New in X-Ekiga 4.0.0 (Apr 24, 2013)
- New Features and Improvements:
- Completely new user interface with improved roster, separate call window and improved chat window and accounts window
- Fixes in the call history
- Themeable icons
- Better GNOME 3 integration with improved notifications and tray icon removal
- Add a new assistant page with an introduction to accounts
- Reduced startup time
- New PulseAudio plugin
- New audio codecs: SILK (used by skype), G.722.1 (aka Siren 7), G.722.2 (aka GSM-AMR Wide band)
- Video codecs changes: H.264 optimisations
- Added RTP TOS support
- Call auto-answer
- Partial support for handling multiple video streams (H.239)
- Improve audio accuracy on some audio cards
- Various usability fixes:
- hitting enter in the roster will trigger a call,
- added mnemonics to various parts of the UI,
- improved Enter key usage in chat (use shift-Enter for soft Enter),
- optimized UI for small screens,
- added several tooltips
- Improved notifications when detecting a new audio device
- Converted many dependencies as plugins: evolution-data-server, avahi, ldap, ...
- Many fixes in the experimental Jabber/XMPP and GStreamer plugins
- Fixes in the LDAP plugin
- Several HIG strings related fixes
- Updated manual
- SIP Support:
- Various SIP interoperability fixes
- Added SIP Service-Route header support (RFC 3608)
- Various SIP/SIMPLE presence related fixes
- Fixed registration to broken registrars
- Unregister all accounts on quit
- Publish offline presence on quit
- Refresh NAT bindings with SIP OPTIONS requests
- Support for DNS SRV caching
- Various Build Fixes:
- Add arm-linux-gnueabihf (armhf) and GNU/Hurd support
- Fixed modern FreeBSD compilation
- Added support for recent evolution-data-server, GTK 2.x, OPAL, PTLIB, libavcodec, libx264, libnotify libraries, autoconf and removed deprecated methods
- Moved from sigc++ to boost
- Windows Port Fixes:
- Support mingw-w64 and its own headers for building the WIN32 release
- Allow execution from Start->Execute menu
- Reduced startup time
- Distributor-Visible Changes:
- New dependency: libv4l-dev (for HAL video hotplugging)
- New dependency: gnome-icon-theme
- libavcodec5x and gnome-icon-theme must be manually set as runtime dependencies, since they are loaded during runtime
- libnotify and avahi are now plugins
- For a better user experience, Ekiga developers highly recommend the libnotify plugin to be automatically packaged with Ekiga.
- Translation Updates:
- Updated translations: ar, as, ast, bg, bn_IN, ca, ca@valencia, cs, da, de, en@GB, en@shaw, es, el, eo, et, eu, fi, fr, gl, gu, he, hi, hu, id, it, ja, kn, kk, ko, lt, lv, ml, mr, nb, nn, or, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr@latin, sv, ta, th, tr, ug, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
- Removed obsolete translations: be
- Updated help translations: de, el, es, sl uk, zh_CN