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Cross platform VOIP softphone. Used to be called OpenWengo

OpenWengo - Trac

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OpenWengo Developer Documentation

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OpenWengo - Trac

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OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

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OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:55:04 -0800

Milliphone - Trac

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:53:23 -0700

Comparativa de voz sobre ip " Una histeria muy personal

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:13:42 -0700

OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:47:13 -0700

WengoPhone 2.2 alpha 2 released

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:49:19 -0700

This release contains quite a few changes from the Alpha 1 release - Aurélien Gâteau has made great headway in prettying up the chat dialog, including allowing theming, grouping messages, and including avatars in the message dialog.

Julien Bossart has continued improving the stability of phapi, and has fixed a long-standing issue with authorization requests for Jabber and other IM protocols.

Alec Leamas has done great work with ALSA to make sound work better on Linux. Thanks also to Ludovico and Aurélien for patch review on Alec's work.

For those of you not behind firewalls, MSN direct access is now configurable, and will make MSN messaging work for you again.

We've finally added a "Test call" contact to the default contact list! Thanks to Aurélien for this non-trivial, but very useful, addition.

The 2.2 branch is almost feature-complete - the only remaining change I can think of which is outstanding is the migration from libgaim to libpurple. The next release will thus be a pre-release - it will be feature frozen and string frozen to allow translators time to update the translations for the release.

Head on over to the OpenWengo developer website to get a sneak peek at what's coming up in the 2.2 release, or get the sources from SVN at https://dev.openwengo.org/svn/openwengo/wengophone-ng/tags/release/2.2/2007-09-24-wengophone-2.2a2/

WengoPhone releases: 2.1.2 and 2.2 alpha 1

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:15:43 -0700

A bug-fix release of the stable branch of the WengoPhone, version 2.1.2 fixes a number of issues, including security advisory CVE-2007-4366. We regret that the person who discovered this problem chose to notify the BUGTRAQ mailing list without in parallel (or a priori) notifying the OpenWengo community, resulting in two weeks of exposure to our users. The new version available from OpenWengo's FTP servers at http://www.openwengo.org

We also announce the release of the first preview of the next stable release, WengoPhone 2.2 alpha 1. This release is destined for community and packager testing, before a final release supercedes the current 2.1 series.

This series sports a number of new features and upgrades, including a major upgrade to phapi, the library which provides the WengoPhone with its phone and video call API. The new version of phapi supports IPv6, improved NAT traversal, and more. We have also made it easier for third parties to rebrand the WengoPhone for use with their SIP platform. The 2.2 series depends on QT 4.2.

Why Thou shall Not Use Skype

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:32:59 -0700

SemanticMetadata.net " VoIP Soft Phones Reviewed

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:28:08 -0700

New committers, and trac maintenance

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:50:27 -0700

I'm pleased to announce that Ludovico Cavedon and Dave Neary (me! yay!) are the newest committers to OpenWengo's subversion repository.

Sebastien Tricaud also announced today that he's going to be doing some maintenance on our trac installation tomorrow morning.

PS. For those wishing to add comments, I'm afraid to say that comment and trackback spam have made it impossible to keep comments open for blog entries - the spam handling in serendipity leaves something to be desired, and unfortunately, I can't just turn off trackbacks (the major pain) and leave comments. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Upcoming 2.2 release cycle

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:43:17 -0700

Recently, we decided to have a short 2.2 release cycle before finally completing the migration to CoIP Manager and the 3.0 release, around the end of the year. Why?

First, a number of features (support for V4L2, improvements in the IM window, among others) were refused from the 2.1 release because they were submitted too close to the release deadline, after the feature freeze. It seems a shame to keep these features from the project's user base through a longish (9 month) release cycle.

Second, two larger changes are completed, or are nearing completion, on branches of the Subversion repository - Aurélien Gâteau's work on making cobranding easier, and Thomas Monjalon's work refactoring PhApi to make the API more evolutive, and to work on some additional back-end features. Both of these will be used for some Wengo projects over the Summer, and both bring real benefits to our users. An incremental release cycle gives us the chance to iron out issues with these features withour throwing the additional variable of CoIP into the mix, and will give us a degree of confidence in the refactored PhAPI moving forward.

Third, nine months to a year without a major release is a pretty long time for a programme of our size - we have the opportunity to turn around a release quicker than that which delivers less, but which brings us a good part of the way to a full CoIP based release, this can only be good news for the OpenWengo developers & users.

The 2.2 branch is available in Subversion at https://dev.openwengo.org/svn/openwengo/wengophone-ng/branches/wengophone-2.2 for testing. There are a few known problems with the branch, but it is stabilising daily, and I will be making a first beta release this week. Please report any problems you find with the branch against the WengoPhone 2.2.x version.

OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:45:23 -0700

OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP.

OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:40:00 -0700

OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP.

OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code

Mon, 21 May 2007 04:56:04 -0700

OpenWengo :: Frequently Asked Questions

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:50:59 -0700

Free and Open Source VoIP News: Why thou shall not use Skype!

Tue, 15 May 2007 15:50:38 -0700

OpenWengo releases the WengoPhone 2.1.0

Tue, 15 May 2007 12:09:33 -0700

After a short 6 month release cycle, the next major upgrade to the WengoPhone is now available. This version is a vast improvement over the previous version in a number of areas:

Interoperability: Support has been added to allow the easy configuration of a SIP account for platforms other than the Wengo platform. This long requested feature means that the user has total choice over the telephony platform they want to use, including their own provate SER, OpenSER or Asterisk server. In addition, considerable effort has gone into improving the interoperability of the WengoPhone with other SIP clients.
Security: If your platform supports it, you can make secure PC to PC calls over sRTP with the WengoPhone, using the standard AES128 encryption algorithm. You can be sure that no-one is eavesdropping on your conversations if you see a little padlock in your call window.
Usability: The entire interface has been the subject of a usability study. Hundreds of small touches make it a little nicer to use the WengoPhone. Tooltips have been added to all buttons, all buttons give visual feedback that they can be pressed. The interface is accessible using only the keyboard. Chat logs are saved, and you can see your recent discussions with someone when you start a new one.
Languages: Thanks to the translation community at Launchpad, and OpenWengo's translation team, this release is 100% translated in 13 languages - English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, German, Portugese, Brazilian Portugese, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Czech and Polish. If your language isn't there, then head on over to Launchpad and get started - it'll be in 2.1.1.
Mac and Linux support: Mac and Linux are truly first class citizens in the project now. In the 2.0 release, we concentrated on features, and on stability on Windows. In this release, improvements in thread handling, the implementation of a pure ALSA back-end for Linux, and weeks focussed on stability on Linux have resulted in a truly cross-platform softphone. All that work has also contributed to making the WengoPhone rock solid on Windows.

You can get binaries at OpenWengo.org, and sources (and more information on how to contribute to the project) are available at our developer site.

How to handle memory with a DLL

Fri, 11 May 2007 01:56:43 -0700
When testing a dynamic library on Windows, I discovered a strange crash.

Context
I built the library (written in C) with OWBuild and MS Visual Studio 2003 in debug mode.
The test program (written in C) was built in debug mode with MS Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 (same result in both cases).

Cause
I use a function of the library which returns an object allocated with malloc(). After using this object, I delete it by calling free() in the test program.
I thought that the heap is shared between the executable and its dynamic library but the result is a crash in a memory check function of the debug mode !

Solution
The library must provide a function to free the memory inside the library which allocated it.
I think it is a good method to provide a function object_free() with the function object_new() of each public objects which are dynamically allocated.
If possible, the best method is to avoid dynamic allocation of objects used outside of the library.

Reference
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dll-design-mistakes-to-avoid.html

Hope this helps !

new ALSA support in WengoPhone and PhApi

Mon, 07 May 2007 09:49:19 -0700
Since revision 10817 WengoPhone and PhApi can be compiled without portaudio
support In this case a native ALSA support is used. You have to change the
option OWSOUND_PORTAUDIO_SUPPORT to activate it. (set it to OFF)

To achieve this work I had to debug and improve the ALSA backend of PhApi
(phmedia-alsa.c) and I had to write a new implementation for owsound
(libs/sound/src/linux). For now this implementation has the responsability
to enumerate ALSA devices and plugins, to handle ALSA mixer and to play sound
files with libsndfile. This implementation will soon handle OSS too, that's
why I have named it "linux".

Unfortunately there are some bad news... PhApi does not handle devices that
are opened in stereo mode and from what I saw most of devices cannot be opened
in mono mode. That's why the only device listed is the default one: you will
see "ALSA: default" in the audio configuration panel of the WengoPhone.
Another bug: when you resume a call that has been held there's no sound. I
will work the next days to get rid on these bugs.

In order to integrate this in (one of) the next release(s) of WengoPhone I
would be very happy if some of you could test this new stuff. Please feel
free to feed our trac on this subject: the appropriate milestone for the
tickets is the "WengoPhone 2.1". And finally, for those who do not compile
the WengoPhone, I have added a new Linux builder on our buildbot with
portaudio support disabled. The related binaries are located here and are
named WengoPhone-2.1-minsizerel-alsa-xxxxxx.tar.bz2

note: tested with libasound2 1.0.11 and 1.0.13 on Debian (etch and lenny) and
ubuntu edgy.
note2: overide your current audio devices settings in the configuration panel
with "ALSA: default".

Cheers,

felix.id.au » SIP in Windows Vista

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:35:20 -0700

OpenWengo in the news

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:16:01 -0700

Interview in Free software Magazine with yours truly and Philippe Bernery

Marco Marongiu interviewed myself and Philippe about OpenWengo, the upcoming WengoPhone release, and our thoughts on the future direction of the project.

Another profile of Dave Neary (me) on linux.com

Back at SCALE 5X in Los Angeles, I sat down with Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeister from linux.com and chewed the fat - the core of this interview came from that discussion, and a follow-up email exchange.

FOSTEL

The conference has arrived, and has been in the news. It's a good opportunity to thank Wengo, ACCESS and Nokia for supporting the event, and for GUUG and Epitech for being great event partners. I'm looking forward to two days of discussion, collaboration, imbibation and general camaraderie. I've been organising the event with Wengo and many of the OpenWengo team will be there this week.

OpenWengo 2.1 rc2

The OpenWengo 2.1 rc2 release got some attention too over the past few weeks. The rc3 (which will hopefully be the final one of those) should be released either next week, or early the following week. We are focussing completely on issues which are affecting the Linux user experience at the moment, which makes me happy.

wengophone.com :: Index

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:57:10 -0700

wengophone.com :: Index

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:07:01 -0700

WengoPhone 2.1 rc2, string freeze, translations

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:33:29 -0700
So we got the WengoPhone 2.1 rc2 release out the door today (after a false start, but that's another story).

There are lots of pretty important fixes in here, including many crasher bugs, and one or two major issues that snuck in just before the rc1 release, so it's definitely worth the upgrade.

There are two other related announcements which I made today. The first is that we are now in a hard string freeze - no strings will be changed in the interface between now and the release of the WengoPhone 2.1.0 (which we will release in a few weeks). Any changes to strings in the interface that absolutely must go in (for example, because they're lying) should go through the devel mailing list for approval, and to alert translators of the change.

The second announcement also concerns translators - because of the numerous problems we've had with Launchpad recently, we will be handling translations directly in SVN with QT Linguist for this release. For the translations which have already been done in Launchpad, I will integrate them manually (it'll give me practice). We do plan to use Launchpad - it definitely does generate a lot of translations, very quickly, with motivated translators. But for this release, I'm going to play it safe, and ensure that we have at least some translations available.

Please let me know if you like the WengoPhone! You can mail the OpenWengo project developers directly at our mailing list or more privately at openwengo at wengo.com - I'm especially interested in hearing from happy customers

OpenWengo

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:31:04 -0700

OpenWengo project's goal is to build Open-Source, community-driven software that addresses the shared needs of Voice Over IP users, by leveraging the many Open Source low-level components available today.

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