Brand New:
- AskoziaPBX now attempts to assign its interfaces addresses via DHCP when unconfigured
- G722 Support
- Asterisk 1.4.25.1
- DAHDI instead of Zaptel

Working:
- All Basic Settings (username, password, port, protocol…)
- Networking Setup
- Timezone and NTP Settings
- SIP Phones and Providers
- IAX Phones and Providers
- Analog Card Detection
- Analog Phones and Providers

Partially Working:
- Log pages (all display same information)
- Localizations (some languages not displaying correctly)

Thanks to the extreme flexibility of T2 (http://www.t2-project.org), the build system we’re now using instead of the in-house pbxdev.php, we’re now able to define a firmware image piece-by-piece. These images can then be prepared for a variety of platforms and CPU architectures. AskoziaPBX will be able to run on a huge number of new platforms thanks to this. A special thanks to René Rebe at T2 for always having an ear open in IRC.

One personal goal for this release is to improve the developer and user communities of Askozia. We’ve acquired a hosted Trac and SVN system through Wush (http://www.wush.net) and are hoping the issue tracker and wiki will become valuable tools as the project progresses. The still untouched account is located here (https://wush.net/trac/askozia). New material should be appearing there shortly.

The release is available as a binary firmware image with a Live CD in the works. As development progresses, we will not be announcing each and every snapshot. Only the development mailing list will receive constant updates. When a considerable milestone has been reached, however, you can count on it being made public on other channels (forums, blog, etc.)

This has been a huge undertaking and I’m very glad to have come this far. I’ve definitely learned a lot about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux! Give the firmware a test (new install, non-production machines, please) and let us know your impressions. It is only ~10MB in size with all binaries/modules/libraries present. Only the multilingual prompts are yet to come.

Download: http://downloads.askozia.com/pbx/snapshots/r1034

Enjoy!
-Michael Iedema

Also, the last few hard-coded AskoziaPBX strings have been made customizable for our branding customers. Your updated versions are also available for download.

Thanks to everyone for reporting issues and providing fixes or localizations!

Changelog: http://www.askozia.com/pbx/changelog/
Downloads: http://downloads.askozia.com/pbx/releases/1.0.3

There were a lot of good questions and we’d love to be back again after the much discussed port is complete.

The Linux port is based on the T2 - Open System Development Environment, a Linux distribution aimed at building other Linux distributions. We’ve checked in a minimal version of T2 which contains the customizations necessary to build AskoziaPBX. Many thanks to the team behind T2 for answering numerous questions along the way! We’re committed to providing them with any applicable upstream patches.

The port is not yet finished but now development is “live” and in the public allowing others to comment on the changes being made and participate in the process. Currently, all required packages for the x86 platform are compiling successfully. Our next step is to automate the memory filesystem and firmware construction.

Our presentation (videos/slides) from AMOOCON 2009 in Rostock, Germany is online.  We had a great time catching up with everyone from last year. There were a lot of good conversations taking place about where Asterisk is going in the world. Very interesting stuff, we look forward to next year!

Thanks to the AMOOMA guys for working through all of those videos and getting them online so quickly after the conference.

A percentage of all sales goes to directly fund further development of AskoziaPBX. This relationship allows us to cooperatively design the best hardware setups and ensure they are as easy as possible to use with AskoziaPBX. It also allows us to directly receive feedback from real customers. Together we’re making AskoziaPBX better for everyone.

Aside from the localization updates and some hooks to ease our branding processes, 1.0.2 is identical to 1.0.1. We’ve released it to clean up all of the community submitted bits for 1.0.1.

Changelog: http://www.askozia.com/pbx/changelog/
Downloads: http://downloads.askozia.com/pbx/releases/1.0.2

This little update is far from all that has been happening with Askozia®. Work continues on the Linux port. We have a nearly complete “target” definition for T2 which builds all of our packages from source and packages them into a root file system. A testable live CD will be available before April.

Akif Dinç, a new team member here, has been doing a good job of keeping the FreeBSD side of development running for 1.1.x. FreeBSD has been updated to 6.4, Asterisk to 1.4.23.2 and Zaptel and ISDN4BSD to their latest trunk versions which will resolve some issues with card compatibility. Drag-and-drop functionality in the WebGUI has been refactored to use jQuery UI instead of Scriptaculous which resolves some browser incompatibilities.

Functionality will also be expanded in 1.1.x. What do you need the most?

CeBIT 2009 was a good chance for us to meet up with several groups from the Askozia community. We had a nice time catching up with Auerswald, Deciso and OpenVox and getting a chance to meet René Rebe from the T2 project. So many opportunities to work together to keep producing quality releases, 2009 will be an interesting one!

-the AskoziaPBX team

We look forward to seeing everyone again this year and catching up on the latest in Asterisk® Appliance news!

We’re happy to announce that this is no longer the case. A leading German telecommunication equipment manufacturer has come forward to pay for this porting process in its entirety. This is, quite simply, fantastic for AskoziaPBX!

During the porting process, development of new features will be put on hold. Merging new features during the port merely delays its completion. It is a complex enough task to change operating systems without also trying to sync to a moving target. Bug fixes will continue to be provided for the 1.0.x branch. As work progresses, development snapshots will be made available for testing.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with the project thus far and a huge thanks to the sponsor for the support. We’re really looking forward to what this port will make possible!

Downloads: http://askozia.com/pbx

- bug: providers with non-numeric usernames with no “read back” number set no longer crash in voicemail
- bug: deleted phone accounts now automatically removed from call groups
- bug: call groups with no members no longer break dialplan
- bug: busy/call limit documentation fixed
- bug: the “invalid input” state of SIP/IAX provider/phone account pages no longer results in the selected codecs being reset to defaults
- bug: Greek translation is now in Greek instead of Bulgarian (oops)
- bug: sqlite CDRs now store year information

Enjoy,
-the AskoziaPBX team