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New Asterisk 1.8 module released in the Zentyal 2.1 series!
« on: April 27, 2011, 03:58:30 pm »
Hi Zentyal users,

If you are interested in having VoIP managed by Zentyal, here is a new reason to start helping us to test our current beta version (2.1), which will become stable with the release of Zentyal 2.2 in September.

A new zentyal-asterisk 2.1.1 package is available in our beta repository, it integrates Asterisk 1.8 and therefore solves most of the issues that were found with Asterisk 1.6 in Zentyal 2.0.

If you are already using Zentyal 2.1, you can upgrade just by using the Zentyal "Software Management" interface or executing "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zentyal-asterisk".

For more details about the changes in this new version of the module, here is the full changelog:

    + New Phones section to configure phone lines instead of users between 4000 and 7999
    + Switched to Upstart to manage Asterisk daemon
    + Updated templates to Asterisk 1.8
    + Default Music on Hold path changed to /var/lib/asterisk/moh/
    + Added a script to transcode MP3 for Music on Hold
    + Added a script to generate a global addressbook
    + Deleted not used kernels script
    + Deleted unused templates
    + Moved from MeetMe to ConfBridge (rooms widget disabled but deleted dependency on DAHDI)
    + Dialplan now includes conferences and external calls don't need a 0 prefix
    + Deleted useless FirewallHelper
    + Disabled Zentyal VoIP provider configuration
    + Added configuration file to set up third party codecs
    + Moved from MeetMe to ConfBridge:
        * Rooms widget disabled has not supported by ConfBridge
        * Deleted dependency on DAHDI
        * Deleted not used kernels script
    + Dialplan and Queues are not longer in Realtime but files
    + Dialplan changes:
        * Dialplan now includes conferences
        * External calls doesn't need a 0 prefix but the full number
        * Voicemail now is always on *1
        * Music On Hold is always on *4
        * Echo test is always on *6

If you face any problem or want to send us any comment to improve the VoIP module don't hesitate to do it!
Zentyal Server Lead Developer