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.
All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the 1.8 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker, http://issues.asterisk.org/. It is also very useful to hear successful test reports. Please post those to the asterisk-dev mailing list.
Asterisk 1.8 is the next major release series of Asterisk. It will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release, similar to Asterisk 1.4. For more information about support time lines for Asterisk releases, see the Asterisk versions page.
itweb.co.za: Legal VOIP is Good News for Corporates - October 15, 2004 With the liberalisation of the telecoms sector, the regulatory environment is finally catching up with technology, allowing convergence to move closer to becoming a reality.
Asterisk-CVS: WCFXS is now WCTDM - November 10, 2004 Where you used to modprobe wcfxs for the TDM400P card, you now must modprobe wctdm. (Full news entry)
XC-AST 0.4.1 IS OUT TODAY - November 15, 2004 Version 0.4.1 of the commercial Asterisk Queue Management System has been released.
AstriDevCon: October 29th, Washington DC August 23, 2010 Average Vote: 10
John Todd has posted a note about the AstriDevCon conference which occurs within the Astricon conference.
VoIP-Info: FFasterisk Video file converter August 25, 2006 Average Vote: 10
The wiki has a link to a new piece of software for converting video to the format required for Asterisk.
Voip-Forum: Lots of new articles March 12, 2005 Average Vote: 10
Oej's Voip-Forum.com site has posted lots of new news articles while I've been away. Hopefully you found them via the asterisk-docs site. If not I've bookmarked them for you.
Interview with Mark Spencer November 26, 2004 Average Vote: 9.9
We have managed to get an interview with Mark Spencer AKA Markster. Mark Spencer is the creator of Asterisk and by far the most active developer.
Back to life July 21, 2010 Average Vote: 9.8
Hey all - I am back online after some pretty big projects which have taken all my time. Will be updating the Asterisk news over the next few days.
GUI changes from Trixbox, FreePBX, 2600hz, BlueBox September 1, 2010 Average Vote: 9.8
Ok, bear with me on this one. If you understand all the ramifications, FreePBX has split to a new project called BlueBox contained within the 2600hz project. This obviously has implications for Trixbox that uses FreePBX to provide quite a bit of functionality.
Announcing Adhearsion 0.8.5 August 25, 2010 Average Vote: 9.8
Ben Klang has posted a note about the latest release of Adhearsion - a framework for developing Asterisk based solutions using Ruby.
app_swift v2.0 released July 21, 2010 Average Vote: 9.8
Like a few of these news stories that I will be posting over the next couple of days this is a little old - hope it is not something you have already seen. This one is for a new version of the app_swift text-to-speech module for Asterisk 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6.
Monitoring Asterisk with Munin January 7, 2010 Average Vote: 9.7
I had a few requests for these munin plugins after some discussion on one of the Asterisk lists and thought people might like them.
libpri 1.4.11.4 Now Available September 3, 2010 The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of libpri 1.4.11.4.
New CDR Stats Package September 1, 2010 This one has been a long time coming. A new CDR stats package from Star2Billing to replace the 7 year old stalwart for viewing Asterisk call detail records.
GUI changes from Trixbox, FreePBX, 2600hz, BlueBox September 1, 2010 Ok, bear with me on this one. If you understand all the ramifications, FreePBX has split to a new project called BlueBox contained within the 2600hz project. This obviously has implications for Trixbox that uses FreePBX to provide quite a bit of functionality.
RazorQuotePBP Asterisk Payment Module August 31, 2010 RazorQuote has sent us a press release about the launch of RazorQuotePBP, a native Asterisk module that allows any Asterisk connected device to accept credit card payments.
AstriCon approaches August 25, 2010 John Todd has posted a note about the upcoming AstriCon conference in Washington, DC, and the innovation awards.
Announcing Adhearsion 0.8.5 August 25, 2010 Ben Klang has posted a note about the latest release of Adhearsion - a framework for developing Asterisk based solutions using Ruby.
AstriDevCon: October 29th, Washington DC August 23, 2010 John Todd has posted a note about the AstriDevCon conference which occurs within the Astricon conference.
The XV Commandments of IVR August 17, 2010 An update on the 15 tips for creating effective IVR systems by Allison Smith - the Voice of Asterisk.