On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Eugen Dedu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is the beta release of the upcoming 4.0.0 version of Ekiga. It is an > important release, which has an overhaul of the main window, reduces startup > time in some cases, supports latest ffmpeg/libav for H.263, H.264 and MPEG4 > video codecs and fixes many other issues (but no security fix) since the > previous unstable release 3.3.2 (released exactly one year before!!) > > One regression is known: editing account settings might crash ekiga. > > * 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: > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/3.9/ > > Required librairies can be found at: > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.10/ > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.10/ > > Install executable for Windows OS: > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/ekiga/3.9/ > > * What's changed ? > ================== > > * Changes in ekiga 3.9.90 (2012-08-23) > ** Major user-visible fixes > - Major overhaul of the main window > - Add a new page in assistant with an introduction to accounts > - Unregister accounts when quitting > - Auto-answering to calls (in 3.3.0 in fact) > - Faster startup by not getting canonical name of servers > - Partial support of H.239 > - Speed up registration when packets get lost > - Use optimised flags for H.264 video decoder > - Limit history book to 100 entries, fixing some crashes > - Improvements to the still experimental loudmouth plugin > - Fix chat messages are received several times if several network interfaces > - Set presence to offline upon quitting > - Blacklist NSE, fixing registration with some registrars, such as Eutelia > - Canonise address introduced when adding/editing a contact in roster > - Use gnome icons instead of ekiga's own > - Some fixes on online/offline presence > - Disable IPv6 by default, which caused some problems (will be enabled > later) > - Fix a race condition in PulseAudio plugin > - Initial support for handling multiple video streams (H.239) > ** Protocol fixes > - Fixes for Contact field during registration: > - Use two additional compatibility mode for some bogus registrars > - Fix order of items in Contact field > - Fix presence with asterisk > - Fixes on INVITE packets in some corner cases > - Fix own presence stopping to be sent after some time > - Fix loading of codecs without an encoding name, e.g. MS-IMA-ADPCM > - Use SIP OPTIONS to refresh NAT bindings > - Numerous other fixes, especially on H264 support > ** Distributor-visible changes > - Disable IPv6 by default, which caused some problems (will be enabled > later) > ** Windows port fixes > - Fix crash when using gdb > - Support mingw-w64 and its own headers for building > - Reduce startup time (explicitly precise plugin directory) > - Other miscellaneous improvements on building > ** Build fixes > - Add arm-linux-gnueabihf (armhf) and GNU/Hurd support > - Support current libav/ffmpeg libraries > - Fix compile errors with gcc 4.7 > - Fix boost detection on some 64 bit machines > - Support new API of Evolution-Data-Server 3.5.3 too > - Fix error when linking with -Wl,--as-needed > ** Translation updates > - Updated translations: cs, de, el, eo, es, fr, gl, gu, he, hu, id, > ja, lt, lv, pl, sl, sr, sr@latin, vi > - Updated help translations: es > > On behalf of Ekiga/ptlib/opal teams,
Congrats to all involved. I've pushed this to Fedora 17/18/rawhide for testing. Any feed back welcome. Peter _______________________________________________ ekiga-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-devel-list
