Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.08 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Authentication: A new feature has been added for users to be able to login using the SAML2 protocol

Bug Fixes​

• Calls: Calls will be hung up after 10 hours, in order to avoid 'ghost call' accumulation scenarios

Technical​

• Parking Lots: Improve parking lots API to facilitate usage (ex: add events, add informations, etc.)

Ongoing Features​

• Provisioning Server: wazo-provd is being modified to use PostgreSQL as its data storage backend instead of using JSON files on the file system
• Authentication: We will continue to improve and complete the login with SAML2 protocol allowing administrators to configure the identity provider.
• Call API: Allow to link a call with a call log

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.07 release.

Bug Fixes​

• Ring Group: it is no longer needed to restart Asterisk when changing ring strategy to linear for a ring group. The new implementation described in this blog post is now used by default.

Technical​

• Push Notification: Wazo now supports the new Firebase API v1 to send push notifications to Android devices

Ongoing Features​

• Provisioning Server: wazo-provd is being modified to use PostgreSQL as its data storage backend instead using json files on the file system
• Authentication: A new feature is being added for users to be able to login using the SAML2 protocol

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.06 release.

New Features​

• CallerID: The anonymous feature is now RFC compliant and should work out of the box for most configurations (see documentation)
• CallerID: In order to facilitate custom caller ID integration, it can be now configured through SIP header (see documentation)

Bug Fixes​

• wazo-ui: Fix tenant edition

Technical​

• wazo-chatd: The initialization process has been improved to be more robust

Ongoing Features​

• Provisioning Server: wazo-provd is being modified to use Postgresql as its data storage backend instead using json files on the file system
• Authentication: A new feature is being added for users to be able to login using the SAML protocol
• linear ring group: reimplementation of ring groups for the linear ring strategy, to fix outstanding issue with Asterisk Queue-based implementation requiring a complete reboot. An upcoming blog post will provide more details.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.05 release.

New Features​

• Parking: The API may now be used to park calls
• Phones: Fanvil phones DND status is now synchronized with the user DND status

Bug Fixes​

• Context ranges: The context range API now returns the extension ranges based on the DID length parameter of the context
• Tenants: The wazo-auth /tenants API now filters using the uuids query parameter properly
• Chat: Room chat participants can no longer read messages of rooms they are not part of
• Chat: Room chat participants can now create rooms which include all participants of an existing room
• Performance: The processing of calls was slowing down after a few days or months of usage, depending on use cases, when using some APIs to manage calls. This is now fixed, and call processing should remain constantly fast in the long run.

Technical​

• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 21.1.0 See the Asterisk release announcement

Ongoing Features​

• wazo-provd: The storage of wazo-provd is being rewritten to use Postgresql instead of json files on the filesystem
• Scalability: Under the hood changes to make Wazo more performant on large installations.
• Caller ID: A new feature is being added for users to select the Caller ID that will be presented when placing calls
• Authentication: A new feature is being added for users to be able to login using the SAML protocol

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.04 release.

New Features This Release​

• Translations: Added french translations to wazo-ui, it now supports english and french

Bug Fixes​

• Websocket: Fixed a bug where a user could miss some events when its authentication token expired

Technical​

• Documentation: The phonebook configuration documentation has been improved to allow an administrator to create a phonebook and add it to the directory service to make it available to its users
• Scalability: Performance has been improved when processing calls by reducing the amount of internal events, reducing the CPU usage of Asterisk and RabbitMQ

Ongoing Features​

• Provisioning Server: wazo-provd is being modified to use PostgreSQL as its datastorage instead of using JSON files on the file system
• Parking Lot: new API to control call parking features

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.03 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Parking Lot: Undeprecate and refactor parking and park_position function keys to work with the parking lots resource
• wazo-agentd: Refactor wazo-agentd service to use stevedore plugins to easily integrate third-party development

Technical​

• SIP template PUT queries: improved response time for PUT queries on sip endpoint templates
• wazo-confd: validation of delete_messages option in /voicemails configuration to prevent configuration errors
• wazo-stats: improved resilience of queue stats computation in presence of incomplete queue events

Ongoing Features​

• wazo-provd: Migrate the database from JSON to PostgreSQL
• Parking Lot: new API to control call parking features

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.02 release.

New Features in This Release​

• calld API: Added optional 'timeout' parameter in body of PUT /calls/{call_id}/user/{user_uuid} endpoint to control dial timeout behaviour of call to user.

Technical​

• Parking: In order to use API parking lots with function keys, deprecated default parking lot (700) function keys have been removed.
• Provisioning: Python module has been renamed from provd to wazo_provd. Any custom provisioning plugin should be updated.
• Bus: Python library has been renamed from xivo_bus to wazo_bus. Any custom plugin using this library should be updated.

Ongoing Features​

• wazo-provd: Migrate the database from JSON to PostgreSQL

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 24.01 release. This sprint was mostly dedicated to improve technical stuff and workflow

Technical​

• Development: Enable pre-commit and linters on most repositories
• Development: Add more Python typing hints in the codebase
• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 20.5.2, including fixes to important security issues. See the Asterisk release announcement for 20.5.2 and 20.5.1.

Ongoing Features​

• wazo-provd: Migrate the database from JSON to PostgreSQL

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 23.17 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Agents: Agents number are now tenant aware. Multiple tenants may now use the same number for agents without conflict.

Bug Fixes​

• CDR: 'user_uuid' filter on /cdr API now only matches source and final destination participants

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 23.16 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Remote Provisioning: To enhance security on remote provisioning, we are introducing an authentication system using a "provisioning key". More information can be found in the documentation
• Provisioning: Added support for Yealink CP925

Technical​

• NGINX: The provisioning system is now behind NGINX. It facilitates configuration for HTTPS and Provisioning Key.

Ongoing Features​

• Scalability: Under the hood changes to make Wazo more performant on large installations.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the changelog.

See you at the next sprint review!