OpenSS7 STREAMS SIGTRAN -- history of user visible changes. 2007-03-15 $Id$ Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock See the end for copying conditions (for this file). The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the OpenSS7 STREAMS SIGTRAN package. Major changes for release sigtran-0.9.2.2 ------------------------------------------ This is the second open source release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS SIGTRAN' package. This release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the `strss7' package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of this package. With OpenSS7 Master Package release `openss7-0.9.2.D', the SIGTRAN and SS7 over IP components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this package. Not all of the SIGTRAN components previously part of the `strss7' package have been strapped into this release. Components will be re-validated against `Linux Fast-STREAMS' on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis. See `TODO' in the release, or `Schedule', in the manual, for information about the release schedule. This is a stable, production grade release of M2PA for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. It deprecates previous SIGTRAN component releases from the `strss7' package. Please upgrade to the most current release of these components before reporting bugs. This release is a maintenance release and provides support for recent distributions and tool chains. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - A number of SIGTRAN AS drivers (M2UA, M3UA, SUA, TUA) are present in the release (that have not been fully tested and do not have testsuites just yet). Consider these as alpha until the next release. - Corrections for several non-testsuite affecting bugs discovered in the M2PA module. (See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/sigtran-0.9.2.2/BUGS' in the release for more information.) - Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels. - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kernels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. _This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs._ As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel. This package is publicly released under the `GNU General Public License Version 2'. The release is available as an `autoconf' tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html) for the `autoconf' tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs, see the sigtran package page (http://www.openss7.org/sigtran_pkg.html). See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/sigtran-0.9.2.2/ChangeLog' and `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/sigtran-0.9.2.2/NEWS' in the release for more information. Also, see the `sigtran.pdf' manual in the release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/sigtran_manual.html'). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070315_4.html'. Major changes for release sigtran-0.9.2.1 ------------------------------------------ Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `sigtran' release. This is the initial open source release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS SIGTRAN' package. This release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the `strss7' package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of this package. With OpenSS7 Master Package release `openss7-0.9.2.D', the SIGTRAN and SS7 over IP components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this package. Not all of the SIGTRAN components previously part of the `strss7' package have been strapped into this release. Components will be re-validated against `Linux Fast-STREAMS' on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis. See `TODO' in the release, or `Schedule', in the manual, for information about the release schedule. In this initial release, the major component first available is M2PA. `m2pa_sl(4)' is a pushable "STREAMS" module that is pushed over a `sctp_n(4)' SCTP driver Stream to form an M2PA signalling link providing the Signalling Link service interface (`sli(7)'). A complete test suite that tests to `draft-bidulock-sigtran-m2pa-07.txt' is included in the release. The historical SS7 over IP implementations are provided, but without conformance test suites. The release also contains simplified AS modules for M2UA (`m2ua_as(4)'), M3UA (`m3ua_as(4)') that as yet do not have a conformance test suite. Subsequent releases in 1Q 2007 will include the additional full M3UA, SUA and TUA multiplexing drivers with conformance test suites. The objective is to have these components publicly available before the SIGTRAN Interoperability test event in April 2007. This is a stable, production grade release of M2PA for `Linux Fast-STREAMS'. It deprecates previous SIGTRAN component releases from the `strss7' package. 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