<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; "><p>I'm happy to announce that SafiWorkshop and SafiServer Release Candidates are now available for <a href="http://www.safisystems.com/index.cfm?pageMode=downloads" style="color: rgb(65, 133, 179); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; position: relative; ">download</a>! This build addresses a number of issues uncovered during the beta-testing process and features some fundamental changes in how the SafiWorkshop talks to the remote SafiServer. With the improvements implemented over the past couple months, what we believe was already the most powerful Asterisk enhancement platform available is now one of the simplest to configure and use as well.</p>
<p>Here's a quick rundown of the primary changes since out last release:</p><p> <strong>Live Remote Debugging</strong> The local debug server has been scrapped in favor of live debugging on the remote SafiServer. This bypasses some of the firewall issues and port conflicts people were running into when running a debug server from the SafiWorkshop itself.</p>
<p> <strong>Firewall Friendly/Simplified Setup</strong> The SafiWorkshop / SafiServer communication now occurs over a single port (8822 by default) using a built-in SSH-based tunneling system.</p><p> <strong>Database Connectivity</strong> Database connections from the SafiWorkshop are now obtained from the SafiServer itself. That allows the user to create SQL connections and queries for databases that may only be accessible from the SafiServer machine. That way, any database development that occurs in the SafiWorkshop is guaranteed to behave correctly when running in production.</p>
<p> <strong>Multiple SafiServer Management</strong> We've added a facility that makes it easy to switch between SafiWorkshop workspaces. Typically each workspace corresponds to a unique SafiServer instance</p><p> <strong>Import/Export</strong> With the new Safi Archive (SAR) import/export feature Saflets, database resources (queries, connections), audio prompts, and global and local variables can be exported to a .sar archive or conversely imported into the SafiWorkshop and optionally published to the remote SafiServer. WARNING: this feature is still experimental-use with caution.</p>
<p> <strong>Numerous bug fixes</strong></p><p>We're confident this is by far the best version of the product we've produced so far and we're extremely excited to make it available to you now. Documentation for this new version is lacking at the moment but please check out these forum posts to get started:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.safisystems.com/index.cfm?pageMode=messages&threadid=8EF36F26-DCEE-09D1-78DAD4A50D2F05A0" style="color: rgb(65, 133, 179); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; position: relative; ">SafiWorkshop Walkthrough: 1. Installation</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.safisystems.com/index.cfm?pageMode=messages&threadid=765A1FEC-D79E-AB7E-7DB2A6DE29CBD4BD" style="color: rgb(65, 133, 179); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; position: relative; ">SafiWorkshop Walkthrough: 2. Updates</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.safisystems.com/index.cfm?pageMode=messages&threadid=E1F9BF3B-C95F-5A04-6DECB59E4FCF2028" style="color: rgb(65, 133, 179); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; position: relative; ">SafiWorkshop Walkthrough: 3. Setting up a license</a></p>
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