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AstriDevCon July 2025

An AstriDevCon video conference was held on July 20, 2025 with about 15 attendees.  You can get a recap of the event at AstriDevCon July 2025 ...
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PJSIPSIP

Common SIP URI Issues

When transitioning from the chan_sip channel driver to chan_pjsip one of the items that can catch people off guard is the use of SIP URIs ...
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Project

www.asterisk.org and blogs.asterisk.org Moved And You (Hopefully) Didn’t Notice

Normally you will find me on this blog talking about technical aspects of Asterisk but today I’d like to talk about the Asterisk website and ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 18

Local Channel Multistream and Re-Negotiation Support

When stream support was initially added to Asterisk we did it in the most backwards compatible way possible to ensure that we did not have ...
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ARIAsterisk 16

ARI Create Channel With Variables

In a blog post long ago we talked about the addition of the create and dial ARI functionality for allowing channels to exist within ARI ...
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Releases

Asterisk Versioning and Releases

Prompted by a post on the Asterisk users mailing list I thought I’d write a bit about Asterisk versioning and releases for this blog post. ...
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People

Jared Smith’s Departure from Sangoma

Those of you who know me know that I’m very passionate about open source and about open source telephony projects. As the VP of Open ...
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Asterisk 18PJSIP

New PJSIP Logging Functionality

When PJSIP support was written for Asterisk we naturally needed the ability to display the SIP messages being sent and received. This took the form ...
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How ToProject General

CentOS 8: Installing Asterisk Dependencies

We’ve had a few questions about whether or not Asterisk could easily install on CentOS 8. A few months ago the answer to that question ...
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Asterisk 18How To

Collaborating for Success in Open Source

Open source is becoming very prevalent in the software world, even if it’s not obvious. Your phone, your television, your smart speaker, and even your ...
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Asterisk 17Conference Bridge

Dana and Asterisk, part 2

A couple of weeks ago, Dan Jenkins kindly wrote a guest blog post about Dana — an up-and-coming open source project which helps to highlight ...
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ARIAsterisk 16

Introducing Dana the Stream Gatekeeper

In this troubling time of dealing with COVID-19 around the world we’re seeing more and more need for tools to help in communicating with co-workers, ...
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ArchitectureHow To

Improving Core Dump Analysis

Within the Asterisk project we are constantly trying to improve our processes and data collection when a problem is encountered to reduce the back and ...
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Asterisk 19.0.0 Released!

Greetings All! If you haven’t noticed from the various emails and posts Asterisk 19.0.0 has now been released and is available for download here! As

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Virtualized Asterisk

If you’re running an Asterisk “farm” of virtualized PBXs and your virtualization environment is dedicated to it, you probably already have your environment pretty well

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STIR/SHAKEN: An Update

STIR/SHAKEN in 2021 It’s been a while since the release of Asterisk 18 and the STIR/SHAKEN update. During this time, we’ve discovered that the specification

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AstriDevCon 2021

As you’ve heard by now AstriCon in Orlando, Florida has been cancelled as a physical event. This impacts AstriDevCon as well since we normally also

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OpenSIPit#01 Part 2: STIR/SHAKEN

OpenSIPit 2021 was held back in April with myself and Ben Ford representing Asterisk.  There were two main interoperability focuses this year:  the support of additional

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Asterisk 19 Branch Cut

I’m happy to announce that the Asterisk 19 branch has been cut, and is now frozen in regards to core changes and any changes which

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