Kamailio v4.3.0 Released

June 10, 2015: Kamailio v4.3.0 is out –  a new major release, collecting new features and improvements added during about six months of development and one and a half month of testing.

In short, this major release brings 9 new modules and enhancements to more than 50 existing modules, plus components of the core and internal libraries. Detailed release notes are available at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-v4-3-0-release-notes/

Development for next major release, 4.4.0 (expected to be out in the first part of 2016) has started already, even a new module is already present in master branch: smsops. Watch the project’s web site closely for further updates and news about evolution of Kamailio.

Enjoy SIP routing in a secure, flexible and easier way with Kamailio v4.3.0!

Thank you for flying Kamailio!

Kamcli – command line control tool

Recently a new command line tool for Kamailio management was published by Asipto, named kamcli, available at:

• https://github.com/asipto/kamcli

It is written in Python and at this stage it is more an attempt to see if the community finds it useful and worth to get it developed further as part of Kamailio project.

• Short about the benefits/flexibility:
• python is by default installed on OSes (including Mac OS X) (as opposite to Lua, for example)
• became rather fast since Google invested in it
• lot more knowledge base and developers out there (as opposite to Lua or Perl), along with tons of extensions
• implementation is based on a CLI framework (Click) that makes it extremely easy to add new commands in a plugin-like fashion, therefore is easy to have custom commands when having specific needs (e.g., managing a custom database table used in kamailio.cfg via sqlops => add a new cmd_xyz.py in commands subfolder, without touching other files, not even the config)
• help message is embedded in the command code file, making it easier to document commands
• easy to validate parameters as well as format the output
• handling kamcli configuration file options is also easy (ini format)

One of the reasons of pushing this out was in the perspective of deprecating MI and working with JSONRPC fifo from command line — there is not an easy ways to manage json docs with shell and common tools (e.g., cat, echo, grep, awk) only. Kamcli has implemented the JSONRPC over fifo command (see also jsonrpc-s kamailio module). Still, given the old initial implementation, at this moment, kamcli is relying on MI via fifo (mi_fifo) for some of the commands (e.g., dumping usrloc records from memory).

So far, couple of commands were implemented when comparing with kamctl:

• subscriber management (kamctl add/rm/passwd…)
• user location management (kamctl ul …)
• database querying (kamctl db …)
• statistics (kamctl stats …)
• mi commands (kamctl mi …)
• jsonrpc commands (not in kamctl)

If there is enough interest in developing this tool further, it can be migrated to Kamailio organization on Github to have all developers able to work on it.

For further discussions about this tool, email to development mailing list .

Releasing Kamailio v4.3.0

Next major version of Kamailio (v4.3.0) is planned to be out on Wednesday (June 10) or Thursday (June 11). The pool of things to fix is minor, deb packaging for 4.3 is ready, thanks to Victor Seva. Some bits are still left to do: add docs for 4.3 series in wiki, prepare RPM packaging and build
proper ‘what is new’ list of features.

Testing didn’t reveal new issues in the recent past as we run in two servers with live traffic. If you have issues with 4.3 branch, be sure you report them on Github tracker:

• https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/issues

Meanwhile, contributions to enhance the related pages on the wiki are very appreciated:

• http://www.kamailio.org/wiki

Stay tuned for updates!

Branch for Kamailio 4.3 Has Been Created

The next release of Kamailio will be 4.3 – a release with new module and many new functions! The GIT branch for the coming release 4.3 has been created. This branch  will host the release series 4.3.x. To help the developers, please download this branch and test it before the release!

To get this branch from GIT, you can use:

 git clone https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio.git kamailio
 cd kamailio
 git checkout -b 4.3 origin/4.3

Notes about installing Kamailio from this branch are available at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/wiki/install/4.3.x/git

Hopefully in about two weeks or so the full release of 4.3.0 will be out.

The master branch is again ready for new features, to be part of the next future release, expected to be numbered 4.4.

Kamailio World 2015 – One Week Before

One week before and we are ready to welcome the guests of the 3rd edition of Kamailio World Conference & Exhibition.

The content is filled with excellent technical tutorials in the first day and vast range of hot topics covered during the two conference days — Kamailio, SIP, WebRTC, Asterisk, Sems, JsSIP, Performance and Traffic Monitoring, OpenStack, Kazoo, Erlang, Cloud PBX, OTT or VoLTE are among them.

We are honoured to have an impressive list of speakers, from those that are involved in building the communications, able to share their expertise from deep technical aspects to market needs and business perspectives.

Over all, the event has grown continuously from its first edition, special thanks to our sponsors : FhG Fokus, FhG Forum, Asipto, Sipwise, sipgate, Simwood, Obihai, Matrix, Digium, Tyntec, NG Voice, CoreNetDynamics, Pascom, VoiceTel, 2600hz and VUC. They made possible to host the event at a very nice location in the city center of Berlin and be able to bring a consistent number of experienced speakers.

This is an event you must not miss!

Looking forward to meeting many of you next week in Berlin!

Kamailio v4.2.5 Released

Kamailio SIP Server v4.2.5 stable is out! This is a minor release including fixes in code and documentation since v4.2.4. Don’t worry about upgrading – the configuration file and database compatibility is preserved.

Kamailio (former OpenSER) v4.2.5 is based on the latest version of GIT branch 4.2, therefore those running previous 4.2.x versions are advised to upgrade. There is no change that has to be done to configuration file or database structure comparing with older v4.2.x.

Resources for Kamailio version 4.2.5

Source tarballs are available at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.2.5/src/

Detailed changelog:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.2.5/ChangeLog

Download via GIT:

 # git clone git://git.kamailio.org/kamailio kamailio
 # cd kamailio
 # git checkout -b 4.2 origin/4.2

Binaries and packages will be uploaded at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.2.5/

Modules’ documentation:

• http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/4.2.x/

What is new in 4.2.x release series is summarized in the announcement of v4.2.0:

• http://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-v4-2-0-release-notes/

Looking forward to meeting many of you at Kamailio World 2015 next week!

New Kamailio Module: Erlang

Before freezing the development for next major release – Kamailio v4.3.0 – several modules and other relevant additions were pushed in a rather short period of time to git repository. Now, we are trying to look briefly at few of them in a series of posts in order to let everyone know about them.

First to talk about it is the erlang module, contributed by Seudin Kasumovic of Bicom Systems. Erlang is a functional programming language tightly related to telecom environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance

The module enables interaction of Kamailio with Erlang nodes, allowing to send and receive Erlang messages as well as RPC calls between each other. You can read more about it at:

• http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/erlang.html

Seudin will also present at Kamailio World Conference how this module can be used and its benefits for scalability and reliability.

Kamailio World 2015 – Grants for Students

Given the roots and the tight relation of Kamailio project with the academic environment, we are offering three seats at Kamailio World Conference, May 27029, 2015, in Berlin, to students enrolled in universities or research institutes (both bachelor and PhD programs qualify).

Last year we tried it locally with the universities in Berlin and this year we want to extend it, as there might be young people interested to travel a bit and attend the event.

If you are a student and want to participate, email to registration@kamailio.org . Participation to
all the content of the event (workshops, conference and social event) is free, but you will have to take care of expenses for traveling and accommodation. Write a short description about your interest in real time communications and what is the university or the research institute you are affiliate to.

Also, if you are not a student, but you are in touch with some or have access to students forums/mailing lists, it will be very appreciated if you forward these details.

More information about Kamailio World is available on the web site:

• http://www.kamailioworld.com

Looking forward to meeting many of you in just few weeks in Berlin!