<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Asterisk 13 is the next <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">Long Term Support (LTS)</a> release of Asterisk. As such, the focus of development for this release of Asterisk was on improving the usability and features developed in the previous Standard release, <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+12" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">Asterisk 12</a>. Beyond a general refinement of end user features, development focussed heavily on the Asterisk APIs - the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) and the Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) - and the PJSIP stack in Asterisk. Some highlights of the new features include:</p>
<ul style="margin:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><li><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Security+Framework" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">Asterisk security events</a> are now provided via <span class=""> </span><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-ami_security_events" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">AMI</a>, allowing end users to monitor their Asterisk system in real time for security related issues.</li>
<li>External control of Message Waiting Indicators (MWI) through both <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-res_mwi_external_ami" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">AMI</a> and <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-res_ari_mailboxes" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">ARI</a>.</li>
<li>Reception/transmission of out of call text messages using any supported channel driver/protocol stack through <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-ari_text_message" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">ARI</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-res_pjsip_pubsub" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">Resource List Server</a> support in the PJSIP stack, providing subscriptions to lists of resources and batched delivery of <code>NOTIFY</code> requests.</li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13#Newin13-res_pjsip_publish_asterisk" style="color:rgb(25,46,132);text-decoration:none">Inter-Asterisk</a> distributed device state and mailbox state using the PJSIP stack.</li>
</ul><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">And much more!</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">
<br></p></div><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13">https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+in+13</a><br></div>