[arm-allstar] MAJOR HamVoIP UPDATE 1.7.0-01 RELEASED

[Dave Petrie]

Fantastic, I can't wait to play.
Happ Holidays
Dave

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 3:17 PM "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Everyone!
>
>
> After about 1.5 years worth of development effort, I have just released a
> MAJOR upgrade to the hamvoip-asterisk package.  This package includes the
> Asterisk/app_rpt software, which is the software that drives AllStar.
>
> This is the biggest upgrade in at least a decade, with about 15,000 lines
> of changed software!!
>
> For hot-spot, repeater and node radio users, the most visible change will
> be improved performance over the older software--meaning fewer crashes and
> fewer audio pops and clicks.
>
> Hub users still running older software will notice major stability
> improvements.  This software is currently in use on ALL the worlds biggest
> AllStar hubs.
>
> NOTE that if you're a user of Zoiper, DVSwitch Mobile, IAXRPT or other IAX
> client software, these clients may NO LONGER CONNECT without a minor
> configuration change on the HamVoIP node.  As of this software release,
> the IAX2 protocol has "call tokens" ENABLED.  This is a VERY IMPORTANT
> security mechanism, which classically was always forced off in the AllStar
> software.  This is now changed.  To allow connections from software not
> supporting call tokens, simply modify the iax.conf file incoming stanza.
> For example:
>
> ; iax.conf
> [iaxphone]
> requirecalltoken=no
>
>
> The whole list of changes is HUGE.  Some of the highlights are:
>
>
> * app_rpt module -- Massive refactoring of code. Complete overhaul of
>         internal data structures and statistical reporting code, including
>         the AMI interface.  Old highly problematic "remote base" code
>         completely removed (a new remote base system is coming). Major
>         changes in process threads and priority, using work queues for
>         low-priority processing.
>
> * Echolink driver -- The longstanding "garbled audio" issue is fixed!
>         Module unload and reload functions now work. Overall stability
>         greatly improved.  Echolink node "can't connect" issues common
>         after the client software was just launched are fixed.
>
> * VOTER channel driver -- Major AMI performance improvements. stability
>         improvements, including resolving some memory corruption bugs
>         and mutex issues.
>
> * Many, many areas of the core asterisk code, including IAX2 and Dahdi --
>         Major stability improvements.
>
> *** Please see a partial partial release comments list at the URL, below.
>         These are many of the changes since the last major
>         hamvoip-asterisk package release on June 01, 2020.  Note that the
>         gaps in revisions are where I left out long/complex descriptions
>         of algorithm changes---these are too detailed to be relevant to
>         the general user.
>
>         https://hamvoip.org/release-notes/hamvoip-asterisk-2021-12-21.html
>
>
>
> MERRY CHRISTMAS!
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
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