Download Asterisk

Download the currently supported versions of Asterisk and various Asterisk-related open source projects.

Asterisk Download Kit Scene

Asterisk Communications Framework

Asterisk is an open source toolkit for building communications applications. For a more detailed explanation, check out the Get Started section. For more information on how to use Asterisk, see the Configuration and Operation sections of the wiki.

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Source Code

If you need additional information about installing Asterisk from source code, read the installation guide on the Wiki.

Code can be checked out from the Git servers via anonymous read-only access. Development code can also be checked out from the Asterisk, libpri and DAHDI GitHub repositories. Below are example commands you might use to download the source from the various repositories.

# cd /usr/src

# git clone https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk asterisk
# git clone https://github.com/asterisk/dahdi-linux.git dahdi-linux
# git clone https://github.com/asterisk/dahdi-tools.git dahdi-tools
# git clone https://github.com/asterisk/libpri libpri

To clone only a specific Asterisk branch from GitHub, use the following format:

# git clone -b X https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk asterisk-X

(with X being the current release and revision number). Example:

Note: The below example may not reflect the current release to date.

# git clone -b 20 https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk asterisk-20

An important note

If you are intending to install a specific branch then it is best to clone that branch only and avoid cloning the entire repository.

If you have further questions or intend to push code back up to the repo please see the detailed  Code Contribution instructions on the wiki.

Security Advisories

PJSIP_HEADER dialplan function can overwrite memory/cause crash when using ‘update’ (GHSA-98rc-4j27-74hh)

December 20, 2023

PJSIP logging allows attacker to inject fake Asterisk log entries (GHSA-5743-x3p5-3rg7)

December 20, 2023

Asterisk susceptible to Denial of Service via DTLS Hello packets during call initiation (GHSA-hxj9-xwr8-w8pq)

December 20, 2023

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