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Ekiga 3.2.6 available

Submitted by Eugen Dedu on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 01:00

The sixth release of Ekiga 3.2 is available. Please find hereunder the list of changes.


User-visible fixes:

  • Fixed crashes shown as assertion failed in /usr/include/ptlib/safecoll.h:813
  • Fixed crash when device list is empty or contains non-latin1 characters
  • Fixed crash when pressing shift-f10 (popup menu) in Preferences window
  • Fixed possible crash when garbage collecting REGISTER requests
  • Fixed possible segfault when receiving a NOTIFY
  • Fixed freeze by preventing SIP handlers retry timer from executing during destruction
  • Fixed freeze during packet write
  • Fixed "Lockup after a day of idle" in publishing code
  • Fixed various deadlocks in the OPAL subscription code
  • Added "%limit" workaround for registrars which refuse several contacts during registration
  • Fixed "Contacts never go offline"
  • Fixed "New SIP account mangles fields if Authentications User is empty"
  • Make sure the output device is set before a call
  • Fixed port handling when registering to a proxy with a non-standard port
  • Fixed "In some circumstances, smileys are not displayed graphically"
  • Improved audio latency when not collecting all of the audio data
  • Fixed the newmessage.wav file
  • Fixed "Accounts were automatically active after editing them"
  • Make possible to register e.g. user@a.b as user name as required by some providers
  • Remove deprecated "Encoding" field from desktop file

Protocol fixes:

  • Fixed problem with REGISTER IntervalTooBrief response handling not using correct interface for new transaction
  • Fixed "480 Temporarily Unavailable" response handling
  • Fixed problem with doing DNS lookup when using explicit proxy or presence agent
  • Fixed problem with PUBLISH using wrong expiry after Interval Too Brief error
  • If we find no authentication information when subscribing, keep trying as it could become available at a later stage
  • Changed so does not put both global and media specific connection addresses in SDP if they are the same (needed for freephonie SIP registrar)
  • Fixed support for unusual SIP "start with hold", that is an initial offer INVITE with a connection address of 0.0.0.0
  • Fixed failure to retry (after a suitable period) REGISTER/SUBSCRIBE if get transport level timeout
  • Added closing of our local media streams if remote sends a re-INVITE and leaves out streams (e.g. video) that were there previously
  • Fixed problems when can not bind to any interface
  • Fixed various problems with some SDP options
  • Fixed regression where the username would be lost from the Contact field
  • Fixed invalid request-uri in BYE request
  • Fixed issue with overlapping INVITEs
  • Fixed H.263-1998 plug in compilation, by asking latest avcodec
  • Fixed "OpalBitRateCalculator limits bitrates"
  • Fixed "SIP wrong response on a failed REFER-request"
  • Fixed "SIP: OK response to CANCEL incomplete"
  • Do not send "100 Trying" message when receiving a NOTIFY message
  • Fixed incorrect register/subscribe refresh timer calculation

Build fixes:

  • Support building on kFreeBSD
  • Fixed problem with moving libsoup api
  • Various fixes for SIP and H323 configuration
  • Fixed "A build error when generating SunAudio ptlib plugin"
  • Fixed "The video convertor of YUY2toYUV420P in ptlib does not work"
  • Fixed "The absence of libv4l2 should not block V4L2 ptlib plugin" and other minor changes

Windows port fixes:


Thanks to Michael Rickmann's continuous work, Windows port has reached a quality almost comparable to GNU/Linux version. We invite people to test it, see ekiga wiki. Some improvements:

  • Shortened audio delay
  • DirectX video input and output
  • Device name handling
  • Fixed audio volume
  • Fixed building with mingw
  • Made so the linker doesn't find main on win32
  • Keep the output sound volume across calls

Distributor-visible changes:

  • Changed default for AVC plug in to be disabled until someone fixes the plug in
  • Note: The Pulse audio server does not play nicely with ekiga, very high latencies are noticed

Translation fixes:

  • Updated translations: ar, bn, et, ga, hi, hu, ko, lt, ml, nb, sr, sr@latin, uk, zh_HK, zh_TW
  • New translations: ca@valencia
  • Updated help translations: de
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