[ANNOUNCE] Kannel 1.2.1 - update to stable version

NEWS about Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway version 1.2.1

This is a STABLE version. It should be usable for production systems.
Please do report problems to [email protected] (the development 
mailing list). The bug tracking system is currently offline.


Changes since version 1.2.0:

Compatibility breakers:

  * SMPP module users should note that the 'msg-id-type' default
behaviour
    has changed. The SMPP spec says that msg ids should be C strings
and
    hence we treat them as such per default. If your SMSC gives msg
ids
    in submit_sm and deliver_dm PDUs in different numbering basing,
then
    please use the 'msg-id-type' config directive to set it
accordingly.

New features:

  * SMPP priority flag is now supported.

  * SMPP unbind PDU handling added.

  * SMPP throttling error code support added.

  * MacOS X support has been improved.

  * Added 'allowed-receiver-prefix' and 'denied-receiver-prefix' for 
    sms-service groups. This is used to restrict access to service
requests 
    coming in on certain receiver numbers, i.e. shortcut numbers.
  
  * Added directives 'http-request-retry' and 'http-queue-delay' for
HTTP
    request queueing for sms-service 'get-url' and 'post-url'
services.
    This way a non reachable HTTP server will not cause to drop the
request.
    Instead smsbox will hold a queue and retry the HTTP request via
the 
    configurable settings 'http-request-retry' and 'http-queue-delay'.

  * Added 'store-status' HTTP admin command to retrieve the messages 
    currently in the main queue.

  * Added a '--with-cflags=CFLAGS' and '--with-libs=LIBS'
configuration
    options. These are usefull when Kannel is linked again additional
    proprietary modules.

  * Improvements in the Siemens M20 GSM modem support.
 
  * Added EMI2 specific configuration directives 'notification-pid'
and 
    'notification-addr'. 

  * Added Return Path Indicator (RPI) support for SMPP and EMI2 via
boolean 
    sendsms interface parameter 'rpi'

  * LibSDB support for external storage has been added. libSDB is an
abstraction
    library for various DB system, including MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, gdbm 
    and some others.

  * wapbox has an own access.log facility now.

  * Added the new 'smasi' SMSC type for connecting to SM/ASI protocoll
SMSC, 
    like the CriticalPath InVoke SMS Center.

  * Added HEAD method support for HTTP client module.

  * DLR support for the AT2 module has been added.

  * Slight re-organization of the DLR module to make it easier in
supporting 
    other SMSC modules too.

  * Added 'unified-prefix' configuration directive on a smsc basis to
set 
    number normalization rules. This may be used it SMSC connections
handle 
    prefix normalization differently.

  * Added 'source-addr-autodetect' to smsc group for auto-detecting
source 
    addr in smpp module, if desired.
  
Bugfixes:

  * Timezone issue fixed in SMPP module.
 
  * Output of fakewap has been made more human-readable.

  * Various fixes and improments in the wmlscript parsing routines.

  * Fixed various other possible segmentation faulting bugs in
handling
    null'ed Octstr vars.

  * Fixed various mutex problems that caused errors while accessing
lists.

  * Some fixes in HTTP keep-alive handling logic that causes our
client to 
    keep the connection up, even while the server has asked to drop
it.

  * Various fixes and improvements in the PPG (push proxy gateway)
module.

  * Fixed a bug in the prefix-match routine that caused to tread an
number
    match not to be a prefix match.


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