Asterisell-5.10-dev

Posted on Mon 22 October 2018 in new release

Major improvements:

  • 8x speedup of the rating engine and of the call report in the Web UI.
  • Better DB schema, supporting more efficiently deletion and recalculation of CDRS, and ported telephone numbers.
  • More details on the Web UI call report.
  • Better off-line and on-line documentation: switched to DITA with short and linked topics.
  • Various simplifications and bug-fixes on the bundle-rates and services generation.
  • Installation on an host/virtual-machine, instead of Docker container.
  • The management tool contains now all tools for developing and testing Asterisell, and it is installed inside a local Docker container.
  • Advise if a CDR provider has changed already billed CDRS.

Minor improvements:

  • Bundle rates and services can start also at a specific time of the day, and not only at midnight.
  • Added NOTE field to Party.
  • More informative Web UI in case of reports to regenerate again.
  • Passwords to CDRS sources are stored in a distinct passwords.ini file, not saved in the Git repo.
  • DB connection params are saved on a private file, and not exposed in log/error messages.
  • Safer/transaction-like deleting of already imported files.
  • More unit tests.
  • Improved the selection of rates in the Web UI.
  • The installation utility generates directly NGINX configuration files, Letsencrypt SSL certificates, and firewall rules.
  • Switched from MariaDB to Percona MySQL Server with TokuDB engine.
  • Backup of data on distinct CSV files is disabled, and it must be explicitely enabled. This because in case of big data there is a lot of duplicated info.
  • Reduced the space occupied by internal backup of changes in organization info, and job logs: better policies, and remove of bugs saving too much data.
  • Simplified the presentation of commands of the Asterisell management utility.
  • Simplified the presentation of commands of the internal php asterisell.php management utility.
  • Better support for holidays and peak/off-peak time-frames.
  • Support of (national) telephone operator codes, and not only of telephone prefixes.

Status

The code pass many regression tests, and it is used in some testing and semi-production environments, but I consider it in DEV state, because there are many possible usage scenario, and it requires some more real-world usage. So feel free to install and signal issues.

Upgrading procedure

In this release there are many changes, and the upgrade is not automatic, because:

  • the application is now installed directly on an host/virtual-machine, and not anymore on a Docker container
  • the management tool runs inside a Docker container, and not on a host/virtual-machine
  • the database schema is from a logical point of view the same, but it improved a lot

I will soon release new versions with helper scripts and notes, for upgrading older instances.