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Linux-Announce Digest #829, Volume #4 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:13:02 EDT
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[ANNOUNCE] Kannel 1.3.2 development release available (Stipe Tolj)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:11:08 CST
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Kannel 1.3.2 development release available
The Kannel Group is pleased to announce the availibility
of the Kannel 1.3.2 development release via
http://www.kannel.org/.
--
NEWS about Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway version 1.3.2
This is a DEVELOPMENT version. It should be usable for experimentation
and testing, and is a release candidate for the 1.4 branch. Please do
try it out and report problems to devel@kannel.org (the development
mailing list). The bug tracking system is currently offline.
Changes since version 1.3.1:
[*** Beware that the version move from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 contains more
then 400
changesets, with major bugfixes and improvemnts. Following is a
summary of the
main issues. For a complete and detailed set of changes please refer
to the
specific ChangeLog in the doc/ directory of the distribution. ***]
Compatibility breakers:
* LICENSE changed to Kannel Software License v1.0. BSD-style as
before with
some more restrictions to the name "Kannel" and usage of it.
* SMPP changed recoding of source_addr and destination_addr on the
MO side.
We will pass an prefixed '+' to the smsbox side. Otherwise there
is no
chance for backend applicatins, like smsbox to descide what type
of number
it is.
* EMI2 login operation 60 had a hard timeout of 30 sec. Some SMSC
may need
longer to ACK the login, so use the 'wait-ack' time value here too
in case
it's larger then 30 sec.
* CIMD2 harmonized 'my-number' directive, this makes 'sender-prefix'
absolete, interpretation of 'keepalive' is now in seconds instead
of
minutes.
* HTTP SMSC changed 'dlrurl' to 'dlr-url', 'dlrmask' to 'dlr-mask'
in order
to reflect changes within smsbox's sendsms interface.
* Removed no more needed 'retry' smsc group directive. This is now
handled
via the more abstracted 'reconnect-delay' value.
* WAP access.log file of wapbox has now some more elements, ie.
remote IP of
client, HTTP method, length of content body, user agent string,
HTTP
server string, cookie support is enabled now by default, added new
'wap-url-map' and 'wap-user-map groups to replace deprecated
'map-url' map.
* Renamed innternal SMSC module identifiers for the smsc group
directive
'smsc', which identifies which SMSC module is to be used for the
specific
link, according to these: <emi2> to <emi>, <at2> to <at>, <emi> to
<emi_x25>.
* The configure option switch --with-defaults default value is now
"speed".
* (!!!) smsbox's sendsms interface changed for values passed to
various
variables, according to this: pid=0 says that you want a pid value
in pdu,
with value 0; mclass is now 0-3; coding is 0-2; alt-dcs is 0-1;
mwi is 0-7
to comply with ETSI values; dlrmask and dlrurl query parameters
are
deprecated, but still functional; please use dlr-mask and dlr-url;
flash
was removed.
* Changed core group config option 'maximum-queue-length' to
'sms-incoming-queue-limit' for the sake of semantics.
* Added 'binfo' billing identifier/information element to
bearerbox's
access.log log format.
* Changed the way how DLR storage is "defined" while configure time,
accoding
to this: removes '--with-dlr', --with-mysql to --with-mysql-dir,
--enable-[mysql|oracle|sdb|sqlite] to
--with-[mysql|oracle|sdb|sqlite].
* Account field is required in DLR tablespace and dlr config
sections too.
New features:
* SMPP added facility to specify SMSC service type with
'service-type = foo', adding handling of invaid userid and/or
passwd to
shutdown SMSC connection rather then retrying to reconnect, a set
of
optional parameters (SMPP v3.4) have been added, UDH support for
MOs,
handling of intermediately delivery notifications, added
'message_payload'
handling, added enhanced DLR parsing and handling of DLR's
optional
parameters, added "more messages to send" support.
* EMI added XSer $0c and $0d handling, OP/31 handling for the sake
of EMI
implementations that use this construct as server-side initiated
keep-alive
mechanism.
* CIMD2 has been rewriten to the new SMSCConn API layer, added
additional
support features 'our-host', 'our-port' and parameter 069 (service
center
address), harmonzied log message formating, new 'no-dlr' config
directive
to indicate if DLR requests should be proceeeded, added RPI
(return-path-indication) support and binfo support via tariff
class, allows
setting PID for MT messages, adds "more messages to send" support.
* HTTP SMSC added 'system-type = brunet' for an implemenation of
bruNET's
specific HTTP interface (bruHTP 2.1), harmonized debug output,
added
'system-type = xidris' for an implementation of Xidris, 'dlrurl'
and
'dlrmask' handling for Kannel message proxying, added 'system-type
= wapme'
for the Wapme SMS Proxy gateway interface.
* SOAP/XML over HTTP module added. Yet not bound to abstraction
layer. Hence
this is yet experimental.
* FAKE added DLR handling for fake smsc type. Now you can test DLR
handling
even while unattached to real SMSC.
* AT added +CMTI support for MO messages, 2 new config options
'max-error-count' and 'reset-string' for hard reset of the modem
when modem
crashed.
* OISD has been rewriten to SMSCConn API, added validity support.
* HTTP admin command 'restart' added to restart bearerbox,
'loglevel' to
change log-level of log-files while bearerbox is running.
* Added 'our-host' interface support for binding to an explicite
interface
on SMSC connections.
* Added smsc specific logging capability by handling open log files
in
exclusive or non-explusive mode, using 'log-file' and 'log-level'
as smsc
config directives.
* Added --disable-wap and --disable-sms configure switches to
disable parts
in bearerbox.
* Moved smsc group config directive 'reconnect-delay' into higher
abstraction
layer to provide this for all SMSC modules. Reconnect delay is
defaulting
to 10 sec.
* Added internal restarting msg command among boxes.
* Added new command line option ("-g" or "--generate") to bearebox.
This
option just dump all known config groups and options to stdout.
* WAP added support for EFI inside WMLScript, added new application
ids from
OMNA web page, WSP encoding-version handling, logging of upstream
HTTP server
failures with HTTP response code 502 (bad gateway), new config
option
'http-interface-name' to wapbox configuration and allow selecting
of interface
for outgoing HTTP requests, allows to put semicolon-separated list
of IP
addresses in 'wdp-interfaces' statement in config file and kannel
send
responses from proper addresses.
* WAP Push added missing official WINA URIs, 'concatenation' and
'max-messages' config directive support for wapbox group, handling
of PPG
related DLR reports. PPG sends SMS with DLR, but smsbox has to do
the DLR
signalization to the specified DLR-URL. The stored service name is
read
from PPG core group, added 'default-dlr-url', 'ppg-smsbox-id',
'service-name' to ppg core group and 'dlr-url', 'smsbox-id' to
wap-push-user group.
* RADIUS accounting proxy implemenation added for MSISDN
provisioning within
WAP operations.
* Added 'throughput' smsc group config directive for MT message per
sec.
limitation.
* Added bearerbox internal re-routing via config directives
'reroute',
'reroute-smsc-id' and 'reroute-receiver' to multi-group 'smsc'.
This allows
MOs to be directly turned into MTs within bearerbox.
* ORACLE 8i/9i support added for database pools and DLR handling.
* PostgrSQL support added for database pools.
* SQLITE added SQLite support for database pools.
* Added new escape code '%I' for URL translations to allow
inclussion of the
internal SMS ID into the processing, new escape code '%T' for
sending the
UNIX epoch timestamp in favor of '%t'.
* Added shell script 'gw-config' to allow 3rd party software to
check for
CFLAGS, LIBS and version of the installed Kannel instance.
* Added 'binfo' to smsbox's sendsms interface to pass relevant
billing
identifier/information to smsc modules.
* Added POSIX regular expression support.
* Added Perl compatible regular expression (PCRE) library support
via
--enable-pcre configure option.
* Added backtrace support for specific architectures for better
debugging
information on panics. Hint: use address within [] with addr2line
or
add -rdynamic to CFLAGS.
* Added new config directives 'access-log-clean' and
'access-log-format' to
allow custom core access.log formatting, 'access-log-time' to
indicate if
localtime or gmt should be used within access.log.
* Added new command line parameters for deamons (all boxes):
-P/--parachute : start watcher father process that catch and
restart
crashed child process
-X/--panic-script : execute this script if child process crashed
-u/--user : change process user-id (security)
-p/--pid-file : write PID into the given file
-d/--daemonize : daemonize the process
* Added new config directive 'smsbox-max-pending'.
Bugfixes:
* SM/ASI fixed TON and NPI values, PDU decoding, decoding of binary
MOs,
enquire link pdu's were not sent within regular timeframe.
* SMPP fixed generic_nack definition, sequence incrementation,
charset
encoding misbehaviour when msgs get split into multiple sms
chunks,
checking of esm_class for DLRs (only bits 2-5), PDU decoding bug
for UDH
sequence, wrong esm_class checking for deliver_sm PDU, improved
error
handling for wrong MO PDUs, shutdown sequence improvements, bug
for
re-encoding character set, bug that source-autodetect was 'false'
if not
defined in the config although userguide mentioned 'true', race
conditions
amonst status and connect_time while set in various threads,
optional
parameters handling improved.
* CIMD2 fixed for CPU load consume while idle, wrong time for
messages, wrong
parameter length for "service description" field.
* AT fixed panic if UDHI in PDU is set but user data length = 0, bug
in
non-blocking write to modem device, few race conditions.
* HTTP SMSC fixed a number of bugs. Including bearerbox crash if
smsc-id is
stopped and /status page is called, don't 'fail' a MT message when
the HTTP
server can not be triggered, instead use 'reconnect-delay' to try
again,
expected MO parameters to 'username' and 'password' instead of
'user' and
'pass'.
* SSL fixed a serious pthread_mutex bug for call-back function to
the
openssl thread locking, non-blocking write mode, memory leak in
SSL
handshake sequence, various improvements.
* Fixed generic alt_dcs re-coding misbehaviour.
* HTTP fixed basic auth problem with the passwd, redirecting,
serious bug
in the HTTP client code causing smsbox to crash if the connection
is
closed directly by the HTTP server.
* Fixed bearerbox behaviour while receiving SIGHUP (restart) signal,
signal
handling that may have caused deadlock.
* Fixed ACK/NACK handling beween bearerbox and smsbox.
* WAP fixed and improved XML charset encoding handling, WSP header
'Encoding-Version' handling, HTTP referer header removed due to
breaking
specific WAP Forum certification tests, various fixes in WML
compiler
character encoding handling, DOS bug within WML compiler, possible
segfault if WML document doesn't contain DTD section, crashing
wapbox
while comparing empty cookie strings, various memory leaks, WTP
bug for
abort PDU in speficic timeout events, fixed variable substitution
within
WML compiler.
* WAP Push fixed malformed xml reponses for the PAP document, none
accepted
<pap> attribute 'product-name', case insesitive handling of
constants
"WAPPUSH" and "TYPE" for sake of interopertibility with existing
PIs,
handling of Push flag, PPG specifier and prologue parsing to
support other
PIs, including delimiter parsing, PAP MIME parsing, various memory
leaks.
* Fixed partially panics caused by too long UDH sequences.
* DLR smsc-id is added now to DLR MOs from the temporary DB
tablespace.
* Queue policies have been improved for internal bearerbox to smsbox
message transmission.
* Fixed race conditions within store-file handling.
* Fixed serious poll() handling of POLLHUP and POLLERR.
* Fixed bug that config directive 'sendsms-chars' was not used at
all in the
logic, only the default remained.
* Fixed bug in smsbox that crashed if %A is used in get-url.
--
i.r.
Stipe Tolj
mailto:tolj@wapme-systems.de
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phone: +49.211.74845.0
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