sctp 0.2.27 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.2.27 of the Linux Native Sockets SCTP sctp package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.2.27 of the Linux Native Sockets SCTP sctp package. The OpenSS7 Linux Native SCTP package is the OpenSS7 Linux Native (Sockets) Kernel implementation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). For information on using the implementation see sctp(7) Linux manual page and look at the test programs in sctp-0.2.27/test/.

This is the twenty-seventh 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 a stable production release: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

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

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.
• Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.
• Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.
• 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 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 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 (AGPL) Version 3. 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, or Release Notes in the manual, for more information. Also, see the sctp.pdf manual in the release (also in html).

About The OpenSS7 Project

The OpenSS7 Project is an opensource development project (called OpenSS7) to provide a robust and GPL'ed SS7, SIGTRAN, ISDN and VoIP signalling stack for Linux and other UN*X operating systems. The OpenSS7 Project has existed in one form or another since 1996. For dowloads and further information, see the project website.

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