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Welcome New, and Returning, Asterisk Users!

I’ve noticed a trend of people and companies looking at moving away from other projects towards Asterisk. For those returning to Asterisk after some time, ...
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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 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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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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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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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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