strxnet 0.9.2.12 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.12 of the STREAMS X/Open Transport Interface (XTI/TLI) strxnet package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.12 of the STREAMS X/Open Transport Interface (XTI/TLI) strxnet package. The OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking package for Linux Fast-STREAMS is an implementation of the X/Open Transport Interface or SVID Transport Layer Interface library in accordance with SUSv2 and XNS 5.2 standards. It consists of user-space libraries (libxnet) and a set of cooperating STREAMS modules (timod(4) and tirdwr(4)). The STREAMS module, timod(4), is pushed on any Stream implementing the Transport Provider Interface (TPI) Revision 1.5 or 2.0.0 service interface and provides XTI/TLI library access to the transport provider. Definitions for the Transport Provider Interface (TPI) Revision 2.0.0 are also provided by header files included in the package.

This OpenSS7 Project release is another separate release of the OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Networking that were formerly part of the strinet package. These networking modules provide TPI and XTI/TLI library, as well as providing TPI and XTI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation, including a reprint of the TPI 1.5 specification, for XTI components. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style 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.G).

This release is primarily a maintenance release to support recent distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

• Added ability of XTI library to pass additional flags when sending and receiving data for XTI(XX25) implementation.
• 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(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.
• Several important bug fixes for thread safety of the socket library: see BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, for more information.

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 strxnet 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 strxnet.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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