strinet 0.9.2.7 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.7 of the STREAMS INET for Linux NET4 strinet package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.7 of the STREAMS INET for Linux NET4 strinet package. The OpenSS7 INET Networking package is an implementation of the Internet Protocol suite for Linux Fast-STREAMS directly over Linux NET4 Sockets implementation, using a STREAMS over Sockets approach. This permits modules to be pushed on UDP or TCP Streams and allows use of the XTI/TLI library with Internet Protocols on Linux. The package now also includes direct STREAMS implementations of RAW IP and UDP, and will include direct implementations of TI loop-back devices and TCP in the future.

This OpenSS7 Project release is another separate add-on package release of the OpenSS7 INET Networking package that was formerly present in the (now deprecated) LiS package. The networking drivers are provided, as well as the TPI and XTI header files for INET and loop-back operation. The package contains all the necessary manual packages and other documentation for INET components in a separate autoconf tarball. This release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F).

This release is primarily a maintenance release to support recent 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.
• Handle tcp_push_pending_frames() with fewer arguments and new sk_buff format (offsets and TRANSPORT_HEADER).
• 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(1) 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 release contains a significant rework of the inet(4) driver. The driver is now instrumented using the mi_strlog(9) function and uses Mentat Portable STREAMS compatability functions extensively. The driver has been validated over a wider range of kernels and distributions on SMP machines. This driver will no longer work with the long deprecated LiS and, with this release, is exclusively for use with Linux Fast-STREAMS. Please see BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, to see which bugs this rework addressed

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 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 strinet 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 strinet.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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