Asterisk 1.8 beta is near …
Asterisk 1.8 will be the next major release of Asterisk with Long Term Support. It has been under heavy development for a while now. The first beta release of Asterisk 1.8 will be available by the end...
View ArticleAsterisk 1.8.0-beta1 Now Available
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1. This release marks the beginning of the testing process for the eventual release of Asterisk 1.8.0. This release is...
View ArticleLibPRI 1.4.12-beta1 Now Available
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of libpri version 1.4.12-beta1. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/ This beta...
View ArticleAutomated Testing Update
Greetings, A while back, I posted a message about an effort to improve automated testing in the Asterisk project. I wanted to give an update on how that project has progressed for those that have not...
View ArticleOpen Source Telephony @ FOSDEM 2011
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source software Developers European Meeting) is an amazing conference held each year in Brussels, Belgium. I have been lucky enough to attend in 2009 and 2010. Both times I was...
View ArticleAsterisk: The Definitive Guide – Call for Technical Review
We are finally wrapping up our book, “Asterisk: The Definitive Guide”. The contents have been available on a web site for a while, but now that the content is complete, we’re looking for a lot of...
View ArticleAsterisk 1.10 Update
I just posted an update on the development of Asterisk 1.10 to the asterisk-dev mailing list. Here is the content: Greetings, Shortly after the release of Asterisk 1.8, we had a developer meeting and...
View ArticleDebugging the Asterisk Dialplan with Verbose()
Leif Madsen and I are working on a new book, the Asterisk Cookbook. One of the recipes that I am working on this morning is a method of adding debug statements into the Asterisk dialplan. I came up...
View ArticleTaking On New Challenges
I began working on the Asterisk project in 2004. My work on Asterisk has led to an exciting career in open source software engineering. At the end of July 2011, I will be leaving Digium to take on...
View ArticleBridging Asterisk RTP streams with OVS
I’m at the AstriCon conference this week, which is a conference built around the Asterisk open source project. I worked on the Asterisk project for about 7 years before joining Red Hat to hack on...
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