The Asterisk Development Team announces the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.20. This
release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.20 resolves a regression that was introduced just
prior to the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.19.

* Fix reload crash caused by destroying default parking lot.
(Closes issue ASTERISK-18103. Reported by 808blogger. Patched by jrose.

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.2.20

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

GNU Gatekeeper version 2.3.5 has been released.
http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-2-3-5.html

This release has a number of new features as well as a few important bug
fixes.

New features:
- working LDAP support (H.350)
- much better checking of the config file for misspellings or obsolete
settings (Fortytwo=42 is now obsolete)
- SSH support for the status port
- support for sending RIP messages
- QOS data from H.460.9 and RTP sniffing available through status port
and Radius
- enable failover to CatchAll endpoint
- enable failover for calls released by the gatekeeper (eg. timeouts)
- see changes.txt for more new config options

Bug fixes:
- rewrite of the H.460.19 port detection logic
- improved VCS interoperability
- many minor fixes (see changes.txt)

Changelog (changes.txt):
http://openh323gk.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openh323gk/openh323gk/changes.txt?revision=1.607

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of
Asterisk 10.0.0-beta1. This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

With the release of the Asterisk 10 branch, the preceding ’1.’ has been removed
from the version number per the blog post available at
http://blogs.digium.com/2011/07/21/the-evolution-of-asterisk-or-how-we-arrived-at-asterisk-10/

All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the
Asterisk 10 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue
tracker, https://issues.asterisk.org/jira. 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 available at
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Packages

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: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

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://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/10/CHANGES?view=checkout

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-10.0.0-beta1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

It was reported that: “A security consultant has notified Skype of a cross-site scripting flaw that could be used to change the password on someone’s account, according to details posted online. The consultant, Levent Kayan, based in Berlin, posted details of the flaw on his blog on Wednesday and notified Skype a day later. He said on Friday he hasn’t heard a response yet. The problem lies in a field where a person can input their mobile phone number. Kayan wrote that a malicious user can insert JavaScript into the mobile phone field of their profile.”

Skype has confirmed the flaw, but calls it ‘minor,’ saying it only affects people who communicate with a potential attacker on a regular basis. A fix is planned for next week.

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