Thursday, December 22, 2011

What's New in Asterisk 1.6?



Most of the changes in Asterisk 1.6 are enhancement changes that improve the reliability and scalability of Asterisk. The new features of Asterisk 1.6 are:
  • New Bridge feature: In this release, a new Bridge action has been created, which allows a user to connect two existing channels. This functionality will enable the use of advanced features such as in-call announcements and call center monitoring, by a third party.
  • Improved NAT support and support for STUN: This provides improved connectivity capability with phones located behind a router or firewall.
  • Improved reporting: A new call event logging capability was developed to give a more complete tracking of events that take place during a call. This will provide more details than traditional CDR (Call Detail Recording) and allow more granular tracking and auditing.
  • Support for asynchronous events: This enables modules in Asterisk to communicate with each other across a cluster. For example, MWI events could be allowed to be distributed among multiple Asterisk servers. This means it is now possible to have SIP endpoints registered to a different server rather than the one holding their mailboxes.
For a complete list of changes since Asterisk 1.4, visit: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.0/CHANGES.

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