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GNU Gatekeeper 5.14 released
by Jan Willamowius 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Hi Maarten, just a quick heads up that the GNU Gatekeeper version 5.14 has been released. This is mostly a bug fixing release, but it also updates the Amazon AWS IP detection to the current standard. Changes from 5.13 to 5.14 ========================= - update AWS IP detection to IMDSv2 - BUGFIX(RasTbl.h) fix potential memory leak - BUGFIX(h323utils.cxx) fix detection of 'site local' and 'unique local' IPv6 addresses - BUGFIX(Makefile.in) restore compatibility with GCC 4, 5 and 6 - BUGFIX(Toolkit.cxx) restore compatibility with very old versions of OpenSSL - BUGFIX(h323utils.cxx) fix numeric overflow - BUGFIX(Toolkit.cxx) fix iterator usage (found by Coverity) Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.14 released
by Jan Willamowius 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.14 has been released. This is mostly a bug fixing release, but it also updates the Amazon AWS IP detection to the current standard. Changes from 5.13 to 5.14 ========================= - update AWS IP detection to IMDSv2 - BUGFIX(RasTbl.h) fix potential memory leak - BUGFIX(h323utils.cxx) fix detection of 'site local' and 'unique local' IPv6 addresses - BUGFIX(Makefile.in) restore compatibility with GCC 4, 5 and 6 - BUGFIX(Toolkit.cxx) restore compatibility with very old versions of OpenSSL - BUGFIX(h323utils.cxx) fix numeric overflow - BUGFIX(Toolkit.cxx) fix iterator usage (found by Coverity) Download from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper Survey 2025
by Jan Willamowius 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '25

Dear GNU Gatekeeper community, I have compiled a poll with a few quick questions. Please feel free to add any other suggestions you may have. https://www.gnugk.org/survey-2025.html Please keep the feedback coming. If you want me to respond to questions or suggestions, please remember to add an email address. Thanks for your time! Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91 22393 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.13 released
by Jan Willamowius 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.13 has been released. This is strictly a bug fixing release that fixes an issue with the RTP port detection and 2 other minor issues. Download from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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PTLib 2.10.9.6 released
by Jan Willamowius 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Dear community, I have just bundeled up the changes and bug fixes of the past 2 years and released PTLib 2.10.9.6. Most notable in this release is working IPv6 on *BSD, macOSX and Solaris as well as support for newer compilers and many small platform fixes. - IPv6 support fixed for *BSD, macOSX and Solaris - support for newer compiler, eg. gcc 13 and VS2022 - support for C++-17 - support for Win64 builds - support AIX as platform - small OpenBSD fixes - other small fixes Download from https://www.h323plus.org/source/ Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, H323Plus maintainer EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de H.323 Support: https://www.willamowius.com/h323plus-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.12 released
by Jan Willamowius 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.12 has been released. Another important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed as well as Y2K38 issues. This release also adds features: - support for Oracle databases - easier cloud deployment with IP detection with STUN - better load scaling by mixing proxied with direct mode endpoints in a single gatekeeper - Windows 64bit executables with VS2022 All changes and additions: - enable more runtime hardening flags from OpenSSF recommendation 11/2023 - fix bug with H.245 address when using ExternalIP= switch without H.460.18/.19 - auto-detect public IP with ExternalIP=STUN and STUNServer=stun.example.com - compiler support for VS2022 - new database driver for Oracle and new timestamp format 'Oracle' - new switch [EP::xxx] ForceDirectMode=1 to handle all calls from this endpoint in direct mode - BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx, gkauth.cxx) make sure time_t is handled unsigned to avoid Y2K38 issue - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) check for too small packets when acting as encryption proxy Download from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper Survey 2023
by Jan Willamowius 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

Dear GNU Gatekeeper community, I have compiled a poll with a few quick questions. Please feel free to add any other suggestions you may have. https://www.gnugk.org/survey-2023.html Please keep the feedback coming. If you want me to respond to questions or suggestions, please remember to add an email address. In the past, these surveys have always been a great source of inspiration to the project. Thanks for your time! Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91 22393 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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H323Plus 1.28.0 released
by Jan Willamowius 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Dear community, I'm happy to announce the release of H323Plus version 1.28.0. - H323Plus now supports the H.323 standard up to version 8, which was approved in March 2022 - a few places have been fixed to avoid Y2K38 issues in timestamps - the H323Endpoint class now doesn't cap per call bandwidth any more - warnings regarding the H.460.23/.24 patent were removed since that patent has expired now - support for LibreSSL was improved - a few more smaller bugs were fixed Download from https://www.h323plus.org/source/ Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, H323Plus maintainer EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de H.323 Support: https://www.willamowius.com/h323plus-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91, 22393 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.11 released
by Jan Willamowius 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.11 has been released. This a bug fix release with a few other changes: An important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed. We also added a few features that make it easier to use GnuGk with Graphana and InfluxDB monitoring. Other changes and additions: - remove non-working command line switch -e / --externalip, use config file to set ExternalIP - new accounting variables %{registrations}, %{calls}, %{total-calls}, %{successful-calls}, %{allocated-bandwidth} - new switch [HttpAcct] Authorization= to send authorization headers to support InfluxDB - replace \r and \n in HttpAcct body with carriage return and line feed characters - new switch: [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] PreserveDestination=1 (helpful when calling Pexip servers) Download from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH c/o Jan Willamowius, Buchsbaumweg 4, 22299 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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PTLib release 2.10.9.5
by Jan Willamowius 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Dear community, I just published the a maintenance release 2.10.9.5 for PTLib: https://github.com/willamowius/ptlib/releases The main change is support for glibc >= 2.34 plus a few smaller bug fixes. Regards, Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: https://www.gnugk.org Support: https://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91, 22393 Hamburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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