Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.9.90 [UNSTABLE] available

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is the beta release of the upcoming 4.0.0 version of Ekiga.  It is an
> important release, which has an overhaul of the main window, reduces startup
> time in some cases, supports latest ffmpeg/libav for H.263, H.264 and MPEG4
> video codecs and fixes many other issues (but no security fix) since the
> previous unstable release 3.3.2 (released exactly one year before!!)
>
> One regression is known: editing account settings might crash ekiga.
>
> * What is it ?
> ==============
>
> Ekiga is a free Voice over IP softphone allowing you to do free calls
> over the Internet.
>
> Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and
> SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as
> GnomeMeeting.
>
> More information can be found at http://www.ekiga.org
>
>
> * Where to get it ?
> ===================
>
> Ekiga is available at:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/3.9/
>
> Required librairies can be found at:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.10/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.10/
>
> Install executable for Windows OS:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/ekiga/3.9/
>
> * What's changed ?
> ==================
>
> * Changes in ekiga 3.9.90 (2012-08-23)
> ** Major user-visible fixes
> - Major overhaul of the main window
> - Add a new page in assistant with an introduction to accounts
> - Unregister accounts when quitting
> - Auto-answering to calls (in 3.3.0 in fact)
> - Faster 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
> - Initial support for handling multiple video streams (H.239)
> ** 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
> ** Distributor-visible changes
> - Disable IPv6 by default, which caused some problems (will be enabled
> later)
> ** 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
> - Updated translations: cs, de, el, eo, es, fr, gl, gu, he, hu, id,
>   ja, lt, lv, pl, sl, sr, sr@latin, vi
> - Updated help translations: es
>
> On behalf of Ekiga/ptlib/opal teams,

Congrats to all involved.

I've pushed this to Fedora 17/18/rawhide for testing. Any feed back welcome.

Peter