[jdev] [ANN] Prosody 0.9.9 security release available

[Matthew Wild]

Hi folks,

This release contains important fixes for two security issues recently
discovered in Prosody. It also contains various other fixes and
improvements we have made since 0.9.8. We strongly recommend that you
upgrade your server as soon as possible.

Another important note is that for a number of reasons we have dropped
Windows support with this release. If you are affected by this, please
contact us directly via email at developers at prosody.im.

A summary of changes:

Security fixes:

   - Fix path traversal vulnerability in mod_http_files (CVE-2016-1231)
     for more details see https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-1/

   - Fix use of weak PRNG in generation of dialback secrets (CVE-2016-1232)
     for more details see https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160108-2/

Bugs:

   - Improve handling of CNAME records in DNS

   - Fix traceback when deleting a user in some configurations (issue #496)

   - MUC: restrict_room_creation could prevent users from joining
rooms (issue #458)

   - MUC: fix occasional dropping of iq stanzas sent privately between occupants

  - Fix a potential memory leak in mod_pep

Additions:

   - Add http:list() command to telnet to view active HTTP services

   - Simplify IPv4/v6 address selection code for outgoing s2s

  - Add support for importing SCRAM hashes from ejabberd


# Download

As usual, download instructions for many platforms can be found on our
download page: https://prosody.im/download

If you have any questions, comments or other issues with this release,
let us know! https://prosody.im/discuss