Re: [STATUS] Kannel 1.4.1 stable release

Hi again,

I was incorrect saying about NEWS of 1.4.1, since rev. was made after
a release and does not have stable_1_4_1 tag. However, this is still
going to affect those who are using CVS HEAD.

Regards,
Dziugas Baltrunas

On 10/25/06, Dziugas Baltrunas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stipe,
>
> I noticed that one serious change wasn't even mentioned in the NEWS file.
>
> Since 1.96 rev. of gw/smsc/smsc_smpp.c, if no charset was given in
> sendsms, we are transmitting submit_sm short_message to SMSC coded in
> SMPP_DEFAULT_CHARSET which by now is "windows-1252":
>
> http://cvs.kannel.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gateway/gw/smsc/smsc_smpp.c?r1=1.95&r2=1.96
>
> Earlier, in case of dcs = 0 or dcs & 0xF0, we were always converting
> it to GSM 03.38. Hence for those who did an upgrade characters like
> '@' will no longer work.
>
> Regards,
> Dziugas Baltrunas
>
> On 9/25/06, Stipe Tolj <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Kannel Group is pleased to announce the availability of Kannel 1.4.1 stable
> > release via it's web site at URL
> >
> >   http://www.kannel.org/download.shtml
> >
> > Please find attached the NEWS file section for release 1.4.1 stable.
> >
> > Stipe
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Kölner Landstrasse 419
> > 40589 Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
> >
> > tolj.org system architecture      Kannel Software Foundation (KSF)
> > http://www.tolj.org/              http://www.kannel.org/
> >
> > mailto:st_{at}_tolj.org           mailto:stolj_{at}_kannel.org
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > NEWS about Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway version 1.4.1
> >
> > This is a STABLE version. It should be usable for production systems.
> > Please do report problems to the Kannel bug tracking system available at
> > http://bugs.kannel.org/ or send a mail to <[email protected]> (the development
> > mailing list).
> >
> >
> > Changes since version 1.4.0:
> >
> > [*** Beware that the version move from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 contains more then 200
> > 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:
> >
> >  * Format for wapbox's access-log format changed to include the MSISDN of
> >    a client as second argument after client IP and before method.
> >
> >  * fakesmsc uses now -r to specify the remote port on bearerbox side. Option
> >    -p is generally reserved for pid file creation.
> >
> >  * sendsms now obeys bearerbox's reply before indicating result to HTTP
> >    caller. This breaks any application layer clients that rely on the HTTP
> >    body response of sendsms. To enforce the old behaviour use config
> >    directive 'immediate-sendsms-reply = true' in smsbox group.
> >
> >  * DLR via MySQL uses now also 'username' and 'password' for the
> >    mysql-connection group in order to harmonize the config names.
> >
> > New features:
> >
> >  * Added config directive 'store-dump-freq' to core group to define the
> >    fequency of the store-file dumping mechanism.
> >
> >  * Added backtrace support for Linux. In case of PANIC, we get a backtrace
> >    of the called routines to make debugging easier.
> >
> >  * Added some new modem groups to doc/examples/modems.conf.
> >
> >  * Added more WTAI functions to support.
> >
> >  * Added RAW TCP support for remote termnial servers for AT modem devices.
> >
> >  * Added 'config.nice' support while configure time, to allow "remembering"
> >    the used configure flags and options.
> >
> >  * Added OMA ProvCont support via OTA messages.
> >
> >  * Added SyncML support via OTA messages.
> >
> >  * Added directive 'wml-strict' to wapbox group.
> >
> >  * SMPP data_sm PDUs are supported now for MO messages.
> >
> >  * SMPP added config directives 'bind-addr-ton' and 'bind-addr-npi' to allow
> >    setting values for bind_receiver and/or bind_transmitter PDUs.
> >
> >  * Added support for WSP 1.6 headers.
> >
> >  * Added automatic support for large files, via compiler directives.
> >
> >  * Added config line delimiter via \ (backslash). This allows wrapping config
> >    lines to several lines.
> >
> >  * Added support for hooking config group definition files as our own
> >    gwlib/cfg.def from external add-on modules to the core. Main intention is
> >    to provide a installed Kannel without the need of patching the source for
> >    any modules that use Kannel's gwlib and gw libs.
> >
> >  * Added config directives 'bearerbox-port' and 'bearerbox-port-ssl' to
> >    smsbox group, in order to not need any core group reading of external
> >    modules, ie. sqlbox.
> >
> >  * Added config directive 'max-pending-requests' for smsbox group to control
> >    the outbound requests stream generated from smsbox towards HTTP
> >    application servers.
> >
> > Bugfixes:
> >
> >  * Fixed several bugs in TCP connection handling.
> >
> >  * Fixed several bugs in HTTP communication layer.
> >
> >  * Fixed segfaults on x86_64 (Intel Xeon) platforms.
> >
> >  * SMPP validity and defer time are set in UTC, several improvements and
> >    error checks added.
> >
> >  * Fixed several 'make check' issues.
> >
> >  * MySQL support fixed, where certain function prototype names clashed
> >    with our own gwlist structure.
> >
> >  * DLR support for PostgreSQL fixed for LIMIT clause usage.
> >
> >  * WSP empty header values fixed.
> >
> >  * WDP fix to discard truncated datagrams without PANIC.
> >
> >  * WAP Cookie handling fixed, charset handling generalized.
> >
> >  * AT driver fixes and improvements.
> >
> >  * RADIUS bug fixed in MD5 computing for authentication towards NAS.
> >
> >  * MacOS X support improved for configure process.
> >
> >  * store-file fixes and improvements.
> >
> >  * WML compiler fix, causing sefault.
> >
> >  * Fixed memory leaks for concat message handling.
> >
> >  * MIME parsing and handling fixed.
> >
> >  * FreeBSD AMD64 architecture support fixed.
> >
> >  * Fixed wapbox signal handling for shutdown.
> >
> >  * WTP SAR race condition and handling fixed.
> >
> >  * Fixed memory leaks in smsbox.
> >
> >  * sendsms POST XML handling fixed, where sender address was not parsed.
> >
> >  * smsbox reply handling fixed, to copy the originating smsc-id value
> >    in the reply messages.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>