Greetings,
Kamailio SIP Server v5.8.0 has been released today, March 07, 2024. This is a major release, meaning that it is introducing a consistent number of new features as well as improvements to existing components.
An official, detailed announcement is available on the Kamailio website:
* https://www.kamailio.org/w/kamailio-v5-8-0-release-notes/
Selected highlights:
* enhanced capabilities for TCP connections and traffic management
* consistent number of commit to the IMS components for building VoLTE/VoNR services
* SIP overload control support for server (RFC7339)
* extensive work for proper integration of libssl3
* connector for InfluxDB allowing to push data from Kamailio configuration file
* alternative internal HTTP server implementation using libmicrohttpd
* new option for cryptography functions using libcrypt as alternative to libssl
* ability to write log message from Kamailio configuration to specific files
* distribution of keepalives from usrloc across an interval of time
* new variables and transformations
* Four (4) new modules
Kamailio 5.8 represents the 26th major public release of the project’s almost 23 years of activity.
Step-by-step installation tutorial:
* https://kamailio.org/docs/tutorials/5.8.x/kamailio-install-guide-git/
There is no change in the database structure used for 5.7.x series that has to be done in order to run same config with 5.8.x series.
A huge thanks to Daniel-Constantin Mierla (miconda) and all of the amazing developers that have contributed to Kamailio.
Cheers,
Fred Posner
https://fred.tel
