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I posted an update on one of the development projects going on to the asterisk-dev mailing list. We are restructuring the way documentation is managed for the interfaces inside of Asterisk and the first phase of the project will likely be merged soon. Check out the update here.
From the update:

===== Project Background =====
Writing [...]

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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.6.1-beta1.
While Asterisk 1.6.0 was in the beta and release candidate stage, the development team was also working on merging new things for Asterisk 1.6.1. Now that 1.6.0 has been released, the testing cycle for Asterisk 1.6.1 has begun.
To see the list of new features in Asterisk 1.6.1, [...]

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Asterisk 1.6.0 has now been officially released. One of the questions that is going to come up over time is how to port custom code that was written for older versions of Asterisk up to Asterisk 1.6.
For Asterisk 1.6.0, we included a document that describes every C level API change between Asterisk 1.4 and [...]

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Allison Smith introduces us to the Astricon Code Zone:

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Greetings fellow developers!
This is part 3 of a series on implementing the basic interfaces to provide features to Asterisk.
Part 1 - Basic Module Structure
Part 2 - CDR Handling Interface
In this section, you will see how to implement an Asterisk CLI command. CLI commands are extremely useful for showing configuration, statistics, and other debugging purposes.
We [...]

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