Briker already installed in places geographically far from its support team homebase, Jakarta, Indonesia. This release marked the time for Briker to travel around countries.

Code name: Asia

The code name "Asia" came up on our mind after 1.0.4-rc3, right after our short trip to Malaysia and Singapore where we helped companies to use Briker as their phone system. On that trip, we received some email stating that in Sri Lanka, a company or two also used Briker as their phone system.

To help users getting started on the right track and fast, we provide manual for Briker IPPBX Administration in Bahasa and English, grab it from documentation page. And for those having problem installing or configuring Briker, we provide several ways to contact Briker Develepment Team, please head on to support page.

Below are highlights and changelog in Briker 1.0.4. If its too technical, and you got bored reading it, please head on to download page (http://www.briker.org/download) and grab the latest ISO, a 202 MB ISO file for Intel Pentium IV or compatible (tested also with VIA Eden 1.2 GHz).

Highlights:

• Obviously, smaller ISO (at least 95 MB smaller than 1.0.3), smaller installation (less than 512 MB disk space required)
• We are now listed as OpenVox Software Partners, we tested their analog and digital cards, so far, no glitches experienced
• We're interested on Sangoma USB FXO U100, and we tested them, the device identified and configured by Briker and worked
• We modified Flash Operator Panel to suit our need, that is to make it able to show 126 extensions, several trunks, conferences, parking and queues
• A better conversation by removing echoes from it, we find it very helpful to enable OSLEC as our line echo canceller
• Added Asternic Call Center Stats, helps management to view statistics for calls come in to Briker's Automatic Call Distribution feature

Changelog:

Version 1.0.4 "Asia" - 090216

• [pbx] add briker-email2fax-on and off script
• [pbx] add briker-sangoma-on and off script (wanpipe is disabled by default)
• [pbx] add Sangoma wanpipe driver 3.5.0.14 (tested only with U100)
• [pbx] add sendmail to enable receiving FAX to email and vice versa
• [pbx] add experimental email2fax utilities (disabled by default)
• [pbx] add php5-curl to enable lookup local prefixes
• [pbx] add lame, mpg123 and sox for Music On Hold
• [pbx] add support for codec speex and ilbc
• [pbx] add export/import extensions to/from csv file
• [pbx] add feature to add/del/edit extensions in bulk
• [pbx] add wakeup call feature
• [pbx] add Automatic Call Distribution statistics
• [pbx] add CDR View
• [pbx] add CDR (Call Detail Record), disabled by default
• [pbx] add OSLEC (Open Source Line Echo Canceller), enabled by default
• [pbx] set default bindaddr for H323 to 127.0.0.1
• [pbx] remove 2 asterisk modules, codec_zap and res_crypto
• [pbx] fixed operator panel to recognized Zap channels
• [pbx] fixed web auth, how features integrated and how cookies for auth managed
• [pbx] upgrade to asterisk 1.4.21.2
• [pbx] upgrade operator panel up to 126 extensions
• [pbx] disable caller id detection by default on Zap channels
• [lin] add 'wizard' option for Briker installation with lots of question
• [lin] add simple patcher, easier to patch Briker
• [lin] add cron, we thought its already in there and run on boot
• [lin] removed 'check' and 'memtest' options from installation menu
• [lin] removed many less important applications (more features, smaller ISO)
• [lin] removed Simple Boot Manager
• [lin] set perl default locale to C
• [lin] unattended installation switched to reiserfs from ext3
• [lin] move mysqld and webmin to /var/opt
• [lin] re-compile lighttpd, place it on /var/opt
• [lin] change path from /tmp to /var/tmp hardcoded in files

Enjoy :)