RELEASE NOTES
Thirdlane Unified Communications Platform 14.1.1
- This version of Thirdlane is now RHEL 8.X ready (we use AlmaLinux OS 8)
- Added reseller management
- Enhancements to system administrators management, new roles and permission
- Added functionality to control whether the Thirdlane Connect users can have concurrent sessions on multiple devices or are forced to logout on a second login
- Enhancements to emergency notifications - email, phone call, custom script
- Added sites (required for new emergency notifications)
- Added departments to users
- Added "minimal" screens ithat show only "non technical" data for resellers and office administrators
- Added system log viewers with search capabilities
- Added CUCM features support for Cisco phones
- Enhancements to backup and restore, removed restore from the GUI
- Enhancements to user status screen
- Fix to recorded calls player
- New Log files viewer with search capability
- Added Azure Active Directory synchronization
- Moved activity log to pbxlogs database
- Fix to DID management in bulk generator
- Fixed subscribemwi (removed from other settings and added to sip.conf)
- Moved extensions table to static dialplan
- Added oauth service authorization
- Added lookup filter to "shuttle" items in scripts in Configuration Manager
- Fix to license expiration grace period handling
- Fix to prevent switching to recorded calls section after tenant selection
- Fix to TTS management
- Allow substrings in (most of the) filters in Configuration Manager
- Support Hebrew and other languages requiring unicode in device provisioning
- Various enhancements and bug fixes
Thirdlane Connect 14.1.1
- Support for single sessions (automatic logout on another device login) and multiple concurrent sessions
- Fixed problems with call pause and resume
- Various improvements to the push notifications and wake-up mechanism
- Integrated Android application with the native calling UI
- Enhancements to ICE server interactions
- Fixed management of call forwarding settings
- Moved fax to telephony section
- Removed irrelevant component version information
- Fixed a problem with the active call display
- Fixed a problem in password change
- Fixed a problem with closing of incoming call popup window
- Fixed a bug in calculation and display of SMS message counter
- Removed dependency on the backend debug settings, made debugging purely user controlled
- Various performance improvements
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
This version of the Thirdlane platform is supposed to be installed on top of the base AlmaLinux OS version 8.
You should start with minimal AlmaLinux OS version 8 ISO which you can get at https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-8.8-x86_64-minimal.iso
For any cloud installation you should use the AlmaLinux OS version 8 cloud provider’s template.
The installation procedure is simple:
- Install minimal AlmaLinux OS version 8 from vanilla ISO or create AlmaLinux OS version 8 cloud server
- Configure network and check that your server has access to the Internet
- Use SSH to connect to the server and run one of the Thirdlane installation scripts, depending on the type of installation (single or multi-tenant)
- Once the script finishes, login to the GUI at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or http://domain.tld (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your server address, and domain.tld is your domain) and follow the Thirdlane Configuration Manager’s Initial Configuration Wizard
Currently, there are 2 scripts for different installations:
- getpbx-ste - Thirdlane Business PBX (Single Tenant)
curl -o getpbx -s http://lib.thirdlane.com/download/getpbx-el8/getpbx-ste && time sudo bash getpbx
- getpbx-mte - Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX
curl -o getpbx -s http://lib.thirdlane.com/download/getpbx-el8/getpbx-mte && time sudo bash getpbx
Both scripts are adopted to cloud installations which usually don’t have a root password - they use SSH keys for ssh access. When getpbx-ste or getpbx-mte script determines that your system root user doesn't have a password, it creates temporary credentials (superadmin / superadmin ) to login to the newly created server, and at the end of Thirdlane Configuration Manager’s Initial Configuration Wizard you will be able to create admin credentials (superadmin user will be deleted). Installation scripts also try to simplify domain, HTTPS certificate, and network configuration - when:
- Hostname setting of the server is a valid domain - eg. abc.pbxmanager.com
- The domain is properly configured - DNS of abc.pbxmanager.com has A-record with proper ip of the server
If this criteria is met, Thirdlane Configuration Manager setup wizard will use the simplified scenario - steps with domain and interface configuration will be done automatically - including creation of LetsEncrypt free HTTPS certificate. As always, Thirdlane Connect for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops can be downloaded using your browser based Thirdlane Connect by going to Settings > Downloads. New Android version of Thirdlane Connect is available on Google Play. New iPhone version of Thirdlane Connect is available on App Store.
Please contact Thirdlane for assistance with the update - our team is ready to help.
Thank you for using Thirdlane!