* Changes in ekiga 3.2.6 (2009-09-22)
** User-visible fixes
- Fixed crashes shown as assertion failed in /usr/include/ptlib/safecoll.h:813
- Fixed crash when device list is empty or contains non-latin1 characters
- Fixed crash when pressing shift-f10 (popup menu) in Preferences window
- Fixed possible crash when garbage collecting REGISTER requests
- Fixed possible segfault when receiving a NOTIFY
- Fixed freeze by preventing SIP handlers retry timer from executing
during destruction
- Fixed freeze during packet write
- Fixed "Lockup after a day of idle" in publishing code
- Fixed various deadlocks in the OPAL subscription code
- Added "%limit" workaround for registrars which refuse several
contacts during registration
- Fixed "Contacts never go offline"
- Fixed "New SIP account mangles fields if Authentications User is empty"
- Make sure the output device is set before a call
- Fixed port handling when registering to a proxy with a non-standard port
- Fixed "In some circumstances, smileys are not displayed graphically"
- Improved audio latency when not collecting all of the audio data
- Fixed the newmessage.wav file
- Fixed "Accounts were automatically active after editing them"
- Make possible to register e.g. user@a.b as user name as required by
some providers
- Remove deprecated "Encoding" field from desktop file
** Protocol fixes
- Fixed problem with REGISTER IntervalTooBrief response handling not
using correct interface for new transaction
- Fixed "480 Temporarily Unavailable" response handling
- Fixed problem with doing DNS lookup when using explicit proxy or
presence agent
- Fixed problem with PUBLISH using wrong expiry after Interval Too Brief
error
- If we find no authentication information when subscribing, keep trying
as it could become available at a later stage
- Changed so does not put both global and media specific connection
addresses in SDP if they are the same (needed for freephonie SIP
registrar)
- Fixed support for unusual SIP "start with hold", that is an initial
offer INVITE with a connection address of 0.0.0.0
- Fixed failure to retry (after a suitable period) REGISTER/SUBSCRIBE
if get transport level timeout
- Added closing of our local media streams if remote sends a re-INVITE
and leaves out streams (e.g. video) that were there previously
- Fixed problems when can not bind to any interface
- Fixed various problems with some SDP options
- Fixed regression where the username would be lost from the Contact
field
- Fixed invalid request-uri in BYE request
- Fixed issue with overlapping INVITEs
- Fixed H.263-1998 plug in compilation, by asking latest avcodec
- Fixed "OpalBitRateCalculator limits bitrates"
- Fixed "SIP wrong response on a failed REFER-request"
- Fixed "SIP: OK response to CANCEL incomplete"
- Do not send "100 Trying" message when receiving a NOTIFY message
- Fixed incorrect register/subscribe refresh timer calculation
** Build fixes
- Support building on kFreeBSD
- Fixed problem with moving libsoup api
- Various fixes for SIP and H323 configuration
- Fixed "A build error when generating SunAudio ptlib plugin"
- Fixed "The video convertor of YUY2toYUV420P in ptlib does not work"
- Fixed "The absence of libv4l2 should not block V4L2 ptlib plugin"
- and other minor changes
** Windows port fixes
- Thanks to Michael Rickmann's continuous work, Windows port has
reached a quality almost comparable to GNU/Linux version. We invite
people to test it, see ekiga wiki. Some improvements:
- shortened audio delay
- DirectX video input and output
- device name handling
- fixed audio volume
- fixed building with mingw
- made so the linker doesn't find main on win32
- Keep the output sound volume across calls
** Distributor-visible changes
- Changed default for AVC plug in to be disabled until someone fixes
the plug in
- Note: Pulse audio server does not play nicely with ekiga, very high
latencies are noticed
** Translation fixes
- Updated translations: ar, bn, et, ga, hi, hu, ko, lt, ml, nb, sr,
sr@latin, uk, zh_HK, zh_TW
- New translations: ca@valencia
- Updated help translations: de
* Changes in ekiga 3.2.0 (2009-03-16)
- Fix some NAT related issues (use internal port instead of external
port in Cone NAT)
- Uniformise detection of libnotify; fix compilation with mingw
- Fix "URL completion combobox shows identical completions"
- Fix "Assistant loosing values when going backward"
- Fix GmConf settings when compiled with another package name
- Fix unregistration of accounts
- Fix build with -enable-kde
- Fix OS X build
- Fix a crash in chat
- New translations: crh, or
- Updated translations: as, bg, bn_IN, da, de, el, eu, gl, gu, hi, hu,
ja, kn, ko, ku, lt, ml, mr, or, pt, ro, ru, ta, te, tr
- New help translation: en_GB
- Updated help translation: fr
* Changes in ekiga 3.1.2 (2009-03-03)
- Removal of the old H.263 ffmpeg plug in and enhancement of the
H.263-1998 plug in to take its place.
- Allow compilation with CELT 0.4 and 0.5
- Allow several ALSA devices to have the same name
- STUN enabling/disabling has been readded to the GUI
- Remove white spaces from the URI (useful when copy/paste)
- Clear the URI edit box after a call
- Fixed crash when clearing call history
- Fix Windows compilation
- Fixes for tarball generation
- Fixed account data corruption when the authentication user name is
left blank
- Fixed possible crash when answering incoming calls
- Fixed G.722 usage
- Other various fixes, cleanups, removal of deprecated symbols etc.
- Updated translations: ca, cs, da, el, en_GB, es, eu, fi, fr, he, hu,
it, ja, ko, kn, nb, nl, pl, pt_BR, sl, sv, th, vi, zh_HK, zh_TW
- New help/eu localisation
Experimental features:
- Significant improvements in IPv6 support
- Gstreamer audio and video capture support near to be finished...
* ekiga 3.1.1 unreleased
* Changes in ekiga 3.1.0 (2009-01-05)
- Added support for G.722 and CELT audio wideband codecs
- Added support for H.263
- Added support for SIP dialog-info notifications, it allows being
notified of incoming calls for the phones of your colleagues with
software like Asterisk
- Added support to disable STUN detection
- Improved LDAP support in the address book, authentication is now
possible
- Killed the gconf_test_age test, Ekiga can now finally work with
badly installed GConf schemas
- More efficient memory handling using gmref_ptr, increases stability
- Better handling of multiple network interfaces with dynamic addition
and removal
- libgnome is not required anymore when using GTK+ 2.14
- Many code cleanups, new GObjects, ...
- Work in progress : XCAP support, Resource List support, GStreamer
audio and video capture support, ...
* What's changed ?
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- Make sure sound events are played through the correct devices. (#564370)
- Fixed crash on missed call.
- Do not show the assistant after an upgrade for which Ekiga was already successfully setup.
- Added settings migration from Ekiga 2.0.x.
- Allow answering/rejecting calls from the main window even if we use notifications.
- Do not try refreshing SUBSCRIBE requests for which the 200 OK contains an expire time of 0.
- Fixed sending ACK request to incorrect address when particular types of proxies are being used.
- Fixed test for CANCEL receipt on INVITE clearing call.
- Ignore multiple forked CANCEL messages.
- Fixed issue with registration to a non-standard port.
- Fixed restarting timers if get pathological response to a transaction with incorrect Cseq header field.
- Fixed missing route set on SIP commands in a dialog when using outbound proxy.
Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video
conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP
protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable
with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting.
