[Siproxd-users] Release 0.5.12

[Thomas R. <tr...@gm...>]

Release Notes for siproxd-0.5.12
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Major changes since 0.5.11:
   A "Short-Dial" feature is now available.
   A number of bugfixes have been made. These include some issues
   with Grandstream phones and the "unregister at startup" option,
   as well as other issues with the expiration timeout.

General Overview:
 - SIP (RFC3261) Proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind a
   masquerading firewall
 - works with "dial-up" conenctions (dynamic IP addresses)
 - Multiple local users/hosts can be masqueraded simultaneously
 - Access control (IP based) for incoming traffic
 - Proxy Authentication for registration of local clients (User Agents)
   with individual passwords for each user
 - May be used as pure Outbound proxy (registration of local UAs
   to a 3rd party registrar)
 - Fli4l OPT_SIP (still experimental) available, check
   http://home.arcor.de/jsffm/fli4l/
 - runs on various operating systems (see below)
 - Full duplex RTP data stream proxy for *incoming* and *outgoing*
   audio data - no firewall masquerading entries needed
 - Port range to be used for RTP traffic is configurable
   (-> easy to set up apropriate firewall rules for RTP traffic)
 - RTP proxy can handle multiple RTP streams (eg. audio + video)
   within a single SIP session.
 - Symmetric RTP support
 - Symmetric SIP signalling support
 - Supports running in a chroot jail and changing user-ID after startup
 - All configuration done via one simple ascii configuration file
 - Logging to syslog in daemon mode
 - RPM package
 - The host part of UA registration entries can be masqueraded
   (mask_host, masked_host config items). Some Siemens SIP phones seem to
   need this 'feature'.
 - Provider specific outbound proxies can be configured
 - Can run "in front of" a NAT router.(in the local LAN segment)
 - supports "Short-Dials"

Requirements:
 - pthreads (Linux)
 - glibc2 / libc5 / uClibc
 - libosip2

Currently tested on:
- Fedora Core1 (Kernel 2.4.x, Glibc)
  This is my main development and testing environment. Other platforms
  are not extensively tested by myself.

Builds on:
- Linux:	Fedora Core1
		Fedora Core3 (x86_64 - 64 bit)
		WRT54g (133mhz mipsel router)
- FreeBSD:	FreeBSD 4.10-BETA
- OpenBSD:	OpenBSD 3.4 GENERIC#18
- SunOS:	SunOS 5.9
- Mac OS X:	Darwin 6.8
- Windows:	Cygwin environment

Reported interoperability with softphones:
 - Grandstream BudgeTone-100 series
 - Linphone (local and remote UA) (http://www.linphone.org)
 - Kphone (local and remote UA) (http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/)
 - MSN messenger 4.6 (remote and local UA)
 - X-Lite (Win XP Professional)
 - SJPhone softphone

Reported interoperability with SIP service providers:
 - Sipphone	(http://www.sipphone.com)
 - FWD		(http://www.fwd.pulver.com)
 - Sipgate *)	(http://www.sipgate.de)
 - Stanaphone	(SIP Gateway to PSTN)

 *) There have been reports of people having problems using
    siproxd with these providers.


 If you have siproxd successfully running with another SIP phone
 and/or service provider, please drop me a short note so I can update
 the list.

Known bugs:
   - SRV DNS records are not yet looked up, only A records
   There will be more...

If you port siproxd to a new platform or do other kinds of changes
or bugfixes that might be of general interest, please drop me a
line. Also if you intend to include siproxd into a software
distribution I'd be happy to get a short notice.


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