Re: [Ekiga-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.3.0 [UNSTABLE] available

[Gerhard Stengel <Gerhard Stengel gmx net>]

Hi,

interesting... will h263 and h263+ codecs work again?

regards

Gerhard

Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2010, 16:54:19 schrieb Eugen Dedu:
> This is the first unstable release of the upcoming 3.4 version of Ekiga. 
>   It is a major release, bringing several changes (bugs and protocol 
> fixes, but not so much features and no security fix) since almost two 
> years ago.  It is not a replacement of the last stable release (3.2.7), 
> but should be used by people having problems with the stable release 
> (e.g. a pulse plugin plugin is included in this release) and by people 
> who want to help ekiga.
> 
> While it has not received much testing, it works on developers machines, 
> and the only known major regression (which should hopefully be fixed in 
> the next unstable release) compared to the last stable release is that 
> presence does not work reliably.  Three additional regressions are known:
> - the fix "Use NAT ports instead of local ports for RTP, fixing many
> connection issues", added in the last stable release, is not included,
> - the fix for 16bpp mode, added in the last stable release, is not 
> included either
> - and on Windows ekiga sometimes crashes on exit.
> 
> 
> * 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:
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/3.3/
> 
> Required librairies can be found at:
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.8/
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.8/
> 
> 
> * What's changed ?
> ==================
> 
> ** Distributor-specific changes
> - New pulse audio plugin (in ptlib)
> - ekiga is now split between one executable, one library and two
>    plugins (evolution and ldap).  This means that evolution-data-server
>    for ex. can be used during building, but is not mandatory upon
>    execution: if it exists, ekiga will use it, if not it just does not
>    use it :o)  As a consequence, this allows to install ekiga without
>    e-d-s and its many dependencies (see
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520830 for ex.)
> - Some dependencies versions have been raised, configure checks them
> - Depend on boost instead of sigc++
> - Update to the new libnotify 0.7.0 library
> - By default, use quiet compilation; use make VERBOSE=1 for ptlib and
>    opal to get "noisy" command lines during compilation, and make V=1
>    for ekiga
> ** User-visible changes
> - New pulse audio plugin (in ptlib)
> - Various SIP/H.323 fixes
> - When a registrar refuses several Contact-s during registration,
>    automatically retry registration with only one Contact (previous
>    "%limit" workaround)
> - Fix "Ekiga crashes when restart a holding call established by H.323"
> - Fix "Cseq value is empty, malformed packet as per Wireshark"
> - Fix "Text on first page of assistant is sometimes not shown"
> - Fix DTMF signaling
> - Fix pre-fill account name and password in assistant
> - Fix dialog info presence handling
> - Add a TOS field config option
> - Update the "Contact" menu when selecting a heap or a group
> - Distribute a 24x24 icon too
> - Always honour show_hidden setting for main window
> - Adjust defaults (show offline users, use picture-in-picture)
> ** Developer-specific changes
> - Many code cleanups
> - Various deprecated code replaced with current equivalents
> ** Windows port changes
> - Fix video position with gtk >=2.20
> - Update dependency versions
> - Add Russian translation of installer
> ** Translation updates
> - Updated translations: as, ast, bg, bn, bn_IN, ca, ca valencia, cs,
>    da, de, el, en_GB, eo, es, et, eu, fr, gl, gu, he, hi, hu, it, kn,
>    ko, lt, lv, ja, ml, nb, nn, or, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sl, sk,
>    sr, sr latin, sv, ta, th, uk, zh_CN, zh-HK, ZH-TW
> - New translations: en shaw, kk, ug
> - Updated help translations: de, el, sl, uk
> - New help translations: zh_CN
> 
> On behalf of Ekiga/ptlib/opal teams,
> Eugen Dedu
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