Package sctp-0.2.26 was released under GPLv2 2007-06-24.
The OpenSS7 Linux Native SCTP package is the OpenSS7 Linux Native
(Sockets) Kernel implementation of Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP). For information on using the implementation see
sctp(7) Linux manual page and look at the test programs in
sctp-0.2.26/test/.
This is the twenty-sixth release of the Linux Native (Sockets) SCTP
from the OpenSS7 Project. This release, as with other releases, on
builds and installs on 2.4 kernels. This package is not as important
to the OpenSS7 Project as the STREAMS version of SCTP, which provides
the basis for all of the SIGTRAN components for the OpenSS7 stacks.
Also, the STREAMS version runs on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
This is a stable production release: it deprecates previous releases.
Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.
This is primarily a maintenance release correcting reported bugs, but
also includes the latest packaging improvements.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Support build on openSUSE 10.2.
- Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel.
- Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5).
- Support build on Ubuntu 7.04.
- Updated to gettext 0.16.1.
- Changes to support build on 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 and
2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel.
- Supports build on Fedora Core 6.
- Support for recent distributions and tool chains.
This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it
deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release
before reporting bugs.
As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 RPM-
and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels
without patching or recompiling the kernel.
This package is publicly released under the `GNU General Public
License Version 2'. The release is available as an autoconf tarball,
SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page
<http://www.openss7.org/download.html> for the autoconf tarballs,
SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs,
see the sctp package page <http://www.openss7.org/sctp_pkg.html>.
See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/sctp-0.2.26/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/sctp-0.2.26/NEWS> in the release for
more information. Also, see the `sctp.pdf' manual in the release,
also in html <http://www.openss7.org/sctp_manual.html>.
For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20070624_2.html>.
--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
bidulock.TakeThisOut@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/
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