This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

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.

http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions

Asterisk 1.8 contains many new features over previous releases of Asterisk. A short list of included features includes:

• Secure RTP
• IPv6 Support
• Connected Party Identification Support
• Calendaring Integration
• A new call logging system, Channel Event Logging (CEL)
• Distributed Device State using Jabber/XMPP PubSub
• Call Completion Supplementary Services support
• Advice of Charge support
• Much, much more!

A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file.

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.8/CHANGES?view=checkout

For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-beta1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

There are many exciting features in Asterisk 1.8. Here are just a couple of the more recent changes that have been merged in:

• IPv6: Asterisk 1.8 will have IPv6 support for SIP and RTP.
• SRTP: Asterisk 1.8 will have support for secure RTP to allow the media to be encrypted for a SIP call.

The list of new features is quite long. Take a look for a list of what is in Asterisk trunk (which will soon become Asterisk 1.8).

When Asterisk 1.8 is available as a beta and release candidate, please help by testing things out to help make this the best release yet!

In addition to other bug fixes, this release candidate fixes several crash issues, and resolved some remaining issues related to call pickup and call
parking that were discovered after the release of Asterisk 1.4.23. In addition, issues related to chan_iax2, and regressions introduced to the ‘h’ extension have been resolved.

This release marks the first inclusion of the release summary files which will be included in all future releases. The purpose is to give a clearer overview of the changes that have taken place between the current and previous release, which issues have been closed, and which community members were involved with issue submission, code commits, and issue testing. Additionally, a diffstat at the end of the file shows at a brief glance the number of changes made to files between the previous and current releases.

For a summary of the changes in this release, please see the release summary:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.24/asterisk-1.4.24-summary.html?view=co

For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.24/ChangeLog?view=co

The following list of bugs were resolved with the participation of the community, and this release would not have been possible without your help!

* Paging application crashes asterisk
- Closes issue #14308. Submitted by bluefox. Tested by kc0bvu. Patched by seanbright.

* Crash in VoiceMailMain if hangup occurs before a valid mailbox number is entered (IMAP only)
- Closes issue #14473. Submitted by, and patch provided by dwpaul.

* Incoming Gtalk calls fail
- Closes issue #13984. Submitted by, tested, and patched by jcovert.

* Realtime peers are never qualified after ‘sip reload’
- Closes issue #14196. Submitted by, tested, and patched by pdf.

* SIP Attended Transfer fails
- Closes issue 14611. Submitted by, tested, and patched by klaus3000.

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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Greetings,

In the past, when we made a new release of Asterisk, the only file that you had to get an idea of what changed in that release was the ChangeLog, which includes the developer oriented commit message for every change. There is also the CHANGES file which lists new features included in a new major release. Also, the release announcements generally contain a high level overview of some of the important changes.

In order to help improve visibility into what changes are being made, David Vossel and I have been working on a script that automatically generates a summary for a release. The intent would be to start generating these as a part of the release process and include them with every release. The intent is to provide something a bit more user friendly than the ChangeLog.

Currently, the script generates a document that includes the following information:

• The type of release (bug fix update, security update, etc.)
• People involved in making the release by coding, testing, or reporting issues.
• All issues closed from bugs.digium.com
• A list of “other changes”, that didn’t close out a bug report, and which bug reports these changes were related to, if any.
• A “diffstat”, which gives an overview of which files were changed, and by how much.

The script is pretty much ready to be integrated into the release process, but I wanted to present example output to everyone for feedback first. So, take a look at these examples and let me know what you think. The script generates both an HTML version, and a plain text version.

Thanks!

Examples:

A bug-fix release:
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.23-summary.html
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.23-summary.txt

A security release:
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.23.1-summary.html
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.23.1-summary.txt

A feature release:
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.1-summary.html
– http://www.russellbryant.net/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.1-summary.txt

–
Russell Bryant
Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Team Lead
445 Jan Davis Drive NW – Huntsville, AL 35806 – USA
Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org

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=== Asterisk 1.4.22 =============================================
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Asterisk 1.4.22 includes a large number of bug fixes for the 1.4 release series of Asterisk. 1.4.22 also includes support for DAHDI. For more information about the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI, please see the following help file:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=markup

For a full listing of changes in this release, see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22/ChangeLog?view=markup

Asterisk 1.4.22 is available for immediate download from the Digium downloads site:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.22.tar.gz

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=== Asterisk 1.6.0 ==============================================
=================================================================

Asterisk 1.6.0 is the first official release of Asterisk 1.6.

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— Upgrade Information —————————————–
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Asterisk 1.6 no longer supports Zaptel. It only contains support for DAHDI. For more information on this transition, please see the following help file:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=markup

There are a number of other important changes to be aware of when upgrading to Asterisk 1.6.0 from previous versions of Asterisk. For a listing of those things, please see UPGRADE.txt:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0/UPGRADE.txt?view=markup

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— New Features ————————————————
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Asterisk 1.6.0 contains new features that were not previously available in an Asterisk release. For a full listing of the features that are included in Asterisk 1.6.0, please see the CHANGES file:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0/CHANGES?view=markup

A verbose listing of each individual change that was made in the development of Asterisk 1.6.0 is also available:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0/ChangeLog?view=markup

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— Release Management ——————————————
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The Asterisk.org development team has decided on a new release management style for Asterisk 1.6. Previously, a release series was strictly feature frozen for its entire lifetime. The release management guidelines for Asterisk 1.6 were inspired by the Linux Kernel, among a
number of other projects.

Asterisk 1.6 is not feature frozen. Features will be added in point releases. However, effort will be made to ensure that the number of large changes is minimized in a single point release. Even as 1.6.0 is being released, the Asterisk development team is already working on what new things will be in 1.6.1 and beyond. To take a look ahead to see what features have been added for releases that have not yet been made, take a look at the trunk version of the CHANGES file:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/CHANGES?view=markup

Even though new features will be added in point releases of Asterisk 1.6, that does not mean that any deprecated functionality will be removed as has been done between major releases in the past. In fact,
we have decided that maintaining backwards compatibility is of the utmost importance for configuration and external interfaces. C API and ABI compatibility is not guaranteed between point releases. However, things like dialplan applications, functions, and AGI commands will not disappear just because there is a new and better way to accomplish the same thing.

With Asterisk 1.4, once Asterisk 1.4.N is released, Asterisk 1.4.X is no longer supported, where X < N. With Asterisk 1.6, the development team plans to maintain a total of 3 releases at a time. For example, the development team will support Asterisk 1.6.0, 1.6.1, and 1.6.2 until 1.6.3 is released. This means that for the time that 1.6.0 is supported, there may be 1.6.0.1, 1.6.0.2, etc. releases that include fixes for regressions found in 1.6.0.

With Asterisk 1.4, the goal has been to make releases every 4 to 6 weeks. With Asterisk 1.6, we aim to release updates in a similar time frame, but it is likely that it will be closer to 6 to 8 weeks for Asterisk 1.6 due to a more strict beta and release candidate testing cycle for each point release.

The number of releases supported and release time frames are not yet set in stone. The development team is interested in adjusting these policies to help meet the desires of the Asterisk community.

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— Download —————————————————-
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Asterisk 1.6.0 is available for immediate download from the Digium downloads site:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.0.tar.gz

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— Reporting Issues ——————————————–
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The bug tracking process is one of the best places to get started in the Asterisk development community. Please report all issues to http://bugs.digium.com/. Live discussion about current issues is done on the Freenode IRC network, in the #asterisk-bugs or #asterisk-dev channels.

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Thank you very much for your continued support of the Asterisk project!

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 full list of changes, see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/view/zaptel/tags/1.4.12.1/ChangeLog?view=markup

The Asterisk release candidates include fixes for a few crashes, as well as some less serious fixes. For a full list of changes in these release candidates, please see the appropriate ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22-rc5/ChangeLog?view=markup

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc6/ChangeLog?view=markup

These Asterisk versions also include the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI. For more information about this transition, please see the information in this previous release announcement:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-announce/2008-September/000163.html

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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 release is included below.

=== dahdi-linux-complete-2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2 ===

This release combines dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc4 and dahdi-tools-2.0.0-rc2 into a single download, one-package installation process, so that users who are installing DAHDI for the first time don’t have to download and install the dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools packages separately.

=== dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc4 ===

This is a release candidate of the DAHDI Linux kernel modules package, which replaces the kernel modules components of Zaptel. It contains all the functionality of Zaptel 1.4 plus many improvements, but also has some old (generally unsupported) functionality from Zaptel removed, including (but not limited to):

• Support for Linux 2.4.x kernels
• Support for devfs dynamic device filesystems
• The ‘torisa’ and ‘wcusb’ drivers

Information on upgrading from Zaptel to DAHDI can be found in the included UPGRADE.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/linux/tags/2.0.0-rc4/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/releases/ChangeLog-2.0.0-rc4

=== asterisk-1.4.22-rc4 ===

This release candidate includes a large number of bug fixes and also is the first release of Asterisk 1.4 that includes support for DAHDI, the package that is replacing Zaptel. This version of Asterisk can be built against *either* Zaptel or DAHDI, but since Zaptel 1.4.12 is the last release of Zaptel 1.4, users are encouraged to transition to DAHDI as soon as they can, so that they will be able to continue to receive bug fixes and other improvements.

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22-rc4/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.22-rc4

=== asterisk-1.6.0-rc5 ===

This version of Asterisk contains a large number of enhancements and improvements over Asterisk 1.4, which can be found in the included CHANGES file, and read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/CHANGES?view=co

*All* users who install this version of Asterisk are strongly encouraged to read the UPGRADE.txt file to learn about changes that affect compatibility with previous versions of Asterisk; this file can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.0-rc5

=== ===

Thank you for your continued support of the Asterisk project!

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 2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2
• asterisk 1.4.22-rc3
• asterisk 1.6.0-rc4
• asterisk-addons 1.6.0-rc1

All of these packages are available on http://downloads.digium.com in their respective directories. Detailed information about each package release is included below.

=== zaptel-1.2.27 ===

This will be the final release of Zaptel made from the 1.2 release branch. This release includes a number of bug fixes and other improvements, most notably compatibility with the 2.6.26 and 2.6.27
kernels and a fix for wctdm driver (for TDM400P cards) that corrects a problem introduced in 1.2.26 that caused FXO ports to not properly recognize incoming calls.

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/zaptel/releases/ChangeLog-1.2.27

=== zaptel-1.4.12 ===

This will be the final release of Zaptel made from the 1.4 release branch. This release includes a number of bugs fixes and other improvements, including the changes that are listed above for the Zaptel
1.2.27 release.

In addition, there are two major changes in this release:

– Support for the Digium TC400B transcoder card has been completely rewritten, and the API used by Asterisk (or any other application) to the card has been changed significantly. The result of this work is that the transcoder interface is more reliable and stable, and it supports variable-sized G.729 frames (including G.729B silence detection frames). However, that means that any Asterisk user using a TC400B who wants to upgrade to this version of Zaptel must *also* upgrade their version of
Asterisk to one of the releases included in this announcement; older versions of Asterisk will not be able to use the transcoder support in this release of Zaptel.

– To help users make the transition to DAHDI (and especially if they need to move back to Zaptel for some reason), this version of Zaptel contains installation steps that will *uninstall* the important parts of DAHDI if they are present on the system during the ‘make install’ step. This will allow a user to ‘switch back’ to Zaptel from DAHDI without having to manually uninstall any portions of DAHDI.

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/zaptel/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.12

=== dahdi-linux-complete-2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2 ===

This release combines dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc3 and dahdi-tools-2.0.0-rc2 into a single download, one-package installation process, so that users who are installing DAHDI for the first time don’t have to download and install the dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools packages separately.

=== dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc3 ===

This is the first release candidate of the DAHDI Linux kernel modules package, which replaces the kernel modules components of Zaptel. It contains all the functionality of Zaptel 1.4 plus many improvements, but also has some old (generally unsupported) functionality from Zaptel removed, including (but not limited to):

• Support for Linux 2.4.x kernels
• Support for devfs dynamic device filesystems
• The ‘torisa’ and ‘wcusb’ drivers

Information on upgrading from Zaptel to DAHDI can be found in the included UPGRADE.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/linux/tags/2.0.0-rc3/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/releases/ChangeLog-2.0.0-rc3

=== dahdi-tools-2.0.0-rc2 ===

This is the first release candidate of the DAHDI userspace tools package, which replaces the userspace components of Zaptel. It contains all the functionality of Zaptel 1.4 plus many improvements.

Information on upgrading from Zaptel to DAHDI can be found in the included UPGRADE.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/tools/tags/2.0.0-rc2/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools/releases/ChangeLog-2.0.0-rc2

=== asterisk-1.4.22-rc3 ===

This release candidate includes a large number of bug fixes and also is the first release of Asterisk 1.4 that includes support for DAHDI, the package that is replacing Zaptel. This version of Asterisk can be built against *either* Zaptel or DAHDI, but since Zaptel 1.4.12 is the last release of Zaptel 1.4, users are encouraged to transition to DAHDI as soon as they can, so that they will be able to continue to receive bug fixes and other improvements.

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22-rc3/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.22-rc3

=== asterisk-1.6.0-rc4 ===

This release candidate marks the transition of the Asterisk 1.6 release branch from ‘beta’ status to ‘release candidate’ status, signifying that it is nearing final release. This version of Asterisk contains a large number of enhancements and improvements over Asterisk 1.4, which can be found in the included CHANGES file, and read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc4/CHANGES?view=co

*All* users who install this version of Asterisk are strongly encouraged to read the UPGRADE.txt file to learn about changes that affect compatibility with previous versions of Asterisk; this file can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc4/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc4/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.0-rc4

=== asterisk-addons-1.6.0-rc1 ===

This release candidate marks the transition of the Asterisk-Addons 1.6 release branch from ‘beta’ status to ‘release candidate’ status, signifying that it is nearing final release. This version of
Asterisk-Addons contains a Bluetooth device channel driver called chan_mobile, as well as a number of smaller improvements to existing modules.

*All* users who install this version of Asterisk-Addons are strongly encouraged to read the UPGRADE.txt file to learn about changes that affect compatibility with previous versions of Asterisk-Addons; this
file can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk-addons/tags/1.6.0-rc1/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-addons-1.6.0-rc1

=== ===

Thank you for your continued support of the Asterisk project!

Both of these releases include fixes for two security issues. Both of these issues affect users of the IAX2 channel driver. For more details on these vulnerabilities, see the published security advisories, AST-2008-010 and AST-2008-011.

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

This includes a critical bug fix for 1.4.21. All users that experienced lockups when upgrading to 1.4.21 should have their issues resolved with this update.

Asterisk 1.4.21.1 is available for download from the downloads site:

• http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!