March 17, 2009

Asterisk 1.4.24 Released

The Asterisk Development Team is proud to announce release of Asterisk 1.4.24, and is available for immediate download at http://downloads.digium.com/ In addition to other bug fixes, this release candidate fixes several crash issues, and resolved some remaining issues related to call pickup and call parking that were discovered after the release of Asterisk 1.4.23. In addition, issues related to chan_iax2, and regressions introduced to the ‘h’ extension have been resolved.

March 17, 2009

MFC/R2 support in Asterisk 1.6.2

Yesterday, official support for MFC/R2 signaling in chan_dahdi was merged, and will be included in Asterisk 1.6.2. Here is the commit. To get a head start on testing Asterisk 1.6.2 with R2 support, check out the code from the 1.6.2 branch: $ svn co http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.2 asterisk-1.6.2 Before compiling Asterisk, you will need to compile and install LibOpenR2. Thank you very much to Moises Silva (Moy), who worked very hard to write LibOpenR2 and bring this functionality to Asterisk!

March 9, 2009

Google Summer of Code 2009

I just kicked off a discussion about submitting an application for the Asterisk project to participate in this year’s Google Summer of Code. See my post on asterisk-dev here. -——————————————————- Greetings, The Asterisk project participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2005, but has not since then. I would like to apply again this year. I think it is an amazing opportunity to reach out to new developers and get some code written that we all want done, but have not had a chance to get to.

February 26, 2009

Release Summary for Asterisk Releases

I just posted some information on a script I have been working on to generate a release summary to the asterisk-dev list. -——————- Greetings, In the past, when we made a new release of Asterisk, the only file that you had to get an idea of what changed in that release was the ChangeLog, which includes the developer oriented commit message for every change. There is also the CHANGES file which lists new features included in a new major release.

October 29, 2008

XML Documentation of Dialplan Applications and Functions

I posted an update on one of the development projects going on to the asterisk-dev mailing list. We are restructuring the way documentation is managed for the interfaces inside of Asterisk and the first phase of the project will likely be merged soon. Check out the update here. From the update: ===== Project Background ===== Writing documentation is a huge job. Every time that someone has gone to write documentation on Asterisk, part of the task is always to take the information from “core show application ” or “core show function ” and convert it to some other format.

October 3, 2008

Asterisk 1.6.1-beta1 Now Available

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.6.1-beta1. While Asterisk 1.6.0 was in the beta and release candidate stage, the development team was also working on merging new things for Asterisk 1.6.1. Now that 1.6.0 has been released, the testing cycle for Asterisk 1.6.1 has begun. To see the list of new features in Asterisk 1.6.1, see the CHANGES file: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.6.1/CHANGES?view=markup For a full list of changes that have gone into the development of Asterisk 1.

October 3, 2008

Porting Code to Asterisk 1.6.0

Asterisk 1.6.0 has now been officially released. One of the questions that is going to come up over time is how to port custom code that was written for older versions of Asterisk up to Asterisk 1.6. For Asterisk 1.6.0, we included a document that describes every C level API change between Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk 1.6. For more information, see the file doc/api-1.6.0-changes.odt in the Asterisk 1.6.0 tarball.

October 2, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.22 and 1.6.0 Released

The Asterisk.org development team is proud to announce the releases of Asterisk 1.4.22 and 1.6.0. ================================================================= === Asterisk 1.4.22 ============================================= ================================================================= Asterisk 1.4.22 includes a large number of bug fixes for the 1.4 release series of Asterisk. 1.4.22 also includes support for DAHDI. For more information about the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI, please see the following help file: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=markup For a full listing of changes in this release, see the ChangeLog:

September 12, 2008

The Voice of Asterisk does Monty Python

Allison Smith, The Voice of Asterisk, is awesome. Here is another non-traditional sound prompt that came with a batch that we had recorded recently: [audio:tt-monty-knights.mp3]

September 10, 2008

Astricon, A Time for Celebration

From the full post: So, after a year of focus on the Asterisk code, I’m ready to get out and meet up with the Asterisk community. I will be spending as much time as possible in the code zone. I love hearing all of the stories of success and new Asterisk applications that I have never thought of. I get most of my inspiration for what new things to work on from these discussions at Astricon.