Welcome to the last Monday of September 2012!<br><br>We've had quite the
interesting week. Perhaps the most interesting item the team dealt with
was a vulnerability in the Sofia SIP stack that would cause a
segmentation fault while processing a specially crafted SIP message.
Just to show you how nimble the FreeSWITCH developers are, from the time the vulnerability was reported it took less
than a day to fix, test, and roll a new version of FreeSWITCH. We
encourage everyone on 1.2 to get updated to <a href="http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.3.tar.bz2" target="_blank">version 1.2.3</a>
as soon as possible. (The fix is also in the 1.3 development branch as
of last Wednesday, September 19.) We tip our hats to Anthony and the rest
of the <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FreeSwitch_FAQ#Q:_So_where_do_I_find_wishlists_for_the_developers_of_this_awesome_software.3F" target="_blank">dev team</a> for their hard work on our behalf.<br>
<br>Last week's <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_19" target="_blank">conference call</a> was also very informative. We received an introduction to the <a href="http://resiprocate.org/About_Repro">repro SIP proxy</a> software. We look forward to <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_26" target="_blank">this coming Wednesday</a>
where Scott Godin and Daniel Pocock will continue the discussion and
will get deeper into how to set up the proxy and use it with FreeSWITCH.
If you haven't already tried to install repro please do so. Daniel has a
nice <a href="http://www.opentelecoms.org/using-repro-with-asterisk-or-freeswitch" target="_blank">tutorial</a> over at OpenTelecoms.org - be sure to check it out and bring your questions on Wednesday.<br>
<br>Finally, we'd like to draw your attention to this <a href="http://blog.krisk.org/2012/09/freeswitch-stable-branch-sponsored-by.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> by long time FreeSWITCH and open source telephony supporter Kristian Kielhofner. Kristian reports that his company, <a href="http://www.star2star.com/" target="_blank">Star2Star Communications</a>,
is sponsoring the FreeSWITCH stable branch by giving direct financial
support to the project. This allows for a full-time team member to work
on things like the stable branch and packaging as well as community
interaction and documentation. We appreciate those who support
FreeSWITCH and open source telephony! <br>
<br>Have a good week and we'll see you again in October.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael S Collins<br>Twitter: @mercutioviz<br><a href="http://www.FreeSWITCH.org" target="_blank">http://www.FreeSWITCH.org</a><br><a href="http://www.ClueCon.com" target="_blank">http://www.ClueCon.com</a><br>
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