[ANN] Prosody 0.12.4 released

[Kim Alvefur]

Hi folks,

We are pleased to announce the release of Prosody 0.12.4.

This is an overdue maintenance release containing a number of bug fixes and
also some improvements from the last few months.

Especially the prosodyctl check tool which gained some new diagnostic
checks as well as handling of configuration option types the same way
Prosody itself does.

A summary of changes since the previous release:

Minor changes

- core.certmanager: Update Mozilla TLS config to version 5.7
- util.error: Fix error on conversion of invalid error stanza #1805
- util.array: Fix new() library function
- util.array: Expose new() on module table
- prosodyctl: Fix output of error messages containing ‘%’
- util.prosodyctl.check: Correct suggested replacement for
‘disallow_s2s’
- util.prosodyctl.check: Allow same config syntax variants as in
Prosody for some options #896
- util.prosodyctl.check: Fix error where hostname can’t be turned into
A label
- util.prosodyctl.check: Hint about the ‘external_addresses’ config
option
- util.prosodyctl.check: Suggest ‘http_cors_override’ instead of older
CORS settings
- util.prosodyctl.check: Validate format of module list options
- mod_websocket: Add a ‘pre-session-close’ event #1800
- mod_smacks: Fix stray watchdog closing sessions
- mod_csi_simple: Disable revert-to-inactive timer when going to
active mode
- mod_csi_simple: Clear delayed active mode timer on disable
- mod_admin_shell: Fix display of remote cert status when expired etc
- mod_smacks: Replace existing watchdog when starting hibernation
- mod_http: Fix error if ‘access_control_allow_origins’ is set
- mod_pubsub: Send correct ‘jid’ attribute in disco#items
- mod_http: Unhook CORS handlers only if active to fix an error #1801
- mod_s2s: Add event where resolver for s2sout can be tweaked

# 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