SARK 6.2

[sysadmin]

SARK 6.2 beta is up in the repos so you can install it if you wish.   There are quite a few new features and I'll cover some of them below.

Support for ARM 64 bit
There is an image available for the HPE on arm64.  This allows 6.2 to run with the new AWS EC2 Graviton enterprise ARM instances (and any other arm64 cpu running in native 64 bit mode). 

Support for Ubuntu netplan
As you probably know, Ubuntu went a bit off piste with their networking and introduced Netplan (I think in 16.04). To be fair, it made their lives a lot easier when dealing with cloud deployments but it caused us all a bit of a problem when defining networks.  Anyhow, 6.2 runs natively with Netplan.  Furthermore, 6.2 will always run with two IP addresses on the prime NIC, one dynamic and one static.   It will always grab a DHCP address if one is available and, in addition,  it will use a second user-defined static IP address.   The static address is specified in the networks section and it is used for SIP operations.  The benefit of this dual strategy is that you can more easily move the PBX between networks without tears.  Whatever network it finds itself in, it will always attempt to grab a DHCP address so you won't be locked out if you forgot to change the static IP.

The only exception to this is if the instance is running under AWS, in which case it will simply use the given address it gets from AWS.   In this case, you won't be given the option of adding another address.

HTTPS Certificates
You can load and install your web certificates through the browser app

HTTPS provisioning with certificate checking
You can load your phone manufacturers' certificates and have the provisioning engine validate provisioning requests against them.   

Non standard SIP ports for extensions
You can provision a non standard (non 5060) SIP port for your phones.

Provisioning support for Fanvil phones
Still a bit of a work in progress but it will get a basic config Fanvil up and running

Upgraded wallboard
Re-written with more detailed information on live call flows