Bayonne 0.6

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Bayonne 0.6 is now available from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bayonne/.

Bayonne is the freely licensed multi-line voice response telephony server
of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org) and a component of GNU Enterprise
(http://www.gnue.org).  Bayonne has traditionally provided the ability to
easily create scalable telephony applications and original services that
can be directly integrated with traditional scripting languages and tools
commonly found on free software platforms such as GNU/Linux.  Bayonne
offers a wide degree of telephony hardware support and a modular
architecture thru the use of plugins.

In distributing the sixth milestone release of Bayonne, we have chosen to
focus on providing a free software platform for creating and deploying
next generation XML integrated voice applications.  Traditionally such
systems have only either been available as limited proprietary software,
or only provided thru external hosting services.  In providing Bayonne
with XML support, we intend to deliver a free software solution that not
only can be used for those hosting telephony services, but which can also
be integrated and deployed entirely within the enterprise if so desired.

This initial release of milestone 6 has the first functional snapshot of
Bayonne XML services.  This includes a plugin which introduces a special
XML dialect, BayonneXML.  BayonneXML is intended to become a superset of
the existing CallXML dialect and will provide support for additional
features and functionality specific to Bayonne.  Our intent is to support
a wide body of XML languages thru plugins, including those that do fully
conform to existing XML language specs (CallXML, VML, VXML, XTML, etc),
rather than providing a server that can only execute a single dialect.  
This will allow Bayonne to provide voice browsing to entirely other kinds
of XML data thru the development of additional plugins.

My decision to provide XML as part of milestone 6, rather than RTP
trunking, was based on the fact that the Common C++ XML parser is already
very stable, while the Common C++ RTP stack has only recently reached
usable functionality.  Rapid progress is expected in ccRTP over the next
few weeks, and that will form the core of a new, and final Bayonne
Milestone, before final cleanup and release of Bayonne 1.0.  In addition
to ccRTP, there is certainly also need for further development of URL
streaming in Common C++.  While there is now a core team of committed
developers in place for Bayonne, there are many additional areas of
development where we do need and could use additional contributors.  If
you are interested in helping with Bayonne development, join the mailing
list thru address@hidden or send e-mail to me
directly.

David Sugar <address@hidden> 
Bayonne Maintainer