News and notes are back after a brief hiatus last week. We (the FreeSWITCH team) were in Milwaukee last week and we appreciated being fed by the community. Thank you! We love this community.

It seems the big news last week came courtesy of our friend Kristian Kielhofner. As reported in this blog post, Kristian ran into a rather unusual set of circumstances that resulted in Packets of Death for some Intel NICs. In addition to being Slashdotted, Kristian's research ended up being featured in a Wired.com story. Don't forget to read Kristian's update post that includes information about Intel's response to the whole situation.

This week things will start to return to normal with our weekly conference call. We are going to spend a few weeks talking about various FreeSWITCH GUIs, starting with the CudaTel. For the past four years or so we've been building the CudaTel Communication Server and we'd like to show off some of the cool things it can do.

We have two other news items. The first one has to do with mod_ha_cluster, which our very own Eliot Gable is building. Financial support for this open-source module will be done through FreeSWITCH Solutions. An interesting discussion can be found in this email thread. The other item comes from Ken Rice who has some updates on Jira and ZRTP. Check out his mailing list post for more information.

Have a great week and we'll talk to you on Wednesday.