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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

A happy and cold (in the northern hemisphere) Monday to you all! I'd like to start this week's news and notes by alerting everyone to the fact that there's been a significant addition to the functionality of the XML dialplan. If you've been around FreeSWITCH for any length of time you've probably read the words, "Nested conditions not allowed!" in yours or someone else's FreeSWITCH logs. As of last Friday<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/changelog/freeswitch.git?cs=9b7b46dbca9c4c458…>that has changed! In response to Jira FS-4935 <http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-4935> Anthony has added provisional support for nested <condition> tags inside the dialplan. (Thanks to IRC user vipkilla for adding this to the wiki<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Dialplan_XML#Nested_Conditions>already.) As you may know we are working the second edition of the FreeSWITCH "bridge" book<https://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-0-6-build-robust-high-performance-tel…>. I will be updating chapters 5 and 8 to reflect this new change. It seems appropriate that with this new feature we should talk about it on this week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_19>. Ken Rice and I will work up some simple examples of how to use the nested conditions and how they relate to the existing XML dialplan controls such as the break attribute and the regex tag. If you have a dialplan example that works well with nested conditions please email Ken and me off list. One last reminder for our Windows users: Dave Kompel shared with us some useful information <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_12> for gathering debug data when FreeSWITCH crashes under Windows. Our other main Windows guru, Jeff Lenk, was also on the call and gave some helpful input. If you are running under Windows you now have more tools at your disposal with which to analyze crash data and open Jira tickets. Have a great week and we'll talk to you on Wednesday. -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Greetings! We are glad to report that the FreeSWITCH team has tagged version 1.2.5.3. You can download the tarball here<http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.5.3.tar.bz2>. Anyone using 1.2.5.x should update as soon as possible. We appreciate all those who have helped us with testing and tracking down some sneaky and pernicious little bugs. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_05>we spent some time talking about the XML parser and some of its pre-processor directives. We discussed specifically how you can use the "exec" command to execute a shell script in the middle of XML processing. We also discussed a few tricks on how to look at the source code when you need to learn about some FreeSWITCH functionality that otherwise is not documented. This week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_12>subject is still pending, so stay tuned! One other item I'd like to mention is that we've had several reports of FreeSWITCH success stories. We will be providing more information about those in upcoming stories on our Web site. We've got people using FreeSWITCH in various situations as well as software developers who've added support for FreeSWITCH to their offerings. The FreeSWITCH ecosystem continues to grow and flourish! Thank you all for being a part of it. Take care and have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Happy December to everyone! Last week was painful for many of us as we were dealing with a sustained DDoS attack on most of our infrastructure. Kudos to the guys for working through it. It seems the worst is over and we can get back to the business at hand: doing FreeSWITCH stuff. :) In spite of the drama last week we did have a conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_28>and we released 1.2.5.2! We discussed mostly the details of the DDoS we experienced and how the community can assist in the future so that we can mitigate the effects of such an occurrence. With the community's help we will be more resistant to the effects of any future attacks. We appreciate the outpouring of support we received from everyone. This week <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_05> we will go back to discussing FreeSWITCH. We are still finalizing future guests so this week we'll do another installment of tips and tricks from the FreeSWITCH community. Among other things I will be showing how Chris Rienzo (IRC: crienzo) and I used the source this weekend to figure out what the XML preprocessor can do and get the wiki updated. I'll then show a simple example of the always-present-but-previously- undocumented command can do. As an added bonus we'll have an update on the ClueCon <http://www.cluecon.com> 2012 videos! Thanks and have a great week. -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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