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The Upgrade to pjproject 2.14

Overview If you’re familiar with Asterisk, you probably know that it uses a third-party project called pjproject. This is a major part of the PJSIP ...
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Asterisk 16 And 19 Going Security Fix Only Soon

This is just a friendly reminder that Asterisk 16 and 19 will be going security fix only in a few months. When this occurs Asterisk ...
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ArchitectureBuild

Old Asterisk Meets New Linux

A trend I’ve seen lately is individuals installing newer Linux distributions but using older versions of Asterisk. I thought I would do a quick blog ...
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ProjectProject General

AstriDevCon 2022 Registration Now Open!

I don’t know how time has flown by so fast, but AstriDevCon is right around the corner! If you’re a developer of Asterisk, be it ...
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Asterisk 16Asterisk 18

PJSIP 2.12 Now In Asterisk

Recently I spent some time updating Asterisk to the latest versions of the third party libraries we bundle. This includes jansson as well as PJSIP, ...
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People

An Introduction

For those who may be new, or even for those who have been around for some time, my name is Joshua Colp and I hail ...
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NewsPeople

A few announcements

Dear Asterisk and FreePBX Communities, Today I would like to announce the advancement of Joshua Colp to Asterisk Project Lead and Lorne Gaetz to FreePBX ...
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Asterisk 20Project General

The sun never sets on the Python empire

Making the Move In what is not the first, but is hopefully the last attempt at getting the Asterisk testsuite to run on Python3 we’ve ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 18

Asterisk External Application Protocol: The Framework

The Asterisk External Application Protocol (AEAP) framework helps to facilitate development of Asterisk modules that need to communicate with external applications. Before getting started, I ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 18

Asterisk External Application Protocol: Speech to Text Engine

The Asterisk External Application Protocol (AEAP) has been released and can now be found in Asterisk 18.12.0+ and 19.4.0+. If you haven’t already done so, ...
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DocumentationHow To

Gosub: Macro’s Successor

Overview This blog post is a friendly reminder that Macro will soon be deprecated in Asterisk. What does that mean? Well, for a start, it ...
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Asterisk 20Documentation

MeetMe In My ConfBridge

When Asterisk was first being written one of the things needed was the ability to do conference bridges. When you think of conference bridges you ...
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ArchitectureAsterisk 20

Monitor Is Deprecated, Farewell

The Monitor dialplan application and module in Asterisk have been around for quite some time, since even before I was part of the project. It ...
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AstriCon 2023 Is Over!

As I write this it’s been approximately a week since AstriCon 2023 completed. I wanted to do a small blog post to thank everyone who

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Asterisk 21 Module Removal

Asterisk 21 is scheduled to become the next major release.  As part of that process there are a number of modules being removed, see: wiki.asterisk.org.

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Python3 is here

The switch to Python3 for the Asterisk tesuite has been released!  Previous blog posts have gone over some of the internal changes that have been

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TEL URI Support for PJSIP

Overview Everyone knows that PJSIP is the channel driver of choice for Asterisk nowadays. It’s a powerful driver, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more

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The Asterisk Team Is Hiring!

The Asterisk team at Sangoma is expanding and currently has two job openings posted. Let’s talk about each! Asterisk Developer The Asterisk developer position is

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Asterisk 20.0.0 Now Available!

Good news all! Asterisk 20.0.0 is now available at https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/! Before upgrading remember to read the UPGRADE.txt document to see if there’s anything you need

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491 Request Pending

If you have ever tried to use direct media with Asterisk, you my have received this message before.  It can happen when the User Agent

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