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[Didier Barvaux <didier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,


The major version 1.5.0 of the ROHC library is available for download!


== About the ROHC library ==

The ROHC library provides an easy and robust way for applications to
reduce their bandwidth usage on network links with limited capacity or
expensive costs. Headers of network packets are compressed with the
ROHC protocol and algorithms.

The ROHC protocol is very efficient for compressing VoIP streams that
use RTP as transport protocol. ROHC is also suitable for compressing
IP-only (IPv4 or IPv6) flows, UDP flows and many others.

The library is published as Opensource under the GNU GPL2+ license.

See http://rohc-lib.org/ for more details.


== Release notes & changelogs ==

The 1.5.0 version adds support for the ROHC ESP profile, and greatly
improves the portability of the library [1].

Important changes include:
 - Support for ESP profile (provided by FWX).
 - Support for FreeBSD (thanks to Olivier for his help).
 - Support for Microsoft Windows (through MinGW) systems.
 - Better support for ARM and PowerPC platforms (thanks to FWX for his help).
 - Support for the Clang compiler (thanks to Audric for his help).
 - Support for the PCC compiler.

See the release notes and the changelogs [2] for the complete list.

[1] Supported systems: http://rohc-lib.org/wiki/doku.php?id=supported-systems
[2] Release notes: https://launchpad.net/rohc/+milestone/1.5.0#release-notes


== Compatibility with other releases ==

The 1.5.0 release is NOT compatible with all previous 1.3.x or 1.4.x
releases. The format of ROHC packets was changed to be closer to ROHC
standards. The user API is however compatible.

The 1.5.0 release will be compatible with future 1.5.x releases. There
is however no guaranty for the future 1.6.0 release (it will depend on
bugs that are discovered).


== Acknowledgments ==

Many thanks to people for bug reports and/or bug fixes, and more
especially: Ahmed Fathy, Arne, Audric Schiltknecht, FWX, Keith Harry,
Mikhail Gruzdev, Olivier Bonhomme, qingbaibai, and Viveris Technologies.


== Download ==

The source archives and the API documentation are available for
download [3]. Traffic captures used for non-regression tests are
shipped in a separate archive in order to reduce the size of the source
archives.

[3] https://launchpad.net/rohc/+milestone/1.5.0#downloads


== Installation instructions & API documentation ==

The instructions to install the library [4], test it [5] and use it [6]
are available online. The API documentation too [7].

[4] installation: http://rohc-lib.org/wiki/doku.php?id=library-install
[5] testing: http://rohc-lib.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rohc-tunnel
[6] using: http://rohc-lib.org/wiki/doku.php?id=library-first-application
[7] API documentation: http://rohc-lib.org/doc/rohc-doc-1.5.0/


== Feedback ==

Any feedback on this release will be appreciated. You may use the
mailing list to ask questions [8] and the bug tracker to report
problems [9].

[8] mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~rohc
[9] bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rohc/


Regards,
Didier Barvaux

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