I've written a series of articles covering new features in Asterisk 1.4, the one-year old release that is finally getting stable enough so I can recommend it for production use to my customers. It's high time to discover 1.4 and start benefitting from all the new features in your Asterisk installation - regardless if it's an enterprise PBX, a carrier PSTN gateway or an IVR server. There's enhancements and benefits for everyone in 1.4. Read these informative articles on my blog site www.voip-forum.com.

It has been a long time since I have posted something on my blog, so here we go to start off 2008 correctly.

As many of you already know, I've returned to university to complete my software engineering degree. This is a long road, but Asterisk will benefit from it one day, I'm sure.

There's a new branch now available for some testing at the following SVN URL:
http://svn.digium.com/asterisk/team/bweschke/originate_w_jabber/

This branch is based on the 1.4 branch and has had the res_jabber module that was in /trunk back-ported to it.

A while ago I created a branch based on Asterisk 1.4 called "moremanager" to enhance the manager interface. During that work we agreed on the changes that are now being integrated into trunk. This will mean that trunk

I have started my own personal development blog, which I intend to run as a more verbose look into things that are going on in Asterisk.org development. I still intend to make larger posts here. However, if you're interested in what is getting fixed and improved every week, then you might find it interesting.

While the development team is working the hardest on fixing bugs in Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4, we are also adding new features into our development tree that will eventually become Asterisk 1.6. Most of the biggest features that will make it in to this version have not been merged yet. However, I wanted to post a link to where you can go read a list of some of the features that have already been merged.