Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Bonjour, and many other useful features. Jitsi supports the ZRTP protocol stack by Phil Zimmerman for encrypted private communications.
Jitsi is Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL and performs secure video calls, conferencing, chat, desktop sharing, file transfer, support for your favorite OS, and IM network. All this, and more, in Jitsi - the most complete and advanced Open Source communicator.
Note: Now requires OS X 10.8.3 or later.
Security fixes
- Update the embedded JRE to 1.8.40
Removed support
- GTalk and Google ICE remnants
Bugfixes/Improvements
- SIP/XMPP
- Fixes crashes in call recording in mp3 format)
- Fix audio silence of conference focus
- SIP
- Correctly retrieve source address for UDP SIP sockets (OS X only)
- XMPP
- Honor presence changes while logging in
- Chat
- Improve state tracking of OTR in conversations
- Close only the active chat window with the window close button
- General
- Delete Felix cache on minor version updates (avoids duplicate config options, etc.)
- Remove system wide default key bindings
- Fix alphanumeric dialpad labels
- Updated translations
- Fix Forward Error Encoding (FEC) in SILK audio codec
Platforms
- OS X
- Fixes a segmentation fault in desktop capture
- Show warnings on unsupported OS X versions
- Restored support for OS X 10.6
- Fix Character encoding in Growl notifications
- Windows
- Fixes an access violation in H.264/video
- Add "File Version" attribute to the launcher for software inventories
- Linux
- Update Unbound wrapper for DNSSEC
