Cyrus SASL

This is a beta-quality release of the new Cyrus SASL API, which is intended only for use
by developers converting their application to SASLv2. This release includes many
bugfixes, including an improved configuration system, improved documentation, and a
port to the Macintosh (both OS 9 and OS

Bugfixes and feature enhancements, including correct handling of client-send-first and server-send-last situations, and a much more flexible sasldb implementation.

Bugfixes and feature enhancements, including the ability to build a static library inclusive of all of the mechanisms, the ability to load auxprop and canon_user plugins from shared objects, a first version of the Java interface built off of the SASLv2 library, and much improved error reporting. This release is only intended for developers who use the Cyrus SASL library within their applications, and should not be used on any production system.

This is the first release implementing the SASLv2 API, which allows for many improvements in memory management, support for additional plugin types, simplified database support, and improved error reporting. This release is intended only to show developers that use the Cyrus SASL library what direction the library is headed so that they can make plans to migrate their applications accordingly.

Bug fixes, portability improvements, integrated support for plaintext password databases, and a better implementation of DIGEST-MD5