HylaFAX 6.0.0 released

Posted byTruong Anh TuanPosted inAnnouncements, HylaFax

ANNOUNCE

The HylaFAX development team is pleased to announce the first release of HylaFAX 6.0.  HylaFAX 6.0 contains lots of new development and features that have accumulated in CVS for the past year since HylaFAX 4.4 was branched off for stable maintenance.

Our sincerest thanks go to all who participate in the development and testing process.

The source code for this release is available from our FTP site: ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source/testing/hylafax-6.0.0.tar.gz

MD5SUM: 716de4f44b2a18205b4b24135f307e23  hylafax-6.0.0.tar.gz

SHA1SUM: f8020efcd48d17f5728d5bb0e6b46df2cd4b8ad2  hylafax-6.0.0.tar.gz

HylaFAX 6.0 introduces several new features for HylaFAX:

  • PCL Support
  • hfaxd can sort list output (like sendq) arbitrarily for clients
  • I18n: HylaFAX client strings are now translated and available in different languages
  • IPv6 support
  • New permissions in hfaxd to allow for more admin control on who can see/modify jobs/faxes (see PublicJobQ/JobProtection/PublicRecvQ)
  • Powerful page range handling capabilities
  • Better faxq/notify integration as well as many improvements to the T.30 protocol code.

There are only 2 differences to note if you’re upgrading from HylaFAX 4.4 or older, neither of which are likely to affect many users:

  1. If you have clients that still use the old protocol (not the common FTP style protocol), they will no longer work with the new hfaxd daemon.
  2. The notification email mechanism no longer sends “blocked” emails by default, as the jobs are not being requeued, or done.  To continue receiving them, you’ll need to configure it accordingly in FaxNotify.

The full set of release notes is browsable: http://git.hylafax.org/HylaFAX?a=blob;f=doc/RELEASENOTES-6.0.txt;hb=HYLAFAX-6_0_0

HYLAFAX BINARY PACKAGES

Binary packages for some operating systems and platforms are available. Please see:

ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary/
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Binary_Packages
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Binary_Package_Install

If you are able and willing to produce a binary package of HylaFAX for general distribution and one is not already available for your platform/OS, then you are invited to add it to the Binary_Packages wiki page above.

SUPPORT

HylaFAX has numerous public support resources available.  The user is encouraged to utilize the manpage documentation before turning to other support arenas.  However, if other support is desired, or if you would like to actively take part in the HylaFAX community, you are invited to:

– what version of HylaFAX you have,
– what system you’re running on (if it is Linux please name the distribution),
– if the problem is modem-related, identify it and the firmware rev For example: “HylaFAX 6.0.0 under CentOS 5.3 with gcc 4.3.1; ZyXEL 1496E with 6.11a firmware.”

    Thanks,

    The HylaFAX development team