commands to show occupants and affiliations in the Shell

### Security and authentication

- Advertise supported SASL Channel-Binding types (XEP-0440)
- Implement RFC 9266 'tls-exporter' channel binding with TLS 1.3
- Implement 'tls-server-end-point' channel binding
- New role and permissions framework and API
- Ability to disable and enable user accounts
- Full DANE support for s2s
- A "grace period" is now supported for deletion requests via in-band registration

### Storage

- New 'keyval+' combined keyval/map store type
- Performance improvements in internal archive stores
- Ability to use SQLite3 storage using LuaSQLite3 instead of LuaDBI

### Module API

- Config interface API can require that string values be picked from a provided set
- Acceptable interval can be specified for number options
- Method for parsing time periods / intervals from config
- Method for retrieving integer settings from config
- It is now easy for modules to expose a Prosody shell command, by adding a shell-command item
- Modules can now implement a module.ready method which will be called after server initialization

### Configuration

- The configuration file now supports referring and appending to options previously set
- Direct usage of the Lua API in the config file is deprecated, but can now be accessed via Lua.* instead

## Changes

- Support sub-second precision timestamps
- mod_blocklist: New option 'migrate_legacy_blocking' to disable migration from mod_privacy
- Moved all modules into the Lua namespace `prosody.`
- Forwarded header from RFC 7239 supported, disabled by default
- mod_http_file_share now uses roles framework, affecting access from e.g. components
- Intervals of mod_cron managed periodic jobs made configurable
- When mod_smacks is enabled, s2s connections not responding to ack requests are closed.
- Arguments to `prosodyctl shell` that start with ':' are now turned into method calls

## Removed

- Lua 5.1 support
- XEP-0090 support removed from mod_time

0.12.0
======

**2022-03-14**

## New

### Modules

-   mod_mimicking: Prevent address spoofing
-   mod_s2s_bidi: Bi-directional server-to-server (XEP-0288)
-   mod_external_services: generic XEP-0215 support
-   mod_turn_external: easy setup XEP-0215 for STUN+TURN
-   mod_http_file_share: File sharing via HTTP (XEP-0363)
-   mod_http_openmetrics for exposing metrics to stats collectors
-   mod_smacks: Stream management and resumption (XEP-0198)
-   mod_auth_ldap: LDAP authentication
-   mod_cron: One module to rule all the periodic tasks
-   mod_admin_shell: New home of the Console admin interface
-   mod_admin_socket: Enable secure connections to the Console
-   mod_tombstones: Prevent registration of deleted accounts
-   mod_invites: Create and manage invites
-   mod_invites_register: Create accounts using invites
-   mod_invites_adhoc: Create invites via AdHoc command
-   mod_bookmarks: Synchronise open rooms between clients

### Security and authentication

-   SNI support (including automatic certificate selection)
-   ALPN support in mod_net_multiplex
-   DANE support in low-level network layer
-   Direct TLS support (c2s and s2s)
-   SCRAM-SHA-256
-   Direct TLS (including https) certificates updated on reload
-   Pluggable authorization providers (mod_authz_)
-   Easy use of Mozilla TLS recommendations presets
-   Unencrypted HTTP port (5280) restricted to loopback by default
-   require_encryption options default to 'true' if unspecified
-   Authentication module defaults to 'internal_hashed' if unspecified

### HTTP

-   CORS handling now provided by mod_http
-   Built-in HTTP server now handles HEAD requests
-   Uploads can be handled incrementally

### API

-   Module statuses (API change)
-   util.error for encapsulating errors
-   Promise based API for sending queries
-   API for adding periodic tasks
-   More APIs supporting ES6 Promises
-   Async can be used during shutdown

### Other

-   Plugin installer
-   MUC presence broadcast controls
-   MUC: support for XEP-0421 occupant identifiers
-   `prosodyctl check connectivity` via observe.jabber.network
-   STUN/TURN server tests in `prosodyctl check`
-   libunbound for DNS queries
-   The POSIX poll() API used by server_epoll on \*nix other than Linux

## Changes

-   Improved rules for mobile optimizations
-   Improved rules for what messages should be archived
-   mod_limits: Exempted JIDs
-   mod_server_contact_info now loaded on components if enabled
-   Statistics now based on OpenMetrics
-   Statistics scheduling can be done by plugin
-   Offline messages aren't sent to MAM clients
-   Archive quotas (means?)
-   Rewritten migrator with archive support
-   Improved automatic certificate locating and selecting
-   Logging to syslog no longer missing startup messages
-   Graceful shutdown sequence that closes ports first and waits for
    connections to close

## Removed

-   `daemonize` option deprecated
-   SASL DIGEST-MD5 removed
-   mod_auth_cyrus (older LDAP support)
-   Network backend server_select deprecated (not actually removed yet)

0.11.0
======

**2018-11-18**

New features
------------

-   Rewritten more extensible MUC module
    -   Store inactive rooms to disk
    -   Store rooms to disk on shutdown
    -   Voice requests
    -   Tombstones in place of destroyed rooms
-   PubSub features
    -   Persistence
    -   Affiliations
    -   Access models
    -   "publish-options"
-   PEP now uses our pubsub code and now shares the above features
-   Asynchronous operations
-   Busted for tests
-   mod\_muc\_mam (XEP-0313 in groupchats)
-   mod\_vcard\_legacy (XEP-0398)
-   mod\_vcard4 (XEP-0292)
-   mod\_csi, mod\_csi\_simple (XEP-0352)
-   New experimental network backend "epoll"

0.10.0
======

**2017-10-02**

New features
------------

-   Rewritten SQL storage module with Archive support
-   SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS
-   `prosodyctl check`
-   Statistics
-   Improved TLS configuration
-   Lua 5.2 support
-   mod\_blocklist (XEP-0191)
-   mod\_carbons (XEP-0280)
-   Pluggable connection timeout handling
-   mod\_websocket (RFC 7395)
-   mod\_mam (XEP-0313)

Removed
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-   mod\_privacy (XEP-0016)
-   mod\_compression (XEP-0138)