[asterisk-announce] New Versions of Asterisk and DAHDI

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce new releases of
Asterisk and DAHDI.

For more information on the reasoning behind the transition to DAHDI,
please see the following post:

http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/

The list of packages released today includes:

dahdi-linux 2.0.0-rc4
dahdi-linux-complete 2.0.0-rc4+2.0.0-rc2
asterisk 1.4.22-rc4
asterisk 1.6.0-rc5

All of these packages are available on http://downloads.digium.com in
their respective directories. Detailed information about each package
release is included below.

=== dahdi-linux-complete-2.0.0-rc3+2.0.0-rc2 ===

This release combines dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc4 and dahdi-tools-2.0.0-rc2
into a single download, one-package installation process, so that users
who are installing DAHDI for the first time don't have to download and
install the dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools packages separately.

=== dahdi-linux-2.0.0-rc4 ===

This is a release candidate of the DAHDI Linux kernel modules
package, which replaces the kernel modules components of Zaptel. It
contains all the functionality of Zaptel 1.4 plus many improvements, but
also has some old (generally unsupported) functionality from Zaptel
removed, including (but not limited to):

   - Support for Linux 2.4.x kernels
   - Support for devfs dynamic device filesystems
   - The 'torisa' and 'wcusb' drivers

Information on upgrading from Zaptel to DAHDI can be found in the
included UPGRADE.txt file, which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/linux/tags/2.0.0-rc4/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/releases/ChangeLog-2.0.0-rc4

=== asterisk-1.4.22-rc4 ===

This release candidate includes a large number of bug fixes and also is
the first release of Asterisk 1.4 that includes support for DAHDI, the
package that is replacing Zaptel. This version of Asterisk can be built
against *either* Zaptel or DAHDI, but since Zaptel 1.4.12 is the last
release of Zaptel 1.4, users are encouraged to transition to DAHDI as
soon as they can, so that they will be able to continue to receive bug
fixes and other improvements.

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this
Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file,
which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.22-rc4/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.4.22-rc4

=== asterisk-1.6.0-rc5 ===

This version of Asterisk contains a large number of enhancements and
improvements over Asterisk 1.4, which can be found in the included
CHANGES file, and read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/CHANGES?view=co

*All* users who install this version of Asterisk are strongly encouraged
to read the UPGRADE.txt file to learn about changes that affect
compatibility with previous versions of Asterisk; this file can also be
read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/UPGRADE.txt?view=co

Information on how the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI affects this
Asterisk release can be found in the included Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt file,
which can also be read here:

http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-rc5/Zaptel-to-DAHDI.txt?view=co

The change log for this release is here:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.6.0-rc5

=== ===

Thank you for your continued support of the Asterisk project!