** New release of the Loudmouth XMPP library ** The upstream Loudmouth repository has not been updated for a while, and since our repository is the only one getting some updates, we have been requested several times to make real releases. Mikael Hallendal (from the Loudmouth team) agreed so here is the first release by the mcabber community (see ). The repository is still at and the releases are published in . Loudmouth 1.5.1 is now available for download. There have been many changes since the previous official release, 1.4.3, which was published 7 years ago, so we'll only mention a few of them: - This Loudmouth release is compatible with current Glib/GTK libraries - The internal asyncns copy has been removed - The security has been improved in several ways: - Certificates: added checking of SAN(s) when CN does not match and fixed CN wildcard handling - SSL 2 and 3 have been deactivated; TLS 1.1 and 1.2 have been activated - Use the default cipher suite of GnuTLS - New API: Implementation of lm_ssl_set_ca and lm_ssl_set_cipher_list This enables the application to choose additional CA certificates to trust as well as the cipher suites which are used by OpenSSL or GnuTLS - Many resolver and parser issues have been fixed Also, please note that a Lua interface for Loudmouth has been written and is available at . The mcabber developent team