strsctp 0.9.2.9 Released - STREAMS SCTP for Linux Fast-STREAMS and SIGTRAN

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

Package strsctp-0.9.2.9 was released under AGPLv3 2008-10-31.

OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP (`strsctp') is an OpenSS7 Project implementation of
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP - RFC 2960) for Linux
Fast-STREAMS. It is based on the same protocol engine core as the
OpenSS7 Linux Native (Sockets) version of OpenSS7 SCTP. The package
provides a STREAMS SCTP driver for use with SIGTRAN components of the
OpenSS7 stack.

This release is a separate release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP driver
that was formerly present in the OpenSS7 SS7/SIGTRAN/ISDN/VoIP strss7
package. The networking driver (streams-sctp) is provided, as well as
NPI, TPI and XTI header files for SCTP operation. The package contains
the necessary manual pages and other documentation for SCTP components
in a separate autoconf tarball.

This release is a stable production release for Linux Fast-STREAMS.
This release is primarily a maintenance release to support recent
distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

- Minor documentation corrections.
- Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back
to GPL.
- License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These
changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
- Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation
primarily for embedded targets.
- Improvements to common build process for embedded and
cross-compile targets.
- Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and
2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
- Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
- Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major
subpackages.
- Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1)
documents.
- Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and
apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has
been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
- Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it
deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release
before reporting bugs.

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 Affero General Public
License (AGPL) Version 3. 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 strsctp package
page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsctp-0.9.2.9/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strsctp-0.9.2.9/NEWS> in the release,
or <http://www.openss7.org/strsctp_manual.html#Release-Notes> in the
manual, for more information. Also, see the strsctp.pdf manual in the
release (also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strsctp_manual.html>).

For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20081029_A.html>.

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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