Digium Releases Asterisk 14, the World’s Most Popular Open Source Communications Software

September 28, 2016, Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, announced the release of the Asterisk 14, an open source communications engine, at AstriCon, a users and developers conference.

The Asterisk 14 is an updated version of the previous Asterisk releases, featuring the expanded DNS services, improved media API that includes remote media playback capabilities and a media cache, and more enhancements that make Asterisk function more efficiently in a larger communications ecosystem.

“For administrators using Asterisk in large, horizontally scalable service-based ecosystems, the additions and improvements made in version 14 are significant,” said Matt Fredrickson, project lead for Asterisk with Digium.