A new release in 1.4 series is out. Kamailio (OpenSER) 1.4.1 is based on the latest version of branch 1.4, therefore those running 1.4.0 are advised to upgrade.

Source tarballs are available at:

http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/1.4.1/src/

Detailed changelog:

http://www.kamailio.org/pub/kamailio/1.4.1/ChangeLog

Download via SVN:

svn co https://openser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openser/branches/1.4 kamailio

Tag for this release can be browsed at:

http://openser.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openser/tags/1.4.1/

Project site at SourceForge.net (still using old name):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openser/

Modules’ documentation:

http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.4.x/

Note: Kamailio is the new name of OpenSER project. First version under Kamailio name was 1.4.0. Older versions will continue to use OpenSER name.

The slides presented by Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Co-Founder Kamailio/OpenSER, to A1 Innovation Days Sprint are available to:

http://www.asipto.com/pub/A1InnovationDays2008/

The event was great, from organization, to location and content. Couple of pictures to Facebook:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=73592&l=0d794&id=706295405

Some remarks are blogged at:

http://openser.blogspot.com/2008/09/a1-innovationdays-remarks.html

OPENSER v1.3.3 is out – a minor release of the branch 1.3, including fixes since v1.3.2 – configuration file and database compatibility is preserved.

Details about the release are available at:

http://www.kamailio.net/mos/view/OPENSER-v1.3.3-Released/

First OpenSER major release under the new name Kamailio was out on the 7th of August 2008, as version 1.4.0.

Details about the release are available at:

http://www.kamailio.net/mos/view/KAMAILIO-v1.4.0-Released/

:: Final Call for the International Developer Challenge A1 InnovationDays ::

Since almost 4 weeks, the international developer challenge A1 InnovationDays attracted more than 30 ideas from creative minds. The challenge is open to anyone who addresses the grand theme “Open Communication by Open Standards” and can come up with ideas for cool services built on IP-based communication (SIP & IMS).

Ideas can be posted on the platform

www.a1innovations.at/en/static/a1innovationdays until August 15, 2008.

All entries are open for voting and discussing by all users. On August 15, the 10 highest ranked ideas will be short-listed and judged by a panel of recognized experts as well as representatives from the sponsors. End of August, the best teams behind the ideas will be invited to a prototyping event near Vienna in order to realize their ideas and demonstrate their potential. The winning team can choose among several awards, such as a week of powder snow skiing in Austria. After that, the sponsor (mobikom Austria) is keen to bring your idea to the market.

All submissions must be based on Open Source Software.

: More Information :

For all details about this challenge, go to the FAQs:

http://www.a1innovations.at/en/static/faq

For registration, go directly to: http://www.a1innovations.at/registrierung

: Important dates ahead :

August 1, 2008: Two prizes for the best interim ideas will be awarded

August 15, 2008: End of idea entries (CET 24:00)

August 18, 2008: Announcement of the five selected teams for the prototyping event

August 29 – September 1, 2008: Prototyping event at the monastery Und

(near Vienna: http://www.und.at/)

Consequently, we have been forced to find a new name for the project that stands on itself and represent the project in its future expression.

http://www.kamailio.net

INRIA, French National Research Network in Computer Science is hosting an workshop dedicated to SIP/SIMPLE-XMPP Interoperability. The event aims to bring together people with large expertise in both protocols, interested in development, testing and deployment of SIP/SIMPLE-XMPP solutions.

ASIPTO is part of the organizing team, Daniel-Constantin Mierla leading also the XMPP interoperability development for OPENSER.

The workshop takes place between September 2 and 5, 2008, in Paris, France.

Read more details here…

Just about two months and a half since eLearning channel for OPENSER configuration file was launched, a broad number of topics were approached:

• introduction of configuration file structure
• overview of SIP message execution flow
• complete walk-through default configuration file
• debug options
• main routing blocks elements
• all about assignment operations, tips and tricks
• configuration file flags: per transaction, branch and script
• r-uri management – best options and available alternatives to handle the request URI
• config file statements: if, switch and while

Each document includes many examples to make easier the understanding of concepts and real word usage. With a rate of introducing couple documents and topics per week, the knowledge base of the channel is growing rapidly.

The eLearning channel offers full range of collaborative tools: forum, wiki, chat rooms, document uploading, allowing open discussions and easy interaction within the groups.

You can register now for OPENSER configuration file eLearning channel here.

See more details about eLearning programs here.

The Open Source week in Berlin has ended. During May 26 – 31, AsteriskTag and LinuxTag events took place at ICC/Messe Berlin.

I must say the AsteriskTag was a high quality event, with presentations from Nenad Corbic of Sangoma, Mark Spencer of Asterisk/Digium, Kevin Fleming of Astrerisk/Digium, Diana Cionoiu of Yate/NullTeam, Daniel-Constantin Mierla of OPENSER/ASIPTO.com, Olle E. Johansson of Asterisk/Edvina.net. Jay Phillips of Adhearsion, Phil Zimmermann of PGP/Zphone, plus many others. See more details at:

http://www.asterisk-tag.org/

I collected some photos and created an album:

http://www.asipto.com/photos/AsteriskTag2008-ALBUM/

ASIPTO’s presentation focused on scalability – how OPENSER can help you scale ASTERISK-based deployments. You can find the slides at:

http://www.asipto.com/pub/AsteriskTag2008/asterisk_and_openser.pdf

From 28th of May was the LinuxTag exhibition and conference. I visited the first two days. The event was larger than last year, with same big share of Linux or BSD based distributions, good representation of Sun with OpenSolaris, booth for OpenOffice.org, Oracle brought their Linux operating system.

ASIPTO, Daniel-Constantin Mierla and Elena-Ramona Modroiu will present two sessions at Asterisk Tag Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 26-27, 2008.

The Asterisk Tag Conference gathers an important group of VoIP personalities, including Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk and founder of Digium, Kevin P. Fleming of Asterisk/Digium, Olle E. Johansson of Asterisk/Edvina, Jay Phillips of Adhearsion, Phil Zimmermann of PGP, Nenad Corbic of Sangoma.

The event hosts two presentations related to OPENSER. In the first day, starting with 4:00pm, will be Asterisk and OpenSER – blending together for scalability. The main focus will be how to plug OPENSER to scales Asterisk-based services.

The next day will be a two hours workshop dedicated to OPENSER. The target is to reveal where OPENSER fits in IP communication services, Voice over IP and beyond, and to give the starting point to use it.

After this event follows the Linux Tag Conference, in the same city. If you want to meet us in Berlin, please contact us at:

http://www.asipto.com/index.php/contact-us/