Kamailio Update on VUC, Nov 15, 2013

Kamailio will be back on VoIP Users Conference, the edition scheduled for the 15th of November, 2013, starting at 17:00GMT. It is the time to give an update about what we have new in the upcoming major release, v4.1.0, which is around the corner, scheduled to be out slightly after mid of November.

There are loads of new features, including 10 new modules, among highlights:

• prepaid system – credit control module
• sip-t/i handling
• ephemeral authentication mechanism suitable for WebRTC sessions
• embedded Java interpreter
• SRTP encryption/decryption via rtpproxy-ng to connect WebRTC endpoints with classic SIP phones
• consistent work on IMS extensions
• gzip compress/decompress SIP message body (keep below UDP MTU/save bandwidth)
• Dnssec support and sctp transport as modules
• SLA/BLA (call pickup, blinking lamps) enhancements

Voip Users Conference

We will try to engage many Kamailio developers and community members, therefore be sure you join the conference. At this moment, confirmed participants are:

• Alex Balashov
• Andrew Mortensen
• Carlos Ruiz Díaz
• Charles Chance
• Daniel-Constantin Mierla
• Jason Penton
• Hugh Waite
• Peter Dunkley
• Richard Good
• Victor Seva

There plenty options to dial in via SIP or PSTN, or simply listen/watch audio/video streams on the web – see more details at:

• http://vuc.me

Stay tuned for updates regarding the Kamailio project participants and content of the session!

Building Kamailio Tech Administration Group

Following up the last Devel IRC Meeting, we are planing to build a Kamailio Project Technical Administration Group:

• https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/devel/irc-meetings/2013blog#technical_administration_group

Its goal is to get a bunch of people that volunteer to do administration tasks for the project, such as:

• helping with releases (e.g., patch backports, packaging, uploading files for download, etc)
• doing sysadmin tasks for our servers (e.g., performing upgrades to wiki, web site, etc)
• preparing technical decisions and doing them (e.g., what applications to use to make operations easier, cloning git repository to github, …)

From the devel meeting, so far we have Victor Seva, Fred Posner, Peter Dunkley and Olle Johansson. Existing people doing admin tasks will probably stay in (if they don’t opt out): me, Elena-Ramona Modroiu, Henning Westerholt (owner of devel.kamailio.org hardware), Jan Janak (owner of sip-router.org hardware), Jesus Rodriguez and Oriol Capsada (owners of kamailio.org hardware).

Requirements for candidates and other details:

• volunteer to do the work, it is not a paid job
• an existing record of activity within the project is a plus (e.g., developer, active mailing list member)
• write to the mailing lists (e.g., sr-users[at]lists.sip-router.org) detailing where and how you can help
• possibility to spend 1-4 hours a week for project administration (more is welcome, sometime is not necessary at all)

Rewards:

• you will be listed as part of project administration on the website
• get to interact more with the project and the nice guys around it
• more spam – admin list address will be public and the list open so everyone can send in case of critical situations (content/archive will be kept private)

Note that we will try to build a group of an adequate size, thus not everyone willing to participate may get in (at least on the first phase). One criteria is to have skills that complement existing team knowledge.

Should you be interested to join, email us to .

Development for Kamailio v4.1.0 is frozen

The development for next major release of Kamailio, v4.1.0, has been frozen last midnight. No new features will be added for the next one month and a half. The focus now is to perform testing. We encourage all Kamailio administrators to help us test the coming 4.1 release!

If you want to see what is new, check the draft list at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/wiki/features/new-in-devel

If you want to start testing, for the moment you have to use GIT master branch – guidelines on how to install it are available at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/wiki/install/devel/git

Feedback should be provided to  mailing list.

Thank you for your help testing this exciting new version of Kamailio!

Kamailio v4.0.4 Released

Kamailio SIP Server v4.0.4 stable is out – a minor release including fixes in code and documentation since v4.0.0 – configuration file and database compatibility is preserved.

Kamailio (former OpenSER) v4.0.4 is based on the latest version of GIT branch 4.0, therefore those running previous 4.0.x versions are advised to upgrade. There is no change that has to be done to configuration file or database structure comparing with older v4.0.x.

Resources for Kamailio version 4.0.4

Source tarballs are available at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.0.4/src/

Detailed changelog:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.0.4/ChangeLog

Download via GIT:

 # git clone git://git.sip-router.org/sip-router kamailio
 # cd kamailio
 # git checkout -b 4.0 origin/4.0

Binaries and packages will be uploaded at:

• http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/4.0.4/

Modules’ documentation:

• http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/4.0.x/

What is new in 4.0.x release series is summarized in the announcement of v4.0.0:

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