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The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.4.35.

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #5: “Front-Load Important Information” I enjoy telling the story of the IVR I recently voiced for a large Cardiology consortium, with offices located across the Southern US. They, unfortunately, were guilty of violating #2 of the “15 Commandments of IVR – Thou Shalt Not Create Fake Mailboxes”, which meant they had [...]

Daniel-Constantin Mierla posted a writeup on combining Asterisk and Kamailio.

Steven Sokol has posted a blog entry on Asterisk Video Resources.

Leif has posted a note to his blog about the fact he will be speaking at Astricon this year.

As part of our ongoing effort to take over the world with Asterisk, I’ve put together a new “Asterisk Video Resources” page on the Asterisk.org site.  It contains about 40 videos.  Some are tutorials, others are background material.  Some are a bit out of date (dare I say, retro?) but are still worth a look. [...]

David Vossel has posted a note asking for help with testing of some stun changes.

Russell Bryant has posted details of a new mailing list for automated testing of Asterisk and some information on the progress that has been made. There is no way to say how important I think this work is. It really makes a huge difference to Asterisk and the ability to use it in an enterprise environment. Really great work.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta2.

Congratulations to Leslie Conway, vice president of global marketing, who has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN magazine as one of the top Women of the Channel. CRN’s annual list recognizes female executives across vendors’ channel organizations, distributors and solution providers for their accomplishments over the past year and the far-reaching impact they are having [...]

Nir Simionovich has posted details of the beta of the new call analytics service.

Howdy, Digium is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta of Asterisk 1.8. Asterisk 1.8, the next major release of Asterisk, is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and will be fully supported for 4 years, with an additional year of security-only fixes. For more information about support timelines for Asterisk releases, see [...]

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #4: Always Give Callers An “Opt-In” We’ve built a solid foundation of the first three Commandments of IVR so far: we’ve promised to *Never* Overestimate Your Listener’s Attention Span (which, we’ve established, is considerably shorter than you might think…); we’ve vowed to not create fake mailboxes to make our companies sound [...]

Russell Bryant has posted details of some changes to the way developers need to commit code to Asterisk because of the newly released 1.8 branch.

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.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.10.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.4.34.

Olle has posted a note about his awesome AppleRaisin branch which provides the ability to store AstDB in realtime. This would make for a much simpler failover and clustering situation.

Lenz has posted a note to inform us that QueueMetrics version 1.6.1 has been released. This release offers a large number of bug fixes, misc improvements and new developements including hotdesking.

Russell Bryant has posted a note to inform us of the creation of the 1.8 branch of Asterisk.