Roadmap to the 1.5 release

Code Frozen: Jan 29, 2009
Release 1.5.0: End Of Feb, 2009
New in 1.5.0: [http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/features:new-in-1.5.x]

Note: This roadmap is really incomplete and does not mirror entirely the actual progress. It is provided for informative purposes. If you want to propose a new feature, please use project's tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=139143

Developers are encouraged to add here as soon as they start to work on new task or complete them.

1. TLS support for server_name extension (aka SNI=server name indication)
   • status: done (klaus)
2. Refurbishment of RADIUS modules
   • several radius modules that share lot of code merged in misc_radius module
   • status: done (juha)
3. carrierroute module
   • fetch support to load database records
   • status: done (henning)
4. pv module
   • new module to collect Pseudo-variables available in configuration file
   • $branch(name) - provides access to branch attributes
   • status: done (miconda)
   • migrate PVs from core to pv module
5. daemontools support
   • added support for running kamailio (openser) with daemon tools (new core parameter for “no-daemon” mode)
   • status: done
6. Presence Server: Dialog-Info support
   • two new modules: presence_dialoginfo and pua_dialoginfo
   • implementation of RFC4235
   • status: done (klaus)
7. memory management
   • better startup performance for FAST MALLOC memory manager
   • status: done (henning)
   • better debug mechanisms
   • de-fragmentation of memory
   • status: work in progress (miconda)
8. continue the cleanup of fixup functions used by modules
   • the functions that are duplicated in several modules must be migrated to core in mod_fix.{c,h}
   • the naming format of fixup functions must have a suggestive pattern
   • status: work in progress (miconda)
9. continue cleanup of PV handler functions
   • add helper functions to be used by PV handlers for better consistency and duplicates removal
   • status: done (miconda)
10. generic shared hash table system
    • shared container for config file: new module htable
    • status: done (ramona)
    • MI commands to get/set items in HT
    • ability to save/load in/from database
    • ability to init items at startup
    • auto-expire time for items
    • status: done (ramona)
11. testing suite
    • add regression test capabilities to existing testing suite, new tests
    • status: work in progress (henning)
12. doxygen documentation in code
    • migrate existing comments to doxygen format to be easy to browse
    • add documentation for important API functions
    • check it at http://devel.kamailio.org/doxygen/
    • status: work in progress (all)
13. consolidation of modules
    • migration of gflags functionality into cfgutils
    • status: done (henning)
    • migration of options and uri module to siputils
    • status: done (henning)
    • evaluate further integration of small modules, e.g. xlog, benchmark, maxfwd..
    • status: work in progress (henning)
14. abstraction of common datastructures in userblacklist and carrierroute
    • move trie like structure to core, change userblacklist to use this
    • status: done (henning)
    • change carrierroute to use this
    • status: done (henning)
15. usage of a regular expression library across the modules
    • there are couple of modules that need regexp with shared memory manager (lcr, dialplan)
    • options
      • trex library (used by dialplan) moved to core
      • PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/)
    • status: done - dialplan and lcr modules have been converted to use PCRE (juha)
16. enhancements to registrar server
    • function to unregister all contacts for an AoR - unregister() in registrar module
    • save() with flags 0x04 stores and maintain single contact per AoR
    • fetch contacts and export them via pseudo-variables
    • status: done (miconda)
    • unregister() to be enhanced to unregister a specific contact address
    • status: work in progress (miconda)
17. enhancements to textops module
    • insert_body(“text”, “content-type”) - add body to a SIP message
    • status: done (miconda)
    • allow dynamic values in parameters
18. case sensitive operations
    • some parts in SIP messages are case sensitive, some are not
    • special functions are required to handle these cases properly
    • see [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2047019&group_id=139143&atid=743023]
19. AVPs
    • allow named-field values
    • status: proposed (miconda)