Asterisk 10 Beta 1 From New Asterisk 10 Branch Is Ready For Downloading And Testing

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The Asterisk Development Team announced the availability of the first beta release of Asterisk10, Asterisk 10.0.0-beta1. The release is available download and consumption at Asterisk download site.

As we mentioned before, Digium and Asterisk.org has dropped "1." from the Asterisk version numbers and the new Asterisk 10 branch, will continue to march forward.
Of course Asterisk team is requesting your participation in testing, we are testing it with PIAF-RED;

All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the Asterisk 10 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker. It is also very useful to see successful test reports. Please post those to the asterisk-dev mailing list.

All Asterisk users are invited to participate in the #asterisk-testing channel on IRC to work together in testing the many parts of Asterisk. Additionally users can make use of the RPM and DEB packages now being built for all Asterisk releases. More information

Asterisk 10 is the next major release series of Asterisk. It will be a Standard support release, similar to Asterisk 1.6.2. For more
information about support time lines for Asterisk releases, see the Asterisk versions page:

A short list of included features includes:

* T.38 gateway functionality has been added to res_fax.
* Protocol independent out-of-call messaging support. Text messages not
associated with an active call can now be routed through the Asterisk
dialplan. SIP and XMPP are supported so far.
* New highly optimized and customizable ConfBridge application capable of mixing
audio at sample rates ranging from 8kHz-192kHz
* Addition of video_mode option in confbridge.conf to provide basic video
conferencing in the ConfBridge() dialplan application.
* Support for defining hints has been added to pbx_lua.
* Replacement of Berkeley DB with SQLite for the Asterisk Database (AstDB).
* Much, much more!

A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file.

http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/10/CHANGES

For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog

Take Asterisk 10 For A Spin WIth PIAF-RED

PIAF-RED with Asterisk10 http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
For those who are adventures, Tom at PBX in a Flash has put together PIAF 1.7.5.6.3 ISO with the new Asterisk 10 incorporated. @NerdUno informed us.
There were some issues with FLITE and Cepstral TTS but Wardmundy later told us that Cepstral TTS has been fixed by Darren Sessions from Digium.
If you are wondering about Asterisk 10 it is the new versioning system adapted by Digium. What was to be Asterisk 1.10 became Asterisk 10.
You can follow the PIAF-RED discussion at http://t.co/akyNqFj
PIAF RED download sites;

SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbxinaflash/files/
Google - http://nerd.bz/ppelCH
Vitelity - http://nerd.bz/pPegxo

Asterisk 10, Asterisk 2.0, And The Evolution Of Asterisk!

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If you thought I am missing 1. from Asterisk 10 in the title, this time you are wrong (I am prone to typos and I do not check my posts for faults very often).
Digium's Director of Software Engineering, Kevin Fleming has posted a lengthy article explaining the transition of Asterisk 1.10 to Asterisk 10.

"The conclusion that we’ve reached, and that we hope you’ll agree with, is that Asterisk is always going to be Asterisk, and that you don’t need a "1." prefix on the version number to be able to identify it. So, starting with the next major release, we’re going to drop the "1." completely. The next major release, which was going to be Asterisk 1.10, will now be just "Asterisk 10" and subsequent major releases will be "Asterisk 11", "Asterisk 12", and so forth.

We’ll continue with our plan to have both standard and long-term support releases of Asterisk, and we’ll update the Asterisk Project Wiki with this information as soon as the first Asterisk 10 beta goes out. In fact, this should occur very soon."

This transition also takes away Asterisk 2.0, and Kevin also explains why and how that came about.

"That has raised the question: Is this Asterisk 2.0? If not, will there ever be an Asterisk 2.0? After quite a lot of discussion, we came to the conclusion that this is not Asterisk 2.0, but that it’s also quite unlikely that there ever will be such a release; it wouldn’t be in the community’s best interests to release something that is fundamentally different (and not compatible) but still call it '‘Asterisk'.’ That then leaves the question we’ve been asked by many people: If there’s never going to be an Asterisk 2.0, "

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