strxns 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 X/Open Networking Services (XNS) strxns package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.7 of the STREAMS X/Open Networking Services (XNS) strxns package. The OpenSS7 XNS Networking package is an implementation of X/Open Network Services (XNS 5.2) for Linux Fast-STREAMS and provides OSI conforming CDI, DLPI and NPI header files as well as several DLPI and NPI modules and drivers that convert between Linux Native IP interface and the STREAMS DLPI and NPI interface. One allows DLPI drivers to be added to Linux as IP interfaces, another provides DLPI access to native Linux IP interfaces, and a third provides NPI access to the Linux IP subsystem.

This is another separate release from the OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7 XNS Networking package, formerly part of the (now deprecated) Linux STREAMS (LiS) package. These networking modules provide DLPI, NPI and Linux IP drivers, as well as providing CDI, DLPI and NPI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XNS components in a separate autoconf tarball.

This release is primarily a maintenance release supporting recent distributions and tool chains. This release is a stable production release for Linux Fast-STREAMS.

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. New DEV_BASE list and new sk_buff format.
• 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.
• Addition of an np_udp(4) driver similar to np_ip(4) driver. (Not yet part of build.)
• Added CDI interface specification texinfo (info, html, pdf) document. Updated DLPI and NPI interface specification documents. Added new dlpi_porting document. Added DL_* primitives compatible with AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and others.
• Added four major libraries: the cdiapi(3), dlpiapi(3), npiapi(3) and libdlpi(3) libraries and associated documentation. Most of these libraries are incomplete and require test suites.
• Addition of dlpi(4) driver, llc(4) driver, llc2(4) driver, lcd(4) driver, cddev(4) driver. Improvements to np_ip(4) driver. Many of these new drivers are currently untested.

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 strxns 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 strxns.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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