OpenSS7 SS7 Stack -- history of user visible changes. 2007-06-24 $Id$ 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 SS7 Stack package. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a.7 ---------------------------------------- The OpenSS7 SS7 Stack package contains a wide array of SS7 drivers and components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. This is the public release package which has most of the components removed. Subscribers and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project have access to the full array of components. This is the seventh release of the OpenSS7 SS7 Stack strss7 package that contains SS7 (Signalling System No. 7) signalling stack components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. The package contains the necessary header files, manual pages and other documentation for SS7 components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is primarily to support recent compilers, kernels and distributions. 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. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a.6 ---------------------------------------- The OpenSS7 SS7 Stack package contains a wide array of SS7 drivers and components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. This is the public release package which has most of the components removed. Subscribers and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project have access to the full array of components. This is the sixth release of the OpenSS7 SS7 Stack strss7 package that contains SS7 (Signalling System No. 7) signalling stack components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. The package contains the necessary header files, manual pages and other documentation for SS7 components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is primarily to support recent compilers, kernels and distributions. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Corrected support for the DS2152/21352/21552/2154/21352/21555 chips present in older V400P cards. (See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strss7-0.9a.7/BUGS' in the release for more information.) - Support for the DS2156 chip present in recent V401PE cards. (See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strss7-0.9a.7/BUGS' in the release for more information.) - Corrections for timer bugs in the X400P-SS7 driver. (See `http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strss7-0.9a.7/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. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a.5 ---------------------------------------- The OpenSS7 SS7 Stack package contains a wide array of SS7, SIGTRAN, ISDN and VoIP drivers and components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. This is the public release package which has most of the components removed. Subscribers and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project have access to the full array of components. This is the fifth release of the OpenSS7 SS7 Stack strss7 package that contains SS7 (Signalling System No. 7), SIGTRAN (SIGnalling TRANsport), ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and VoIP (Void over Internet Protocol) signalling stack components for Linux Fast-STREAMS. The package contains the necessary header files, manual pages and other documentation for SS7/SIGTRAN/ISDN/VoIP components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is primarily to support recent compilers, kernels and distributions, and to upgrade the X400P-SS7 driver with support for the Varion V401P (Tormenta III) cards. Also, this is the first release that has ISDN, SIGTRAN and VoIP components moved to separate packages (but will still build all components). - The X400P-SS7 driver has been upgraded to support the Varion V401P (Tormenta III) card. This driver passes all validation test suites and is production grade. The driver still supports the older cards. Also, an `autoconf' style validation test suite was added and the `test-x400p' test case executable upgraded. - Support for most recent 2.6.18 kernels (including Fedora Core 5 with inode diet patchset). - The package will now build doxygen(1) html documentation with the 'doxy' make target. See 'make help' or README-make in the distribution for more information. - Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries and tests them against 64-bit kernel modules and drivers. The `make installcheck' target will now automatically test both 64-bit native and 32-bit compatibility versions, one after the other, on 64-bit platforms. - Added versions to all library symbols. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Dropped support for `LiS'. - Package will now support extended ranges of minor devices on 2.6 kernels under `Linux Fast-STREAMS' only. - Better detection of SUSE distributions, release numbers and SLES distributions: support for additional `SuSE' distributions on `ix86' as well as `x86_64'. Added distribution support includes `SLES 9', `SLES 9 SP2', `SLES 9 SP3', `SLES 10', `SuSE 10.1'. - Improved compiler flag generation and optimizations for recent `gcc' compilers and some idiosyncratic behaviour for some distributions (primarily SUSE). - Optimized compilation is now available also for user level programs in addition to kernel programs. Added new `--with-optimize' option to `configure' to accomplish this. - Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Added `--disable-devel' `configure' option to suppress building and installing development environment. This feature is for embedded or pure runtime targets that do not need the development environment (static libraries, manual pages, documentation). - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a-4 ---------------------------------------- This release is primarily to support additional compilers (gcc 4.0.2), architectures (x86_64, SMP, 32-bit compatibility), recent Linux distributions (EL4, SuSE 10, LE2006, OpenSuSE) and kernels (2.6.15). - Changes necessary for __LP64__ compatible builds. Changes to support 32-bit ioctl compatibility for __LP64__ architectures. Binary compatibility should not have been disrupted. At the same time as the ioctl32 changes, TRANSPARENT ioctl support for most of the IO controls for the ldl(4) driver has been added. - Changes to satisfy gcc 4.0.2 compiler. - Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings. - Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. - Initial corrections for and testing of SMP operation on Intel 630 Hyper-Threaded SMP on x86_64. This package should now run well on N-way Xeons even with Hyper-Threading enabled. - Corrections and validation of 32-bit compatibility over 64-bit on x86_64. Should apply well to other 64-bit architectures as well. This is a public alpha release of the package. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a-3 ---------------------------------------- This is primarily a bug fixes release and corrections resulting from testing. This is a major bug fix release. The previous release was largely untested. This release has been verified (conformance test suite passes) for operation with `Linux Fast-STREAMS' (`streams-0.7a.4'). With this release version numbers were changed to reflect an upstream version only to be consistent with other OpenSS7 package releases. All `RPM' release numbers will be `-1$(PACKAGE_RPMEXTRA)' and all `Debian' release numbers will be `_0'. If you wish to apply patches and release the package, please bump up the release number and apply a suitable release suffix for your organization. We leave `Debian' release number `_1' reserved for your use, so you can still bundle the source in the `.dsc' file. Major changes for this release include build against Linux 2.6 kernels and popular distributions based on the 2.6 kernel as well as wider distribution support. The package also supports both `LiS-2.18.1' as well as `streams-0.7a' on both kernels. Not publicly released. Major changes for release strss7-0.9a-2 ---------------------------------------- Not publicly released. Initial release strss7-0.9a-1 ------------------------------ Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `strss7' release. Not publicly released. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. 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