June 9, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.21-rc2 Now Available

The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.21-rc2. This release is a release candidate for the upcoming official release of 1.4.21. A few bugs have been fixed since 1.4.21-rc1. Please continue to assist in testing before we release 1.4.21! The release candidate is available on the download site. http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk Please provide release candidate testing feedback to the asterisk-dev mailing list, or the issue tracker, http://bugs.digium.com/. Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

June 4, 2008

101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk

Digium has partnered with VoIPSupply to hold a contest for coming up with a list of things that can be done with Asterisk. If you have an interesting application of Asterisk, be sure to add it to the list! http://blog.voipsupply.com/asterisk-news/101-things-you-can-do-with-asterisk

June 3, 2008

Asterisk 1.2.29 Released

The asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.2.29. This release contains a fix for a security issue that is documented in AST-2008-008. The SIP channel driver in Asterisk 1.2 had a remote crash vulnerability when pedantic mode is enabled. For more information on the vulnerability, see the advisory: http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-008.html Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

June 3, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.21-rc1 Now Available

The Asterisk development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.21-rc1. This release is a release candidate for the upcoming official release of 1.4.21. It contains fewer bug fixes than usual for a 1.4 release series update, but some of them are important enough to get the release out sooner. We would like to encourage the community to assist us in testing before we release 1.4.21. The release candidate is available on the download site.

May 20, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.20 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.20. This release contains a large number of bug fixes over the previous release. For a full list of changes, see the ChangeLog included in the release. http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.20/ChangeLog?view=markup Asterisk 1.4.20 is available for immediate download from the Digium downloads site. http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/ Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

May 20, 2008

John Todd Joins Digium as Open Source Community Director

I am excited to point out the John Todd has joined Digium as the new Open Source Community Director. John joins us with a vast amount of experience within the Asterisk community and beyond. Without further introduction, I will just point to John’s recent message to the development community in this mailing list post. Also, see the Digium press release, as well.

May 20, 2008

Zaptel Project Being Renamed to DAHDI

The Zaptel project is being renamed to DAHDI due to trademark issues. For more information, please refer to this post on the mailing list, this post on the Digium blog, as well as this page on the Asterisk web site.

May 19, 2008

More Work on Asterisk as a Softphone ... Inside Firefox?!

Luigi Rizzo, a community developer for the Asterisk project has posted a message to the developers mailing list talking about some of the work that he and his students are working on. Previously, I pointed out how they had done work to allow you to use Asterisk as a softphone that supports video. Now, it sounds like they are taking this even further. He talks about: 1) Merge console channel drivers in Asterisk.

May 14, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.20-rc3 and 1.6.0-beta9 Now Avaialble

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.20-rc3 and 1.6.0-beta9. These releases are intended to encourage community testing to improve the quality of the upcoming 1.4.20 and 1.6.0 releases. The testing process has proven extremely useful and we would like to thank everyone who has participated. Please help continue the effort. Any issues with test releases should be reported to http://bugs.digium.com/ or discussed on the asterisk-dev mailing list. Both releases are available for download from the Digium downloads site.

May 13, 2008

Asterisk 1.4.19.2 Released

This release is related to my IAX2 performance improvements. -————————– The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.19.2. This release includes some IAX2 channel driver updates. Asterisk 1.4.19.1 was released to address an IAX2 security vulnerability. Unfortunately, the changes to address the security issue had an unfortunate negative impact on IAX2 performance in Asterisk. These issues have been addressed and the related fixes are included in this release. The performance of IAX2 in Asterisk due to these changes should be far better than it was even before the changes were made for the security issue.