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Exchanging media between Asterisk and apps has just gotten easier!

Exchanging media between Asterisk and external apps has fairly involved for a few reasons, the main one being that RTP, the primary protocol for exchanging ...
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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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NewsPeople

An Introduction to the Community

Hi Folks! My name is Mike Bradeen and I am the newest member of the Asterisk Development Team at Sangoma.  I live outside Boulder Colorado ...
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DocumentationHow To

Gerrit: A Comprehensive Guide to Code Review and Testing

Overview Asterisk has been growing at a rapid pace since its creation, and a large part of this is due to the community. As an ...
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Asterisk 19Project

AstriDevCon 2021

Hey all! This is just a quick note about AstriDevCon 2021. AstriDevCon was held virtually on November 2nd, 2021. We had a great showing of ...
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Asterisk 19Releases

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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Asterisk 19Releases

Asterisk 19.0.0-rc1 Released!

Greetings Everyone! It seems like it was just a month or two ago that I was thinking about Asterisk 18, but now time has flown ...
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PerformanceTuning

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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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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Asterisk 20.0.0-rc1 Released!

Greetings Everyone! The time is upon us for the first release candidate of Asterisk 20[1], the next long term supported release! The first step in

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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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