Software Update: Twinkle 0.8.1

Twinkle is a program that allows you to call other users of this VoIP protocol via SIP. The program is written specifically for the Linux platform and supports both ALSA and OSS. For more information about Twinkle, please refer to this page. The developer has released a new version with 0.8.1 as the version number. The list of changes looks like this:

Release 0.8.1:

• Removed iLBC source code from Twinkle. To use iLBC you can link Twinkle with the ilbc library (ilbc package). When you have the ilbc library installed on your system, then Twinkle’s configure script will automatically setup the Makefiles to link with the library.
• Bug fixes:
  • Name and photo lookups in KAddressbook on incoming calls may freeze Twinkle.
• Build improvements:
  • Added missing includes to userprofile.ui and addressfinder.h
  • Configure has new –without-speex option

Release 0.8:

• iLBC
• Make supplementary service settings persistent
• Lookup name in address book for incoming call
• Display photo from address book of caller on incoming call
• Number conversion rules
• Always popup systray notification (KDE only) on incoming call
• Add organization and subject to incoming call popup
• New call script trigger points: incoming call answered, incoming call failed, outgoing call, outgoing call answered, outgoing call failed, local release, remote release.
• Added ‘end’ parameter for the incoming call script
• Option to provision ALSA and OSS devices that are not in the standard list of devices.
• Option to auto show main window on incoming call
• Resized the user profile window such that it fits on an 800×600 display
• Popup the user profile selection window, when the SIP UDP port is occupied during startup of Twinkle, so the user can change to another port.
• Skip unsupported codecs in user profile during startup
• Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes the NAT discovery window never closed
  • When RTP timestamps wrap around some RTP packets may be discarded
  • When the dial history contains an entry of insane length, the main window becomes insanely large on next startup
  • On rare occasions, Twinkle could respond to an incoming call for a deactivated user profile.
  • Credentials cache did not get erased when a failure response other than 401/407 was received on a REGISTER with credentials.
  • G.711 enocders amplified soft noise from the microphone.
• Newly supported RFCs:
  • RFC 3951 – Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC)
  • RFC 3952 – Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC) Speech
• Build Notes:
  • New dependency on libboost-regex (boost package)