The AstLinux Team would like to announce the immediate availability of the 0.7.9 release. This release includes either Asterisk 1.4.42 or
Asterisk 1.8.4.4. All current users are encouraged to upgrade to this release to take advantage of bug fixes and other updates to Asterisk.

A full changelog is available at http://www.astlinux.org

Current users can upgrade from the web interface or from the commandline.

From the CLI:

(Asterisk 1.4)
upgrade-run-image check http://mirror.astlinux.org/firmware