Asterisk 1.4 coming real soon!

[kchung]

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631546

The new features sound great! Sounds like it's got a lot of stuff we can use with VICIDIAL! The appliance and it's GUI sounds interesting. I just hope the GUI will be GPL'd too...

[mflorell]

Yes, I am looking forward to 1.4 as well. It'll take a while after it's released before we will have integrated any of the new features like whisper-mode into VICIDIAL though since they are still working with the code and 1.4 will not be released until October.

As for the appliance, I don't think it would be able to run VICIDIAL. It seems like a bare-bones system that probably doesn't even have the capability to have MySQL on it. They were kind of light on the details.

[kchung]

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't wanna run the full vicidial suite on it. But it may make it easy to just buy more asterisk boxes that are 'plug and play' for easy expansion.

[mflorell]

I have found a new and rather annoying change in Asterisk 1.4 and programmed for it on astguiclient SVN_2-X on the SVN server.

For some reason this month the core Asterisk developers did a lot of messing around with "show channels" to the point where "show channels concise" does not actually work in 1.4. You now have to enter "core show channels concise".

I believe that AST_update.pl is the only affected script and I have updated it and tested it against the Asterisk 1.4.0 release.

I have tested basic VICIDIAL functionality under Asterisk 1.4.0 and it all seems to work. If someone else has more time than me I'm sure we would all appreciate a more through testing on 1.4. If you are going to test, make sure you use SVN 2-X code, the 2.0.2 release will not work, and make sure your Asterisk version in the servers table is set to 1.4.0.

[palito]

Hi Matt. When do you expect there will be a VD release with support for v1.4, including the chanspy whispering feature?

Thank you!

[mflorell]

the 2.0.3b1 release supports 1.4.0, while not a full release it is stable.

As for chanspy whisper, I have yet to find anyone who uses it in other projects where it does not crash Asterisk frequently. ChanSpy in the 1.4 tree itself is still quite buggy, and I do not want to add that kind of instability into VICIDIAL.

[Op3r]

chanspy is quite buggy since the beginning. When ever somebody use chanspy expect that the server will do something out of the ordinary.

with those, we cant really risk anything.