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Developer Note: Test an Asterisk PR against a Testsuite PR

One of the historical issues we’ve had with Asterisk and the Asterisk Testsuite has been that if you’ve created an Asterisk pull request for some ...
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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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Architecture

I Got That Reference!

Hi and welcome back!  Let’s take a look at another recent ticket: ASTERISK-29698. Integral to almost every section of code within Asterisk is astobj2.  We ...
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ProjectProject General

A tale of Two Taskprocessors

Hi folks!  Today, let’s take a look at a recent Asterisk issue: ASTERISK-29365. The graceful shutdown is intended to allow every part of the running ...
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Project

Project Policy Additions: New Features, Improvements, Bug Fixes, and C API Deprecation

I previously wrote about the Asterisk Module Deprecation process and policy but since that time some additional policies have come into existence based on the ...
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ProjectReleases

Take A Look At Release Candidates

The Asterisk release cycle is very predictable these days. Approximately every 4-6 weeks we do a release generally on a Thursday. Once a year we ...
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DocumentationProject

Getting Community Help

If you ever file an “Information Request” type JIRA issue with the Asterisk project you’ll find it automatically closed with a comment pointing you to ...
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Asterisk 20Project

The Testsuite and Python 3

Just like that the year is now 2022 (how long will we all forget and write 2021 on things?) and Asterisk 20 work continues! I ...
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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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