Well after a major bout of wintery flu, of the non-bird type mind you it's time for another release. This was going to be a bug-fix release for 0.3 however fixing the bugs for 0.3 got us most of the way to 0.4 so I just finished it off. The changelog is the item list for the 0.4 version in the tracker, a summary of which can be found on the Roadmap.

Some notable additions and changes have been made to the freepbx installation. Unfortunately the preconfigured extensions have been taken out for now as the install has been switched from an 'image' install to a script which follows the conventional freepbx install. This was done to enable two third party modules which are in the freepbx trac but not in the official module repository, mISDN and HUD configuration. The Hud configuration looks really good, please give it a try. The mISDN module is just a demo at the moment as the current version of the mISDN driver does not support it. I will shortly be updating mISDN to support this module. I included  it to see what you guys think of it and perhaps provide some feedback to the developers so that they might get some further consideration to be included in the main Freepbx module repository.

To get Freepbx correctly setup once the install is done you must go to Tools, enter the u/n and p/w (admin, admin) click on the red bar and then go directly to Tools->Module Admin. Connect to the Online repository and select Upgrade All then click on Process. This will enable all the modules (including the new ones) except the Zork Module. You can do a further 'Upgrade all' to get the latest official modules (only a couple at present as the version of Freepbx is 2.2.1).

The mISDN module uses a 'fake' misdn.conf so you can see the module in action. If you are eager to try it in reality just use the script provided by Beronet which installs the latest of everything for you. Make sure you run a 'misdn scan' to configure your cards and build a new misdn.conf.

If anyone is interested in Hudlite-server on Fedora Core 6 I have found a solution to make it work but it is a hack. It appears that the current release of Hudlite-server uses a tool called PERL2EXE. The version used by Hudlite-server only supports Perl up to version 5.8.5. FC6 has Perl 5.8.8. Making some dubious softlinks of the 5.8.8 vendor_perl directory to the 5.8.5 directory allows hudlite-server to start and accept clients. Of course I am sure Perl doesn't like to be treated this way but it does not seem to affect any of the other applications. You can follow the mental meanderings that lead to this workaround here. Unfortunately it is poorly documented at the moment but if you are feeling adventurous have a go.

The Yum repository has been tweaked and cleaned up and updated to the latest kernel versions for both Centos 4 and Fedora Core 6.