Asterisk 1.2 was released over 1 year after Asterisk 1.0, which resulted in many users trying to run the development version of Asterisk in a production capacity so that they could take advantage of the new features that had been added. This produced a flurry of extraneous bug reports and caused extra work for the developers as they could not work on changes that would actually cause disruption of the development tree.

In an effort to combat this problem, and to give the community a more predictable release cycle, the process is being organized so that such a long time between releases will never happen again.

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce that we have migrated our project repositories and development processes over to the Subversion version control system!

Effective immediately, the primary source code distribution point for Asterisk, Zaptel and other related projects (other than release tarballs of course) will be svn.digium.com.

The actual SVN repositories are available at http://svn.digium.com/svn, and there is a ViewCVS web viewer available at http://svn.digium.com/view. These services are also available on port 8080 (http://svn.digium.com:8080/view, for example) for those who are behind Subversion-challenged proxy servers.

Version 1.0.10 has been released of Asterisk and Zaptel. Libpri, Asterisk-addons, and Asterisk-sounds contain no changes, so they have not been updated.

It is very likely that this will be the final release of the 1.0 branch of Asterisk. Users are strongly encouraged to begin upgrading to version 1.2.

Thanks!

We have been working to add content to asterisk.org for Asterisk developers. This includes experienced developers as well as those just beginning to get involved.

Asterisk Developer Resources

If you have any ideas for things that could be added, feel free to contact me at russell at digium.com.

Fresh off the camera... here are some pictures of the Digium/Asterisk booth at the VON Fall 2005 exposition in Boston. The booth was the largest ever for Digium and Asterisk, and contained 'partner' booths for twelve (!) Asterisk partners showing various Asterisk-related products.

(Pictures of the booth are here)

Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced the group of companies showing their Asterisk-based business applications in the Asterisk pavilion (Booth #702) at Fall VON 2005 in Boston on September 19-22, 2005. The pavilion will showcase thirteen Asterisk-based successes from the following vendors:

• Digium
• IBM
• IPsando

Welcome to the new home of Asterisk, The Open Source PBX™!

The design concept was provided by Harley Alaniz and the web site was put together by the web developers at Digium.