asterisk users - Apr 2012 - Release Announcement: Adhearsion 2.0 for Asterisk 1.8+

Today marks another milestone in the Adhearsion project: the release of
Adhearsion 2.0.  There has been a fury of activity in the last few days as we
have worked hard to update documentation and release a brand new look-and-feel
for the Adhearsion website.  We hope you like it.

So, with a small flourish and no small amount of relief, I'm pleased to
announce the immediate availability of Adhearsion 2.0, the open source framework
for the creation of voice applications.

Here are some highlights of the changes relative to the latest Adhearsion 1.x:

* Adhearsion now supports multiple telephony engines! In particular we support
Asterisk (as always) as well newly added support for PRISM via the open-standard
Rayo protocol

* CallControllers make telephone functionality more Ruby-esque, more testable
and are scientifically shown to make you happier

* A self-documenting configuration engine ("rake config:show")

* A completely revamped plugin system makes adding and sharing Adhearsion
functionality better than ever

* Did I mention the new website design and documentation?

* Way more stuff than I can reasonably list here.  You should check out the
CHANGELOG and the Upgrade documentation.


I would like to take a moment and recognize the team that made this happen.  The
Adhearsion project has exploded in the last year, and many of the people who
worked so hard to bring you Adhearsion 2 are actually new to the community
within the last year!  A special thanks to Ben Langfeld who has driven much of
this development effort and contributed fixes to many bugs and added new
functionality in some of our dependency packages in the process of making this
happen.  I also want to thank our sponsors, especially Tropo, for not only
funding direct development, but helping to evangelize and organize.  Tropo has
been a fantastic collaborator throughout Adhearsion's lifetime.

Now, you might be thinking "all of the above sounds great, but how stable
can it really be? Is it webscale?"  The answer is "very stable"
and "yes", respectively.  But I don't want you to just take my
word for it.  A few weeks back, I bet Ben Langfeld a double sawbuck (that is, an
Andrew Jackson, a USD $20) that Adhearsion 2 wasn't ready to take a fully
loaded server's worth of traffic.  And he muttered something about me not
keeping the faith, and then took me up on that bet.  So now we're going to
do it live.  In the next couple of weeks we are going to do a live broadcast of
a load test, pushing Adhearsion to scale on both Asterisk and PRISM.  We are
going to see just how "webscale" it is, and we're going to be
streaming the event live on Ustream so you all can join in the fun.  The loser
(hopefully me) will be well and truly prepared to take your jeers and fork over
the cash.  Look for an announcement soon for where and when.  It's about as
geeky fun as telephony gets.  I hope you'll come join us.

In the meantime, go check out Adhearsion 2!

On behalf of the Adhearsion 2 development team, thanks for being you.
-- 
Ben Klang
bklang at mojolingo.com
404.475.4841

Mojo Lingo -- Voice applications that work like magic
http://mojolingo.com
Twitter: @MojoLingo



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