- Proper DTMF R2 support, including new timers to tweak the end of DTMF timeout.
- Indonesian variant
- Test for lib64 directory for installation in 64 bit
- Fixed some build issues including support for Linux/Sparc
The next week I will also be releasing openr2 2.0.0 which breaks API
and ABI compatibility with openr2 1.x series. Releases 1.x have proven
to be stable now and they will enter maintenance mode (no new variants
nor features will be added there).
Releases 2.x will be used for future Asterisk versions (1.10??) and
for FreeSWITCH and Windows support.
After putting this off by several weeks, I finally spent some quality time working in getting to work OpenZAP with OpenR2. The result is now available in the openzap project svn trunk:
I am glad to announce that MFC-R2 support has been merged into Asterisk trunk. Today I just got an e-mail from Russell, the team lead of the Asterisk development team confirming the merge and that the upcoming version Asterisk 1.6.2 will be the first one having built-in support for this signalling.
I got back from IPComm in Brazil 2 weeks ago. It was great meeting several OpenR2 users and even people who has contributed code. One of the cool things of this conference was that Jim Van Meggelen, one of the authors of “Asterisk – The future of telephony” wrote a white paper about OpenR2 installation with Sangoma boards, the white paper was translated to Portuguese in order to have hard copies distributed at the show, but, here are the links for the soft copies:
But, aside of the weather, everything else is great. We got a nice apartment about 2 blocks from the CN Tower and the cable guy just came a few minutes ago to install internet, tv and phone, and look this:
Finally a decent internet connection. As if that was not enough for Christmas gift (for me anyway), Sangoma gave everyone in the engineering department a very nice Christmas present: An Acer Aspire One, ain’t that cool?
So, past Thursday was my first day working at Sangoma’s offices and I must say I think I’m gonna enjoy my work like never before. No stupid meetings anymore, just technical meetings discussing relevant aspects of development. Management reports just don’t exist, we briefly speak to our manager once in a while, who happens to *really* know how to architect and write programs and in fact is one of the biggest code producers in the company, not a guy who can’t code and is promoted to a management position.
I will be speaking this Thursday in the morning at IPComm 2008 in São Paulo, Brazil. The presentation will be about the development I have been doing for Asterisk with OpenR2. This is great news for me, most users and contributors of OpenR2 are located in Brazil. If you happen to live in that area, hope to see you there!
I just released the release candidate 2 for openr2. A couple of minor bug fixes were made and I expect this release candidate to be the last one before finally releasing openr2 1.0.0