[Kamailio-Devel] [Kamailio-Users] KAMAILIO v1.4.0 is released

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

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
>
>