September 10, 2008

Astricon, Code Zone Adventures

Allison Smith introduces us to the Astricon Code Zone: [audio:tt-codezone_MIXDOWN.mp3] I am feeling especially motivated this year to make good use of the Astricon Code Zone. I seem to do well at working on development projects while I travel. Part of it is probably breaking out of my normal routine. Some of it is because I am stuck on an airplane for hours with nothing to distract me. This time, most of it is because I will be immersed in a very high concentration of Asterisk geeks for a week!

September 9, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.22-rc5, 1.6.0-rc6, and Zaptel 1.4.12.1 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.22-rc5 and 1.6.0-rc6, as well as Zaptel version 1.4.12.1. These releases are available for immediate download from http://downloads.digium.com/. This update for Zaptel includes a fix for an issue that would cause the build to fail if no firmware was selected to be installed. For a full list of changes, see the ChangeLog: http://svn.digium.com/view/zaptel/tags/1.4.12.1/ChangeLog?view=markup The Asterisk release candidates include fixes for a few crashes, as well as some less serious fixes.

September 8, 2008

New Versions of Asterisk and DAHDI

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce new releases of Asterisk and DAHDI. For more information on the reasoning behind the transition to DAHDI, please see the following post: http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/ The list of packages released today includes: dahdi-linux 2.0.0-rc4 dahdi-linux-complete 2.0.0-rc4+2.0.0-rc2 asterisk 1.4.22-rc4 asterisk 1.6.0-rc5 All of these packages are available on http://downloads.digium.com in their respective directories. Detailed information about each package release is included below. === dahdi-linux-complete-2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2 ===

September 3, 2008

New Versions of Asterisk, Asterisk-addons, Zaptel, and DAHDI

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce new releases of Asterisk, Asterisk-Addons, Zaptel, and for the first time, DAHDI. This is a set of coordinated releases intended to begin the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI; for the reasons why this is being done, please see: http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/ The list of packages released today includes: zaptel 1.2.27 zaptel 1.4.12 dahdi-linux 2.0.0-rc3 dahdi-tools 2.0.0-rc2 dahdi-linux-complete 2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2 asterisk 1.4.22-rc3 asterisk 1.6.0-rc4 asterisk-addons 1.6.0-rc1 All of these packages are available on http://downloads.

August 12, 2008

Update on SS7 Support in Asterisk 1.6

Matthew Fredrickson, an engineer at Digium and the developer of LibSS7 and the related support in Asterisk, has posted an update on SS7 support in Asterisk to the Asterisk-SS7 mailing list. It’s a pretty exciting update. LibSS7 has released a 1.0 release milestone, and there are users that are alraedy using it in very high volume installations. From the update: There are some very good and very interesting things that have been happening.

July 31, 2008

Astricon 2008, Hope to See You There!

Astricon 2008 is coming up in a couple of months. I have been to every Astricon in the United States and I always have an amazing time. I spend so much time deep in the trenches of the code that it is really nice to get out and meet people that make good use of Asterisk. I am currently scheduled to give 2 talks this year. One of them is a “lightning talk”, where I will spend 10 to 15 minutes giving a talk titled “Deadlocks explained for the masses”.

July 22, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30. Both of these releases include fixes for two security issues. Both of these issues affect users of the IAX2 channel driver. For more details on these vulnerabilities, see the published security advisories, AST-2008-010 and AST-2008-011. Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

July 21, 2008

Announcing AstriDevCon 2008!

On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base. The event will be hosted at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa immediately following AstriCon 2008 and will be low-key and open only to serious developers and contributors. We are expecting to keep the attendance to 50 people or less, including many members of the Digium Asterisk development team (currently around 15 people).

July 11, 2008

Whitepaper: High Quality Analog Interface Cards for Use with Asterisk

I just came across a whitepaper on analog interface cards via the Digium twitter feed. This paper compares performance of analog cards from Digium, Sangoma, and Rhino. Check out the promotion where you can get $100 off your purchase. Here is the whitepaper.

July 2, 2008

This Post Brought to You by Dr. Pepper

Working at Digium is so random sometimes. This morning, an entire pallet of Dr. Pepper arrived for Kevin P. Fleming, my boss, and the Director of Software Technologies. This pallet held 42 cases of 24 20 oz. bottles each. That’s 1008 20 oz. bottles of Dr. Pepper. Furthermore, this arrived with no information on who sent it! Someone must be very happy with Kevin right now. He made a comment that someone must have really liked his work on modular echo cancelers and other fixes and improvements preparing for the first release of DAHDI.