Thursday, September 07, 2006

Asterisk Beta 1.4 by the end of the week and an interview!

Sineapps has posted a and interview with Kevin Fleming, a senior software engineer at Digium.
But what stood out in the article was;

Question 2: So, a couple of things point to the fact that the beta of Asterisk 1.4 might be coming out this week, can you confirm this?

Yes. We will be producing the first beta of Asterisk 1.4 by the end of this week, and then actively working to resolve all known issues as quickly as possible.

I think the interview itself a good one as always. Also those who is wondering what ASTERISK 1.4 may bring, here is an answer from the post;

Question 6: What are some of the changes coming in the version 1.4 release (compared to 1.2)

Well, the list is quite long, but here are about twenty that we've already identified (and we haven't done an exhaustive review yet):

Generic jitter buffer
Variable Length DTMF (proper RFC-2833 support)
Asterisk Extension Language Version 2
Shared Line Appearance support
ODBC() dialplan function
T.38 FAX passthrough support
IAX2 scalability improvements
Re-architected build system with better maintainability and portability
Jabber/Jingle/GoogleTalk support
New high-quality sounds in English, French and Spanish
IMAP storage support for voicemail
RADIUS support for CDR storage
SNMP monitoring
HTTP Asterisk Manager Interface (with AJAX components)
SIP transfer interoperability improvements
Cisco SCCP (Skinny) channel driver improvements
Whisper paging
Better language support for speaking dates, times and numbers
IAX2 media-only transfers
Memory usage and thread locking reduction
Addition of a simple 'users.conf' configuration file for SOHO/SMB users
RTP native bridging

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