About Kamailio (OpenSER) SIP Server project

On the 28th of July, 2008, due to trademark issues related to OPENSER word, the OpenSER project changed the name in KAMAILIO. The wiki page for the old project name is still available at: OpenSER.

Kamailio is an Open Source, GPL2, SIP Server Routing Platform. It is written in C for Linux/Unix plaforms and focuses on performance, flexibility and security.

On Nov 04, 2008, Kamailio and SIP Express Router have started the SIP Router Project.

Latest version: v1.5.0 - see release notes

Web links

• Home page with new project name: http://www.kamailio.org
• Home page with old project name: http://www.openser-project.org
• SourceForge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openser/
• SVN Code repository: http://openser.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openser/

News

• SIP Router Cfg - VIM Syntax Highlighting (20 Jun 2009 | 8:20 am PDT)
• SIP Router Bug Tracker (11 Jun 2009 | 7:55 am PDT)
• Asterisk SIP Masterclass Summer 2009 (8 Jun 2009 | 11:30 pm PDT)
• SIP Router IRC channel (27 May 2009 | 7:52 am PDT)
• SIP Router Users Mailing List (18 May 2009 | 10:27 am PDT)
• SIP Router Ready for Testing (15 May 2009 | 10:25 am PDT)
• SIP Router Online Documentation (14 May 2009 | 10:24 am PDT)
• Amoocon 2009 Presentation (5 May 2009 | 3:21 am PDT)
• SIP Router Development Project Suggestions (30 Apr 2009 | 3:16 am PDT)
• Kamailio v1.5.1 Released (29 Apr 2009 | 1:26 pm PDT)
• More Amoocon 2009 (28 Apr 2009 | 7:29 am PDT)
• Spanish Mailing List For SIP-Router (22 Apr 2009 | 8:27 am PDT)
• AmooCon 2009 (17 Apr 2009 | 2:50 am PDT)
• Kamailio (OpenSER) Modules Integration to SIP-Router.org (15 Apr 2009 | 2:52 am PDT)
• SIP Router Masterclass - April 2009 (20 Mar 2009 | 4:54 am PDT)
• ROSDEV 2009 (18 Mar 2009 | 4:56 am PDT)
• New Module MemCached (11 Mar 2009 | 8:18 am PDT)
• Kamailio (OpenSER) v1.5.0 Released (2 Mar 2009 | 9:40 am PST)
• SIREMIS v0.9.1 Released (11 Feb 2009 | 5:25 am PST)
• FOSDEM2009 - Photos (9 Feb 2009 | 5:22 am PST)
• Kamailio (OpenSER) 1.5.0 - Code frozen (29 Jan 2009 | 5:19 am PST)
• SIREMIS Project Launched (21 Jan 2009 | 10:17 am PST)
• Kamailio (OpenSER) 2008 Awards (20 Jan 2009 | 8:51 am PST)
• Send SIP Messages From Config File (15 Jan 2009 | 2:31 pm PST)
• FOSDEM 2009 - Social Networking Event (14 Jan 2009 | 2:27 pm PST)

Kamailio Headlines

2009

• 2009-06-22 - Asterisk and Kamailio SIP Masterclass, Summer 2009
• 2009-04-29 - Kamailio (OpenSER) v1.5.1 is out - a patch release to branch 1.5
• 2009-03-25 - Kamailio (OpenSER) v1.4.4 is out - a patch release to branch 1.4
• 2009-03-02 - Kamailio (OpenSER) v1.5.0 is out - a new major release
• 2009-02-10 - SIP Router Masterclass, Sweden, April 20-24, 2009 - first training class dedicated to Kamailio (OpenSER) and SIP Express Router (SER)
• 2009-02-07 - Social Networking Meeting in Brussels, at FOSDEM2009 - details here
• 2009-01-21 - SIREMIS - Web Management Interface for Kamailio (OpenSER)

2008

• 2008-12-16 - Kamailio v1.4.3 Released
• 2008-11-04 - SIP-Router.org Project Launched
• 2008-08-07 - Kamailio v1.4.0 Released
• 2008-08-04 - OpenSIPS announced - a forked project from Kamailio pre-release 1.4.0
• 2008-07-28 - OpenSER renamed to Kamailio - Email announcement here

Release Series

• 1.5.x
  • 1.5.0 - due to end of Feb 2009 (testing phase started Jan 29, 2009)
  • more details here
• 1.4.x
  • 1.4.0 - Aug 07, 2008 - v1.4.0 Release Notes
  • 1.4.3 - Dec 16, 2008
• 1.3.x
  • 1.3.0 - Dec 13, 2007 - v1.3.0 Release Notes
  • 1.3.4 - Nov 24, 2008
• 1.2.x
  • 1.2.0 - Mar 12, 2007 - v1.2.0 Release Notes
• 1.1.x
  • 1.1.0 - Jul 10, 2006 - v1.1.0 Release Notes
• 1.0.x
  • 1.1.0 - Oct 28, 2005 - First version with TLS
• 0.9.x
  • 0.9.4 - Jun 14, 2005 - Initial version of Kamailio (OpenSER)

Download

• Main download page - http://www.kamailio.org/mos/view/Download/
• SVN Repository - https://openser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openser

Features

• SIP proxy/registrar/redirect server (RFC3261, RFC3263)
• UDP/TCP/TLS/SCTP support
• Transactional stateful proxy
• Modular architecture
• Programmable configuration file
• ENUM support
• Call Processing Language (CPL)
• Gateway to sms or xmpp
• Authentication, authorization and accounting via Radius or database
• NAT traversal system
• Least cost routing
• Load balancing
• Carrier routing
• Multiple database backends: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, BDB or flat files
• SIMPLE Presence Server (IETF SIMPLE extensions - rich presence)
• Dialog Info Presence - SLA/BLA
• XCAP and RLS
• Presence User Agent
• Dialog Stateful Proxy
• Instant Messaging
  • Offline message storage
  • Instant messaging conferencing
• SNMP support
• Perl Programming Interface
• Java SIP Servlet Application server
• Over 80 modules (extensions)

Documentation

• Main Documentation Page - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/
• Dokuwiki Page - http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/

• v1.0.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.0.x/
• v1.1.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.1.x/
• v1.2.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/
• v1.3.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.3.x/
• v1.4.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.4.x/
• v1.5.x Modules' Documentation - http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.5.x/

• Devel Guide - http://www.asipto.com/pub/kamailio-devel-guide/

Project Resources

• Users mailing list - http://www.kamailio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
• Development mailing list - http://www.kamailio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
• Business mailing list - http://www.kamailio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/business
• Community's web forum - http://www.voipuser.org/forum_view_24.html
• Project's tracking system - http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=139143
• Blog - http://openser.blogspot.com/
• IRC channel - new: #kamailio @ irc.freenode.net
• IRC channel - old: #openser @ irc.freenode.net
• Configuration auto-generator: http://www.sipwise.com/wizard

Deploying Kamailio

• Realtime Integration Of Asterisk 1.4 With Kamailio 1.5.x - step by step integration of Asterisk v1.4.x with Kamailio 1.5.x to provide voicemail service with MWI to large number of VoIP subscribers

• Kamailio 1.5.x and RTPProxy - Kamailio (OpenSER) v1.5.x configuration to do NAT traversal using nathelper and rtpptoxy

• Kamailio and RADIUS - tutorial to build VoIP services with Kamailio and FreeRADIUS

• SIREMIS Web Management Interface - http://siremis.asipto.com
• Kamailio (OpenSER) Administrator - web interface for managing Kamailio written in Ruby on Rails

Platforms

Kamailio is known to work on

• most of Linux flavours (OS used for development is mainly Debian)
• 64b Linux flavours
• SUN/Solaris
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD

Misc Resources

• Kamailio Consultants
• eLearning and Certification programs for Kamailio

See also

• http://www.kamailio.org
• SIP Router Project
• http://sip-router.org
• SIREMIS
• http://siremis.asipto.com