Announcing Kannel development release 1.1

NEWS about Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway version 1.1

This is a DEVELOPMENT version. It should be usable for experimentation
and testing, and is a release candidate for 1.2. Please do try it out
and report problems to [email protected] (the development mailing list)
or [email protected] (the bug tracking system).

This version continues the 0.13.x series.  We named it 1.1 instead of
0.13.2 in order to make clear that it isn't older than 1.0.

NOTE: This is not an update to 1.0.  Updates to 1.0 will be numbered 1.0.x,
until we decide to release 1.2.  See the VERSION file for details.

Changes since version 0.13.1:


Compatibility breakers:

 * Replies from the bearerbox admin interface are now formatted according
   to the Accept: headers sent by the client, preferring WML over HTML
   over plain text.  They used to always be plain text.

 * Filling in admin-password is now mandatory in the configuration file.

 * In the configuration for UCP/EMI SMSCs, username and password are
   now used if they are set, and not used if they are not.
   They used to be mandatory even though they were never used, so in
   existing configurations they are likely to contain dummy values
   that will not work.  (This was actually changed before 0.13.1, we
   forgot to note it then.)


New features:

 * New SMPP module.  Written for SMPP 3.4 but should support 3.3 as well.

 * smsbox reports load to the bearerbox.

 * Added status.wml, status.html, and status.txt commands to the bearerbox
   admin interface, to return status in a specific format.

 * If admin commands are tried with the wrong password, the response is
   delayed, in order to limit brute force password cracking.

 * New configuration variable status-password, which protects the status
   admin command if it is set.

 * Admin commands can be used without a /cgi-bin part in the URL.
   So http://localhost:13000/cgi-bin/status can now become just
   http://localhost:13000/status.

 * New smsc configuration group variable 'allowed-smsc-id', which lets
   you limit which messages can be sent to a specific SMSC.

 * New architecture documentation.

 * New SMS testing tool called fake2.  It works like the old fakesmsc,
   but can be started and stopped while Kannel is running, which makes
   it easier to use.

 * New URL translation %k in smsbox, which is replaced with the keyword
   of the SMS request.

 * Improved portability to FreeBSD by using less stack space per thread.


Bugfixes:

 * The u-dieresis (u with two dots) was translated incorrectly to the
   GSM character set, in the AT, CIMD2, and SMPP drivers.  Fixed.

 * The EMI used to crash if username was not set.  Fixed.

 * WML compiler can handle a libxml that was compiled with
   the -DXML_USE_BUFFER_CONTENT flag.

 * WML compiler: If charset is not supplied in a WML file, the
   one from the HTTP content-type header is used instead, if available.

 * Fixed signal handling on Solaris and other systems with POSIX threads.


Development news:

 * New SMSC interface in the bearerbox, which should allow much faster
   implementations and better error handling.  There is a wrapper for
   the old interface, because no SMSC drivers have been converted yet.

 * New configuration file interface that uses Octstrs.

 * Work started on WAP Push.


See ChangeLog for details.