We’re going to provide several Jitsi 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 ( )
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
SIP Communicator 1.0 alpha 2 - released on Nov. 2nd 2007 ( )
- Basic IPv6 Support
- Basic STUN Support (Related issues: 207)
- Bundle management user interface (Related issues: 239)
- More ProtocolService Implementations
- 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)
SIP Communicator 1.0 alpha 3 - completed in summer 2009 - not officially released ( )
- 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
- Blind
- Attended (Development/ #444)
- 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 1.0 alpha 4 - completed in Q4, 2009 - not officially released ( )
- Multiparty Audio conferencing for SIP (i.e. with 3 or more participants)
- File transfer through (at least some of the following) IM protocols (Development/ #170)
- XMPP
- Yahoo! Messenger
- ICQ
- AIM
- MSN
- Echo cancellation (Related issues: 244)
- Use a properties file format for sip-communicator.xml (Development/ #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 1.0 alpha 5 - completed in Q1, 2010 - not officially released ( )
- Advanced contact list filtering and search (Related issues 565)
Jitsi 1.0 beta 1 (Released in Q1, 2011) ( )
- Support for RTP DTMF (RFC 2833/4733)
- Improved call history
- Missed call visual notifications
- Wideband calls with speex
- Complete Jingle support (including Video and ICE)
- A Google mode for Jingle and ice4j (including Video and ICE)
- Multiparty Audio conferencing for Jingle (not necessarily with muji)
- ZRTP support for Jingle
- Desktop Sharing with SIP
- Desktop Sharing with XMPP
- Improve our configuration form
- Support for Jingle Nodes
Tentative (Some may be rescheduled for later releases):
- Support for chats via HTTP proxies where possible
- Support for TURN in ice4j (Related issues 251)
- XCAP support
- Call recording
- Support for pending voicemail messages - RFC 3842
- UPnP support and integration with ICE4j
Jitsi 1.0 (Previewed for Q2/Q3, 2011 as Jitsi) ( )
- Microsoft Outlook integration
- Apple Address Book integration
- Google Contact integration
- Integration of LDAP directories ( #445)
- Support for Google’s ICE and Jingle variants
Following releases
Tentative (depending on contributions and funding):
- Multiparty Video Conferencing
- Calls with Windows Live Messenger
- Cross protocol conference calls
- Support for VP8
- Prefix configuration for external contact sources such as LDAP, Google Contact, Address Book, Outlook
- Spell checking (partially implemented and looking for volunteers)
- Wideband calls with CELT
- Wideband calls with SILK
- Support for ICE with SIP (Related Issues: 251, 252, 253)
- CPU friendly video encoding and audio prioritization
Less likely:
- Quality sliders
Unlikely but not impossible :
- MUJI
Jitsi 2.0. (Tentative) ( )
- Move to FMJ (if possible)
- … others pending
Not currently scheduled for a particular release (and looking for volunteers) ( )
If you are looking for a way to get involved in FOSS development then the following are an opportunity:
- Audio Video Mailbox.
- One click account configuration
- Shared whiteboards (partially implemented and looking for volunteers)
- 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)