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

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> 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!

BTW is there an issue with ekiga.net at the moment? I can't seem to
get to either the website or via ekiga. Very basic testing on F-17 and
this looks good btw

Peter