Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Beta release

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 21/08/12 09:56, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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?

No.  A new ptlib/opal stable release will be done by tomorrow.

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Eugen