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Welcome to Asterisk Up-to-Speed

Asterisk Up-to-Speed is the essential reference for any Asterisk administrator. Easily and quickly educate yourself with the latest new features, upgrades, and changes to the world's most popular open-source PBX, Asterisk.

Say your current Asterisk system uses version 1.4 and you're looking into rewriting your dialplan for future versions.  You want to know how the DIAL() application changed since then.  Instead of mulling over changelogs and upgrade files to discover the new features, quickly get the immediate pertinent information, such as:

DIAL Function:

Asterisk 1.4 -> Asterisk 1.6.0 Asterisk 1.6.0 -> Asterisk 1.6.1 Asterisk 1.6.2 -> Asterisk 1.8


Version changes span from 1.4 -> 1.6.0 -> 1.6.1 -> 1.6.2. -> Asterisk 1.8  If you haven't already, we highly recommend to familiarize yourself with the remarkable book, Asterisk, The Future of Telephony

New features are organized alphabetically into eight areas of Asterisk:

Applications and Functions:
Lists all the Dialplan applications, such as Voicemail, and functions, such as Dial, along with any new or changed variables and operators

Channels:
Everything you want to know about new features and changes with SIP, IAX2, SKINNY, etc. right here

Codecs:
G.711a, G.729, GSM etc. etc.

Core Asterisk:
This sections contains information about the core workings of Asterisk, including AEL, Language support, CLI interface, etc.

Formats:
Wave, Mp3 formats, etc. all explained here

PBX Modules:
See the latest about PBX modules, such as DUNDI, and Dialplan Behavior

Resource Modules:
Realtime support, Parked calls, are all explained here.

The Asterisk Up-to-Speed team completely reorganized the various changelog files located in source code of Asterisk according to an Asterisk administrator's perspective (as opposed to Asterisk programmers' and developers') in an intiutive and straightforward fashion.