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+<section><title>diameter 1.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add missing check at dictionary compilation.</p>
+ <p>
+ In particular, that an AVP defined as having type Grouped
+ in an @avp_types section has a corresponding definition
+ in a @grouped section.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11561</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Correct documentation on the setting of Origin-State-Id</p>
+ <p>
+ It was incorrectly stated that the AVP would be set in an
+ outgoing DPR/DPA.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11583</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Change interface for communicating outbound stream id to
+ diameter_sctp</p>
+ <p>
+ The module uses the transport_data field of record
+ diameter_packet to communicate the stream on which the an
+ incoming message is received and on which an outgoing
+ message should be sent, the previous interface being that
+ both are communicated as a tuple of the form {stream,
+ Id}. However, since diameter retains the value of an
+ incoming request's transport_data unless the
+ corresponding answer message specifies otherwise, the
+ behaviour in this case is to send an answer on the
+ outbound stream with the same identifier as the that of
+ the inbound stream on which the request was received. If
+ the inbound stream id is greater than or equal to the
+ number of outbound streams then this is guaranteed to
+ fail, causing the transport process in question to
+ terminate. There is no relationship between inbound and
+ outbound stream identifiers so diameter_sctp's imposition
+ of one is simply wrong.</p>
+ <p>
+ Outbound stream ids are now communicated with a different
+ tuple: {outstream, Id}, interpreted modulo the number of
+ outbound streams. Thus, retention of an inbound request's
+ transport_data has no effect on the selection of an
+ outbound stream.</p>
+ <p>
+ The change in interface is not strictly backwards
+ compatible because of the new atom for the outbound
+ stream. However, as there is currently no documented way
+ of obtaining the available number of outbound streams for
+ a peer connection, there is no way for a client to have
+ known the range of ids from which it could reliably have
+ chosen with the previous interface, so any setting of the
+ outbound stream has probably been unintentional. Not
+ explicitly specifying an outbound stream now results in a
+ round-robin selection.</p>
+ <p>
+ Thanks to Sharmila Pillai for reporting the problem.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11593</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix unicode path failure in diameter_make:codec/2.</p>
+ <p>
+ A dictionary path containing a unicode codepoint > 255
+ caused the function to fail.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11655</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix 'accept' config to diameter_sctp.</p>
+ <p>
+ OTP-10893 added support for {accept, Match} tuples to
+ specify addresses or regexps that should be matched
+ against peer addresses to decide whether or not a newly
+ established association should be retained, but this
+ hasn't been functional in the SCTP case because of
+ missing support in inet(3).</p>
+ <p>
+ The display of both local and peer addresses in
+ diameter:service_info/2 output has also been corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11661 Aux Id: OTP-10229 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Be lenient with the M-bit in Grouped AVPs.</p>
+ <p>
+ RFC 6733 says this, in 4.4:</p>
+ <p>
+ <taglist><item><p><c>Receivers of a Grouped AVP that does
+ not have the 'M' (mandatory) bit set and one or more of
+ the encapsulated AVPs within the group has the 'M'
+ (mandatory) bit set MAY simply be ignored if the Grouped
+ AVP itself is unrecognized. The rule applies even if the
+ encapsulated AVP with its 'M' (mandatory) bit set is
+ further encapsulated within other sub-groups, i.e., other
+ Grouped AVPs embedded within the Grouped
+ AVP.</c></p></item></taglist></p>
+ <p>
+ The first sentence is mangled but take it to mean this:</p>
+ <p>
+ <taglist><item><p><c>An unrecognized AVP of type Grouped
+ that does not set the 'M' bit MAY be ignored even if one
+ of its encapsulated AVPs sets the 'M'
+ bit.</c></p></item></taglist></p>
+ <p>
+ This is a bit of a non-statement since if the AVP is
+ unrecognized then its type is unknown. We therefore don't
+ know that its data bytes contain encapsulated AVPs, so
+ can't but ignore any of those that set the M-bit. Doing
+ anything else when the type *is* known would be
+ inconsistent.</p>
+ <p>
+ OTP-11087 (R16B03) caused the M-bit on any unrecognized
+ AVP to be regarded as an error, unrecognized being taken
+ to mean "not explicitly defined as a member of its
+ container". (That is, an AVP that can't be packed into a
+ dedicated record field, which is slightly stronger than
+ "not defined".) This fixed the original intention for
+ top-level AVPs but broke the required leniency for
+ Grouped AVPs whose type is known. This leniency is now
+ restored.</p>
+ <p>
+ Note that dictionary files need to be recompiled for the
+ change to have effect.</p>
+ <p>
+ Thanks to Rory McKeown for reporting the problem.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11675 Aux Id: OTP-11087 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix pick_peer case clause failure.</p>
+ <p>
+ In the case of {call_mutates_state, true} configuration
+ on the service in question, any peer selection that
+ failed to select a peer resulted in a case clause
+ failure. This was noticed in the case of a peer failover
+ in which an alternate peer wasn't available.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11789</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>diameter 1.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>