====== New Features in OpenSER 1.3.x ======

===== New in OpenSER core =====

* [b]pseudo-variable (PV)[/b] refurbishment -- modules can add now writable PVs
* [b]SCTP[/b] protocol support
* [b]AVPs and HDRs[/b] can be accessed via dynamic index
* [b]while[/b] statement support
* [b]modules[/b] can register to core to fork new processes for own usage, cleaner server initialization
* [b]modules[/b] can fork their own timer process for better performance
* [b]cleanups[/b] in utility functions and database API -- integrate common functionality into the core, removal redundant code
* [b]bugs[/b] -- more then 160 bugs reported from the community were fixed
* [b]patches[/b] -- more then 60 community created patches were integrated
* [b]GNU/kFreeBSD support[/b] for systems with a FreeBSD kernel and a GNU userland
* [b]redesign of logging functions[/b] -- the debugging output has a more consistent and syslog-like format even for stderror
* [b]documentation[/b] -- many errors in module documentation and code comments were fixed
* [b]new assign operator for avps ":="[/b] -- $avp(name) := value will overwrite the value of any exiting $avp(name), resulting in a new single $avp(name) (delete all $avp(name), add $avp(name)). In addition, $avp(name) := null will delete all existing $avp(name)
* [b]configurable debug level[/b] at runtime
* [b]unix socket server[/b] implementation removed; the functionality is now provided by the [b]mi_datagram[/b] module
* [b]several new pseudo variables[/b]

===== New OpenSER modules =====

* [b]benchmark[/b] - config file benchmarking

* [b]carrierroute[/b] - routing extension suitable for carriers

* [b]cfgutils[/b] - config file utilities

* [b]db_berkeley[/b] - Berkeley DB backend support

* [b]h350[/b] - H350 LDAP implementation

* [b]ldap[/b] - LDAP connector

* [b]mi_datagram[/b] - datagram transport for management interface (MI)

* [b]perlvdb[/b] - Perl virtual database engine

* [b]presence_mwi[/b] - Extension to Presence server for Message Waiting Indication

* [b]presence_xml[/b] - SIMPLE Presence extension

* [b]pua_bla[/b] - Brigded line appearance extension for PUA

* [b]pua_xmpp[/b] - SIMPLE-XMPP Presence gateway 

* [b]rls[/b] - Resource List Service implementation (beta -- not fully released)

All modules in OpenSER 1.3: http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.3.x/


===== New in OpenSER modules =====

* [b]auth[/b]
** ability to perform authentication taking username and password from pseudo-variables
** together with LDAP module can perform now user authentication against LDAP servers [[http://www.openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/tutorials:openser-auth-ldap|see here]]

* [b]dbtext[/b]
** ability to reload content from files if this has changed

* [b]dialog[/b]
** the module stores many more details specific for dialogs, making possible to build requests in dialog
** support for dialog persistence across openser restart

* [b]dispatcher[/b]
** ability to use database as backend for the destinations list
** ability to auto-detect recovered destinations
** new selection algorithms

* [b]lcr[/b]
** many parameters can be given as pseudo-variables, allowing dynamic values at runtine

* [b]mi_xmlrpc[/b]
** ability to work with both 0.9.x and 1.0.x versions of libxmlrpc

* [b]mysql[/b]
** allows MySQL stored procedures and multiple statements calls from OpenSER
** extension to return the last inserted ID of

* [b]nathelper[/b]
** ability to do load balancing within a set of RTPProxies
** ability to spoof source IP of NAT ping packets
** SIP NAT pings follow PATH array
** NAT pings sending is distributed over the natping interval, instead of sending all at once
** usage of special timer process to send NAT pings
** new flag in force_rtp_proxy() to force a symmetric rtp session
** removed the "rtpproxy_disable" string - you can achive the same by either not defining "rtpproxy_sock" (default NULL) or setting it to empty string

* [b]pdt[/b]
* ability to define the set of characters allowed in prefix
* support to reload rules from database via MI command

* [b]siptrace[/b]
** intercept and store hop-by-hop ACK
** coherence for source and destination IP addresses

* [b]tm[/b]
** new error code E_NO_DESTINATION was added to report when there are no available branch to forward to.
** t_relay returns now:
<code>
  -1 : generic internal error
  -2 : bad message (parsing errors)
  -3 : no destination available (no branches were added or request already cancelled)
  -4 : bad destination (unresolvable address)
  -5 : destination filtered (black listed)
  -6 : generic send failed
</code>

* [b]uac[/b]
** ability to do qop authentication

* [b]xlog[/b]
** color PV moved in xlog module

===== New in additional tools =====

*[b]database setup[/b] is done from one source for all databases
*[b]openserdbctl[/b] integrates now the different db specific scripts for database maintainance 
*[b]cleanups[/b] in openserdbctl and openserctl -- removal of redundant code
*[b]tests[/b] for basic functionality in the core and essential modules