That's right DIGEST-MD5, your job is done here. Now it's time for the new kid to take up your place.

Those of you who ever tried to actually implement the DIGEST-MD5 SASL mechanism for authentication know that it suffers from quite a few problems, including but not limited to a variety of different implementations with a variable level of compliance to the DIGEST-MD5 RFC 2831. These interoperability problems make it quite hard to get a new implementation working with most of the already existing implementations.

SASL mechanisms are designed to be protocol-independent. That's basically the whole idea about SASL; to abstract the authentication part out of the application protocols, and standardize it. However DIGEST-MD5 already started off on the wrong foot.

Since quite a month there is a new XMPP server on the market, called Prosody. Today version 0.2.0 has been released with some new features which you can all read up in the release notes.

Version 0.2.0 has been released just one month after version 0.1.0 and four months after development began. With currently nearly one month between a release and the next we have a good release frequency which is fairly important for a project, especially for one which focuses on ease of prototyping new features in and a protocol around it like XMPP with is evolving pretty fast.