Digium Requests Users to Test the B410P Quad-Port BRI

Today on the -users list, there was a message posted by Shaun from Digium letting us all know that there's a new version of Asterisk Dahdi-Tools and to test on our B410P cards if we have them. Just helping spread the news.

There are new release candidates for dahdi-linux (2.1.0-rc3), dahdi-tools (2.1.0-rc3), and dahdi-linux-complete (2.1.0-rc3+2.1.0-rc3, a combination of dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools in one package) that contain a new DAHDI driver for the B410P Quad-Port BRI card.

http://www.digium.com/en/products/digital/b410p.php

If you are a user of the B410P card, and are able, please test these release candidates in your environment. To test you will need version 1.4.4 or greater of libpri and version 1.6.0 or greater of Asterisk.

You can download the dahdi-linux-complete release candidate at:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete/releases/dahdi-linux-complete-2.1.0-rc3+2.1.0-rc3.tar.gz

or via svn from:
http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux-complete/tags/2.1.0-rc3+2.1.0-rc3

The file system.conf.sample in dahdi-tools contains notes about configuring DAHDI for the BRI card.

http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/tools/tags/2.1.0-rc3/system.conf.sample&view=markup

The ChangeLogs with all the changes for these releases are at:
http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/tags/2.1.0-rc3/ChangeLog
and
http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/tools/tags/2.1.0-rc3/ChangeLog

Many Thanks,
Shaun

Shaun Ruffell
sruffell@digium.com

Asterisk 1.4.22-rc5, 1.6.0-rc6 and Zaptel 1.4.12.1 Released

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 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!

New Versions of Asterisk and DAHDI

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 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!

New Versions of Asterisk, Asterisk-addons, Zaptel, and DAHDI

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 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!

Zaptel 1.2.26 and 1.4.11 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has announced the release of Zaptel
versions 1.2.26 and 1.4.11. These releases contain many bug fixes as
well as performance enhancements.

A couple of the more major changes include: kernel level MTP2 support
for SS7, as well as numerous other bug fixes to the Digium and Xorcom
drivers. For further details and a more complete list see the
respective Changelog files.

Both releases are available as a tarball as well as a patch against the
previous release. They are available for download from downloads.digium.com.

Thank you for your support!

Zaptel has a new Dahdi

Looks like we have yet another name change to contend with..

Last week some changes were made in the Zaptel source code repository
referencing a new name (DAHDI) for that code. This has caused some
discussion (and confusion) in the community, since it occurred before we
had made a public announcement of the name change.

However, that announcement is now official, and is located here:

http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/

In addition, there will be a Frequently Asked Questions page located at:

http://www.asterisk.org/zaptel-to-dahdi

We will post details on that page as we can over the next few days.

--
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)

Zaptel 1.4.10.1 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has announced the release of Zaptel
version 1.4.10.1. This release is a bug fix release for a regression in
which the Zaptel udev rules were not installed correctly, as well as a
few minor fixes in the xpp drivers.

This release is available as a tarball as well as a patch against the
previous release. It is available for download from downloads.digium.com.

Thank you for your support!

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