[Serusers] new major SER pre-release, Ottendorf, is out for testing

Mon Nov 6 22:44:23 CET 2006

Hi,
just note for SerWeb users. Please use cvs branch 'rel_0_10_0' for 
testing. Not the cvs head. Use this command for cvs checkout:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.berlios.de:/cvsroot/serweb co -P -r 
rel_0_10_0 serweb

and follow instructions in INSTALL file. If you found a bug, please 
report it at http://bugs.sip-router.org.

thanks,
Karel

Jiri Kuthan napsal(a):
> Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys,
> 
> the new testing pre-release of the best SIP proxy server ever, SER, is out! 
> 
> This major pre-release, codenamed Ottendorf, includes fundamental improvements 
> to the software. The improvements allow SER users to achieve significantly higher 
> managability and reliability by better data mode, interop features, security, etc. 
> They recollect voluminous feedback we have received from iptel  customers and open 
> source users. In particular, the new features include but are not limited to:
> - improved data model which eliminates any possible ambiguities.
> - key under-the-hood changes with impact on performance: timer subsystem
>   overhaul (now fast, with fine resolution, high accuracy and variability), 
>   TCP processing  overhaul (higher scalability)
> - key reliability changes: DNS cache and IP blacklisting
> - key interop changes: support for STUN-bis, presence server aligned to latest
>   IETF development, sanity module for early detection of invalid messages
> - more management: management features are now available via XML-RPC remotely,
>   as well as via an alternative binary protocol
> - more security: ratelimit module, more check types in permissions module
> - scripting features: select operator in combination with revised AVPs,
>   named flags and routes, more types of routes (onsend, timer, branch)
> - applications: presence has been greatly updated to keep pace with 
>   development in the IETF/SIMPLE (includes asynchronous subscription
>   authorization, extended PIDF); web interface includes many new managibility
>   features (multidomain, templates and multilanguage to name some). New
>   scripting flexibility allows safely for features like individual ringing
>   timers and direct access to SIP message elements.
> - new tools: Nils's script execution tree tool
>   http://lists.iptel.org/pipermail/serdev/2006-October/008124.html
>   and refurbished ser_ctl
> see the following links for some additional details:
> - http://www.iptel.org/ser/doc/010whatsnew 
> - http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ser/sip_router/NEWS?rev=HEAD
> 
> 
> Accompanying software, SEMS and SERWEB have been greatly overhauled as well.
> SEMS now features improved performance (single-threaded model now), service
> composition via python-IVR-scripting and B2BUA, adaptive playout buffer for
> better voice quality, and more. SERWEB features new multilevel administrative
> access system, multidomain support, per-domain customization, remote xml-rpc
> access, multilanguage support, and more. The new command-line utility,
> SER_CTL, provides also many great improvements over the previous tool.
> 
> Interop
> -------
> Shortly, we have been keeping the bar high through our participation in the IETF
> and SIPITs. SER implements latest interop changes from the IETF (STUN-bis, presence
> + XCAP, to name the most important ones) and both new features and legacy features 
> were extensively and successfully tested middle of October in SIPit.
> 
> Next Steps
> -----------
> Keep in mind, this is a pre-release for testing purposes. It is now call on
> users to test the software hard and provide feedback. In the meantime, the
> codebase remains frozen and we only commit patches fixing various bugs. Once
> we get good confidence that Ottendorf has stabilized and is being adequately
> documented, we will declare the final release. No date has been determined yet.
> Also, we consider changing CVS to SVN.
> 
> Again, and this is very important: the final release will be as good as the
> feedback we obtain for this pre-release. Please do spend your time sending 
> solid feedback back to [serusers].
> 
> 
> Roadmap
> -------
> We keep rolling. We are still debating with our generous contributors what is 
> the next possible good things to work on, the topics include but are not limited
> to as of now:
> - documentation.
> - databases are important. LDAP and BDB, DB-API revision.
> - interop: identity, TLS revision
> - advanced scripting (scripting engine, vars returns, AVPs)
> - uncountable improvements (futex, dev/rtc, tm/refcnts, tcp fd cache, .....)
> 
> Trivia
> --------
> The release name Ottendorf is coming from a place in Saxonian Switzerland, where 
> many iptel fellows and their friends spent a weekend during this Indian summer.
> http://www.iptel.org/jan/gallery/saxonian_switzerland_2006/
> http://www.iptel.org/~andi/2006-09-22-Ottendorf/
> http://www.iptel.org/~vlada/saxon_switzerland/index.html
> http://www.ohlmeier.de/albums/ottendorf_2006/index.html
> 
> 
> Acknowledgments
> ---------------
> This grand achievement is result of extremely many folks who did lot
> of hard work. Out of folks affiliated with iptel, Andrei and Jan spent 
> immense effort on moving SER forward, with great support from Hallik
> (command-line tool), Michal, Miklos, Nils, Tomas, Vaclav (presence), 
> Vlada (new STUN). In this context, I would like to thank to our company 
> for the great support. Recently, Bogdan Pintea greatly helped to make 
> the upcoming release better and more stable under sponsorship of his 
> company, iptego. transnexus provided osp support.
> 
> SEMS has been greatly improved thanks to Stefan and Raphael.
> Credits for serweb go to Karel.
> 
> Same importantly, SER has been immensely benefitting of contributors,
> to name in alphabetic order at least the 'top-of-the-iceberg' fellows:
> Bogdan Pintea, Cesc Santa, Greg Fausak, Greger Teigre, Hendrik Scholz, 
> <http://tutpro.com/>Juha Heinänen, Klaus Darilion, Maxim Sobolev, Peter Nixon, Uli Abend.
> 
> Great support on the mailing list has been provided by Greger V. Teigre,
> Java Rockx, Klaus Darilion, Zeus Ng, and more.
> 
> Simply, this list is too short and incomplete to capture all the
> generous contributions that came in -- my appologies for everyone
> else I have missed.
> 
> 
> Warnings and Disclaimers
> ------------------------
> This is a TESTING version. We are encouraging people to give it intense
> testing and provide us with feedback, so that we can properly assess
> what it takes to declare it final. The volume and number of changes
> is big, caution is advised.
> 
> All GPL warnings and disclaimers apply.
> 
> This is SER, which is not the derivate software known as openser. We 
> have no ideas of in what extent and timeline derivate projects follow
> (or not) SER.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> To Give it a Try
> -----------------
> warning: this is just a 'jump-start' for black-belt users. It is not 
> a replacement for documentation or a detailed step-by-step installation
> guide. It assumes knowledge of operating system, SIP, and SER.
> 
> 
> PREPARATION
> - make sure mysql is running. In the default configuration, SER assumes it
>   to be running on localhost, if this does not hold, you need to change
>   ser.cfg.
> - make sure python is installed (needed for new command-line utilities)
> SER INSTALLATION FROM CVS
> - Download from CVS/HEAD using instructions at  http://www.iptel.org/downloads
> - Compile it: make include_modules="mysql xmlrpc" all
> - Install it the default way of your administrative privileges allow to:
>   make include_modules="mysql xmlrpc" install
> - Download command-line tool (see more documentation under
>   http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ser/serctl/README?rev=HEAD)
>   - cvs co serctl
> - Initiate database:
>   ./scripts/mysql/ser_mysql.sh create
> START
> - Start it. Call: ser
> - Begin provisioning users with the new serctl (the capital word are just place holders)
>   #  ser_ctl domain add DOMAINNAME
>   #  ser_ctl user add USERNAME at DOMAINNAME -p PASSWORD
>   #  If you want to have Asserted Identity header for your user
>   #  - ser_attr add uid=UID asserted_id="PID"
>   # If you want to have gateway support
>   # - ser_db add attr_types name=gw_ip rich_type=string raw_type=2  \
>       description="The gateway IP for the default ser.cfg" default_flags=33
>   # - ser_attr add global gw_ip=GATEWAY-IP
> - more things you may wish to do:
>   - familiarize yourself with current ser.cfg
>   - send us feedback.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jiri Kuthan            http://iptel.org/~jiri/  
> 
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