Asterisk is een uitgebreide pbx voor BSD, Linux en Mac OS X. Het programma biedt alle functies die je van een telefooncentrale mag verwachten. Zo beschikt het onder andere over mogelijkheden voor voicemail, conferencing en call queueing. Daarnaast is er ondersteuning voor caller-id-services, adsi, sip en h.323 aanwezig. Voor een compleet overzicht van alle mogelijkheden verwijzen we door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 1.8.0 uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Asterisk 1.8.0 Released
The Asterisk Development Team is proud to announce the release of Asterisk 1.8.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
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
The release of Asterisk 1.8.0 would not have been possible without the support and contributions of the community. Since Asterisk 1.6.2, we've had over 500 reporters, more than 300 testers and greater than 200 developers contributed to this release.
You can find a summary of the work involved with the 1.8.0 release in the sumary:
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.8.0/asterisk-1.8.0-summary.txt
A short list of available features includes:A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file.
- Secure RTP
- IPv6 Support in the SIP channel driver
- 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!
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.8/CHANGES?view=markup
For a full list of changes in the current release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!