ZoneMinder 1.23.0 - Release Note - Release Candidate 3

[zoneminder]

All,

The third (and hopefully) final RC of 1.23.0 is now available here.

Changes from RC2 are relatively minor,
1) Added ability to select (in new event replay view) whether event replays continue to next event or just play one etc as requested. Please note the additional language tokens for this are only included in the English language file at present.
2) Fixed incorrect default monitor timestamp format
3) Turned off debugging in X10 perl module (clogs up messages log)
4) Fixed broken 'video' link in new event view
5) Fixed control commands from new monitor watch view (got broken in RC2 I think)
6) Removed some diagnostic logging to apache error log

Unless anything major is found I plan to do a proper release in the next couple of days.

[robi]

Please note the additional language tokens for this are only included in the English language file at present.

Could you check if the Hungarian translation is okay? See here.

[PeterHoward]

Given I've now got hashed authentication working with gnutls are you interested in switching to it from openssl? The changes are a small patch to configure.in and a couple of #include statements.

PJH (Fully expecting a response of "no" - either as "too close to release" or "happy with openssl")

[linuxsense]

Are you interested in issues with the DVR interface or is that still too beta to really worry about? I really like using the interface but it has a few issues that keep me from sticking with it....sure will be nice once its all dialed in though.

[zoneminder]

Given I've now got hashed authentication working with gnutls are you interested in switching to it from openssl? The changes are a small patch to configure.in and a couple of #include statements.

PJH (Fully expecting a response of "no" - either as "too close to release" or "happy with openssl")

Hi Peter,

I am happy to merge patches if they aren't going to break anything. Do they allow openssl still as an option?

[zoneminder]

Are you interested in issues with the DVR interface or is that still too beta to really worry about? I really like using the interface but it has a few issues that keep me from sticking with it....sure will be nice once its all dialed in though.

Fire away! A new thread for each one (or related group) would be handy though. Please make sure you detail OS and browser etc if possible.

[PeterHoward]

Given I've now got hashed authentication working with gnutls are you interested in switching to it from openssl? The changes are a small patch to configure.in and a couple of #include statements.

PJH (Fully expecting a response of "no" - either as "too close to release" or "happy with openssl")

Hi Peter,

I am happy to merge patches if they aren't going to break anything. Do they allow openssl still as an option?

No, it's a straight swap of the check built by configure.in, and explicit changeover of the #include statements.

This is the patch:

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diff -urNad ZoneMinder-1.22.3~/configure.in ZoneMinder-1.22.3/configure.in
--- ZoneMinder-1.22.3~/configure.in     2007-03-14 11:02:49.000000000 +1100
+++ ZoneMinder-1.22.3/configure.in      2007-12-10 21:26:39.000000000 +1100
@@ -182,14 +182,14 @@
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(pcre.h,,,)
 AC_CHECK_DECLS(round,,,[#include <math.h>])
 AC_CHECK_DECLS(strsignal,,,[#include <string.h>])
-AC_CHECK_DECLS(MD5,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires openssl/md5.h),[#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <openssl/md5.h>])
+AC_CHECK_DECLS(MD5,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires gnutls/openssl.h),[#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <gnutls/openssl.h>])
 AC_CHECK_DECLS(backtrace,,,[#include <execinfo.h>])
 AC_CHECK_LIB(jpeg,jpeg_start_compress,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires libjpeg.a))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(z,compress,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires libz.a))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlsym,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires libdl.a))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(mysqlclient,mysql_init,,AC_MSG_ERROR(zm requires libmysqlclient.a))
-AC_CHECK_LIB(crypto,MD5,,AC_MSG_WARN(libcrypto.a is required for authenticated streaming))
+AC_CHECK_LIB(gnutls-openssl,MD5,,AC_MSG_WARN(gnutls-openssl.a is required for authenticated streaming))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(pcre,pcre_compile,,AC_MSG_WARN(libpcre.a may be required for remote/network camera support))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(avutil,ff_gcd,,AC_MSG_WARN(libavutil.a may be required for MPEG streaming))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(avcodec,avcodec_init,,AC_MSG_WARN(libavcodec.a is required for MPEG streaming))
diff -urNad ZoneMinder-1.22.3~/src/zm_user.h ZoneMinder-1.22.3/src/zm_user.h
--- ZoneMinder-1.22.3~/src/zm_user.h    2007-03-14 11:02:21.000000000 +1100
+++ ZoneMinder-1.22.3/src/zm_user.h     2007-12-10 21:26:59.000000000 +1100
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #define ZM_USER_H
 
 #if HAVE_LIBCRYPTO
-#include <openssl/md5.h>
+#include <gnutls/openssl.h>
 #endif // HAVE_LIBCRYPTO
 
 class User

PJH

[zoneminder]

That looks fine. Can you give me a bit of background on why this is a 'good thing (tm)'? I assume it's a GPL type thing is it? Is gnutls installed by default on most distros? Harder or easier to get hold of than openssl etc?

Ta

[PeterHoward]

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openssl#Li ... tibilities it gives an overview of licensing issues. I got the strong impression from Debian that the Zoneminder licensing had to explicitly cover OpenSSL if it was going to be included. Given the low actual use of OpenSSL functionality, switching to gnutls was much simpler. gnutls is available as a standard package in (at least) Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, SuSE; I can't see any issue with availability.

PJH

[cordel]

I realize this is not the correct topic for this but we can split all these related posts out later, Just to add I can confirm that gnutls package is standard in Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva, and Suse.

Cheers,
Corey

[zoneminder]

Okey doke. That's all good and I have applied the patch for 1.23.0

[sergiut2002]

any improvements to events? last releases are generating a lot of tiny events (0 secs some), even with buffer set longer
________
WEED VAPORIZERS

[jitz]

Hi:

Do I have to to add something to ./configure line to get HAVE_LIBCRYTO
to be defined as 1.

I had to manually add
#ifndef HAVE_LIBCRYPTO
#define HAVE_LIBCRYPTO 1

to zm_user.h to get it compiled in.

Is there another way??

Symptom: have axis camera with password protection enabled.
without LIBCRPTO code compiled in I get

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Error(( "You need to build with openssl installed to use hash based authentication" )); 

when I try to view the camera.

with the hack above to zm_user.h can view camera

Thanks
Jotz

[zoneminder]

There is a fix for this in 1.23.1 which will be up later today.

[PeterHoward]

There is a fix for this in 1.23.1 which will be up later today.

I've had a look for this but can't find it. Is it done yet?

Also, was the bug on RC3 or on the release (after the patch over to gnutls)?

PJH