openSpeak - Informations

In December 07 we released openSpeak 0.1RC1. It’s main goal was to give testers something to bite and give a little kick to the developers who where asleep at that time (I was part of those :) ).

Usually Release Candidate means Feature Freeze, but it was really not the case with this one !

You should see a v0.1RC2 soon and this one will be a true release candidate, solving some problems of the RC1 that were not acceptable to let “as is” in a final version : sound was crappy and it didn’t work on Mac due to a buggy netcode.

Features highlights of the forthcoming 0.1RC2 :

• Mac support (in addition of Linux and Windows)
• Improved netcode stability
• Better sound quality (thanks to a jitter buffer implementation)
• Better looking chat windows

• Lower latency (about -50% on LAN) (no yet in the SVN trunk)

So stay tuned !

As I mentioned it on my site, openSpeak on Mac OS X is on the way :)

Our bug tracking system shows that we are very close to a new 0.1rc release

Apart from issues with the client backend on Mac OSX, all we need is testing and we would really appreciate your feedback!

As soon as we’ll have something stable on Mac, I’ll update the Wiki and write a specific page for build instructions on Mac, though they are very similar to Linux.