After a long time coming I would like to announce the release of Adhearsion v0.8.4! Adhearsion was originally created by Jay Phillips (@jicksta) in 2006. Since that time it has evolved to become one of the most complete and widely adopted development frameworks for the Asterisk open-source telephony engine.

This release marks the continuation of the platform with some major enhancements and bugfixes:

• Support for Asterisk 1.6 (continued backward compatibility with Asterisk 1.4)
• Added support for ActiveLDAP
• ActiveRecord now works properly with Adhearsion components
• Daemonizing of Adhearsion no longer truncates log files
• Escape commands sent to Asterisk via AGI
• Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) events now work when daemonized
• Various enhancements for improved Asterisk 1.6 support
• Various bugfixes

(For more details you may see the CHANGELOG and Lighthouse tickets.)

I would like to thank Ben Klang (@bklang), Troy Davis (@troyd), Eric Lindvall (@lindvall), Michel Villancourt (@jkl5group), Wayne Walker and so many others in the community that continue to support and move this project forward. There are more things in the works, so stay tuned for additional announcements coming soon.

For those of you new to Adhearsion you may install with ‘sudo gem install adhearsion’. The source code is available on Github and the gem is on Rubygems.org.

I would like to welcome Ben Klang (@bklang) as a core contributor to the Adhearsion project. Ben has been active in the Adhearsion community for sometime, contributing patches, helping out on the Google Group and keeping the momentum of the community going.

Our first order of business with Ben now on board will be to release Adhearsion v0.8.4. The key focus of this release will be:

• Asterisk v1.6 Support
• DRb/ActiveRecord/Components Bugfix
• General Bugfixes off of Lighthouse

There is much more to come and we welcome all input from the community as we build our priorities. Thanks for all of the great support from Ben and everyone else so far!

There is much more we are preparing on the Adhearsion front, so stay tuned.