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2 --- Functionality changes since Asterisk 1.4-beta was branched ----------------
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5 AMI - The manager (TCP/TLS/HTTP)
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7 * Added the URI redirect option for the built-in HTTP server
8 * The output of CallerID in Manager events is now more consistent.
9 CallerIDNum is used for number and CallerIDName for name.
10 * enable https support for builtin web server.
11 See configs/http.conf.sample for details.
12 * Added a new action, GetConfigJSON, which can return the contents of an
13 Asterisk configuration file in JSON format. This is intended to help
14 improve the performance of AJAX applications using the manager interface
16 * SIP and IAX manager events now use "ChannelType" in all cases where we
17 indicate channel driver. Previously, we used a mixture of "Channel"
18 and "ChannelDriver" headers.
19 * Added a "Bridge" action which allows you to bridge any two channels that
20 are currently active on the system.
24 * Added the DEVSTATE() dialplan function which allows retrieving any device
25 state in the dialplan, as well as creating custom device states that are
26 controllable from the dialplan.
27 * Extend CALLERID() function with "pres" and "ton" parameters to
28 fetch string representation of calling number presentation indicator
29 and numeric representation of type of calling number value.
30 * MailboxExists converted to dialplan function
34 * New CLI command "core show settings"
35 * Added 'core show channels count' CLI command.
39 * The default SIP useragent= identifier now includes the Asterisk version
40 * A new option, match_auth_username in sip.conf changes the matching of incoming requests.
41 If set, and the incoming request carries authentication info,
42 the username to match in the users list is taken from the Digest header
43 rather than from the From: field. This feature is considered experimental.
44 * The "musiconhold" and "musicclass" settings in sip.conf are now removed,
45 since they where replaced by "mohsuggest" and "mohinterpret" in version 1.4
46 * The "localmask" setting was removed in version 1.2 and the reminder about it
47 being removed is now also removed.
48 * A new option "busy-level" for setting a level of calls where asterisk reports
49 a device as busy, to separate it from call-limit
50 * A new realtime family called "sipregs" is now supported to store SIP registration
51 data. If this family is defined, "sippeers" will be used for configuration and
52 "sipregs" for registrations. If it's not defined, "sippeers" will be used for
53 registration data, as before.
54 * The SIPPEER function have new options for port address, call and pickup groups
55 * Added support for T.140 realtime text in SIP/RTP
56 * The "checkmwi" option has been removed from sip.conf, as it is no longer
57 required due to the restructuring of how MWI is handled. See the descriptions
58 in this file of the "pollmailboxes" and "pollfreq" options to voicemail.conf
63 * Added the trunkmaxsize configuration option to chan_iax2.
64 * Added the srvlookup option to iax.conf
65 * Added support for OSP. The token is set and retrieved through the CHANNEL()
70 * Added the ability to specify arguments to the Dial application when using
71 the DUNDi switch in the dialplan.
72 * Added the ability to set weights for responses dynamically. This can be
73 done using a global variable or a dialplan function. Using the SHELL()
74 function would allow you to have an external script set the weight for
76 * Added two new dialplan functions, DUNDIQUERY and DUNDIRESULT. These
77 functions will allow you to initiate a DUNDi query from the dialplan,
78 find out how many results there are, and access each one.
82 * Added the ability to customize which sound files are used for some of the
83 prompts within the Voicemail application by changing them in voicemail.conf
84 * Added the ability for the "voicemail show users" CLI command to show users
85 configured by the dynamic realtime configuration method.
86 * MWI (Message Waiting Indication) handling has been significantly
87 restructured internally to Asterisk. It is now totally event based
88 instead of polling based. The voicemail application will notify other
89 modules that have subscribed to MWI events when something in the mailbox
91 This also means that if any other entity outside of Asterisk is changing
92 the contents of mailboxes, then the voicemail application still needs to
93 poll for changes. Examples of situations that would require this option
94 are web interfaces to voicemail or an email client in the case of using
95 IMAP storage. So, two new options have been added to voicemail.conf
96 to account for this: "pollmailboxes" and "pollfreq". See the sample
97 configuration file for details.
101 * Added QUEUE_VARIABLES function to set queue variables added setqueuevar and
102 setqueueentryvar options for each queue, see queues.conf.sample for details.
103 * Added keepstats option to queues.conf which will keep queue
104 statistics during a reload.
105 * setinterfacevar option in queues.conf also now sets a variable
106 called MEMBERNAME which contains the member's name.
107 * Added 'Strategy' field to manager event QueueParams which represents
108 the queue strategy in use.
109 * Added option to run macro when a queue member is connected to a caller,
110 see queues.conf.sample for details.
111 * app_queue now has a 'loose' option which is almost exactly like 'strict' except it
112 does not count paused queue members as unavailable.
113 * Added min-announce-frequency option to queues.conf which allows you to control the
114 minimum amount of time between queue announcements for use when the caller's queue
115 position changes frequently.
119 * The 'o' option to provide an optimization has been removed and its functionality
120 has been enabled by default.
125 * Added the bindaddr option to gtalk.conf.
126 * Argument support for Gosub application
127 * Ability to set process limits without restarting Asterisk
128 * SS7 support in chan_zap (via libss7 library)
129 * Proper codec support in chan_skinny.
130 * AEL upgraded to use the Gosub with Arguments instead
131 of Macro application, to hopefully reduce the problems
132 seen with the artificially low stack ceiling that
133 Macro bumps into. Macros can only call other Macros
134 to a depth of 7. Tests run using gosub, show depths
135 limited only by virtual memory. A small test demonstrated
136 recursive call depths of 100,000 without problems.
137 * Ability to use libcap to set high ToS bits when non-root
138 on Linux. If configure is unable to find libcap then you
139 can use --with-cap to specify the path.
140 * H323 remote hold notification support added (by NOTIFY message
141 and/or H.450 supplementary service)
142 * Added rotatetimestamp option to logger.conf which will use
143 the time to name the logger files instead of sequence number.
144 * Added Masquerade manager event for when a masquerade happens between
146 * From the to-do lists: straighten out the app timeout args:
147 Wait() app now really does 0.3 seconds- was truncating arg to an int.
148 WaitExten() same as Wait().
149 Congestion() - Now takes floating pt. argument.
150 Busy() - now takes floating pt. argument.
151 Read() - timeout now can be floating pt.
152 WaitForRing() now takes floating pt timeout arg.
153 SpeechBackground() -- clarified in the docstrings that the timeout is an integer seconds.
154 * Added 'C' option to Meetme which causes a caller to continue in the dialplan
156 * Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) in VM, and say.c was added via patch from cfassoni.
157 * CID matching information is now shown when doing 'dialplan show'.
158 * Added maxfiles option to options section of asterisk.conf which allows you to specify
159 what Asterisk should set as the maximum number of open files when it loads.
160 * Added the jittertargetextra configuration option.
161 * Added G729 passthrough support to chan_phone for Sigma Designs boards.
162 * Added the parkedcalltransfers option to features.conf
163 * Added 's' option to Page application.
164 * Added 'E' and 'V' commands to ExternalIVR.
165 * Added 'DBDel' and 'DBDelTree' manager commands.
166 * Added 'o' and 'X' options to Chanspy.
167 * Added the parkedcallreparking option to features.conf
168 * SMDI is now enabled in voicemail using the smdienable option.
169 * Added zap show version CLI command to chan_zap.
170 * Added a new CDR module, cdr_sqlite3_custom.
171 * Added a new realtime configuration module, res_config_sqlite
172 * Added a new dialplan application, Bridge, which allows you to bridge the
173 calling channel to any other active channel on the system.