-*- mode: outline -*- * Changes in ekiga 3.2.7 (2010-05-31) ** User-visible fixes - Use NAT ports instead of local ports for RTP, fixing many connection issues - Add workaround for "In some cases ekiga answers always Busy Here" - Fix crash in the avahi code - Set the default audio and video devices - Fix Call buttons do not work - Add bpp16 (RGB16) support - Add partial support for IPv6 - Fix number of users found on ekiga.net LDAP directory - Fix connection type setting in assistant - Use a decent connection type by default (DSL 128kb/s uplink) - Check off iLBC, CELT32, CELT48 and G722 audio codecs by default - Fix possible crash when PTLib code accessed by thread not created by PTlib - Fix issue when deleting a safe object - Fix possible NULL pointer access if get multiple NOTIFY messages on a REFER ** Protocol fixes - Fix strange issue with SIP call diversion (302 response) to the same endpoint - Change to only unregister those contact addresses we successfully registered - Fix incorrect change to AlertingPhase in H323 - Change authentication failure to be fatal and SIP handler removed - Fix double authorisation failure leaving SIP handler in the wrong state - Fix SIP REFER completion on receiving NOTIFY with id parameter - Fix authentication issue when can get to SIP server via two interfaces - Fix address translation of REGISTER contact fields when STUN is not used - Fix locating correct authorisation credentials for INVITE - Fix correct test handling RFC3261/8.2.2.2 merged requests and other "multi-path" received INVITE requests - other minor fixes ** Build fixes - Fix gdu (gnome-doc-utils) configure option - Replace deprecated functions in gtk >= 2.18 - Fix build with binutils-gold - other minor build fixes ** Windows port fixes - Fix major bug where the uninstaller could remove non-Ekiga files - Fix starting Ekiga from last page of installer - Fix language selection during installation - Update version of dependent libraries - Allow to create executable from release or from git/svn - Add Dutch and Romanian translations of Windows installer - Add all help localisation files to the installer - Fix compilation error on std::freopen on newer gcc - other build fixes ** Distributor-visible changes ** Translation fixes - Updated translations: bn_IN, eu, gu, kn - New translations: ast - Updated help translations: * Changes in ekiga 3.2.6 (2009-09-22) ** User-visible fixes - Fixed crashes shown as assertion failed in /usr/include/ptlib/safecoll.h:813 - Fixed crash when device list is empty or contains non-latin1 characters - Fixed crash when pressing shift-f10 (popup menu) in Preferences window - Fixed possible crash when garbage collecting REGISTER requests - Fixed possible segfault when receiving a NOTIFY - Fixed freeze by preventing SIP handlers retry timer from executing during destruction - Fixed freeze during packet write - Fixed "Lockup after a day of idle" in publishing code - Fixed various deadlocks in the OPAL subscription code - Added "%limit" workaround for registrars which refuse several contacts during registration - Fixed "Contacts never go offline" - Fixed "New SIP account mangles fields if Authentications User is empty" - Make sure the output device is set before a call - Fixed port handling when registering to a proxy with a non-standard port - Fixed "In some circumstances, smileys are not displayed graphically" - Improved audio latency when not collecting all of the audio data - Fixed the newmessage.wav file - Fixed "Accounts were automatically active after editing them" - Make possible to register e.g. user@a.b as user name as required by some providers - Remove deprecated "Encoding" field from desktop file ** Protocol fixes - Fixed problem with REGISTER IntervalTooBrief response handling not using correct interface for new transaction - Fixed "480 Temporarily Unavailable" response handling - Fixed problem with doing DNS lookup when using explicit proxy or presence agent - Fixed problem with PUBLISH using wrong expiry after Interval Too Brief error - If we find no authentication information when subscribing, keep trying as it could become available at a later stage - Changed so does not put both global and media specific connection addresses in SDP if they are the same (needed for freephonie SIP registrar) - Fixed support for unusual SIP "start with hold", that is an initial offer INVITE with a connection address of 0.0.0.0 - Fixed failure to retry (after a suitable period) REGISTER/SUBSCRIBE if get transport level timeout - Added closing of our local media streams if remote sends a re-INVITE and leaves out streams (e.g. video) that were there previously - Fixed problems when can not bind to any interface - Fixed various problems with some SDP options - Fixed regression where the username would be lost from the Contact field - Fixed invalid request-uri in BYE request - Fixed issue with overlapping INVITEs - Fixed H.263-1998 plug in compilation, by asking latest avcodec - Fixed "OpalBitRateCalculator limits bitrates" - Fixed "SIP wrong response on a failed REFER-request" - Fixed "SIP: OK response to CANCEL incomplete" - Do not send "100 Trying" message when receiving a NOTIFY message - Fixed incorrect register/subscribe refresh timer calculation ** Build fixes - Support building on kFreeBSD - Fixed problem with moving libsoup api - Various fixes for SIP and H323 configuration - Fixed "A build error when generating SunAudio ptlib plugin" - Fixed "The video convertor of YUY2toYUV420P in ptlib does not work" - Fixed "The absence of libv4l2 should not block V4L2 ptlib plugin" - and other minor changes ** Windows port fixes - Thanks to Michael Rickmann's continuous work, Windows port has reached a quality almost comparable to GNU/Linux version. We invite people to test it, see ekiga wiki. Some improvements: - shortened audio delay - DirectX video input and output - device name handling - fixed audio volume - fixed building with mingw - made so the linker doesn't find main on win32 - Keep the output sound volume across calls ** Distributor-visible changes - Changed default for AVC plug in to be disabled until someone fixes the plug in - Note: Pulse audio server does not play nicely with ekiga, very high latencies are noticed ** Translation fixes - Updated translations: ar, bn, et, ga, hi, hu, ko, lt, ml, nb, sr, sr@latin, uk, zh_HK, zh_TW - New translations: ca@valencia - Updated help translations: de * Changes in ekiga 3.2.5 (2009-07-06) - Fixed very low rate of sent images during video conversations - Fixed crash in LDAP - Fixed crash in presence - Fixed simultaneous reads from different threads in jitter code - Fixed crash during idle times - Fixed crash when accepting a call - Fixed deadlock in SIP handler - Fixed freeze upon calling and showing of pc:udp$... in the URI bar - Fixed crash in G726-16 audio codec - Allows multiple registrations with the same registrar using different user names - Allows user to choose system iLBC - Fixed window resizing in chat when entering very long words - Fixed linking of sbc plugin with libsamplerate - Fixed compilation with gtk 2.12 - Fixed compilation with gcc 4.4 - Windows and Solaris specific fixes - Added a small script, ekiga-debug-analyser, not installed, which retrieves only the packets exchanged from a Ekiga debug output - Other minor fixes - Updated translations: bn_IN, el, or - Updated help translations: el * Changes in ekiga 3.2.4 (2009-05-20) - Fixed OPAL and PTLIB recommended versions * Changes in ekiga 3.2.3 (2009-05-20) - Fixed remote uri not being shown in the uri bar when dialing out * Changes in ekiga 3.2.2 (2009-05-20) - Fixed a crash on some calls * Changes in ekiga 3.2.1 (2009-05-19) - Fixed various crashes on shutdown - Fixed crash when opening preferences or assistant - Fixed crash when no account - Fixed SIP registration - Fixed DTMF mode for SIP endpoint - Migrate ekiga.net configuration from 3.0 to 3.2 - Maintain window position on hiding/showing the main window - On some failed registration, do not show the unuseful RequestTerminated code, but the actual error - In assistant, fill user name field, if empty, with user name - In preferences, audio/video devices, remove unused FFMPEG and WAVFile modules - Fixed recognition of cameras with non-ascii characters - Fixed compilation with --disable-tracing - Various fixes during configuration - Fixed issue with having multiple registrations with the same SIP registrar - Fixed problem with not waiting till ACK arrives, some implementations get offended if the ACK gets a transaction does not exist error. Thanks hongsion for the report - Fixed bug where if a non-INVITE transaction gets a 1xx response, but then the 2xx (or above) response is lost, the command is not retransmitted - Added fix for video plug in shared library loading, current code would not look anywhere but default path - Fixed compiling G722 plug in on SUN - Fixed correct value for remote party address - Fixed compilation on NetBSD - Fixed INVITE sent in response to a REFER command using a different local user name to the original call - Fixed bug where opal tries to install plugins even if they have been disabled - Fixed crash in PStandardColourConverter::YUY2toYUV420PWithResize - Fixed include path overrides package include path - Fixed search for connection matching replaces header dialog info, broken during changes to make calls back into the same stack - Fixed from/to fields reversed in call dialog identifier information, needed for a INVITE with replaces header - Fixed thread leaks - Fixed video I-frame detection - Fixed media format matching option additions - Fixed advanced rate controller support - Fixed popping frames problem when rate controller skips input frames - Fixed missing re-lock of mutex on jitter buffer shut down - Fixed gatekeeper discovery - Added YUV2 support to DirectX code - Fixed crash in PInterfaceMonitor::Stop - If SIP answer to our offer contains only media formats we never offered then abort the call as this is SO not to specification! - Fixed possible assertion if the soundcard blocks and prevents the device to be closed - Fixed possible path through unsubscribe/unregister code that could lead to a NULL pointer being used - Fixed issue in SIP registering, if both a full AOR and a registrar host name is provided then we would normally disable all registrar searches (e.g. SRV record lookup) and just use the host name specified - Change default TSTO in H.263 to give better quality - Fixed issue with SIP call hairpinning back into the same stack - Fixed possibility of closing a channel twice - Fixed intermittent problem with losing an audio channel when using INVITE with a replace header - Fixed being able to switch off jitter buffer while still a thread reading from it - Fixed bug with "hairpin" SIP calls, subsequent commands to INVITE are not routed to the correct connection instance - H.224 should not be enabled when H.323 is disabled - Various Solaris build fixes - Fixed RFC3890 support - Don't stop a call from clearing due to lack of media just because a session has not received any packets - Fixed memory leaks in the plugins code - Improved the RTP stack performances - Fixed various video payload problems - Fixed issue with outgoing re-INVITE that gets a 401/407 authentication required error, the re-transmitted INVITE was not a re-INVITE but another normal INVITE, so "hold" doesn't work - Fixed issue with incoming re-INVITE that has no SDp in the INVITE, if the eventual ACK has the same streams but only changed the IP address/port for RTP, then we did not change our RTP send addresss/port - Add numerous boundary checks to H.263 codec - Discard out of order packets, mode A frames that don't begin with a start code, and frames that don't begin with a start code in H.263 codec - Fixed initial H.323 call set up honouring the auto-start configuration for "don't offer" - Fixes for gcc 4.4.0 - Fixed compilation with video, h.323 or sip disabled - Windows port: - DirectX fixes - Better LDAP support - Add back devices - Fixed issue with empty strings for Windows sound devices being returned when being used over a Remote Desktop connection - Fixed G.722 compilation - Fixed linker problems - Other minor fixes - Updates translations: ar, as, crh, es, kn, nb, or, zh_CN - Updated help translation: el, es Special thanks to Julien Puydt, Michael Rickmann, Mounir Lamouri, Eugen Dedu, Jan Schampera and Yannick Defais for their continuous work on Ekiga. * Summary of changes between 3.2.0 and 3.0.0, details are below - Better NAT support in case of Cone NAT - There is now only one H.263 plugin implementing both H.263 and H.263+ - Allow several ALSA devices to have the same name - Added support for the G.722 audio codec: G.722 is a 16 kHz wideband audio codec advertised as HD Voice by the famous Polycom. It is a great boost in quality and interoperability - Added support for the CELT ultral-low delay audio codec: CELT delivers high quality audio at 32 kHz or 48 kHz, allowing to transmit music in high quality, with low delay and low bitrate - Added support for SIP dialog-info notifications: they allow displaying notifications of incoming calls in the roster. With software like kamailio or Asterisk, it allows being informed of incoming calls reaching your colleagues - Largely improved LDAP support: the OpenLDAP guys contributed several patches to provide state-of-the-art LDAP support in the Ekiga address book. The new code even supports authentication - Killed the gconf_test_age test, Ekiga can now finally work with badly installed GConf schemas - Better handling of multiple network interfaces with dynamic addition and removal - Added settings migration from Ekiga 2.0.x. - Improved Windows build - Other various fixes, cleanups, removal of deprecated symbols etc. - New translations: crh, or - New help translation: en_GB, eu - Updated many translations and help - Experimental features: - Significant improvements in IPv6 support - Gstreamer audio and video capture support * Changes in ekiga 3.2.0 (2009-03-16) - Fix some NAT related issues (use internal port instead of external port in Cone NAT) - Uniformise detection of libnotify; fix compilation with mingw - Fix "URL completion combobox shows identical completions" - Fix "Assistant loosing values when going backward" - Fix GmConf settings when compiled with another package name - Fix unregistration of accounts - Fix build with -enable-kde - Fix OS X build - Fix a crash in chat - New translations: crh, or - Updated translations: as, bg, bn_IN, da, de, el, eu, gl, gu, hi, hu, ja, kn, ko, ku, lt, ml, mr, or, pt, ro, ru, ta, te, tr - New help translation: en_GB - Updated help translation: fr * Changes in ekiga 3.1.2 (2009-03-03) - Removal of the old H.263 ffmpeg plug in and enhancement of the H.263-1998 plug in to take its place. - Allow compilation with CELT 0.4 and 0.5 - Allow several ALSA devices to have the same name - STUN enabling/disabling has been readded to the GUI - Remove white spaces from the URI (useful when copy/paste) - Clear the URI edit box after a call - Fixed crash when clearing call history - Fix Windows compilation - Fixes for tarball generation - Fixed account data corruption when the authentication user name is left blank - Fixed possible crash when answering incoming calls - Fixed G.722 usage - Other various fixes, cleanups, removal of deprecated symbols etc. - Updated translations: ca, cs, da, el, en_GB, es, eu, fi, fr, he, hu, it, ja, ko, kn, nb, nl, pl, pt_BR, sl, sv, th, vi, zh_HK, zh_TW - New help/eu localisation Experimental features: - Significant improvements in IPv6 support - Gstreamer audio and video capture support near to be finished... * ekiga 3.1.1 unreleased * Changes in ekiga 3.1.0 (2009-01-05) - Added support for G.722 and CELT audio wideband codecs - Added support for H.263 - Added support for SIP dialog-info notifications, it allows being notified of incoming calls for the phones of your colleagues with software like Asterisk - Added support to disable STUN detection - Improved LDAP support in the address book, authentication is now possible - Killed the gconf_test_age test, Ekiga can now finally work with badly installed GConf schemas - More efficient memory handling using gmref_ptr, increases stability - Better handling of multiple network interfaces with dynamic addition and removal - libgnome is not required anymore when using GTK+ 2.14 - Many code cleanups, new GObjects, ... - Work in progress : XCAP support, Resource List support, GStreamer audio and video capture support, ... * Changes in ekiga 3.0.2 (2009-01-12) - Make sure sound events are played through the correct devices. (#564370) - Fixed crash on missed call. - Do not show the assistant after an upgrade for which Ekiga was already successfully setup. - Added settings migration from Ekiga 2.0.x. - Allow answering/rejecting calls from the main window even if we use notifications. - Do not try refreshing SUBSCRIBE requests for which the 200 OK contains an expire time of 0. - Fixed sending ACK request to incorrect address when particular types of proxies are being used. - Fixed test for CANCEL receipt on INVITE clearing call. - Ignore multiple forked CANCEL messages. - Fixed issue with registration to a non-standard port. - Fixed restarting timers if get pathological response to a transaction with incorrect Cseq header field. - Fixed missing route set on SIP commands in a dialog when using outbound proxy. * Changes in ekiga 3.0.1 (2008-10-20) ** Windows build - Fixed crash when echo cancellation is active - Improved GTK installation by providing our own libraries - Fixed crash when clicking the status bar - Fixed crash when the only available accelerated surface is already taken - Fixed playing of audio files with samplerate != 8000Hz - Fixed possible crash when quickly deleting and creating threads - Fixed flickering in Picture-in-Picture mode ** GUI - Fixed overlapping issue of font/smiley buttons in the chat window - Fixed possible flickering issues on XV - Fixed possible X timing issue - Fixed message box when device is unplugged in out-of-call state - Fixed crash when closing various windows using the window manager - Fixed crash in the configuration assistant when unplugging the active device - Do not display localhost users in the neighbours - Fixed Ekiga not able to resolve DNS names when being used with a Turkish locale - Allow using '&' as name in the roster - Fixed 'Search Scope' field alignment in the form ** SIP - Fixed behavior in case of Open NAT - Fixed SIP REGISTER and INVITE behaviors when Ekiga listens to multiple interfaces in the same subnet - Fixed response code when receiving a BYE for a call that is already released - Fixed numerous retries using the same authentication credentials - Fixed interoperability issues with Cisco Call Manager - Fixed default status when receiving a NOTIFY with an empty body to offline instead of unknown - Fixed parsing of URIs quoted with <> but without "" - Fixed INVITE loop detection when forked INVITE requets arrive over multiple paths ** H.323 - Fixed inclusion of RFC2833 using H.323 ** Misc - Made the libnotify dependancy optional - Fixed POTFILE.in file * Major changes in ekiga 3.0.0 (2008-09-23) ** Graphical User Interface - New user interface with a buddy list - Accelerated video display (Unix: XVideo, Windows: DirectDraw) - Nice incoming call notifications - Easier configuration assistant - New quality meter in the status bar - Buddy list with extended status information - Displays network neighbours in the buddy list - Better keyboard shortcuts - Automatic account completion in the URL bar - New chat window - New address book supporting Evolution contacts, LDAP contacts and more - New account window allowing easier account creation - New call panel ** Codecs - H.263+ - H.264 - THEORA - MPEG4 - Framerate up to 30 FPS - Resolutions (up to 704x576) (at best it is DVD quality) - Audio and video codecs as plugins - Support for Intel IPP codecs ** SIP Support - SIP/SIMPLE presence support - Line monitoring with software like Asterisk - Custom presence message support - Dynamic detection of network interfaces - Register/unregister accounts on interfaces going up and down - Better NAT traversal - SIP requests originated from a unique port - Support for several network interfaces at the same time (e.g. VPN and normal network) - Full SIP capabilties exchange for codecs (unique in the Open Source world) - SIP INFO DTMF support - Possibility to send SMS using the Ekiga Call Out account - Many compliance fixes ** Hotplug Support - Hotplug support for audio and video devices (even when being in a call) - Hotplug support for network interfaces ** For Developers and Packagers - Brand new Ekiga Engine, fully separated from the GUI and reusable in other projects - Reworked WIN32 build - Better autoconf support for OPAL