[Kamailio-announce] Kamailio v5.8.0 Released - new major version is out

Greetings, Kamailio SIP Server v5.8.0 has been released today, March 07, 2024. This is a major release, meaning that it is introducing a consistent number of new features as well as improvements to existing components. An official, detailed announcement is available on the Kamailio website: * https://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-v5-8-0-release-notes/ Selected highlights: * enhanced capabilities for TCP connections and traffic management * consistent number of commit to the IMS components for building VoLTE/VoNR services * SIP overload control support for server (RFC7339) * extensive work for proper integration of libssl3 * connector for InfluxDB allowing to push data from Kamailio configuration file * alternative internal HTTP server implementation using libmicrohttpd * new option for cryptography functions using libcrypt as alternative to libssl * ability to write log message from Kamailio configuration to specific files * distribution of keepalives from usrloc across an interval of time * new variables and transformations * Four (4) new modules Kamailio 5.8 represents the 26th major public release of the project’s almost 23 years of activity. Step-by-step installation tutorial: * https://kamailio.org/docs/tutorials/5.8.x/kamailio-install-guide-git/ There is no change in the database structure used for 5.7.x series that has to be done in order to run same config with 5.8.x series. A huge thanks to Daniel-Constantin Mierla (miconda) and all of the amazing developers that have contributed to Kamailio. Cheers, Fred Posner https://fred.tel