Hello All!
2009/10/25 Felix Kaechele felix@fetzig.org:
Hi there, I'm just starting to play with my SIP Phones using OpenSER. I was wondering why there have been no updates to the OpenSER package since it was renamed to Kamailio in version 1.4.0?
There are plans to package sip-router, when it will reach some level of quality, since it's a merge of SER and OpenSER/Kamailio. Also, there is an attempt to package OpenSIPs (another one fork of SER/OpenSER codebase) - take a look here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529831
I did however notice that version 1.4.0 in fact is of an earlier date than version 1.3.4 (which still is named OpenSER and is in Fedora).
1.3.4 is the last stable version of OpenSER. Since ver. 1.4.0 it was rebranded as Kamailio.
So is there an actual difference between OpenSER and Kamailio - other than the name - that prevents us from replacing the OpenSER package with a Kamailio package.
A lots, actually. There are some changes in config-file syntax, in plugins and so on. Every version of OpenSER/Kamailio (1.3.x/1.4.x/1.5.x) is incompatible to some degree with previous one. Fortunately, they can be installed in parallel due to different naming scheme.
The curse of this project is the team/features management issues, which led project to the number of consequent forks (and one merge), which confuses end users a lot. One of popular questions from customers, is "which one from these routers should we choose - SER/OpenSER/OpenSIPs/Kamailio/SIP-Router?". I'm voting for OpenSER 1.3.4 right now - it's stable and it was proved to work reliably. Perhaps, at 2010, we may consider switching to SIP Router.