AstriCon 2017

Kamailio is going to be present at AstriCon 2017, the Asterisk User Conference and Exhibition organized by Digium, to take place in Orlando, FL, USA, during October 3-5, 2017.

Carsten Bock, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Fred Posner and Jöran Vinzens will have presentations about Kamailio (see the schedule here). Besides the conference sessions, Kamailio project has a booth the expo area, be sure you stop by for a chat and some cool demos of using Kamailio alone or together with Asterisk.

We expect a consistent group of people from the Kamailio community, the event being a great chance to meet with many world wide friends, especially the North American kamailians.

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Orlando by beginning of October!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Next Kamailio IRC Devel Meeting

To sync properly for the next major release of Kamailio (v5.1.0) and ongoing development, we propose an IRC devel meeting for next week, on Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017. An alternative would be the following day, Sep 28, or if there are many devs that want to attend and cannot do it these days, we can look at another date. Just propose new day and time via sr-dev mailing list.

The meeting is going to be held as usual in the #kamailio channel on freenode.net IRC network.

A wiki page was created to collect the topics that are wanted to be discussed:

• https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/devel/irc-meetings/2017b

Fell free to add there or reply to the mailing list with what you think it is relevant to discuss.

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

PyFreeBilling – OSS Billing Platform

We want to highlight another project that uses Kamailio, which together with FreeSwitch, is part of PyFreeBilling, an open source billing platform targeting VoIP wholesale. It is released under AGPLv3.

The project sources are hosted on Github at:

• https://github.com/mwolff44/pyfreebilling

The project has its own website at:

• http://www.pyfreebilling.com

While not tried yet here, the screenshots show a modern design and the list of features is quite impressive — next is an excerpt taken from project’s docs:

• Customer add/modify/delete
  • IP termination
  • SIP authentication
  • Prepaid and/or postpaid
  • Realtime billing
  • Block calls on negative balance (prepaid) or balance under credit limit (postpaid)
  • Block / allow negative margin calls
  • Email alerts
  • Daily balance email to customer
  • Limit the maximum number of calls per customer and/or per gateway
  • Multiple contexts
  • Tons of media handling options
  • Powerfull ratecard engine
• Provider add/modify/delete
  • Powerful LCR engine
  • Routing based on area code
  • CLI Routing
  • Routing decision based on quality, reliability, cost or load balancing (equal)
  • Limit max channels by each provider gateway
• Extensive call and financial reporting screens (TBD)
• CDR export to CSV
• Customer panel
• Design for scalability

Definitely worth a try!

Enjoy! Thanks for flying Kamailio!

PS. Should you develop a project related to Kamailio or be aware of such project, do not hesitate to contact us, we are glad to publish articles about them! 

Kamailio v5.0.3 Released

Kamailio SIP Server v5.0.3 stable is out – a minor release including fixes in code and documentation since v5.0.2. The configuration file and database schema compatibility is preserved, which means you don’t have to change anything to update.

Kamailio v5.0.3 is based on the latest version of GIT branch 5.0. We recommend those running previous 5.0.x or older versions to upgrade. There is no change that has to be done to configuration file or database structure comparing with the previous release of the v5.0 branch.

Resources for Kamailio version 5.0.3

Source tarballs are available at:

• https://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/5.0.3/src/

Detailed changelog:

• https://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/5.0.3/ChangeLog

Download via GIT:

 # git clone https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio kamailio
 # cd kamailio
 # git checkout -b 5.0 origin/5.0

Relevant notes, binaries and packages will be uploaded at:

• https://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/5.0.3/

Modules’ documentation:

• https://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/5.0.x/

What is new in 5.0.x release series is summarized in the announcement of v5.0.0:

• https://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-v5-0-0-release-notes/

Thanks for flying Kamailio!