OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN -- history of user visible changes. 2008-10-31
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Copyright (c) 2001-2008 OpenSS7 Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock
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The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN' package.
Major changes for release strisdn-0.9.2.4
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This is the fourth separate `OpenSS7 Project' release of the
`OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN' 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 ISDN
components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this
package. Not all of the ISDN 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.(1) See `TODO' in the release, or `Schedule',in
the manual, for more information about the release schedule.
This is a maintenance release providing support for additional
distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Minor documentation corrections.
- Kernel module license made explicit "GPL v2". And then changed
back to "GPL".
- License upgrade to `AGPL Version 3'.
- Modifications to build under `Fedora' `2.6.22.5-49' kernel. These
changes also support `2.6.22.9-91.fc7' kernel.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- Modifications to build under `Fedora' `2.6.25-45.fc9' and
`2.6.26.5-45.fc9' kernels.
- Updated tool chain to `m4-1.4.12', `autoconf-2.63' and
`texinfo-4.13'.
- Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
subpackages.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff documents.
- Build system now builds `yum(8)' repositories for RPMs and
`apt-get(8)' repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation
has been updated to include details of repository install
sourcesref.
- Added `MODULE_VERSION' to all modules and drivers.
_This is a public alpha release of the package. Please see
`README-alpha' in the release or `Maturity',in the manual._
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 Affero General Public
License Version 3'. 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 strisdn package page (http://www.openss7.org/strisdn_pkg.html).
See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strisdn-0.9.2.4/ChangeLog' and
`http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strisdn-0.9.2.4/NEWS' in the release
for more information. Also, see the `strisdn.pdf' manual in the
release (also in html `http://www.openss7.org/strisdn_manual.html').
For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_6.html'.
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(1) Note that no component in this package can be supported by `LiS':
`LiS' is simply too slow to allow these drivers to acheive any degree
of efficiency necessary for proper operation.
Initial release strisdn-0.9.2.3
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This is the third open source release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN'
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 ISDN
components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this
package. Not all of the ISDN 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 maintenance release providing support for additional
distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Support build on openSUSE 10.2.
- Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel.
- Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5).
- Support build on Ubuntu 7.04.
- Updated to gettext 0.16.1.
- Changes to support build on 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 and
2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel.
- Supports build on Fedora Core 6.
- Support for recent distributions and tool chains.
Initial release strisdn-0.9.2.2
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This is the second open source release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN'
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 ISDN
components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this
package. Not all of the ISDN 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 maintenance release providing support for additional
distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- 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 kenels.
- The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number
as unpacked by separate tarball.
Initial release strisdn-0.9.2.1
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Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strisdn' release.
This is the initial open source release of the `OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN'
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 ISDN
components were separated from the `strss7' package and placed in this
package. Not all of the ISDN 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 LAPD.
`lapd(4)' is a pushable "STREAMS" module that is pushed over a `cdi(4)'
HDLC channel to form an ISDN Q.931 link providing the Data Link
Provider Interface (`dlpi(7)'). A complete test suite will be
available in a further release.
Subsequent releases in 1Q 2007 will include the additional full ISDN
Q.931, Q.933, GR-303 and V5.2 drivers with conformance test suites.
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