Asterisk 1.6.0.6 Now Available!

The Asterisk.org development team is proud to announce the release of Asterisk 1.6.0.6. This release is available for download from http://downloads.digium.com/.

This release is a significant bug fix update for the 1.6.0 release series.

In addition, this release is recommended for all users of the Asterisk GUI.

Two issues with the manager interface have been resolved. The first being with the manager interface improperly handling async. requests from the GUI (see issue #14364). It resulted in manager session file descriptors being improperly destroyed and overwritten. The other being an issue with the Originate action that would cause issues with the GUI. They have both been resolved in this release.

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

* Set the initiator attribute to lowercase in our replies when receiving calls.

This attribute contains a JID that identifies the initiator of the GoogleTalk

voice session. The GoogleTalk client discards Asterisk's replies if the

initiator attribute contains uppercase characters.

- Closes issue #13984. Submitted and tested by: jcovert

* Fix odd "thank you" sound playing behavior in app_queue.c

- Closes issue #14227. Reported and tested by: caspy

* Don't do an SRV lookup if a port is specified RFC 3263 says to do A record

lookups on a hostname if a port has been specified, so that's what we're

going to do. See section 4.2.

- Closes issue #14419. Reported and patched by: klaus3000

* Properly set "seen" and "unseen" flags when moving messages from the new to

the old folder when using IMAP for voicemail storage.

- Closes issue #13905. Reported and patched by: jaroth

* Fix devicestate problems for "always-on" agent channels.

- Closes issue #14173. Reported by: nathan. Tested by: nathan, aramirez

For a full list of changes, see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/svn-view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0.6/ChangeLog?view=markup

Thank you for your support of Asterisk!

QueueMetrics 1.5.1 released

We are proud to announce that Queuemetrics 1.5.1 has been released.

This version comes with a revised Agent's page that will empower agents and give them better insight into the overall call processing that is happening system-wide. We also added improved tracking of outbound calls made by agents, and a set of features that are meant to smooth the transition to the Asterisk 1.6 platform. As a last important change, we now support the Oreka recording solution as an audio storage medium. This will be loved by those of you running the largest Asterisk deployments, who will be able to factor out call recordings from the main Asterisk server.

You can find more information about the release here: http://queuemetrics.com/news.jsp

A free demo version of QM can be downloaded from: http://queuemetrics.com/download.jsp or installed automatically using the yum package manager.

Thanks and best regards,

l.

Astlinux 0.6.3 Released

We are proud to release Astlinux 0.6.3.  All users of AstLinux should upgrade to this release.  Files are available for download at the Astlinux SourceForge project page.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170462

Updates include new versions of Asterisk, Asterisk-gui, driver updates for wanpipe and Rhino and several updates on the underlying packages.

The web interface continues to evolve with a large number of new features including the ability to upgrade to new releases from the web interface.

Please see the Documentation section at http://www.astlinux.org for more information about how to install or upgrade from previous 0.6.x versions.

Regards,

The Astlinux Development Team

Asterisk 1.6.0.6 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of Asterisk 1.6.0.6, tagged as version 1.6.0.6-rc1. Release candidate

1.6.0.6-rc1 is available for immediate download at http://downloads.digium.com/.

This release of Asterisk fixes several issues related to overall stability and usability, especially with applications and their options. In addition, an issue with IAX2 transfers not taking place has been fixed. Issues found in this release candidate can be reported at http://bugs.digium.com/.

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

ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0.6-rc1/ChangeLog?view=co

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

Extending RateMyDialplan.com Contest for 30 days

RateMyDialplan.com has announced an extension to the PBX Dialplan Contest. If you run an Asterisk system and have a flowchart, or visual diagram of your dialplan go ahead and upload it to so you can share it with friends to rate you up to the top position for the given categories. The winners will receive licenses to APSTel visual dialplan software to aide in designing future dialplans or automating your own dialplan.

Infiltrated.net releases simple Asterisk based toll fraud prevention script and thoughts.

Posted over the weekend to the -users list for all to enjoy.

A Simple Asterisk Based Toll Fraud Prevention Script http://www.infiltrated.net/asterisk-ips.html

Ramblings for admins/engineers to think about. Doesn't have to cost you umteen thousand dollars for stuff like IPS/IDS. Although a little on the crude side, quite effective. If you care to dabble with MySQL you can create quite an impressive hosts based IPS that is custom tailored to your infrastructure.

Anyhow, was bored (ADHD) and wanted to ramble on for a little while.

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

J. Oquendo

SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP

Digium G.729 codec module updated and new performance testing tool released

We are pleased to announce a major new release of the Digium G.729 codec module for Asterisk. This release incorporates a number of changes, and in addition, includes a new performance testing tool which will make it easier for users to choose the best 'flavor' of the module for the particular system they are installing it on.

The changes are:

- Version Numbering

The module's version numbering is now more in line with our other products; the numbers will be in the form 'X.Y.Z_A.B.C', with the 'X.Y.Z' component representing the version of Asterisk the module is intended to operate in, and the 'A.B.C' component representing the actual version of the codec module code itself. Please note that the 1.6.0 modules will work in any Asterisk 1.6 release from 1.6.0 onwards, until such time as a new version is needed; when that occurs, we will provide 1.6.0 modules *and* modules designed for the later releases.

- Optimization

The new modules were built using the latest (4.3) release of the GNU C compiler, and use a number of new optimization methods available in that release to significantly improve encoding/decoding performance. In addition, we now build the modules in both 32-bit and 64-bit varieties for each CPU flavor that support both modes, so that users with 64-bit CPUs running a 32-bit Linux installation can still have a version of the module optimized for their CPU type. GCC 4.3 also provides optimizations for some newer CPU families (Intel Core2, AMD Barcelona, and others), so we've made those flavors available with this release.

- Performance Testing

In the past, we've offered different CPU flavors of the module to hopefully provide the best encoding/decoding performance, but it was up to the user to install and test each flavor to determine which one provided the best performance. This process is difficult and time consuming, and did not always provide reliable results. To help with this situation, we've now released a tool called 'benchg729', which can be run on the target system and will execute encoding speed tests (using a real audio sample) for each CPU flavor that we offer for that platform, and then report the results and suggest the best performing module flavor for that system. Note that the use of this tool requires that the system have at least one valid channel license for the Digium

G.729 codec installed; it will not run without a license.

The new codec modules and benchg729 tool are now available at:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_g729

New codec modules are available for Asterisk 1.2, Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk 1.6.x on both x86-32 and x86-64 Linux platforms, and the

benchg729 tool is also available for x86-32 and x86-64 Linux platforms.

We hope these product updates improve your system performance, and as always, we thank you for supporting Asterisk and using Digium products!

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