A little later than intended, i’m pleased to announce Asterisk 1.6 is in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10). There is also the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI. Whilst it is largely a drop in replacement (due to trademark violation), there are some changes which are documented here, it should be quite painless.

One of the reasons for the delay was related to two rather serious DAHDI bugs meaning it couldn’t be installed, these are both now fixed and uploaded to the archives.

The important things to take note of when upgrading is documented here (ignoring the build process). However, if you are really keen and wish to know more detail, they are documented with superb detail here, here and also here.

Whilst I should stress that Karmic shouldn’t yet be considered for production telephony, it really does need some serious testing to ensure it is ready for the scheduled release date of Karmic which is October 29th(!).

If you are available to do some testing with Asterisk on Karmic we need testing of both new installs and upgrades. We also need to ensure hardware still has good support. If you encounter any bugs; please report them and ensure you state the package version and how to reproduce the bug. If you need any help with this, please do get in touch.

Thanks.

September 15th, 2009 | All, hantslug, lugradio, ubuntu, ubuntu-uk