We are excited to announce the general availability of sip:providerCE mr3.7.1 and sip:providerPRO mr3.7.1.

What’s the sip:provider platform?

sip:provider PRO Architecture Overview

The Sipwise sip:provider platform is a highly versatile open source based VoIP soft-switch for ISPs and ITSPs to serve large numbers of SIP subscribers. It leverages existing building blocks like Kamailio, Sems and Asterisk to create a feature-rich and high-performance system by glueing them together in a best-practice approach and implementing missing pieces on top of it.

Sipwise engineers have been working with Asterisk and Kamailio (and its predecessors SER and OpenSER) since 2004, and have roles on the management board of Kamailio and are contributing to these projects both in terms of patches and also financially by sponsoring development tasks. The sip:provider platform is available as a Community Edition (SPCE), which is fully free and open source, and as a commercial PRO appliance shipped turn-key in a high availability setup.

The SPCE provides secure and feature-rich voice and video communication to end customers (voice, video, instant messaging, presence, buddy lists, file transfer, screen sharing, remote desktop control) and connect them to other SIP-, Mobile- or traditional PSTN-networks. It can therefore act as open Skype replacement system, traditional PSTN replacement, Over-The-Top (OTT) platform and also as a Session Border Controller in front of existing VoIP services in order to enable signaling encryption, IPv6 support, fraud- and Denial-of-Service prevention. Another use-case is to act as a Class4 SIP concentrator to bundle multiple SIP peerings for other VoIP services.

What’s new in mr3.7.1?

The most important changes for mr3.7.1 are:

  • Call queues module for Cloud PBX
  • Panasonic and Yealink IP phones auto-provisioning
  • REST API: add filter for api/calls
  • Provide pre-recorded ngcp-prompts in multiple languages and a preference to select the language
  • Support separate NCOS type for Call Forwarding
  • Implement To header manipulations using outbound_to_user preference
  • New modes for handling the extension dialed behind main number using preference extended_dialing_mode
  • Improved sip:carrier system deployment using PXE boot and apt proxy cache
  • Improved sip:carrier system management using klish and SNMP monitoring
  • Improved collection of call counters in redis
  • Backported new Linux kernel 3.16+62~bpo70+1 as a part of mr3.8 LTS preparation

How do I test-drive the new version?

As usual, we’re providing a VMWare Image, a Virtualbox Image and a Vagrant Box for quick evaluation testing. For those of you using Amazon Cloud we provide the EC2 AMIs in the following regions:

  • AMI ID for region us-east-1: ami-04611f6c
  • AMI ID for region us-west-2: ami-7b0d534b
  • AMI ID for region us-west-1: ami-439a8406
  • AMI ID for region eu-west-1: ami-8bef6cfc
  • AMI ID for region eu-central-1: ami-cc5b68d1
  • AMI ID for region ap-southeast-1: ami-c08ba392
  • AMI ID for region ap-southeast-2: ami-97483dad
  • AMI ID for region ap-northeast-1: ami-0e08150f
  • AMI ID for region sa-east-1: ami-dd4ff2c0

Check the relevant section in the Handbook for detailed instructions.

How do I install the new version or upgrade from an older one?

For new users, please follow the Installation Instructions in the Handbook to set up the SPCE mr3.7.1 from scratch.

For the users of the previous version of the SPCE, please follow the upgrade procedure outlined in the Handbook. If you have customized your configurations using customtt.tt2 files, you must migrate your changes to the new configuration files after the upgrade, otherwise all your calls will most certainly fail.

How can I contribute to the project?

Over the last months we’ve started to publish our software components at github.com/sipwise. This is still an on-going effort, which is done on a component-per-component basis. Please check back regularly for new projects to appear there, and feel free to fork them and send us pull requests. For development related questions, please subscribe to our SPCE-Dev Mailing-List at lists.sipwise.com/listinfo/spce-dev.

Acknowledgements

We want to thank our PRO customers and the SPCE community for their feedback, bug reports and feature suggestions to make this release happen. We hope you enjoy using the mr3.7.1 build and keep your input coming. A big thank you also to all the developers of Kamailio, Sems and Prosody, who make it possible for us to provide an innovative and future-proof SIP/XMPP engine as the core of our platform! And last but not least a HUGE thank you to the Sipwise development team, who worked insanely hard to create this release. You are awesome!

Full Changelog of Bugfixes and Enhancements

MT#9985 “Enable MUC in prosody”
MT#9983 “Captagent process has to be controlled by HA”
MT#9971 “ngcpcfg restarts services in random order which cause errors”
MT#9967 “proxy uses wrong redis db number for storing the dialogs”
MT#9965 “Skip heartbeat restart on update monit-services”
MT#9941 “API REST: PBX Group creation do not set correctly cloud_pbx_hunt_timeout”
MT#9937 “missing carrier handbook package”
MT#9901 “CloudPBX: Implement park/unpark via VSC”
MT#9897 “Customer Concurrent_max_total_out and max_total”
MT#9885 “XMPP Last Activity”
MT#9881 “CloudPBX: Implement Panasonic network phone book”
MT#9811 “mysqlbinlog fails to execute: unknown variable ‘default_character_set=utf8′”
MT#9803 “registered_users and registered_devices statistic in SNMP on Carrier shows wrong value”
MT#9801 “provisioned_subscribers statistic in SNMP on Carrier shows wrong value”
MT#9675 “Remove old ngcp components: subscriber selfcare and apache2”
MT#9643 “deadlock in tm module”
MT#9637 “cdr-exporter: implement dynamic field selection and sftp transfer”
MT#9617 “heartbeat-2 fails to build against Debian/jessie”
MT#9603 “lintian errors on captagent package”
MT#9585 “rtpengine kernel module still has name xt_MEDIAPROXY”
MT#9567 “port 1443 is reachable on every IPs”
MT#9547 “ngcp-ossbss migration to nginx”
MT#9497 “remove automatic build of hylafax configs by ngcp-templates-*-hylafax package”
MT#9453 “[Netcologne] New feature request in order to disable some call forward” “reopened”
MT#9287 “Improve ngcpcfg to handle Carrier 3.x configs from central place (mgmt node)”
MT#9285 “Redesign config.yml to be equel on all hosts.”
MT#9261 “iaxmodem fails to build against Debian/jessie”
MT#9259 “hylafaxplus fails to compile against Debian/jessie”
MT#9257 “kamailio: fails to compile against Debian/jessie because libradiusclient-ng-dev doesn’t exist”
MT#9177 “Implement authentication for device provisioning from web”
MT#9171 “Package captagent for Debian” “reopened”
MT#9155 “[Carrier 3.x] LB error: lval_assign (): assignment failed at pos (588,22-588,56)”
MT#8645 “Allow to terminate billing profiles to not show in interface anymore”
MT#8299 “CloudPBX: implement visual key/line selection in web interface”
MT#8173 “Stop NGCP/ALL services before upgrade”
MT#8129 “PIN code for entrance to conference room”
MT#7999 “Update linux-image-amd64 to recent wheezy-backports version”
MT#7793 “Implement event billing”
MT#7705 “Increase the oss.log. No significant info provided right now”
MT#7153 “Missing “Create PBX Group” button if not defined the max extension number in the customer”
MT#6785 “can’t create a PBX group with extension 0”
MT#6773 “subscsriber preferences API call doesn’t return the collection”
MT#5715 “heartbeat: sometimes cannot be restarted due to error in log”
MT#5241 “ngcp-panel: can’t properly edit extension of pbx group”
MT#10869 “Disable certain Jitsi autoprov features”
MT#10843 “CE upgrade claims on duplicate revisions in cfg/db_schema tables”
MT#10797 “Absent mandatory parameter “type” for customer creation makes 500 Server response”
MT#10789 “User-Agent: inserted in case of CFU”
MT#10785 “document how to skip mysql replication on installer”
MT#10769 “no mysql replication from sp1 to sp2 on new installed systems”
MT#10761 “update sems dsm scripts for new ngcp-prompts”
MT#10749 “dlgcounter total gets increased twice in a local call”
MT#10733 “haproxy can’t log to syslog”
MT#10717 “LI: upgrade captagent package for bugfixing”
MT#10711 “installer: use file to pass arguments/options”
MT#10709 “kamailio dlgcnt.lua template: wrong implementation of set_dlg_profile”
MT#10705 “CloudPBX: Allow to set group members from within group”
MT#10703 “script for configure MySQL replication between sp1/sp2 nodes”
MT#10701 “installer: allow skip Mysql replication”
MT#10699 “ngcpcfg: use sqlite for manage cfg_schema”
MT#10695 “ngcp-sync-constants: create expecific option to check and set master replication”
MT#10691 “integrate call queue module for pbx”
MT#10689 “Heartbeat creates a lock file in tmp folder which is not secure, please move it to /var/run/heartbeat/”
MT#10659 “check-for-mysql: add parameter to check second instance”
MT#10649 “/etc/cron.d/voisniff runs on all the nodes of Carrier 3.x setup even if voisniff is disabled”
MT#10639 “sync errors in db01X nodes after installation”
MT#10635 “Carrier 3.x: dispatcher is missing the LB IP when cluster_sets.type=’central'” “reopened”
MT#10621 “ignore CLIR when Auto Attendant forwards a call”
MT#10619 “Add option to start/not start hb_watchdog to config.yml”
MT#10607 “Monit’s protocol check for exim check randomly fails although exim is running and port 25 reachable”
MT#10603 “Rate-limit autoprov access”
MT#10601 “dlg counters: keys in central redis are not removed”
MT#10591 “rtpengine_sock contains both sip_int and rtp_int on Carrier”
MT#10585 “add rtpengine control port to config.yml”
MT#10581 “motd not in etckeeper gitignore file” “reopened”
MT#10577 “Upgrade mr3.6->mr3.7 requires upgrade trick for ngcp-prompts package installation”
MT#10571 “ngcpcfg-api: error when no /var/run/fastcgi dir exists”
MT#10565 “corner cases where ROUTE_SET_CALLER_DIALOG is invoked”
MT#10555 “ngcp-sems and sems-pbx should listen on sip_int for XMLRPC”
MT#10551 “Rate-o-mat regularly crashing on carrier due to MySQL deadlock situation” “reopened”
MT#10531 “need ngcp-asterisk-sounds on CE only in 3.7”
MT#10525 “Monit config should respect the load thresholds from config.yml”
MT#10521 “Get rid of “Failed to decrease redis counters” proxy errors in case of call forwards”
MT#10509 “installer: config.yml.factory_defaults changes gets commited on all nodes from central mgmt”
MT#10493 “ngcpcfg tt2-daemon should pass copy of YML object structure to “$tt->process””
MT#10491 “prosody: use libevent to improve connection monitoring”
MT#10421 “Prepare and release mr3.6.2”
MT#10419 “CLIP in case of Call Forwarding”
MT#10383 “Monit sometimes reports “proxy Execution failed” for normally running processes”
MT#10381 “add concurrent_max and concurrent_max_out contract preferences”
MT#10379 “add dnsmasq to monit”
MT#10377 “[App] When wifi is disable and app goes offline, the other user see the buddy still online”
MT#10371 “Two mysql instances are running on LB node Carrier 3.x mr3.6.1 after update to the last hotfix”
MT#10367 “Make language for voicemail/conference sounds a user preference”
MT#10363 “ngcp-collective-check claims on missed apache2 on management node”
MT#10355 “Required by NGCP::Panel::Role::API::Preferences::check_pref_value (JSON::is_bool)(false) inserted into DB as empty string”
MT#10341 “Finalize panasonic provisioning integration”
MT#10337 “Add update/override to cloudpbx-devices tool”
MT#10331 “Carrier 3.x NGCP elasticsearch cron cleanup cannot connect elasticsearch server”
MT#10319 “Call Forward from the hunt group”
MT#10303 “Unsync between location DB and kamailio memory when REGISTER has different CallID”
MT#10273 “Webfax problem in combination with hardware fax solution”
MT#10263 “provide debug package for ngcp-asterisk”
MT#10261 “ngcp-asterisk package lacks conflicts with asterisk package”
MT#10257 “SPCE Installation from ISO fails (ngcp-asterisk failed to install on CPU without PrefetchW instruction)”
MT#10213 “Check content of /etc/ngcp_nodename before upgrade (CE should use ‘spce’ in DB also)”
MT#10199 “Add NCOS Level in Subscriber Profile”
MT#10169 “Allow peering rules, rewrite rules and peerings to be individually disabled”
MT#10145 “event-exporter failis to execute: “Can’t use string (“{ accounting.events.export_statu”…) as an ARRAY ref …””
MT#10135 “Disregard CFs for Subscriber when called within a HuntGroup”
MT#10117 “soap api doesn’t work under nginx”
MT#10079 “heartbeat udpport conflicts with nfs.rpcbind service”
MT#10065 “ngcpcf-api: network interefaces order”
MT#10061 “Invoice module calculates with different precisions than rate-o-mat”
MT#10057 “Add config.yml description to handbook”
MT#10053 “disable sems 1.6 tm blacklist”
MT#10425 “Carrier 3.x Improve system management using clish”
MT#10041 “REST API request with non “Administrator” credentials returns error”
MT#10029 “implement To header manipulations”
MT#10025 “New modes for handling the extension dialed behind main number”
MT#10021 “Change the ha.cf pingnodes building”
MT#10005 “w_record_route(): Double attempt to record-route”
MT#10181 “default SSL setup not accessible via Chrome + Chromium”
MT#10309 “Cannot set password_min_length in Panel to less than 6.”
MT#10343 “Add hunting indicator in display name if call to device during hunting”
MT#10301 “CloudPBX pilot subscriber looses Administrator flag – not possible to set it again”
MT#10587 “Implement Yealink auto-provisioning”
MT#10543 “Control T38 for auto-provisioning via usr preference”
MT#10537 “Implement calllists as simplified way to fetch call history for a subscriber”
MT#10501 “Devices page too slowly”