Release Candidate 1 of Asterisk 1.8.5 Is Ready For Download.

Asterisk 1.8.5 - RC1 http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
The Asterisk Development Team just announced the first release candidate of Asterisk 1.8.5 branch and is available for download at Asterisk site, immediately.

The developer team thanks the community for the involving and reporting of issues with the previous release.
The following is a sample of the issues resolved in this release candidate:

• Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by Irontec, ZX81,cmaj)
• Fixes thread blocking issue in the sip TCP/TLS implementation.(Closes issue #18497. Reported by vois. Patched by dvossel. Tested by vois, rossbeer, kowalma, Freddi_Fonet)
• Be more tolerant of what URI we accept for call completion PUBLISH requests.(Closes issue #18946. Reported by GeorgeKonopacki.Patched by mmichelson)
• Fix a nasty chanspy bug which was causing a channel leak every time a spied on channel made a call.(Closes issue #18742. Reported by jkister. Tested by jcovert, jrose)
• This patch fixes a bug with MeetMe behavior where the 'P' option for alwaysprompting for a pin is ignored for the first caller.(Closes issue #18070. Reported by mav3rick. Patched by bbryant)
• Fix issue where Asterisk does not hangup a channel after endpoint hangs up. If he call that the dialplan started an AGI script for is hungup while the AGI script is in the middle of a command then the AGI script is not notified of the hangup. (Closes issue #17954, #18492. Reported by mn3250, devmod. Patched by rmudgett)
• Resolve issue where leaving a voicemail, the MWI message is never sent. The same thing happens when checking a voicemail and marking it as read.(Closes issue ASTERISK-18002. Reported by Leif Madsen. Resolved by Richard Mudgett)
• Resolve issue where wait for leader with Music On Hold allows crosstalk between participants. Parenthesis in the wrong position. Regression from issue #14365 when expanding conference flags to use 64 bits. (Closes issue #18418. Reported by MrHanMan. Patched by rmudgett)
• Fix timerfd locking issue.(Closes ASTERISK-17867, ASTERISK-17415. Patched by kobaz)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.5-rc1

Asterisk 1.6.2.6 Released.

Asterisk 1.6.2.6 snapvoip.blogspot.com/
The Asterisk.org has released Asterisk 1.6.2.6. resolving several issues reported by the
community;

 * Make sure to clear red alarm after polarity reversal.
(Closes issue #14163. Reported, patched by jedi98. Tested by mattbrown,
Chainsaw, mikeeccleston)

* Fix problem with duplicate TXREQ packets in chan_iax2
(Closes issue #16904. Reported, patched by rain. Tested by rain, dvossel)

* Fix crash in app_voicemail related to message counting.
(Closes issue #16921. Reported, tested by whardier. Patched by seanbright)

* Overlap receiving: Automatically send CALL PROCEEDING when dialplan starts
(Reported, Patched, and Tested by alecdavis)

* For T.38 reINVITEs treat a 606 the same as a 488.
(Closes issue #16792. Reported, patched by vrban)

* Fix ConfBridge crash when no timing module is loaded.
(Closes issue #16471. Reported, tested by kjotte. Patched, tested by junky)

The release is available for immediate download from Asterisk.org
The ChangeLog is available here.

Visual DIalPlan 2.2 Released With Support For Asterisk 1.6

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Visual Dialplan 2.2 was released last month but I somehow missed the release notes. Visual Dialplan for Asterisk greatly reduces the manual work you need to do in Asterisk dial plan development.
The Application comes a component library and is the best modeling environment I have seen so far. To design a dialplan, you simply drag and drop components as needed. It also comes with dial plan samples, validation engine and one click deployment!

In addition to Asterisk, it supports FreePBX, trixbox, PIAF and Elastix. With the Asterisk server, the application learns about Asterisk server configuration and pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates the dial plan based on that information.
Visual Dialplan 2.2 supports the latest Asterisk 1.6 distribution. Also provided with the application is the dialplan upgrade functionality which makes dialplan upgrades to mach your server a breeze. Just select which Asterisk server version you want to upgrade the dialplan to and Visual Dialplan will take care of the rest. In case if you need to manually upgrde your dialplans due to deprecated or abandoned components, Visual Dialplan is thre to help you by suggesting the new component you should use to replace the abandoned one.
Best of all, you can get your hands wet by downloading a trial version of Visual Dialplan from here .
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