Hi Daniel,
appreciate the detailed mail about the release, but I see no credits
section. Typically, in open source it is more like an "obligation" to
give credits to people involved in the work (and I guess this release
the work of more than one person).
Also giving the right credits to OpenSIPS team will be fair, as kamilio
1.4 imported ~40 commits (bug fixing and new features) from OpenSIPS
1.4.0 and OpenSIPS 1.4.1.
Thank you,
Bogdan
Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
KAMAILIO v1.4.0 is released
August 7, 2008
Kamailio is the new name of the SIP server known so far as OpenSER. Due
to trademark issues, the OpenSER project had to change the name.
Officially, the new name was announced on July 28, 2008.
Version 1.4.0 brings many new features since OpenSER v1.3.0 as well as
improvements to existing components. An important share of effort was
directed to code cleanup and stability. Moreover, new features in core
and old modules were added while other 6 new modules were introduced.
Download:
You can download the tarball of the released sources at
http://www.kamailio.net/pub/kamailio/latest/src/
Binary packages for several distributions you can find at
http://www.kamailio.net/pub/kamailio/latest/bin/
http://www.kamailio.net/pub/kamailio/latest/packages/
Packages will be uploaded as soon as they are submitted.
Documentation:
* modules' documentation:
http://www.kamailio.net/docs/modules/1.4.x/
* migration guide :
http://www.kamailio.net/dokuwiki/doku.php/install:1.3.x-to-1.4.0
Summary of the new stuff in core:
* overhauled DB API - better performance and safety, more common
functionality integrated in the core
* extensive cleanups in database drivers - integrate common
functionality into the core for more stability and maintainability
* SDP parser - provides an internal API for parsing SDP
* fixup functions - provides an internal API for fixing module
parameters
* new free fixup functions - making safer to use some functions
exported by modules in embedded languages such as Perl
* extension to module interface - its now possible to use up to 6
parameters in module functions
New modules:
* db_oracle - ORACLE DB driver - connect to Oracle SQL Server
* dialplan - Dialplan management - dialplan regular expression based
translations
* nat_traversal - NAT traversal helper
* peering - RADIUS based peering allowing SIP providers to verify
via a broker if source or destination request is from a trusted peer
* ratelimit - SIP ttraffic shaping control and server load control
based on your rules
* userblacklist - User-specific blacklists
New in existing modules:
* acc module
* it is possible to log accounting related output to a different log
facility
* cfgutils module
* new FIFO functions get_config_hash and check_config_hash for
config file checks
* shared PV exported to configuration script
* debugging helpers usable from config script for abort, shm_status
and pkg_status
* mysql module
* enable timeouts on connect, read and write to prevent blocking on
errors
* database modules
* renaming of all database modules, addition of the prefix 'db_',
e.g. mysql is now db_mysql
* carrierroute module
* extension: much more flexibility in routing and database supported
failure routing, improved internal structure
* dialog module
* internal API reworked for better flexibility
* direction of the message provided via the internal API
* new dialog callback types
* new mi command: dlg_list_ctx
* dispatcher module
* ability to load destination URI flags from database at startup or
reload
* new algorithm to hash the content of a pseudo-variable
* enum module
* enum_fquery([...]) replaced by enum_pv_query([...])
* msilo module
* notification system refurbished - message body, content-type,
from address and contact header can be dynamically specified with
pseudo-variables
* pdt module
* accepts now same destination domain bound to different prefixes
* internal structures and logic optimized for memory and performance
* lcr module
* refactor module functions
* pseudo-variable support
* mediaproxy module
* update to version 2.0
* better performance and scalability as packets are forward in
kernel space
New testing suite
* a testing suite to ensure quality checking and regression tests
reports has been developed, included in the repository and used during
this development cycle
Other important changes
* modules' documentation has been migrated to DOCBOOK XML format
* doxygen documentation extended and developer guide published
* serweb tables have been removed
* command line tool to manage dbtext in a SQL fashion
These are not all, there is a big change log that gives more details:
*
http://www.kamailio.net/pub/kamailio/latest/ChangeLog
More on
http://www.kamailio.net
Best regards,
Daniel