We’re going to provide several SIP Communicator 1.0 pre-releases before we arrive to a point that satisfies us (both stability and feature wise) for an 1.0 release. Here’s the roadmap that we currently have in mind (all items are also represented by issues that could be found in the issue tracker):

SIP Communicator 1.0 alpha 1 - released on Dec 22nd 2006 ( show )

  • GUI Service
  • Configuration Service
  • NetAddressManager
  • Create a MediaService
  • Create a ProtocolService
    • Provide a SIP implementation.
    • Provide a Jabber implementation
    • Provide an ICQ/AIM
    • Support for MSN Messenger
  • History
    • Call history service
    • Message history service
  • Installer
    • Windows
    • Linux
      • Generic
      • RPM (Fedora, Suse, etc.)
      • DEB (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.)
    • Mac
  • Version Service
  • Support for ILBC, speex and JMF

(All issues associated with the alpha1 release)

SIP Communicator 1.0 alpha 2 - released on Nov. 2nd 2007 ( show )

  • Basic IPv6 Support
  • Basic STUN Support (Related issues: 207)
  • Bundle management user interface (Related issues: 239)
  • More ProtocolService Implementations
    • Extend the SIP implementation with support for SIMPLE (Related issues: 240)
    • Yahoo! Messenger (requested by Richard Hall and the felix team, Related issues 272)
    • Improve support for AIM ( Related issues 289)
    • IRC - (Related issues 353)
    • RSS flows - (Related issues 354)
    • Bonjour - (Related issues 358)
  • Systray icon (Related issues: 242)
  • Conference chatting with Jabber (Related issues : Related issues : 244, 246 )
  • Experimental support for Jingle (No Video nor ICE)
  • Support for avatars and contact photos (Related issues: 320, Related issues: 322, Related issues: 321)
  • Allow registration of new Jabber accounts.
  • Add a splash screen on startup (Related Issues: 267).
  • Implement extended call history user interface.
  • Support for SIP INFO DTMF
  • Implement a way to keep important files in a coherent state (Related issues: 333)

(All issues associated with the alpha2 release)

SIP Communicator 1.0 (previewed for summer 2009) ( show )

  • Improved support for Video Calls on Linux and Windows (Development/ #256)
  • Support for Video Calls on Mac OS X
  • Secure calls with zRTP (almost there)
  • Support for Call Transfer
  • Complete support for reINVITEs (Development/ #443)
  • Using a single SIP stack for all accounts (Development/ #442)
  • Support for Call Hold
  • Support for Microphone Muting during a call
  • Move to Java 1.5
  • Configuration forms allowing control on major SIP Communicator features
  • Seamless IPv6 support and transparent IPv4/IPv6 usage
  • Support for SIP accounts with no registrar or proxy
  • Internationalization
    • French
    • German
    • Bulgarian
    • Japanese
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Romanian
  • Resolve remaining 1.0 issues

SIP Communicator 1.1 (Previewed for Q4, 2009) ( hide )

  • Multiparty Audio conferencing for SIP (i.e. with 3 or more participants)
  • File transfer through (at least some of the following) IM protocols ( #170)
    • XMPP
    • Yahoo! Messenger
    • ICQ
    • AIM
    • MSN
  • Echo cancellation (Related issues: 244)
  • Use a properties file format for sip-communicator.xml ( #618)
  • Support for OTR encryption of instant messaging chats
  • Custom support for Growl (including images and click detection)
  • Support for GMail and Google Apps notifications in Jabber
  • Native audio capture with port audio
  • Add the possibility to select an audio device to use (e.g. a usb headset or web cam)
  • Redesign our CallSession interface so that it can be used by both SIP and Jingle

SIP Communicator 1.2 (Previewed for Q1, 2010) ( hide )

  • Advanced contact list filtering and search (Related issues 565)

SIP Communicator 1.3 (Previewed for Q2, 2010) ( hide )

  • Implement support for ICE in SIP Communicator (Related Issues: 251, 252, 253)
  • Complete Jingle support (including Video and ICE)
  • Multiparty Audio conferencing for Jingle
  • ZRTP support for Jingle

Tentative (Some may be rescheduled for 1.4):

  • UPnP support and integration with ICE4j
  • Support for HTTP proxies where possible
  • Support for TURN in ice4j (Related issues 251)
  • Support for RTP DTMF
  • Integration of LDAP directories ( #445)
  • Add the possibility to access the jain-sip API (i.e. send and process SIP messages) from within plugins
  • User search for Jabber with XEP-0055
  • Call recording
  • Support for pending voicemail messages - RFC 3842
  • Spell checking

SIP Communicator 1.4 (Previewed for Q3, 2010) ( hide )

  • Desktop Sharing with SIP.
  • Desktop Sharing with XMPP
  • Audio Video Mailbox.
  • One click account configuration

Tentative:

  • Multiparty Video Conferencing
  • Session based chatting
  • Conference chatting (currently partially implemented but unstable)

SIP Communicator 2.0. (Tentative) ( hide )

Not currently scheduled for a particular release (and looking for volunteers) ( hide )

If you are looking for a way to get involved in FOSS development then the following are an opportunity:

  • Shared whiteboards
  • Installation Packages for BSD (Related issues: 243).
  • Chat window (css) themes (Related issues: 82).
  • Even More ProtocolService Implementations
    • IAX - Inter Asterisk Exchange (Related issues 298)
    • Integrate support for Facebook implemented during GSoC’08
    • Integrate support for MySpace implemented during GSoC’08
    • Complete support for Bonjour (including SIP service discovery)
  • Better support for contact details (Related issues: 108)