Hi,
We don't normally announce SAIL releases anymore 'cos we do so many. However, this one is a bit different and we also have a few other things to tell you..
-389 is a fairly big release with a lot of new stuff in it. Briefly these are...
* New Dynamic Proxy to remotely log on to phones via https directly from server-manager.
* Dynamic network scanning and recognition of SIP devices which can then be automatically "adopted" into the asterisk configuration.
* The CDR (STAT) and Flash Operator Panel (FOP) are now proxied into the manager panel.
* A new "General Edit" panel for editing any asterisk data set.
* New, tighter, levels of call forward granularity
* Inbound call DND Prefixing
The biggest thing in this is the Proxy engine which uses mod_rewrite to do its stuff. We've checked that it doesn't disrupt Horde (webmail) and various other proxied services but we can't test every contrib. There may be some proxy services out there that we disrupt with this release. Please let us know if it causes you a problem.
This release requires nmap for its phone scanning and adoption routines so for this reason we advise that you install -389 with yum. You can find full instructions here
http://81.149.154.14/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/DocChapter03The docs site has been updated with screen shots from the new release and in-particular, for a write up on the new phone discovery and management routines, you should look here...
http://81.149.154.14/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/DocChapter10OK that's -389.
Aside from the odd maintenance fix, 2.1.14 is now done. The new super-duper SARK R3.0 is running in test here and we'd like some "guineapigs" to help test it...
Cosmetically, Rev 3.0 looks exactly the same as -389 but it has a brand new engine under the covers and it uses MySQL for its data storage instead of the SME Server Database. Why? Well, it's part of our OpenSer/Asterisk integration goal. We already have a test mule running with OpenSer handling all of the phones and asterisk "worker" instances handling things like PSTN gateway, Voicemail and conferencing duties. The two databases can be integrated with MySQL but it would be much harder to do this with SME Server DB because we would have to write a distribution layer for it. So it's gone. Also, we've written a new back-end asterisk environment generator which no longer uses the SME/Perl template mechanism. At the moment this is still written in Perl but we may move it to php at a later date.
If you want to get involved in Rev3.0 then drop us an e-mail at admin@selintra.com and we'll add you to the list.
Finally, while Rev3.0 is being built to handle potentially many hundreds of users, at the other end of the scale we have a fully working "baby" SARK/SAIL running on an embedded platform. Looking through the contribs we can't find any evidence of anyone successfully running a full-blown SME Server instance from compact Flash. Well, we've done it. It isn't perfect and it seems to have a mind of its own at times but it runs quite well on our mini-ITX setup and asterisk goes like a train on it.
With a bit more development we fully intend to offer it to our low-end customers (suitably packaged). Anyhow, if anyone would like to help with the testing then drop us a line admin@selintra.com. Once we figure out how to package the damn thing, we'll gladly ship you a copy.
Kind Regards
Selintra
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