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Asterisk 1.4.27, Asterisk 1.6.0.18 and Asterisk 1.6.1.10 released
The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Asterisk 1.4.27, 1.6.0.18, and 1.6.1.10. These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
These releases resolve a large assortment of issues reported by the community.
For a summary of the changes in these releases, please see the release summaries:
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.4.27-summary.html
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.0.18-summary.html
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.1.10-summary.html
For a full list of changes in these releases, please see the ChangeLogs:
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.27
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.0.18
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.1.10
The following non-exhaustive list of issues were resolved with the participation of the community, and this release would not have been possible without your help!
- Seg fault in chan_local – local_pvt_destroy
(closes issue #15314. Reported by sroberts. Tested by davidw, lottc. Patch by davidw.) - T.38 reinvite started from Asterisk
(closes issue #15373. Reported by dcolombo. Tested by dcolombo, mbrancaleoni. Patch by mbrancaleoni.) - manager keeps creating /tmp/ast-ami-XXXXXX files (without deleting) when a single manager client remains logged in
(closes issue #15730. Reported by zmehmood. Tested by zmehmood. Patch by junky.) - BASE64_DECODE() adds garbage end end of decoded string
(closes issue #15271. Reported by chappell. Tested by kobaz. Patch by chappell.) - Fix ExternalIVR Documentation in 1.4
(closes issue #16220. Reported and patched by thedavidfactor.)
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
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Asterisk 1.6.0.14-rc1 and Asterisk 1.6.1.5-rc1 released
Posted by admin in asterisk, Release Candidates, t.38 on August 20, 2009
The Asterisk Development Team has announced release candidates for Asterisk versions 1.6.0.14 and 1.6.1.5. The release candidates 1.6.0.14-rc1 and 1.6.1.5-rc1 are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
This release fixes several community reported issues, including those related to T.38 (issues #15649, #15610).
For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLogs:
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.0.14-rc1/ChangeLog
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.1.5-rc1/ChangeLog
Issues found in any release candidate can be reported at https://issues.asterisk.org
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
Asterisk 1.6.0.11-rc2, 1.6.1.2, 1.6.1.3-rc1, and 1.6.2.0-beta4 Release Announcement
Posted by admin in asterisk, Asterisk Security Advisories, Release Candidates, Releases, Security Advisories, t.38 on August 3, 2009
The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the the second release candidate of 1.6.0.11, the release of 1.6.1.2, the first release candidate of 1.6.1.3, and the fourth beta of 1.6.2.0. These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/.
The release of 1.6.1.2 fixes a remote crash security vulnerability in the RTP stack. The related security advisory AST-2009-004 has been released along with this announcement. Please read that advisory for more information.
The release candidates and betas, in addition to other fixes, contain a major re-work of the T.38 support in Asterisk. If you’ve been having trouble with T.38 in the 1.6 series, you are strongly encouraged to try one of these release candidates to determine if these changes fixed your T.38 issues.
Fax For Asterisk

T.38 fax for Asterisk
Digium‘s Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile (Fax) termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox. Fax For Asterisk bundles a suite of user-friendly Asterisk applications and a licensed version of the industry’s leading fax modem software from Commetrex. Fax For Asterisk provides low speed (14400bps) PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony boards as well as VoIP faxing to T.38-compatible SIP endpoints and service providers. Licensed on a per-channel basis, Digium‘s Fax For Asterisk provides a complete, cost-effective, commercial fax solution for Asterisk users.
Fax For Asterisk provides two components: res_fax and res_fax_digium. Res_fax is an Asterisk resource module that adds fax termination and origination functionality in Asterisk. It provides Asterisk dialplan functions and dialplan applications to enable the user to build highly-customizable fax solutions. Res_fax_digium provides core fax processing functionality in the form of several supported fax modems — V.21, V.27ter, V.29, and V.17 — to achieve speeds up to 14400bps.
Asterisk 1.4.26-rc5 released
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the fifth release candidate of Asterisk 1.4.26. Asterisk 1.4.26-rc5 is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
This release resolves the following issues, plus some other minor issues:
* Improve the mapping of extension states from combined device states (issue #15413).
* Added an error message to make it clear why a SIP peer was not processed when a DNS lookup fails on a host or outbound proxy (issue #13432).
* Fix a problem where chan_sip would ignore “old” but valid responses (issue #11231).
* Resolve a crash in chan_iax2 (issue #15377).
* Resolve a crash related to a T.38 reinvite race condition.
For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.4.26-rc5/ChangeLog
Issues found in this release candidate can be reported at https://issues.asterisk.org
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
Asterisk says Hello to Fax
If you ask Google about faxing for Asterisk, with the search keywords asterisk and fax, and you ask Google to omit similar entries, you’ll end up with 52 pages of results.
If you ask Google how many times fax has been mentioned on an Asterisk mailing list, by setting the site parameter to lists.digium.com, then Google tells you there are 1120 utterances.
Yesterday, if you asked Digium for help in faxing documents through Asterisk, we’d have apologized and said that we didn’t offer a fax solution for Asterisk.
That was yesterday.
Today, Digium is pleased to announce Fax For Asterisk.
Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile (Fax) termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox. Fax For Asterisk bundles a suite of user-friendly Asterisk applications and a licensed version of the industry’s leading fax modem software from Commetrex. Fax For Asterisk provides low speed (14400bps) PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony boards as well as VoIP faxing to T.38-compatible SIP endpoints and service providers. Licensed on a per-channel basis, Digium’s Fax For Asterisk provides a complete, cost-effective, commercial fax solution for Asterisk users.
Wait, I’ve forgotten something…okay, not really. There’s also Free Fax For Asterisk. Free Fax For Asterisk provides a single-channel only, per Asterisk, version of Fax For Asterisk, for free. Want to use Free Fax For Asterisk now? Visit the Digium webstore and get a license, free of charge.
