Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Beta release

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> For your information, ekiga team agreed to do a beta release in two days.
> The new stable release should appear next month.  Feel free to test it, I
> consider it overall (much) better than last stable release, 3.2.7.
>
> Here is the NEWS file, compared to ekiga unstable 3.3.2:
>
> * Changes in ekiga 3.9.90 (2012-08-20)
> ** Major user-visible fixes
> - Major overhaul of the main window
> - Auto-answering to calls (in 3.3.0 in fact)
> - Add a new page in assistant with an introduction to accounts
> - Unregister accounts when quitting
> - Speed up startup by not getting canonical name of servers
> - Partial support of H.239
> - Speed up registration when packets get lost
> - Use optimised flags for H.264 video decoder
> - Limit history book to 100 entries, fixing some crashes
> - Improvements to the still experimental loudmouth plugin
> - Fix chat messages are received several times if several network interfaces
> - Set presence to offline upon quitting
> - Blacklist NSE, fixing registration with some registrars, such as Eutelia
> - Canonise address introduced when adding/editing a contact in roster
> - Use gnome icons instead of ekiga's own
> - Some fixes on online/offline presence
> - Disable IPv6 by default, which caused some problems (will be enabled
> later)
> - Fix a race condition in PulseAudio plugin
> ** Protocol fixes
> - Fixes for Contact field during registration:
>   - Use two additional compatibility mode for some bogus registrars
>   - Fix order of items in Contact field
> - Fix presence with asterisk
> - Fixes on INVITE packets in some corner cases
> - Fix own presence stopping to be sent after some time
> - Fix loading of codecs without an encoding name, e.g. MS-IMA-ADPCM
> - Use SIP OPTIONS to refresh NAT bindings
> - Numerous other fixes, especially on H264 support
> ** Windows port fixes
> - Fix crash when using gdb
> - Support mingw-w64 and its own headers for building
> - Reduce startup time (explicitly precise plugin directory)
> - Other miscellaneous improvements on building
> ** Build fixes
> - Add arm-linux-gnueabihf (armhf) and GNU/Hurd support
> - Support current libav/ffmpeg libraries
> - Fix compile errors with gcc 4.7
> - Fix boost detection on some 64 bit machines
> - Support new API of Evolution-Data-Server 3.5.3 too
> - Fix error when linking with -Wl,--as-needed
> ** Translation updates
> ...
>
> Check http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/plain/NEWS to see the changes to
> ekiga 3.2.7, I will write them a bit later.

What are the required versions of ptlib/opal for this release. I don't
see newer releases on ftp.gnome.org as usual so I just thought I would
clarify whether they remain the same as the previous 3.3 release?

Peter