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The HylaFAX development team often asks other developers and advanced HylaFAX users to test upcoming software releases. As these are beta versions of software they will contain bugs and should not be used on production servers.
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The HylaFAX development team often asks other developers and interested HylaFAX users to test upcoming software releases. As these are beta versions of software they may contain more bugs than usual, and should probably not be used on production servers if your job depends on the performance of that server!
  
==Current beta release==
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=Reporting Bugs=
ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/BETA/hylafax-4.2.5rc3.tar.gz
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The HylaFAX Bugzilla is located at [http://bugs.hylafax.org/ http://bugs.hylafax.org/]. Please file a bug report there if you can. If you prefer to send a message to the [[Mailing Lists]] to discuss the problem, we encourage you to subscribe to hylafax-devel@hylafax.org and post it there. The hylafax-users mailing list will also reach many of the right people, and is the next best thing if subscribing to -devel and filing a bug report seem like too much trouble. Bottom line - we want your bugs!!
  
===Notes===
 
The changes from 4.2.5rc2 are:
 
  
* change notify to not rely on echo -e (BUG 724) (11 Jan 2005)
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=Current release candidate=
* add prototype config catch for Digicom Leonardo modems (11 Jan 2005)
 
 
  
==Previous beta release==
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There is no current release candidate for the development branch.
ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/BETA/hylafax-4.2.5rc2.tar.gz
 
  
===Notes===
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==New features of particular note==
The changes from 4.2.5rc1 are relatively minor cleanups:
 
  
* make sure probemodem removes lock files (BUG 691) (9 Jan 2005)
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None yet.
* portability cleanup to MemoryDecoder.c++ (BUG 224) (9 Jan 2005)
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==Changelog==
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A complete list of changes since HylaFAX 6.0 was branched off for stable maintenance is available in the [http://git.hylafax.org/HylaFAX?a=blob;f=doc/RELEASENOTES-GIT.txt;hb=master HylaFAX GIT release notes]
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=Current stable branches release candidates=
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These releases are maintenance releases, and do not contain any new
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features or functionality, but only contain bugfixes.
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There currently are release candidates for the following stable branches:
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6.0.4-rc2 [ [ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/testing/hylafax-6.0.4-rc2.tar.gz Source] ] [ [http://git.hylafax.org/HylaFAX?a=blob;f=doc/RELEASENOTES-6.0.txt;hb=6.0 Release Notes] ]
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4.4.6-rc2 [ [ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/testing/hylafax-4.4.6-rc2.tar.gz Source] ] [ [http://git.hylafax.org/HylaFAX?a=blob;f=doc/RELEASENOTES-4.4.txt;hb=4.4 Release Notes] ]
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4.3.9-rc2 [ [ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/testing/hylafax-4.3.9-rc2.tar.gz Source] ] [ [http://git.hylafax.org/HylaFAX?a=blob;f=CHANGES;hb=4.3 Release Notes] ]
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Please refer to our [[Red_Hat_Packages]] page for a source RPM that should build on most Red Hat, Fedora and SuSE distributions.
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==Changelog==
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A complete list of changes since 6.0.3/4.4.5/4.3.8 is as follows:
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* Class1: ECM page and block count should be sent as modulus. (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
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* faxsend: Class1 1 ECM when skipping pages needs to be more careful (6.0)
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* Class1: Initialize blockNumber (4.3, 4,4)
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* hfaxd: log what address(es) we're listing on when starting (6.0)
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* Update releasenotes and documentation re IPv6 support (6.0)
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* hfaxd:  Cleanup uid initialization and theoretical overflow (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
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* Class1: Initialize blockNumber (4.3, 4,4)
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* Str::vformat()  Don't reuse va_args (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
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* PageHandling:  Fix handling of large blank areas (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
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* faxq: Don't assert on bad FIFO messages (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
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* Page sent protocol trace fixes (6.0)
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* Don't duplicate any file in a release tarball (6.0)
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* IPv6: Rework initial bind (6.0)
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* Some CVS-GIT cleanups/release notes (6.0)
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* pagesend: Fix broken switch statement (6.0)
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* nls: Add German translation (6.0)
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* Add support for libtiff 3.9 (6.0)
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* Updated RPM dependencies (6.0)

Latest revision as of 20:52, 18 December 2009

The HylaFAX development team often asks other developers and interested HylaFAX users to test upcoming software releases. As these are beta versions of software they may contain more bugs than usual, and should probably not be used on production servers if your job depends on the performance of that server!

Reporting Bugs

The HylaFAX Bugzilla is located at http://bugs.hylafax.org/. Please file a bug report there if you can. If you prefer to send a message to the Mailing Lists to discuss the problem, we encourage you to subscribe to hylafax-devel@hylafax.org and post it there. The hylafax-users mailing list will also reach many of the right people, and is the next best thing if subscribing to -devel and filing a bug report seem like too much trouble. Bottom line - we want your bugs!!


Current release candidate

There is no current release candidate for the development branch.

New features of particular note

None yet.

Changelog

A complete list of changes since HylaFAX 6.0 was branched off for stable maintenance is available in the HylaFAX GIT release notes

Current stable branches release candidates

These releases are maintenance releases, and do not contain any new features or functionality, but only contain bugfixes.

There currently are release candidates for the following stable branches:


6.0.4-rc2 [ Source ] [ Release Notes ]

4.4.6-rc2 [ Source ] [ Release Notes ]

4.3.9-rc2 [ Source ] [ Release Notes ]


Please refer to our Red_Hat_Packages page for a source RPM that should build on most Red Hat, Fedora and SuSE distributions.


Changelog

A complete list of changes since 6.0.3/4.4.5/4.3.8 is as follows:

  • Class1: ECM page and block count should be sent as modulus. (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
  • faxsend: Class1 1 ECM when skipping pages needs to be more careful (6.0)
  • Class1: Initialize blockNumber (4.3, 4,4)
  • hfaxd: log what address(es) we're listing on when starting (6.0)
  • Update releasenotes and documentation re IPv6 support (6.0)
  • hfaxd: Cleanup uid initialization and theoretical overflow (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
  • Class1: Initialize blockNumber (4.3, 4,4)
  • Str::vformat() Don't reuse va_args (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
  • PageHandling: Fix handling of large blank areas (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
  • faxq: Don't assert on bad FIFO messages (4.3, 4.4, 6.0)
  • Page sent protocol trace fixes (6.0)
  • Don't duplicate any file in a release tarball (6.0)
  • IPv6: Rework initial bind (6.0)
  • Some CVS-GIT cleanups/release notes (6.0)
  • pagesend: Fix broken switch statement (6.0)
  • nls: Add German translation (6.0)
  • Add support for libtiff 3.9 (6.0)
  • Updated RPM dependencies (6.0)

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