Free eastAsterisk 2.6.0 is available for download and a new licensing model has been introduces (you can find more informations following this link). Changelog from previous release:

- Updated web interface.

- Operating System: CentOS 5.4, kernel 2.6.18-164.15.1.

- Software included: asterisk 1.6.0.26, libpri 1.4.10.2, dahdi-linux 2.3.0, dahdi-tools 2.3.0, asterisk-addons 1.6.4.0.

- Asterisk in now distributed as RPM packages reducing installation and upgrade times (compiling the source is no longer necessary).

- Attendant Console and DIDs advanced configuration. Now you can configure routing rules based on months, days of month, days of week, time slots for every DID.

- Extensions groups dialing restrictions for every local extension.

- BRI HFC's adapters DAHDI support. Bri Hfc's based chipset adapters (2 and 4 ports) can now be configured using either Dahdi or mISDN (1 port bri adapter are only supported by mISDN). You can not configure on the same system mISDN and Dahdi BRI adapters simultaneously.

- Custom context configuation for analog interfaces FXO ports and PRI ports without customizing dahdi configuration files.

To upgrade from previous releases you need to reinstall your system and restore a System and Cdr backup previously saved and archived. At the end you also need to reconfigure manually the Attendant Console.

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