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

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

On 25/08/12 20:14, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.

Excellent, thank you!

--
Eugen