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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. To get started: Download Ekiga for your distribution and get a free SIP-Address at ekiga.net. Free Your Speech! |
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Ekiga 3.2.6 available 2009-09-22, Eugen Dedu
The sixth release of Ekiga 3.2 is available. Please find hereunder the list of changes.
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
- 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
- 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
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
- Changed default for AVC plug in to be disabled until someone fixes the plug in
- Note: The Pulse audio server does not play nicely with ekiga, very high latencies are noticed
- 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
