Month: August 2012

2.0.7  is finished and has been submitted to Apple. Barring any unexpected hiccups, expect to see it in the store in about a week

The Jingle VOIP functions in Monal use JRTPlib by Jori Liesenborgs for the RTP communication. VOIP wouldn’t have been possible without it.  Thanks Jori for making this fantastic library free.

I am now testing Monal on all of my iOS devices. This is the final change log for 2.0.7 . Nothing will be added until 2.0.8

2.0.7 changelog

This is a major update that adds many features and fixes bugs.

1. Added XMPP jingle VOIP features. (XEP-0166)
2. Remains open in the background until you logout or lose connection
3. Many major bugfixes to improve stability and speed
4. Several UI enhancements/cosmetic changes
5. Removed AIM support due to AOL turning off supported servers
6. Added more retina graphics
7. Added tap gesture to dismiss keyboard
8. Added improved 2 pane iPad view in portrait mode
9. Properly times out when connection fails
10. Closing an active chat marks the messages as read
11. Properly able to handle resource ids and other users logged into multiple machines
12. Fixed digest-md5
13. Fixed Facebook login

2.0.7  is feature complete and I am testing for bugs. I hope to have it submitted to Apple in a week. This will be the first release with XMPP jingle VOIP enabled.   The voice calling is still not perfect so I have left the Beta label on the button.  At the moment it does not use STUN or do any NAT traversal. If both people are on the same network or not behind NAT it will work fine. I hope to fix this in 2.0.8.

The call button will only show up if the other client advertises XMPP jingle audio support.

A quick peek behind the curtain. As  many people are curious about the progress of  the next release, this is my current task list.  The critical features are absolutely needed for 2.0.7 release. The nice to have ones might get added. Some are pretty low hanging fruit.  At the moment it looks like we are set for a late August/ early September release for 2.0.7 followed by 2.0.8 about a month later with much of the features that are in nice to have.

2.0.7 changelog so far.
This is a major update that adds many features and fixes bugs.
1. Added XMPP jingle VOIP features.
2. Remains open in the background until you logout
3. major bugfixes to improve stability
4. several UI enhancements/cosmetic changes
5. Removed AIM support due to AOL turning off servers
6. added more retina graphics
7. added tap gesture to dismiss keyboard
4. added improved 2 pane iPad view in portrait mode

This is easily  most complicated things I’ve ever written since college.   Core audio on ios kicked my butt and took me days  to figure it out and a networking error with RTP drove me nuts for a few more days.   I’ve never worked with RTP or audio before, so the whole exercise was highly educational.

As many of you may know I have been working on adding XMPP Jingle to the next release. The last two nights ive been up all night trying to get a RTP packet to go from one host to another. Everything looked ok but for some reason VOIP wouldnt work.  I’ve been sniffing my network looking for packets  and kept gettin 100% loss.  Host is sending out but nothing comes in the other end.   I just  noticed what was wrong.    Look at this packet capture log. Notice something odd about the second IP address? It should be 192.168.1.45