strx25 0.9.2.1 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.1 of the STREAMS X.25 and Frame Relay (X.25 and FR) strx25 package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.1 of the STREAMS X.25 and Frame Relay (X.25 and FR) strx25 package. OpenSS7 X.25 (strx25) is an OpenSS7 Project implementation of various X.25, Frame Relay and Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) International Standards Organization (ISO) networking components for Linux Fast-STREAMS.

This release is a separate release of the OpenSS7 X.25 and Frame Relay Stack package. Some of the components in this package were formerly present in the strss7 and striso packages. Various networking drivers are provided as CDI, DLPI, NPI, TPI and XTI header files for X.25 and Frame Relay operation. The package contains the necessary manual pakges and other documentation for ISO/OSI X.25 and Frame Relay operation in an autoconf tarball. This release is a pre-alpha release, and is an optional part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (as of openss7-0.9.2.G).

This is the initial separate release from The OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7 STREAMS X.25 and Frame Relay package. The package provides components that were previously part of the striso package, as well as providing significant new components for X.25 and Frame Relay operation. This package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.

This is the first pre-alpha release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is an optional part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (as of openss7-0.9.2.G).

This release is the initial release of the package.

This is the initial public pre-alpha release of the package. Please see README-alpha in the release or Maturity, in the manual.

This package is currently incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community. See TODO in the release or Schedule in the manual, for more information about the release schedule. If you are interested in completion of this package, contact info@openss7.com.

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.
• 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.

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 strx25 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 strx25.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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