diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1169f6a..73d098f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
+ "uuid",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1249,6 +1250,15 @@ version = "0.7.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uuid"
+version = "1.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1674845326ee10d37ca60470760d4288a6f80f304007d92e5c53bab78c9cfd79"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "valuable"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 383b56a..1e9b641 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ tokio-rustls = "0.23.4"
 rustls-pemfile = "1.0.2"
 quick-xml = { version = "0.28.1", features = ["async-tokio"] }
 derive_more = "0.99.17"
+uuid = { version = "1.3.0", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches = "1.5.0"
diff --git a/src/projections/xmpp/mod.rs b/src/projections/xmpp/mod.rs
index e92a816..6dde107 100644
--- a/src/projections/xmpp/mod.rs
+++ b/src/projections/xmpp/mod.rs
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ async fn socket_force_tls(
     let msg = ServerStreamStart {
         from: "localhost".into(),
         lang: "en".into(),
+        id: uuid::Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
         version: "1.0".into(),
     };
     msg.write_xml(xml_writer).await?;
@@ -225,6 +226,7 @@ async fn socket_auth(
     ServerStreamStart {
         from: "localhost".into(),
         lang: "en".into(),
+        id: uuid::Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
         version: "1.0".into(),
     }
     .write_xml(xml_writer)
@@ -257,6 +259,7 @@ async fn socket_final(
     ServerStreamStart {
         from: "localhost".into(),
         lang: "en".into(),
+        id: uuid::Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
         version: "1.0".into(),
     }
     .write_xml(xml_writer)
diff --git a/src/protos/xmpp/stream.rs b/src/protos/xmpp/stream.rs
index 7da2a3a..a96bad2 100644
--- a/src/protos/xmpp/stream.rs
+++ b/src/protos/xmpp/stream.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub static XMLNS_XML: &'static str = "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct ClientStreamStart {
     pub to: String,
-    pub lang: String,
+    pub lang: Option<String>,
     pub version: String,
 }
 impl ClientStreamStart {
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ impl ClientStreamStart {
             }
             Ok(ClientStreamStart {
                 to: to.unwrap(),
-                lang: lang.unwrap(),
+                lang: lang,
                 version: version.unwrap(),
             })
         } else {
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ impl ClientStreamStart {
 pub struct ServerStreamStart {
     pub from: String,
     pub lang: String,
+    pub id: String,
     pub version: String,
 }
 impl ServerStreamStart {
@@ -97,6 +98,10 @@ impl ServerStreamStart {
                 key: QName(b"xml:lang"),
                 value: self.lang.as_bytes().into(),
             },
+            Attribute {
+                key: QName(b"id"),
+                value: self.id.as_bytes().into(),
+            },
         ];
         event.extend_attributes(attributes.into_iter());
         writer.write_event_async(Event::Start(event)).await?;
@@ -176,7 +181,7 @@ mod test {
             res,
             ClientStreamStart {
                 to: "vlnv.dev".to_owned(),
-                lang: "en".to_owned(),
+                lang: Some("en".to_owned()),
                 version: "1.0".to_owned()
             }
         )
@@ -187,9 +192,10 @@ mod test {
         let input = ServerStreamStart {
             from: "vlnv.dev".to_owned(),
             lang: "en".to_owned(),
+            id: "stream_id".to_owned(),
             version: "1.0".to_owned(),
         };
-        let expected = r###"<stream:stream from="vlnv.dev" version="1.0" xmlns="jabber:client" xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams" xml:lang="en">"###;
+        let expected = r###"<stream:stream from="vlnv.dev" version="1.0" xmlns="jabber:client" xmlns:stream="http://etherx.jabber.org/streams" xml:lang="en" id="stream_id">"###;
         let mut output: Vec<u8> = vec![];
         let mut writer = Writer::new(&mut output);
         input.write_xml(&mut writer).await.unwrap();