What's new in WCS 5.2 compared with WCS 5.1
- WCS manager module is removed, its functions is moved to WCS Core
- Server startup is significally accelerated to a few seconds
- Monitoring functions are moved to dedicated application
What's new in WCS 5.1 compared with WCS 5.0
- Added SIP calls, streams and system state basic realtime monitoring, with the ability to view calls and streams history.
- SIP core rewritten.
- Added audio and video streams mixer.
- Added stream recording on demand (to record mixed stream for example).
- Added streams published in chat room recording with record files merging ability.
- Added RTMP stream pulling.
- Added REST API methods to manage new functions.
New version installation with previous version update
Updating 5.1 to 5.2
To update WCS 5.1 on your server to WCS 5.2, you have to do the following steps:
1. Download WebCallServer installation package from there, for example:
wget https://flashphoner.com/downloads/builds/WCS/5.2/FlashphonerWebCallServer-5.2.XXXX.tar.gz
2. Unpack the package
tar -xvzf FlashphonerWebCallServer-5.2.XXXX.tar.gz
3. Stop WCS
service webcallserver stop
4. Launch WCS 5.2 installation script
cd ../.. ./install.sh
5. When the installation script finishes, update the service startup information
systemctl daemon-reload
6. Start WCS
service webcallserver start
Check how server works by this instruction.
Updating 5.0 to 5.2
Before updating to 5.2, WCS 5.0 should be updated to latest 5.1 by this manual.
Another WCS version installation without previous version removing or updating
Sometimes, it is necessary to install more recent or older WCS version without removing or updating the already installed one. This can be done as follows:
1. Stop WCS
service webcallserver stop
2. Remove symbolic link to WCS directory
cd /usr/local rm -f FlashphonerWebCallServer
3. Install the desired version and activate it with your license number.
4. Launch the newly installed WCS version
service webcallserver start
Switching between two WCS installations
Suppose there are two versions installed on the server: 5.0.3333 and 5.1.3356. To switch from 5.1.3356 to 5.0.3333 do the following steps:
1. Stop WCS 5.1.3356
service webcallserver stop
2. Remove symbolic link to WCS directory
cd /usr/local rm -f FlashphonerWebCallServer
3. Make symbolic link to the desired version directory
cd /usr/local ln -sf FlashphonerWebCallServer-5.0.3333 FlashphonerWebCallServer
4. Launch WCS 5.0.3333
service webcallserver start
Switching back is done same way.
Known issues
1. update.sh script does not launch.
Symptoms: "Permission denied" message on update.sh launch.
Solution: set permissions to execute update.sh script
cd FlashphonerWebCallServer-5.1.3375/server/tools chmod +x update.sh ./update.sh
2. Secure Websocket connections are failed after server update
Symptoms: Two Way Streaming example and other stream publishing and playing examples does not work
Решение: remove the string
wss.keystore.file=wss.jks
from flashphoner.properties file and restart WCS
3. When two WCS versions are installed on same server, those instances should not be running simultaneously.