Another small update to the 1.0 series has been released adding a French localization (submitted by Jean-Pierre Lozano) as well as updating the Japanese and German localizations.
Also, the last few hard-coded AskoziaPBX strings have been made customizable for our branding customers. Your updated versions are also available for download.
Thanks to everyone for reporting issues and providing fixes or localizations!
Changelog: http://www.askozia.com/pbx/changelog/
Downloads: http://downloads.askozia.com/pbx/releases/1.0.3
The VoIP Users Conference is a weekly live discussion of all things VoIP. The meetings are recorded and distributed as a podcast. After running into one of the brains behind VUC, Randy Resnick, at AMOOCON, we were asked to stop by for an interview.
There were a lot of good questions and we’d love to be back again after the much discussed port is complete.
An important step in the Linux port occurred this week. The current subversion trunk (the newest version of the Askozia®PBX codebase) was branched into 1.1, the final releases to be based on FreeBSD. This made way for our private development tree to be merged into the mainline AskoziaPBX code.
The Linux port is based on the T2 - Open System Development Environment, a Linux distribution aimed at building other Linux distributions. We’ve checked in a minimal version of T2 which contains the customizations necessary to build AskoziaPBX. Many thanks to the team behind T2 for answering numerous questions along the way! We’re committed to providing them with any applicable upstream patches.
The port is not yet finished but now development is “live” and in the public allowing others to comment on the changes being made and participate in the process. Currently, all required packages for the x86 platform are compiling successfully. Our next step is to automate the memory filesystem and firmware construction.
Our presentation (videos/slides) from AMOOCON 2009 in Rostock, Germany is online. We had a great time catching up with everyone from last year. There were a lot of good conversations taking place about where Asterisk is going in the world. Very interesting stuff, we look forward to next year!
Thanks to the AMOOMA guys for working through all of those videos and getting them online so quickly after the conference.
In cooperation with Deciso, we are pleased to announce shop.askozia.com. Components as well as pre-built appliances are currently available. Free shipping anywhere in the world for orders over €199 with appliances starting at €225.
A percentage of all sales goes to directly fund further development of AskoziaPBX. This relationship allows us to cooperatively design the best hardware setups and ensure they are as easy as possible to use with AskoziaPBX. It also allows us to directly receive feedback from real customers. Together we’re making AskoziaPBX better for everyone.
We’ve put together a small update to 1.0.1 which contains new localizations for Turkish, Japanese and Spanish. Thanks goes to Akif Dinç, Kenichi Fukaumi, Adriana Arroyo and Elisa Martín-Caro for providing those! In addition to those new localizations, Bulgarian and Dutch were also updated.
Aside from the localization updates and some hooks to ease our branding processes, 1.0.2 is identical to 1.0.1. We’ve released it to clean up all of the community submitted bits for 1.0.1.
Changelog: http://www.askozia.com/pbx/changelog/
Downloads: http://downloads.askozia.com/pbx/releases/1.0.2
This little update is far from all that has been happening with Askozia®. Work continues on the Linux port. We have a nearly complete “target” definition for T2 which builds all of our packages from source and packages them into a root file system. A testable live CD will be available before April.
Akif Dinç, a new team member here, has been doing a good job of keeping the FreeBSD side of development running for 1.1.x. FreeBSD has been updated to 6.4, Asterisk to 1.4.23.2 and Zaptel and ISDN4BSD to their latest trunk versions which will resolve some issues with card compatibility. Drag-and-drop functionality in the WebGUI has been refactored to use jQuery UI instead of Scriptaculous which resolves some browser incompatibilities.
Functionality will also be expanded in 1.1.x. What do you need the most?
CeBIT 2009 was a good chance for us to meet up with several groups from the Askozia community. We had a nice time catching up with Auerswald, Deciso and OpenVox and getting a chance to meet René Rebe from the T2 project. So many opportunities to work together to keep producing quality releases, 2009 will be an interesting one!
-the AskoziaPBX team
CeBIT is upon us again! Askozia®PBX is part of group located in Hall 9, Booth B22 during the week. A mixed crew will be there (some not involved in AskoziaPBX development) so if you would like to meet up with me (Michael) you’re welcome to send me a mail and let me know when you’ll be there. I’m definitely going to be there on Wednesday the 4th for the majority of the day, making it the best chance to connect.
We look forward to seeing everyone again this year and catching up on the latest in Asterisk® Appliance news!
Ever since releasing our first public beta in June of 2007, people have questioned the usage of FreeBSD® as the base operating system in Askozia®PBX. It has performed wonderfully but there are features and architectures only being supported on Linux®. While we recognized this need, a port was not possible due to the development time needed.
We’re happy to announce that this is no longer the case. A leading German telecommunication equipment manufacturer has come forward to pay for this porting process in its entirety. This is, quite simply, fantastic for AskoziaPBX!
During the porting process, development of new features will be put on hold. Merging new features during the port merely delays its completion. It is a complex enough task to change operating systems without also trying to sync to a moving target. Bug fixes will continue to be provided for the 1.0.x branch. As work progresses, development snapshots will be made available for testing.
Thanks to everyone who has helped with the project thus far and a huge thanks to the sponsor for the support. We’re really looking forward to what this port will make possible!
A week has gone by since 1.0.0 was released and we’re ready for a small update. Seven bugs killed in seven days. Thanks for all of the reports and feedback!
Downloads: http://askozia.com/pbx
- bug: providers with non-numeric usernames with no “read back” number set no longer crash in voicemail
- bug: deleted phone accounts now automatically removed from call groups
- bug: call groups with no members no longer break dialplan
- bug: busy/call limit documentation fixed
- bug: the “invalid input” state of SIP/IAX provider/phone account pages no longer results in the selected codecs being reset to defaults
- bug: Greek translation is now in Greek instead of Bulgarian (oops)
- bug: sqlite CDRs now store year information
Enjoy,
-the AskoziaPBX team
After 14 months, 24 public betas, 40 developer snapshots and more than 45,000 downloads we’re very proud to announce the availability of version 1.0.0!
Downloads: http://askozia.com/pbx
Changelog: http://askozia.com/pbx/changelog
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed patches, reported bugs, troubleshot hardware, provided translations and those actively helping in the forums. So many people have helped out with this effort it is impossible to begin naming names. We are a small group and could not have gotten this much accomplished without the community at hand.
We’d also like to thank our main sponsors Auerswald and Deciso for providing us with the financial means to continue full-time development as well as OpenVox who has donated a wide variety of testing hardware. You all are keeping this Open Source project afloat.
Enjoy,
-the AskoziaPBX team
