strisdn 0.9.2.2 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Mar 15, 2007
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.2 of the OpenSS7 ISDN Stacks strisdn package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Mar 15, 2007)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.2 of the OpenSS7 ISDN Stacks strisdn package. OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN (strisdn) is an OpenSS7 Project implementation of a number of ISDN related components, including Q.920, Q.921, Q.931, GR-303, V5.2, DPNSS/DASS. The package includes kernel modules, SVR 4.2 STREAMS drivers, modules, libraries, utilities, test programs, daemons, and development environment for the development and execution of OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN applications for the SVR 4.2 STREAMS environment.

This release is the second separate release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN package. Some of the components in this package were formerly present in the strss7 package. Various networking drivers are provided as well as CDI, DLPI, NPI, TPI and CCI header files for ISDN operation. The package contains the necessary manual pages and other documentation for ISDN components in a separate autoconf tarball.

The OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN package includes kernel modules, SVR 4.2 STREAMS drivers, modules, libraries, utilities, test programs, daemons, and development environment for the development and execution of OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN applications for the SVR 4.2 STREAMS environment.

This is the second open source release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN package. This release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the strss7 package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of this package.

With OpenSS7 Master Package release openss7-0.9.2.D, the ISDN components were separated from the strss7 package and placed in this package. Not all of the ISDN components previously part of the strss7 package have been strapped into this release. Components will be re-validated against Linux Fast-STREAMS on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis. See TODO in the release, or Schedule, in the manual, for information about the release schedule.

The major component first available is LAPD. lapd(4) is a pushable STREAMS module that is pushed over a cdi(4) HDLC channel to form an ISDN Q.931 link providing the Data Link Provider Interface (dlpi(7)). A complete test suite will be available in a further release.

Subsequent releases in 1Q 2007 will include the additional full ISDN Q.931, Q.933, GR-303 and V5.2 drivers with conformance test suites.

This package is currently incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for the community. If you are interested in completion of this package, contact info@openss7.com. This is a maintenance release providing support for additional distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

• Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels.
• Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16.
• Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kenels.
• The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball.

This is a public alpha release of the package. Please see README-alpha in the release.

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 Public License Version 2. 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 strisdn package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the strisdn.pdf manual in the release (also in html here).

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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