Diafaan SMS Server Change Log

Diafaan SMS Server 1.7.1.3
February 18, 2012

Bug fix:
* Paging Connector: Bug fixed in sending messages to SMTP email, this was the same HELO problem as fixed in the Email Connector in version 1.7.1.2.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.7.1.2
February 10, 2012

Bug fix:
* Email Connector: Fix for error message: 503 5.2.2 Send hello first for SMTP connections to an SMTP server using TLS encryption and authentication.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.7.1.1
January 13, 2012

Bug fix:
* The Unicode Control Code bugfix in version 1.7.1.0 also filtered out Line Feed and Cariage Return characters. This is corrected in this version.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.7.1.0
December 17, 2011

New features:
* SMPP Gateway added (basic- and full editions only) with support for SMPP 3.3 and 3.4
* GSM Modem Gateway: Direct support added for GSM modems over a TCP/IP connection without the need of virtual COM ports.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Advanced option added to receive a Calling Line Identification notification on incoming phone calls
* SQL Connector: “Scheduled” database field added for the SMSOut table. Messages can now be added to the database to be sent at a later time.
* Email Connector: IP Number white list added to allow only messages sent from certain IP numbers
* Email Connector: Sender white list added to allow only messages sent from certain email addresses
* Email Connector: Option added to receive email confirmation when a message is received on the phone

Improvements:
* GSM Modem Gateway: Advanced property added for the default address type
* GSM Modem Gateway: Default modem reboot command changed to AT+CFUN=1,1
* Email Connector: New version of the email library used
* SQL Connector: Transaction support added for received SMS messages (increases speed)
* Paging Connector: Support added for the ERMES character set

Bug fixes:
* Clickatell Gateway: Using the Test button often caused a timeout on first use
* SQL Connector: Messages with IsSent=NULL were not picked up from the database
* Unicode control codes (characters 0-31) caused problems in the Web Connector browser app
* GSM Modem Gateway: Decoding error for long messages of a specific length is fixed

Diafaan SMS Server 1.7.0.0
September 21, 2011

New features:
* Central setting added to change the date- and time formats in Diafaan SMS Server.
* Web Connector: New browser based client application that makes it easy to maintain contacts and groups, send messages and view received messages.
* Web Connector: Multi-user support added for the basic- and full editions.
* Web Connector: View the server status with the HTTP API.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Option added to prefix the number with “#” for a national address type or “*” for an unknown address type.

Improvements:
* Message handling is made more efficient. This results in reduced CPU use and faster SMS delivery, especially when using more that 4 3G modems.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Default address type changed from National to International

Bug fixes:
* Web Connector: Web connector became disabled after a “Clear Statistics” command.
* The status in the Console Program was not updated when sending a lot of messages and changing the Gateway or Connector properties.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.6.2.0
August 2, 2011

New features:
* Web Connector: Option added to reply the HTTP response back to the sender of the SMS message. This new option makes it easy to create an SMS auto-response service using a web server and a PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby or other server script language.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Improved support for Huawei USB modems. Both serial ports can now be used by Diafaan SMS Server, proprietary status updates from the device are now handled properly.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Maximum Batch property added to speed up message sending for use with multiple GSM modems.
* GSM Modem Gateway: Improved modem reboot handling. The modem reboot command can be changed and the GSM Modem Gateway waits after a reboot to give the modem opportunity to reconnect with the mobile network.
* GSM Modem Gateway: New setting added to delay sending messages if the network operator cannot handle the message send speed.
* Clickatell Gateway: New option added for extra fixed HTTP parameters (e.g. MO=1).

Bug fixes:
* Email Connector: Reply result to email only worked when the Reply to email, expires after … option was selected.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.6.1.0
January 23, 2011

New features:
* Automatic addition to the Windows firewall exception list.
* Now runs on Windows 2000.
Bug fixes:
* Bug fixed in the email handling of the POP3 client causing multiple SMS messages for each email when the POP box contains multiple email messages.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.6.0
New features for the basic- and full edition:
* Pager Gateway with support for IXO/TAP and UCP over modem and SNPP, SMTP (e-mail), WCTP and UCP over the Internet.
* New message routing option using Message Types.
New feature for all editions:
* Number templates added to change the number format before sending the message.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.4.1
Bug fixes in the E-mail Connector:
* SMTP Server did not accept e-mail without the From: or To: header.
* Reply SMS to e-mail feature extended to e-mail fetched from a POP box

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.4.0
New features in the E-mail Connector:
* The reply to e-mail option can now be used in combination with the extract e-mail address from SMS option to determine the destination of the received SMS message.
* Basic Authentication support for the SMTP Client.
* TLS encryption support for the SMTP Client.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.3.0
New features:
* E-mail alert/confirmation added when the SMS message could not be sent or if the SMS message was sent successfully.
* Reply to e-mail feature added. A receiver of an SMS message can reply to an SMS messages and it will be sent as an e-mail reply to the sender of the original e-mail.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.2.0
New features:
* Basic edition supports four Gateways and four Connectors.
* Support added for national number plans for GSM modems.

User Interface improvements:
* Minor improvements made in the Gateway and Connector setup wizards.

Bug fixes:

* Bug fixed in automatic removal of log items, automatic removal after 6 months caused log records to be removed after one week.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.1.0
New features:
* Option to automatically save removed log and event records to an XML file.
* Option to automatically remove old log records from the web connector database and optionally save them to an XML file.
* Send binary messages with a Protocol Identifier and User data Length byte via GSM modems.
* HTTPS option added to the webserver (requires installation of a certificate).

User Interface improvements:
* The routing status in the status panels of the gateways and connectors gives more useful information about the routing setup.

Bug fixes:
* Data Coding Scheme byte for binary messages did not work.
* Stopping and immediately restarting the service was not always reliable.
* Sending of multiple message with the webconnector caused more than one log entry per message in the webconnector database.
* Status updates for previously sent messages were applied to all messages with the right message id. Now only the most recent record with the given message id is updated.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.5.0.0
New features:
* Scripting gateway added, add new SMS, e-mail or other messaging services with your own C# or Visual Basic .NET script (basic- and full editions only).
* Web connector added, send SMS messages with an HTTP interface and forward received messages to a website.
* E-mail connector added, send SMS messages with a built-in SMTP server or with a connection to an external POP server and forward received messages to e-mail.
* Scripting connector added, initiate a message or process received messages with your own C# or Visual Basic .NET script.
* Added message routing, choose which gateway(s) can send a message with the new individual message routing options.

Improvements and bug-fixes:
* With multiple GSM modems, messages are better distributed over the available modems.
* Handling of the logs in Diafaan SMS Server Console is much better for large numbers of records.
* Filtering of the logs makes it easier to get an overview of failed messages or error events.
* Generate reports from the logs.
* Handling of the GSM modem is changed and two compatibility modes are added. Text mode is now supported in addition to the normal PDU mode.
* Support for flash SMS messages and GSM USSD commands added.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.1.0.0
New feature:
* Support added for ODBC database connectors.

Bug fixes:
* Receive time update bug in SQL connector fixed
* Message type field bug in SQL connector log fixed
* Bug fixed in SQL query causing repeated calls in some database configurations

Diafaan SMS Server 1.0.0.1
New features added to the GSM modem gateway:
* Option to disable delivery confirmation.
* Option to send a full reset to the GSM modem if the send message command response is invalid.

Diafaan SMS Server 1.0.0.0
* Initial release.