March 5, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.19-rc1 Now Available

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.4.19-rc1. This is a test release for 1.4.19. The official 1.4.19 release will be made after a 1.4.19 release candidate goes through a few days of testing without finding any major regressions. This release is available for download as a tarball, as well as from svn. Please download and test this release and report any problems to http://bugs.digium.com/. Release tarballs can be found here:

March 5, 2008

Asterisk 1.6.0-beta5 Now Available

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.6.0-beta5. As of this beta of 1.6.0, 1.6.0 is now feature frozen. In addition to a number of bug fixes, the following new features have been added since beta4: The SMDI interface in Asterisk has been reworked to fix a number of issues as well as add some new features. SMDI message information is now accessed in the dialplan using some new dialplan functions.

March 5, 2008

codec_g729-v34 Builds Now Available

The software G.729 codec module from Digium has been updated for all platforms. There are x86_32 and x86_64 versions optimized for specific processors available for both Asterisk 1.6 and 1.4 for the following platforms. Linux Solaris 10 FreeBSD 7.0 FreeBSD 6.1 Changes: For Asterisk trunk / 1.6, builds have been updated for CLI API changes. All non-Linux builds for both 1.4 and 1.6 have been updated for various API changes. All of the Linux builds include changes so that an Ethernet interface explicitly named eth0, or eth1, etc.

February 21, 2008

Asterisk 1.6.0-beta4 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0-beta4. Here are some highlights from the changes, with the associated issue numbers from bugs.digium.com if an issue was associated with the change. This release contains the following improvements: 12020, a CLI formatting improvement 11964, added the ability to get the original called number on SS7 calls 11873, Added core API changes to handle T.38 origination and termination (The version of app_fax in Asterisk-addons now supports this.

February 21, 2008

Asterisk-addons 1.6.0-beta2 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk-addons version 1.6.0-beta2. This release contains the following improvement, along with some other minor bug fixes. 11614, Updated app_fax to allow termination and origination of faxes over T.38 The full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog. The release is available for download from http://downloads.digium.com. Thank you for your support!

February 19, 2008

Request for Testing: Distributed Device State

Greetings, One of the things that I have been working with off and on is a new event API for Asterisk. Most of the current infrastructure was written almost a year ago. However, just recently, I extended this system to be able to allow device states to be shared within a cluster of Asterisk servers. The current system for distributed events is designed for a high speed LAN. However, I also have plans to extend this to DUNDi so that it can be used withina DUNDi network, as well.

February 18, 2008

Asterisk 1.6.0-beta3 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk-1.6.0-beta3. This release contains a number of bug fixes over beta2, as well as a few new features. Added an ’n’ option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to: list the categories in a file get the contents of a single category empty a single category create a new configuration file delete a line by line number with respect to the category inserting variables and categories at a specified line inserting categories above an existing category Added a false condition to the GotoIfTime application Added a new manager event for IAX2 jitterbuffer statistics Thank you very much to everyone that has participated in testing Asterisk 1.

February 18, 2008

Zaptel 1.2.24 and 1.4.9 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Zaptel versions 1.2.24 and 1.4.9. Zaptel 1.2.24 Highlights Linux kernel 2.6.24 compatibility New module parameters for tuning VPMADT032 echo canceller modules Improved interrupt handling in the wcte12xp driver Zaptel 1.4.9 Highlights Linux kernel 2.6.24 compatibility New module parameters for tuning VPMADT032 echo canceller modules Improved interrupt handling in the wcte12xp driver Fixed TX/RX stream naming in ztmonitor Report battery loss on analog FXO ports as a channel alarm (only usable in Asterisk 1.

February 10, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.18 Released

The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.18. In response to a community request, in preparation for this release, the development community held a release candidate period before making the official release. Multiple people tested it out and reported issues. The release candidate process was definitely a success for this release, and we will continue to do it for future Asterisk 1.4 releases. To see what changes have been made since the last release, see the ChangeLog here:

February 3, 2008

Request for Testing: CLI Command Audit

Michiel van Baak has just completed some work for Asterisk 1.6 that cleans up a lot of the inconsistencies in the Asterisk CLI command interface. The code is now ready for testing. See Michiel’s post on the asterisk-dev list. See the related issue on the issue tracker.