Slides from Kevin P. Fleming's presentation at AMOOCON 2009 in Rostock, Germany.

1. What's New in Asterisk 1.6?
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc.
AMOOCON 2009 – Rostock, Germany

2. Overview
Release Process
•
• Asterisk 1.6.0
• Asterisk 1.6.1 (release candidate)
• Asterisk 1.6.2 (beta)
Asterisk 1.6.3 (development trunk)
•

3. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• chan_dahdi (chan_zap) features
– Native SS7 (ANSI and ETSI) Support
– MWI Monitoring on FXO lines
– EuroISDN BRI Support
• Uses DAHDI for TDM channel support
instead of Zaptel

4. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• SIP channel driver changes
– TCP and TLS support (experimental)
– Session Timers
– STUN support
– New event based MWI architecture for
improved performance
– And more ...

5. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• IAX2 channel driver changes
– Support for SRV Lookups
– Improved object management for
performance improvements
– OSP Support
– Configurable maximum trunk size

6. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
• Channel Drivers for UNISTIM (Nortel
i2000 series phones) and PortAudio
(cross-platform audio library)

7. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• Manager Interface
– Many new actions and events
– TLS support for manager and HTTP
– doc/manager_1_1.txt
• Speech Recognition commands in
AGI

8. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• Adaptive CDR drivers
– Asterisk adapts to your database
• New Realtime configuration engines
– CURL
– LDAP
– SQlite
• SMDI (Simple Message Desk
Interface) support for legacy
integration

9. Asterisk 1.6.0 Features
• New Dialplan Functions
– DEVICE_STATE()
– EXTENSION_STATE()
– SYSINFO()
– DUNDIQUERY(), DUNDIRESULT()
– ENUMQUERY(), ENUMRESULT()

10. Asterisk 1.6.1 Features
• Distributed Event System
– Distributed MWI
– Distributed Device State
• AGC and noise removal (from Speex
library) available from dialplan
• ChanSpy Updates
– Barge Mode
– DTMF Controlled Mode Switching
• ExternalIVR improvements

11. Asterisk 1.6.1 Features
• SIP channel driver has new Object
Management for improved
performance
• IAX2 channel driver encryption now
supports key rotation
• Adaptive Realtime drivers
– Asterisk adapts to your database
• Configurable timing sources

12. Asterisk 1.6.2 Features
• SIP channel driver now supports
SUBSCRIBE-based call pickup
• Support for ITU G.722.1 and
G.722.1C wideband codecs
• DAHDI channel driver now supports
MFC/R2 signaling protocol
• New bridging and conferencing
engine (experimental)

13. Asterisk 1.6.2 Features
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
aliases
• Dialplan application/function
documentation in XML
• Linux kernel timing source (for
2.6.27 and later kernels)

14. Asterisk 1.6.3 Features
• RTP engine modularization
• Connected Party information
transmission, reception and updates
• Core channel structure performance
improvements
• More IAX2 channel driver
performance improvements

15. Coming later this year
• Call Completion Supplementary
Services (SIP and ISDN)
• libpri/chan_dahdi feature additions
(supporting same features as mISDN
1.x and more)
• Advice of Charge support (ISDN,
possibly SIP)
• chan_dahdi modularization
• Security event reporting

16. Questions?