sctp 0.2.24 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Jan 8, 2007
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.2.24 of the Linux Native Sockets SCTP sctp package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Jan 8, 2007)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.2.24 of the Linux Native Sockets SCTP sctp package. This is a release of the OpenSS7 Linux Native (Sockets) implementation of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), previously only available as a Kernel patch. This package contains the necessary manual pages, header files, and configures and installs against almost any 2.4 kernel, even production kernels, without patching.

This is the twenty-fourth release of the Linux Native (Sockets) SCTP from the OpenSS7 Project. This release, as with other releases, on builds and installs on 2.4 kernels. This package is not as important to the OpenSS7 Project as the STREAMS version of SCTP, which provides the basis for all of the SIGTRAN components for the OpenSS7 stacks. Also, the STREAMS version runs on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

This is primarily a maintenance release correcting reported bugs, but also includes the latest packaging improvements.

The release provides the following enhancements and fixes:

• Fixed problems with unresolved symbols on some systems. Fixed glaring error in `sctp_init' preventing kernel module from loading.
• Added init scripts and system control configuration data. Removed old preload approach to kernel module loading.
• Additional features supported in all packages (see master package release notes).

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 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 for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the sctp package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the sctp.pdf manual in the release (also in html here).

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