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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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GNU Gatekeeper 5.10 released
by Jan Willamowius 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.10 has been released. This a bug fix release with no new features. Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Bug fixes: - fix a crash when handling the MasterSlaveDetermination message - fix the documentation of [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] NeighborTimeout and consistently treat the value as 10th of a second in the program Regards, Jan PS: The H323plus mailinglist was down the last few weeks. If you tried to post, please re-send your posting! -- 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 2021
by Jan Willamowius 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Dear GNU Gatekeeper community, I have compiled a poll with 10 quick questions. Please feel free to add any other suggestions you may have. Don't be too kind, we really want to know what to improve. https://www.gnugk.org/survey-2021.html In the past, these surveys have always been a great source of inspiration to the project. 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 5.9 released
by Jan Willamowius 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.9 has been released. Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html New features: - new switches [Proxy] CachePortDetection=1 and CachePortDetectionDuration= to cache port detection packets for faster media connects when IgnoreSignaledIPs= is active - new switch: [EP::] ForceTerminalType= - new place holder for port notifications: %t for port type - experimental: better error recovery if multiplexed RTP sending fails Bug fixes: - fix bug in port detection with AllowSignaledIPsFrom= - when DNS name resolves to IP without alias, remove alias from ACF completely (Cisco interop) - remove RTP session 0 from internal tables once H.245 master has assigned a session ID - fix compilation of Avaya support - initialized cmsg struct to zero before using - fix regression introduced with MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= switch 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 Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.8 released
by Jan Willamowius 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.8 has been released. Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html To stay updated, please also follow us on Twitter and subscribe our blog! https://twitter.com/h323 https://blog.gnugk.org This new release includes New features: - experimental support for Avaya's non-standard version of H.323 (./configure --enable-avaya) thanks Konstantin Prokazov! - consider RFC 6598 shared network space (100.64.0.0/10) and Zeroconf (169.254.0.0/16) as private IPs - new switch [Proxy] AllowSignaledIPsFrom= to skip auto-detect for messages received directly from certain IPs when IgnoreSignaledIPs=1 - new switch [Proxy] AllowAnyRTPSourcePortForH239From= to handle incorrect RTCP addresses in H.239 OLC (EdgeProtect interop) - new switch [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= to never attempt to match a H.239 reverse channel by type for improved interoperability with EdgeProtect - new switches to set the HTTP Content-Type header in HttpAcct, HttpPasswordAuth and Routing::Http - new switch [Routing::Http] JSONResponse=1 to send more flexible routing data in the HTML reponses - many new status port shortcuts (see manual section for details) Bug fixes: - fix H.460.18/.19 on multi-homed servers - fix race condition when handling H.460.19 multiplex IDs - fix media loop on half port-detected channel when media is very early - fix Net-SNMP query for total bandwidth - save RTCP address from OLC for port-detection - always check AllowSignaledIPs= before applying IgnoreSignaledAllH239IPs or IgnoreSignaledPrivateH239IPs - handle extensions and CSRC in RTP header with H.235 half-call media - better endpointIDs on Windows when compiling without OpenSSL 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 Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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GNU Gatekeeper 5.7 released
by Jan Willamowius 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Dear community, GNU Gatekeeper version 5.7 has been released. Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html This version has some important bug fixes, improves interoperability with other vendors and also has a few new features. Bug fixes: - several severe crashes and a few memory leaks have been fixed Improved interoperability with: - Lifesize endpoints - Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway - Polycom RealPresence Capture Server New features: - You get a warning in the GUI / on the status port if one of your endpoints has an incorrect time setting and this password authentication fails. This makes trouble shooting a lot easier. - Invalid TPKT packets (eg. due to network errors) now don't necessarily take down an otherwise healthy call. Use the new AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 switch to enable. - You have a new %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuerys and LuaAuth Full change log: - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash on non-standard H.245 Indication from Polycom RealPresence Capture Server - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crashes on non-standard generic information in OLCs - print warning message on status port when passwords get rejected due to wrong time - BUGFIX(httpacct.cxx) fix memory leak - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crash - BUGFIX(gk.cxx) avoid crash when terminating in the middle of program startup, set non-zero exit code so restarter notices error - return unused memory back to OS periodically - new switch: [RoutedMode] AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 for more graceful handling of network errors - BUGFIX(gk.cxx) fix for running on Alpine Linux (needs updated PTLib, too) - don't start GnuGk if RTP multiplexing is configured, but we can't start the listener - new switch: [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByType=0 to fix presentations with LifeSize endpoints over Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) make sure we don't set RTP address on multiplexed RTCP keepalive - BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) look at all tokens for H.235.TSSM - add %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuery and LuaAuth 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 Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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