Home ›

Ekiga 4.0 aka "The Victory Release" available!

Submitted by dsandras on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 09:16

The legendary Linux softphone is back for more!

Three years after the 3.2 release, Ekiga 4.0 aka "The Victory Release" is finally available.

This is a major release with many major improvements.

Where to get it ?

Ekiga sources and Windows binaries are available at:
http://www.ekiga.org/download-ekiga-binaries-or-source-code

Required librairies can be found at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.10/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.10/

Here is the list of changes

New Features and Improvements:
  • Completely new user interface with improved roster, separate call window and improved chat window and accounts window
  • Fixes in the call history
  • Themeable icons
  • Better GNOME 3 integration with improved notifications and tray icon removal
  • Add a new assistant page with an introduction to accounts
  • Reduced startup time
  • New PulseAudio plugin
  • New audio codecs: SILK (used by skype), G.722.1 (aka Siren 7), G.722.2 (aka GSM-AMR Wide band)
  • Video codecs changes: H.264 optimisations
  • Added RTP TOS support
  • Call auto-answer
  • Partial support for handling multiple video streams (H.239)
  • Improve audio accuracy on some audio cards
  • Various usability fixes:
    • hitting enter in the roster will trigger a call,
    • added mnemonics to various parts of the UI,
    • improved Enter key usage in chat (use shift-Enter for soft Enter),
    • optimized UI for small screens,
    • added several tooltips
  • Improved notifications when detecting a new audio device
  • Converted many dependencies as plugins: evolution-data-server, avahi, ldap, ...
  • Many fixes in the experimental Jabber/XMPP and GStreamer plugins
  • Fixes in the LDAP plugin
  • Several HIG strings related fixes
  • Updated manual
SIP Support
  • Various SIP interoperability fixes
  • Added SIP Service-Route header support (RFC 3608)
  • Various SIP/SIMPLE presence related fixes
  • Fixed registration to broken registrars
  • Unregister all accounts on quit
  • Publish offline presence on quit
  • Refresh NAT bindings with SIP OPTIONS requests
  • Support for DNS SRV caching
Various Build Fixes
  • Add arm-linux-gnueabihf (armhf) and GNU/Hurd support
  • Fixed modern FreeBSD compilation
  • Added support for recent evolution-data-server, GTK 2.x, OPAL, PTLIB, libavcodec, libx264, libnotify libraries, autoconf and removed deprecated methods
  • Moved from sigc++ to boost
Windows Port Fixes
  • Support mingw-w64 and its own headers for building the WIN32 release
  • Allow execution from Start->Execute menu
  • Reduced startup time
Distributor-Visible Changes
  • New dependency: libv4l-dev (for HAL video hotplugging)
  • New dependency: gnome-icon-theme
  • libavcodec5x and gnome-icon-theme must be manually set as runtime dependencies, since they are loaded during runtime
  • libnotify and avahi are now plugins

For a better user experience, Ekiga developers highly recommend the libnotify plugin to be automatically packaged with Ekiga.

Translation Updates
  • Updated translations: ar, as, ast, bg, bn_IN, ca, ca@valencia, cs, da, de, en@GB, en@shaw, es, el, eo, et, eu, fi, fr, gl, gu, he, hi, hu, id, it, ja, kn, kk, ko, lt, lv, ml, mr, nb, nn, or, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr@latin, sv, ta, th, tr, ug, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
  • Removed obsolete translations: be
  • Updated help translations: de, el, es, sl uk, zh_CN
X
Loading