Osmocom Review 2017¶

January 2017¶

• announce of first ever public [[OsmoCon:]] conference in April
• osmo-bts
  • Add Abis OML failure event reporting
  • fix memory leaks in osmo-bts-{sysmo,lc15} at every channel activation
• openbsc/osmo-bsc
  • support multiple UARFCNs in SI2quater
• osmo-hlr
  • add test suite for 2G and 3G authentication
  • fix UMTS AKA re-sync

February 2017¶

• weekly manual testing with related weekly test reports to mailing list
• heads-up about the (lack of a )future of osmo-nitb
• heads-up about libosmo-sccp SIGTRAN work
• sysmo-usim-tool
• libosmo-abis
  • unix domain socket support (for Ericsson L2TP)
• osmo-bts
  • fix AMR HR DTX FSM logic
  • fix SACCH sending fo system information with enum value > 7
  • osmo-bts-trx: fix RXGAIN and POWER parameters on second TRX
  • fix TCH/H interleaving table bit position
  • sysmoBTS 1020/1100: slow power ramp-up on TRX enable
• osmo-sgsn
  • fix PDP context activation memory allocation bug
  • integrate support for UMTS AKA
• openggsn
  • fix kernel-gtp tunnel creation/removal for GTPv1
  • release 0.93

March 2017¶

• cgit improvements (about page, change-ID hyperlinks, issue hyperlinks)
• Add README.md files to all our repositories
• libosmocore
  • migrate gsm 05.03 coding from OsmoBTS to libosmocore
  • fix SQN / SEQ handling in UMTS AKA
  • 3GPP AoIP message encoding/decoding
• libosmo-abis
  • fix ever-increasing jitter buffer
• libosmo-netif
  • handle SCTP in in stream server
  • doxygen documentation on stream an datagram modules
• osmo-bts
  • octphy: CBCH support
  • include MS timing offset in RSL measurements
• osmo-sgsn
  • handle IMSIs with leading zeroes
• osmo-bsc
  • fix T3186 encoding in SI13
  • Improved Ericsson OM2000/RBS2000 support
  • new ctrl2soap proxy in python
• osmo-hlr
  • add CTRL interface
  • fix SQN/SEQ handling in UMTS AKA

April 2017¶

• update of coding style for longer line lengths
• OsmoCon2017 and OsmoDevCon2017
• libosmocore
  • control interface for osmo_fsm
• libosmo-netif
  • fix file descriptor leak in error paths
  • work around linux kenrel SCTP bug with sender_dry_events
  • RTP marker bit support
• libosmo-sccp
  • Add new [[libosmo-sigtran:]] library with SS7 AS/ASP Link/Linkset handling, M3UA support, new FSM based SCCP implementation
  • Add osmo-stp program
• osmo-bts
  • inform BSC of PCU disconnect
  • fix measurement reporting period
  • exclude idle channels from uplink measurement processing
  • octphy: measurement reports

May 2017¶

• libosmocore
  • fix embedded builds
  • import and generalise 'sercomm' from osmocom-bb into libosmocore
  • SSE optimized convolutional coder
  • fix wrong GSM FR codec SID frame generation
  • doxygen docs for libosmocoding
• osmo-bsc
  • TS 04.14 mobile station side loop control
• osmo-bts
  • consistently check all RSL and OML TLVs for minimum length value
  • fix bit-order in every HR codec parameter (spec compliance)
  • OML get/set attribute handling
  • SI2quater support
  • bypass radio link timeout for lab testing
• osmo-bsc
  • PCU socket support for BSC-colocated PCU for Ericsson RBS2000
  • reelase 1.0.1
• M3UA and SUA testing as part of jenkins
• osmo-gsm-tester produces successful runs with NITB as well as new AoIP

June 2017¶

• libosmocore
  • doxygen autobrief
  • doxygen documentation for libosmogb
• osmo-bts
  • use CLOCK_MONOTONIC timer for GSM frame timer
  • PDTCH loopback support

July 2017¶

• Plan for openbsc.git split and code review
• libosmocore
  • PDP charging characteristics in GSUP
  • PRBS sequence generators
  • multicast IP related helper functions
  • 'make release' target
• libosmo-sccp
  • SCCP address book
• osmo-bts
  • new virtual BTS osmo-bts-virtual for testing without radio hardware
  • don't send dummy UI frames on unused BCCH slots on TC=5
  • GSMTAP: don't log/send fill frames consisting of only padding
• osmo-hlr
  • change to default GSUP port 4222

August 2017¶

• Support for SMPP Delivery Receipt / GSM03.40 Status Report
• Jenkins now executing M3UA, SUA and GGSN testsuite
• libosmocore
  • fix crash in lapd_est_req()
• libosmo-abis
  • release 0.4.0
• osmo-bts
  • osmo-bts-trx: fix MS power control loop
  • release 0.6.0
  • support sending/removing SI13 to/from PCU
• osmo-bsc
  • indicate R99+ MSC in SI3 to enable UMTS AKA over GERAN
• osmo-sgsn
  • properly report GERAN/UTRAN mode in PDP CTX ACT REQ to GGSN
• osmo-msc
  • implement IuCS support
  • split openbsc.git into osmo-bsc.git, osmo-msc.git and osmo-sgsn.git
• openggsn
  • Add IPv6 address pool and IPV6 user (inner) plane support
  • release 0.94

September 2017¶

• libosmocore.git
  • 'show talloc-context' VTY introspection
  • CTRL parsing unit tests
  • unification of vty exit/end commands
• osmo-hlr
  • CTRL interface tests
• openggsn
  • various cleanups and conversion to osmocom style/apis
  • fork osmo-ggsn from openggsn; obsolete openggsn
• osmo-ggsn
  • release 1.0.0
  • allow enable/disable of G-PDU sequence numbers on ggsn and sgsnemu
  • sgsnemu: Add IPv6 PDP context support

October 2017¶

• new 'osmocom:latest' package feed
• libosmocore.git
  • major doxygen documentation re-work / completion
  • dynamic registration of CTRL node-ids by applications
  • ability to bind Gb interface to specific IP
  • enforce CTRL-capable identifiers in osmo_fsm and counter group names
  • release of 0.10.0 + 0.10.1
  • add osmo_get_rand_id() function with getrandom() and GnuTLS fallback
• libosmo-netif.git
  • release 0.1.0 and 0.1.1
• libosmo-sccp.git
  • release 0.8.0 and 0.8.1
• osmo-bts
  • don't require gsm_data_shared.[ch] from openbsc.git anymore
  • fix multiple subsequent SI1quater BCCH FILLING from BSC
  • fix AMR DTX FSM name to avoid invalid characters in name/identifier
  • release 0.7.0
• osmo-bsc
  • release 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
• osmo-hlr
  • replace/reimplement CTRL interface commands
  • release 0.1.0
• osmo-sgsn
  • release 1.2.0
• osmo-msc
  • release 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
  • ensure we default to enable TMSI allocation
• osmo-ggsn
  • release 1.1.0

November 2017¶

• LimeSDR support in osmocom package feeds
• Add SPDX License identifiers in library projects
• libosmocore
  • fix SSE3 optimization on non-SSSE3 machines
  • fix memory leaks in various unit tests for memory leak ebugging
  • add counter group introspection via CTRL
  • release 0.10.2
• libosmo-netif
  • fix another file descriptor leak in stream server implementation
• libosmo-sccp.git
  • More complete IPA/SCCPlite support, osmo-stp can now convert M3UA to SCCPlite
• osmo-bts
  • don't abort if oversized RTP packets are received
• osmo-bsc
  • migrate from osmo-bsc_mgcp to osmo-mgw for switching user plane
  • more SI2quater fixes
  • report per-BTS connection state and uptime in VTY + CTRL
• osmo-ggsn
  • various improvements in kernel GTP support

December 2017¶

• libosmocore
  • improvements of XML export for VTY command reference generation
• osmo-bts
  • put useful information in RTCP SDES
• osmo-bsc
  • move lots of counters / KPIs from BSC level down to per-BTS granularity
  • reduce T3101 default from 10s to 3s
  • generate mandatory SI2bis and SI2ter rest octets (on RSL; Um was always fine)
  • reduce T3113 from 60s to 10s
  • various new per-BTS counters
• osmo-msc
  • SMS database related fixes
  • properly set permitted ciphering algorithms in BSSMAP Cipher Mode Command
  • fix GSM-Milenage in presence of 2G keys
• osmo-ggsn
  • fix byte order in IPCP IPV4 DNS server addresses