[Kamailio-Devel] KAMAILIO v1.4.0 is released

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

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

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
http://www.asipto.com