On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Eugen Dedu <eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote: > On 25/08/12 20:14, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Eugen Dedu >> <eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> 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. > > > Excellent, thank you!
BTW is there an issue with ekiga.net at the moment? I can't seem to get to either the website or via ekiga. Very basic testing on F-17 and this looks good btw Peter _______________________________________________ ekiga-devel-list mailing list ekiga-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-devel-list