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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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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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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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ArchitectureAsterisk 19

Asterisk External Application Protocol: An Intro

While the Asterisk External Application Protocol was touched on in a previous post, with regards to a specific use case, here we’ll introduce a few ...
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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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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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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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