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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.19-rc4 and 1.6.0-beta7.
These releases contain significant bug fixes over the previous pre-releases of 1.4.19 and 1.6.0. We would like to thank everyone for all of the help with pre-release testing. Unless anything new comes up, 1.4.19 will be released at the beginning of next week.
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I found this article very interesting. It is a roundtable discussion with Mark Spencer and 10 others with varying views on the state of the open source world. The group includes Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Chris DiBona, and others.
Check out the article here.

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The Asterisk.org development team has released four new versions of Asterisk to address critical security vulnerabilities.
AST-2008-002 details two buffer overflows that were discovered in RTP codec payload type handling.

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-002.pdf
All users of SIP in Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 are affected.

AST-2008-003 details a vulnerability which allows an attacker to bypass SIP authentication and to make [...]

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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.4.19-rc2. This is a test release for 1.4.19. The official 1.4.19 release will be made after a 1.4.19 release candidate goes through a few days of testing without finding any major regressions. This release contains one crash regression that was found during testing of 1.4.19-rc1. [...]

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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.6.0-beta5. As of this beta of 1.6.0, 1.6.0 is now feature frozen. In addition to a number of bug fixes, the following new features have been added since beta4:

The SMDI interface in Asterisk has been reworked to fix a number of issues as well as [...]

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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.4.19-rc1. This is a test release for 1.4.19. The official 1.4.19 release will be made after a 1.4.19 release candidate goes through a few days of testing without finding any major regressions.
This release is available for download as a tarball, as well as from svn. [...]

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The software G.729 codec module from Digium has been updated for all platforms. There are x86_32 and x86_64 versions optimized for specific processors available for both Asterisk 1.6 and 1.4 for the following platforms.

Linux
Solaris 10
FreeBSD 7.0
FreeBSD 6.1

Changes:

For Asterisk trunk / 1.6, builds have been updated for CLI API changes.
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