Just in time for the Christmas tree, we present to you the new release of Smartswitch: 9.3.

As usual, this release focused on fixing known bugs.
At the same time, several useful new features were added.
Fundamental internal changes, invisible to the user, were also made, which will allow for further development of the product.

Major changes:

• The operating system version has been updated to FreeBSD 13.5.
  This allows the system to be installed on the most modern servers.
• Smartswitch can now use the LibreOffice office suite for document import/export
  The Gnumeric office suite, which has been used for many years, is still supported and used by the system by default.
  LibreOffice allows you to open document types that are not supported by Gnumeric, or documents that would not display correctly in Gnumeric.
  A specific office suite can be selected in any Import/Export Template.
• MariaDB is now used as the database engine.
  Prior to this, MySQL was used for 18 years.
  After the ownership change in 2008, MySQL gradually began to evolve in a direction we didn't like.
  For example, recent versions of MySQL removed functionality we'd used for many years and didn't provide an adequate replacement, making it impossible to upgrade to the latest MySQL version in Smartswitch.
  MariaDB, in turn, emerged in 2009 as a fork and full-fledged replacement for MySQL, and currently the latest version contains all the features Smartswitch uses, so switching to MariaDB seems like the most appropriate solution.
• The Wt web framework, which powers the web interface, has been updated to release 4.11.2.
  
• PJSIP technology stabilization.
  The PJSIP channel was added in version 9.0, four years ago.
  However, clients have only recently begun to use it intensively.
  PJSIP has proven to be much more productive than the old SIP channel, which has proven very useful for handling CC traffic.
  PJSIP can handle up to 5,000 SIP requests/responses per second on a single server, while the old SIP channel begins to experience problems at levels of 500-700 SIP requests/responses per second.
• Added graphs for the number of requests per second for SIP, PJSIP, and SMPP.
  Also added a display of the most active IP addresses, updated in real time.
  This allows for a better response to server overload situations caused by excessive traffic, and to determine whether the load is coming from authorized clients or botnet attacks.
• Added new commands for Integration With Telegram
• Several improvements and fixes for Queues (call center functionality) and predictive dialing.
• Added a new feature Call Cancellation Profiles

In total, the release contains:

• 36 improvements
• 80 fixes

You can see the full list of changes here.

We are glad to present you a new 9.2 release of Smartswitch.

In this release, the main emphasis was on polishing the existing functionality, fixing bugs and optimizing speed.

Main changes:

• The operating system version has been updated to FreeBSD 13.3.
  This allows you to install the system on the most modern servers.
• QtWebEngine is now used to generate PDF documents instead of the outdated QtWebKit.
  This reduced the time it takes to generate PDF documents from 60 seconds to less than 5 seconds.
• The Wt web framework on which the web interface is based has been updated to release from the newest branch 4.
  This required significant reworking of the program code to comply with the new APIs of this library.
  Prior to this, for more than 10 years, versions from the older branch 3, which is no longer supported by the manufacturer, had been used.
  
• several improvements for SMS billing

In total the release contains:

• 52 improvements
• 132 fixes

You can view the full list of changes here.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
May you and your family have a safe and happy new year!

Technical support specialist will be available online with following schedule:

• 27.12 - 30.12: usual schedule, 10:00 - 19:00 Kyiv time (08:00 - 17:00 GMT)
• 31.12: 10:00 - 16:00 Kyiv time (08:00 - 14:00 GMT)
• 01.01 - 02.01: days off
• 03.01 - 07.01: usual schedule, 10:00 - 19:00 Kyiv time (08:00 - 17:00 GMT)
• 08.01 - 09.01: days off

We are glad to introduce to you new 9.1 release of Smartswitch.

In this release:

• the installation image now uses newer GPT scheme to partition the disk.
  It's needed for newer servers which use UEFI to boot.
  Previously we used old MBR scheme, because older FreeBSD releases reported issues when we attempted to use GPT and software RAID.
  Latest FreeBSD release doesn't have such an issue.
• Asterisk version has been updated to 16.19.0
• Database connector has been replaced with the official one.
  Back in 2007, when we started, there've been no official MySQL C++ connector.
  Recently we started getting intermittent issues related to database access.
  Fortunately, nowadays there is the official MySQL C++ connector available.
  Thus, we've moved to it and spent a few months stabilizing it and fixing the most serios issues.
  We plan to continue the stabilization of smaller issues which will be reported by our customers during the next whole year.
  
• the SMPP store and forward mode has been added.
  It's useful for peers which might disconnect and then reconnect back in a few hours.
  Without this mode, we don't deliver Delivery Receipts to peer which is currently disconnected.
• now we support new AmoCRM OAUTH 2.0 authentication out of the box
• storing audio-recordings in stereo mode has been implemented

The total release contains:

• 41 improvements
• 46 fixes

You can view the full list of changes here.

We are glad to introduce to you new 9.0 release of Smartswitch.

In this release:

• the operating system version has been updated to FreeBSD 12.2
• Asterisk version has been updated to 16
• added support for alternative stack for SIP - PJSIP.
  This stack has a number of new features over the old SIP stack and allows for optimal utilization of the power of the new multi-core servers.
• old H323 stack has been removed.
  For H.323 connections, an alternative version of the stack can be used - OH323.
• for the SMPP channel we added support of:
  • SSL/TLS transport
  • HLR over SMPP
• the routing system was reworked and Routing based on telephone traffic target metrics has been implemented
• for the ICE API we have greatly improved the documentation

The total release contains:

• 58 improvements
• 53 fixes

You can view the full list of changes here.