[Serusers] ser status update 2003/II

Jiri Kuthan jiri at iptel.org
Sat Feb 1 10:59:14 CET 2003


Folks,

we've been asked frequently questions "when will be the next release
out", "what new features can I be looking forward to", "will the next ser
release include a b2bua", etc. This update gives you answers to some
of these question, don't hesitate to ask me if you want to know more.

Also, on this opportunity I would like to thank wholeheartly to our
contributors -- they came up with many excellent ideas, running code
and their work has been a great encouragement to us.

New Features
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- presence agent and presence support in SIMPLE2Jabber gateway
- dynamic domain management (simplifies hosting multiple domains, 
  which was quite  manual work till now)
- enum support
- nathelper module for getting over NATs with ATAs
- beta-version of voicemail
- 3261-alignment: support for TCP and loose-routing
- accounting improved, reporting to serweb's "missed calls"
  now possible

There is many other tiny useful things: exec module was made more
comfortable, support for powerPC was introduced, CC-Diversion 
support for talking to Cisco gateways, netbsd support, ser is now 
64 bits clean, and generally lot of clean-ups were applied to keep 
code-base sane in spite of all the new features. All bugs reported 
so far have been fixed. User's guide  documents more usage scenarios 
with more examples.

Performance has been boosted too -- we achieved 5kCPS with a tuned
ser version for stateful forwarding without user location. Good for
dealing with many stress situations.

There are also many other things frequently asked for, which will
not be part of the next release. The most frequently asked one,
b2bua, for example. If you miss a feature urgently, implementing and
contributing it may be quicker than waiting until someone else
does that. We will be glad to provide guidance.  Features that have 
been asked until now and I have not forgotten are b2bua, FCP client, 
SIP Address Translator.

When
----
I better don't tell you -- I would set your expectations and they
would lead to disappointment if it takes longer than hoped for
(which simply happens too often). I hope to have a pre-alpha, 
testers-only release in course of February -- and we will invite
all impatient testers to use it.

SIP Accounts
------------
Don't forget -- you don't need to run your own server -- if all you
need is a SIP account, get one from iptel at 
http://www.iptel.org/user/reg/index.php, of course ser-powered :-)

-Jiri on behalf of all who have contributed to SER advancement


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Jiri Kuthan            http://iptel.org/~jiri/ 




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