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FreeSWITCH 1.0.4 Officially Released – Skype, ZRTP, H.323, MRCP Now Supported

August 6th, 2009
FreeSWITCH Communication Consolidation

FreeSWITCH Communication Consolidation

The FreeSWITCH team is pleased to announce the immediately availability of FreeSWITCH version 1.0.4. (Source tarball available here.) This new version contains many improvements in stability and security as well as some notable additions.

Skype – VoIP For The Masses

FreeSWITCH 1.0.4 now supports Skype integration. If you have a Skype account you can send and receive Skype calls from FreeSWITCH. The Skype module (mod_skypiax) uses the native Skype client for the target operating system. Currently, Windows and Linux are supported. Skype calls can be made or received, and all of FreeSWITCH’s transcoding and resampling capabilities are available with Skype calls. The Skype audio codec, SILK, yields higher quality calls than the traditional PSTN, and FreeSWITCH’s ability to transcode and resample other high quality codecs allows for Skype calls to connect to SIP endpoints with excellent quality when those endpoints are using HD codecs such as CELT or Polycom Siren.
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FreeSWITCH 1.0.4pre9 Now Available

June 29th, 2009

The inexorable march to the official release of FreeSWITCH 1.0.4 continues. Version 1.0.4pre9 is now availble for immediate download. All those not using the latest SVN are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. The tarball is available here.

This latest pre-release is now the most stable version of FreeSWITCH available. There have been numerous improvements and bug fixes. The community has been providing a lot of feedback and the developers are doing a good job of addressing any issues that are found. There are new features as well. One in particular that you may appreciate is a new FS API command: show distinct_channels.

Please keep those bug reports and feedback flowing. The developers are working very hard to make sure that every bug is squashed and every user concern is addressed. Keep up the good work.

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Bootable ISO’s, Created Nightly!

June 18th, 2009

A special thanks goes out to Kristian Kielhofner of Astlinux fame – and Yahoo! message board infamy – for creating bootable ISO’s with FreeSWITCH. Kristian has graciously added some automation to his setup and each night a new ISO is created. The link is here:

http://mirror.astlinux.org/freeswitch/daily/

Many thanks to all of the folks out there who are working so hard to make the FreeSWITCH community the best in the OSS world!

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FreeSWITCH In The UK – How-To By IBM’s Rob Smart

June 6th, 2009

IBM’s Rob Smart has been busy with FreeSWITCH! For those of you living in the U.K. I recommend this nice blog post explaining how to set up FreeSWITCH as your home PBX/voice communications server.

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OpenSim Developers Creating Amazon EC2 Image

June 6th, 2009

Some of you may be aware of the fact that the OpenSimulator project has some enterprising community members who’ve used FreeSWITCH as the voice engine. We just wanted to report that they are also getting ready to have a VoIP-enabled image on Amazon EC2. Check it out and spread the word.

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.4pre8 Now Available

May 26th, 2009

The FreeSWITCH team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.0.4pre8. This latest release is the most stable and secure version of FreeSWITCH to date. All are encouraged to update as soon as possible. The latest files are available at files.freeswitch.org.

The newest release of FreeSWITCH adds new features and improvements in stability, security, and performance. For example, support for ZRTP (www.zfone.com) was recently added. ZRTP is an opportunistic encryption protocol that allows for automatic encryption of RTP streams when both endpoints are ZRTP-enabled. Combining ZRTP with TLS, which encrypts signaling information, allows for complete end-to-end security in FreeSWITCH.

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.4pre7 Now Available

May 6th, 2009

The FreeSWITCH dev team is continuing to make good progress on the road to officially releasing FreeSWITCH version 1.0.4. Please download the latest version here and put it into production as soon as possible. Remember, these prereleases are actually the most stable version of FreeSWITCH that you can get. However, we we’ve noticed that some have been using mod_loopback in creative ways and possibly have been relying upon loopback channels behaving in what might be called unnatural ways. We especially need those using mod_loopback to get updated and offer feedback.

As always, if you are already on SVN trunk then please just do a “make current” to get your system updated.

Thanks for helping to make FreeSWITCH so awesome!

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.4pre6 Now Available

April 28th, 2009

The FreeSWITCH development team would like encourage everyone to update to the latest pre-release version of FreeSWITCH. The tarball can be downloaded here.

FreeSWITCH development is moving forward rapidly, so please check back often. The official 1.0.4 release is very close. Having many people download the pre-release versions has helped tremendously. Please keep the feedback coming.

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