Kannel 0.10

NEWS about Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway version 0.10

This is a STABLE version. It should be usable for production use.
Please do try it out and report problems to [email protected] (the 
development mailing list) or [email protected] (the bug tracking system).

Change summary from version 0.8:

* New HTTP implementation

* Wapbox mostly rewritten.  New version is closer to the standard,
  less buggy, and will be easier to improve further.

* All boxes now share a single configuration file, with a new format.

* New bearerbox, which is easier to expand and edit

* Phone-as-SMSC support, Nokia PremiCell, Siemens M20, Wavecom

* CIMD2 SMS center protocol. UDH works.

* WML compiler has support for 8-bit character sets that are not ISO
  8859-1.

* WML compiler now uses the string table to compress its output, to 
  generate smaller pages that fit in more phones.

* New test utility drive_wapbox, to test wapbox in isolation.

* New test utility test_cimd2, which emulates a CIMD2 server.

* WML decompiler provided by Vanteon, useful for testing WML compiler.

* contrib directory added. Now has a Perl script to convert HTML to WML.

* New gwlib wrapper for threads, both to encapsulate them for portability
  and to provide a "wakeup" feature whereby threads that are blocked or
  sleeping can be woken by other threads.  Will be used to improve the
  shutdown sequence in all boxes, and the suspend feature in the bearerbox.

* Improved portability to Solaris and FreeBSD.

* Bug fixes:

        * pthread errno handling.
        * WTP layer correctly sets retransmission flag.
        * fakewap: fixed tid handling.
        * wsp: corrected capability parsing
        * wsp: no more Tid-invoke problems
        * fixes to SMPP and EMI code

* Known problems:

        * wapbox shutdown sometimes gets stuck and requires kill -9.
        * HTTP library might get locked up for several minutes in certain 
          environments
        * cimd2 cannot survive reconnect

* Known limitations:

        * HTTP POST missing
        * wsp: missing Push and Suspend/Resume

See ChangeLog for detailed information.


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Kalle Marjola    Wapit/project Kannel    +358 50 3000018    http://iki.fi/rpr