[h=3]Features:[/h]
- Highlights
- The handling of calls in the Mobile Apps has been unified and optimised.
- A new function key has been added with which a targetted redirection can be set for one or more of the user's own phone numbers.
- Busy Lamp Fields are now removed when the linked account has been deleted.
- As previously announced, the UCI 2.0 API has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- Important notes regarding this Release
- When updating to STARFACE 7.1, please note that the update requires a minimum of 4 GB of free space.
- The Update from STARFACE 6 to STARFACE 7 is not available as a normal update. For appliances we have built a special module which performs an in-place update. Virtual installations need to be re-installed manually. See our Knowledge Base for more information.
- The update from STARFACE 7.0 to STARFACE 7.1 can be installed as a normal update via the web-interface. A clean installation is not required when upgrading from STARFACE 7.0.
- Virtualized STARFACE installations now require at least 2GB RAM.
- We strongly recommend archiving your call lists, fax, voicemails and recorded phone calls as well as only using fully-qualified phone numbers in all modules.
- If you are using STARFACE Connect, please check your Routing settings after the update, as these may have changed.
- Before the installation, please check that your provider's siptrunk.de profile has been updated for STARFACE 7.
- As previously announced, the UCI 2.0 API has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- The Patton SN200 is supported as of STARFACE 7.0. It can be integrated via our Patton Wizard. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for more information.
- Support for the following telephones has been discontinued:
- Snom: Meeting Point, D305, D375, D710, D745
- Yealink: CP860, T21P, T23P, T27P/G, T29G, T40P, T40G, T41P, T42G, T46G, T48G, T49G
- Fanvil: X5S, X6
- Panasonic: KX-HDV130, KX-HDV230, KX-HDV330, KX-HDV340
New Features
- Security: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been closed.
- Security: The library used for the generation of PDF files (for example reports) has been updated and some layouts have been adjusted.
- Security: The Email Server can now be configured to use TLS, STARTLS and unencrypted connections to external systems, and certificate validation can now be enabled.
- Special phone numbers for Switzerland, Austria and Belgium have been updated.
- Apps: The Park & Orbit function key can now be used from within STARFACE for Windows. [Call#6924143]
- Apps: New UCI requests have been added to query iQueue statistics.
- Apps: Starface Mobile Apps (iOS, Android) now use Opus if activated in the STARFACE Administration panel.
- Apps: Call handling in the Mobile Apps has been unified and optimised.
- Added a new permission "Call Recording" which controls the ability to record calls by the user.
- New Function Key: A new function key has been added with which a targetted redirection can be set for one or more of the user's own phone numbers.
- Busy Lamp Fields are now removed when the linked account has been deleted.
- Modules: Licensed modules are now downloaded automatically when a valid license key for the respective module is added to the STARFACE.
- Web UI: Administrators can now define the codecs used by individual Softphone Apps.
- Web UI: The default number of lines displayed for lists has been increased to 20.
- The template for user imports is now a csv file.
- Web-UI: The online Knowledge Base is now also linked when the UI is set to French.
- The default subject of the email sent accompanying a planned conference is now the name of the conference.
- System notification emails now contain the hostname as well as the internal and external ip addresses of the STARFACE. [Call#1060412]
- Links in System notification emails now use HTTPS if HTTPS is activated in the administration panel.
- The error handling for the email server configuration has been improved.
- Error Reports now include a file containing pertinent information regarding the STARFACE installation (Installation type, CPU, RAM, date of first installation and the currrent installed version).
- The formatting of the log contents has been optimized for human readablility.
- The timestamp in the PBX log has been changed to match the timestamps of the other STARFACE logs to improve legibility.
- As previously announced, the UCI 2.0 API has been marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- Support for the long-outdated calendar entry format vCalendar (*.vcs) has been removed.
- Update of CentOS to Version 8.4
- Update of Asterisk to Version 16.19.0
- Gigaset / Security: For security reasons the administration password is now only provisioned once.
- Gigaset N670/N870: The current and maximum number of handsets which can be registered to the base station is now displayed in the respective configuration panel.
- Gigaset N670/N870: Firmware Update to v2.39.3
[h=3]Bugfixes:[/h]
- Bugfixes
The following bugs have been fixed:- Call lists displayed the number forwarding a call instead of the fowarded number. [Call#7103082]
- Security: The security of the AD integration has been improved.
- Fixed: A call could be hung up when transferring after consultation. [Call#6993962] [Call#6990042]
- Fixed: A call initiated via QuickDial key could not be declined.
- Fixed: In some configurations it was impossible to dial a 0800 number with an active line access prefix. [Call#6966834] [Call#6929081]
- Fixed: Calls could not be initiated using the call list entry on a desk phone. [Call#6994397] [Call#6992011] [Call#6996532] [Call#6992050] [Call#6993857] [Call#6994140] [Call#6998266]
- Fixed: Resolving incoming callnumbers did not display a company name, if first and last name had been missing. [Call#7102455]
- Fixed: The group number instead of the agent's information was displayed for incoming transfers and consulation calls. [Call#6989085] [Call#6994525]
- Fixed: It was possible to grab an already-answered phone call. [Call#6994130] [Call#6994245] [Call#6992812] [Call#6996099]
- Fixed: The group number sometimes incorrectly remained in the display number setting after leaving a group. [Call#6964604]
- Fixed: It was only possible to use one Park & Orbit parking lot per user.
- Fixed: The LDAP address book phone number resolution was incorrect with phone numbers signalled with a prefix. [Call#6933910]
- Fixed: LDAP/AD connections have not been handled correctly by a pool and might not have been closed. [Call#6954744]
- Fixed: Apps: No Push notification was sent when sending a Click2Dial call to a Mobile App.
- Fixed: Apps: The call was not always correctly ended when it was declined in the Mobile App for iOS.
- Fixed: Apps: The user state was not always correctly calculated when the user had an iPhone.
- Fixed: Apps: Avatars set via the Apps where not always correctly displayed.
- Fixed: Apps: Unnecessary UCI events were sent when a user logged in to an App.
- Fixed: Apps: The name of a group was not always displayed correctly when a new voicemail message was received. [Call#1069328]
- Fixed: Apps / iQueue: A ringing iQueue call could not always be declined via the UCI.
- Fixed: Apps / REST: The initial password change could reset some user settings.
- Fixed: Apps / REST: It was not possible to add participants to a planned conference if they did not have a telephone number.
- Fixed: REST: Fixed multiple errors in the FunctionKey API.
- Fixed: Module: The authentication in the "StarfaceRestRequest" module function did not work correctly.
- Fixed: Module: Modules were unable to correctly idenfify the phone number after a call was forwarded. [Call#6990819] [Call#6992401] [Call#6995135] [Call#6995005] [Call#6997013] [Call#6995624] [Call#6997309] [Call#6997624] [Call#6996699]
- Fixed: Module: Modules were deleted if the status of the module was checked.
- Fixed: Module: No push notification was generated when the module function "CallUser" was executed.
- Fixed: Module: The module function "CallphoneNumber" did not always signal the correct phone number.
- Fixed: iQueue: Callers were not always correctly prioritised by Priority-Based Routing when prioritising based on the caller number.
- Fixed: iQueue: Skill-Based-Routing did not always call the agents in the expected order. [Call#6971710] [Call#6964443] [Call#6993848]
- Fixed: iQueue: Rules were incorrectly applied when deleting skills.
- Fixed: iQueue: The call was displayed incorrectly when an iQueue call was forwarded to a voicemail box.
- Fixed: iQueue / Web UI: The calculation of average waiting time did not always return the correct result. [Call#6988945]
- Fixed: Internal extensions were not synchronised in the Interconnection. [Call#6904098] [Call#6945481]
- Fixed: Backup Import: It was possible for a backup import to not fully run, if announcements were excluded from the import.
- Fixed: The group number was incorrectly displayed on consultation calls. [Call#6989085] [Call#6994525]
- Fixed: Clouds: A non-existent line was selectable in the emergency call and call routing settings.
- Fixed: Clouds: It was possible to configure incompatible network settings.
- Fixed: The line prefix was ignored when sending a fax. [Call#6991601]
- Fixed: Increased the stability of retrieving a fax from the fax lists.
- Fixed: A port was not correctly applied when configuring an external email server.
- Fixed: Web UI / Security: File uploads were insufficiently validated and the interactions with the UI have been improved.
- Fixed: Web UI: The line status display was not always correct.
- Fixed: Web UI: User entries were not saved, if a redirection was not set to active.
- Fixed: Web UI: External phone numbers were not always displayed in the fully-qualified format.
- Fixed: Web UI: Entering a single character in the redirection target input field started a search.
- Fixed: Web UI: Updating a display filter did not work as expected.
- Fixed: Web UI: The error message was not clear enough when creating a duplicate Quickdial key.
- Fixed: Web UI: The password field in the user settings panel was not applied correctly.
- Fixed: Web UI: The hostname was not displayed in the information popup when changing network settings.
- Fixed: Web UI: The error messages displayed when required fields were left empty while configuring a backup schedule to SFTP and Windows Share targets have been corrected.
- Fixed: Web UI: Calls can no longer be forwarded to invalid users.
- Fixed: Web UI: The error messages in the network configuration did not cover all scenarios.
- Fixed: Web UI: The HTTPS redirection can now only be activated, if HTTP is active.
- Fixed: Web UI: Fixed miscellaneous minor display errors.
- Fixed: Web UI: Phone number selection for conference participants was not intuitive.
- Fixed: Web UI: Searching for a telephone number containing non-numeric characters did not always return the expected result.
- Fixed: Web UI: It was possible for an error to occur when creating a new SIP telephone profile.
- Fixed: Web UI: The "Test" option in the mail server configuration only used the previously saved values.
- Fixed: Web UI: The validation of Login-ID, name and surname did not work as expected with regards to minimum and maximum input length.
- Fixed: Web UI: Clicking an upload buttons caused all pending uploads within a form to be submitted.
- Fixed: Web UI: An unecessary warning was occasionally displayed when switching between tabs in the administration panel.
- Fixed: Web-UI: The phone number entry field now once again permits the entry of special characters. [Call#7103005]
- Fixed: Redirections activated with target "voicemail box" by default for users without a voicemail box.
- Fixed: The maximum number of backups to be stored on a Dropbox account was not properly applied. [Call#6964919]
- Fixed: Email addresses were incorrectly validated in multiple parts of the web ui (validation is now done according to RFC).
- Fixed: Call signalling was incorrect during ad-hoc conferences.
- Fixed: The NTP service is no longer active when the system time is set manually.
- Fixed: A held call was incorrectly displayed as forwarded.
- Fixed: Not all calls were taken into account when the current calls were displayed.
- Fixed: Some special characters were incorrectly encoded in emails sent by the STARFACE.
- Fixed: An incorrect error message was displayed when the license server was unable to be reached.
- Fixed: Error messages in the fax list were incorrect.
- Fixed: The server-connection to OpenFire as our communication service (UCI) has been stabilized. [Call#6954744]
- Fixed: Asterisk: The error message "Unable to determine asterisk version" will no longer appear in the respective logs.
- Fixed: Some email jobs were not logged to the "mail" log.
- Fixed: The address book category "job_tilte" has been corrected to "job_title". [Call#1073860]
- Fixed: All group members received "CONNECTED" UCI events when a call to a ring-all group was answered.
- Fixed: Deutsche Telekom: Special Action Codes were transmitted incorrectly. [Call#6971479] [Call#6979720] [Call#6984217]
- Fixed: New voicemail notifications did not always contain the caller's name.
- Fixed: The system resources for the Openfire service were not always correctly calculated.
- Fixed: Telephone names were limited to 14 characters.
- Fixed: Yealink: The OK-Button triggered an "Unknown URL" error message in the telephone menus.
- Fixed: Yealink: There was no "Back" button in the telephone menus. [Call#6953232]
- Fixed: Gigaset N670/N870: It was possible to enter more than 10 characters in the IPUI field.
- Fixed: Fanvil: The default tone scheme was "USA" and is now "Germany". [Call#6934319]
Known Issues
- Answering an incoming conference invite call generated by a planned conference on an iFMC device hangs up the call immediately.
- Duplicate call list entries can be generated when an iQueue agent answers incoming calls on a Mobile App.
- In rare cases, it is possible for calls with anonymous external participants to not be displayed in the call list.