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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The fork less traveled

As we merge in a number of positive CommUnity UCaaS submissions, it is a good reminder of the challenges associated with private forks and forks

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Asterisk Media Experience Score

Objectively measuring call quality has always been tough because it’s, well, highly subjective.  The first measurement process that usually comes to mind is the Mean

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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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