Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.11 release.

New Features in This Release​

• DND: Users having Do-Not-Disturb mode enabled do not receive calls from groups.

Ongoing Features​

• Mobile push notifications for members of a group
• Add fallback to switchboards for calls that have been queued for too long
• External conferences allowing guests to join a meeting

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.10 release.

New Features in This Release​

• CDR: Improve CDR to add information about the source_internal name
• Call permission: It's now possible to use the same name on different tenants

Technical Features​

• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.5.1, featuring security fixes. See the Asterisk release announcement
• Google: The implementation of the directory plugin for Google has been updated to use the People API instead of the deprecated Contact API that will increasingly return voluntary errors. See the upgrade note for more details about the changes that have to be done.
• Event: New websocket events have been added when a call recording archive gets created

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.09 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Import: A new tool is available to ease migration to Wazo. See documentation
• Incall: Music on Hold can now be played when an incall redirects to a user.
• Phones: A new phone provisioning plugin has been added to support Gigaset N870.
• REST API: To make REST APIs easier to use, authentication policies can now be identified by a slug instead of their UUID.

Bug Fixes​

• Asterisk: Fix Asterisk STUN issue when IP of STUN server changes while Asterisk is running.

Technical Features​

• Authorization: Users cannot give permissions to other users if they don't already have those permissions themselves.
• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.5.0. See the Asterisk release announcement

Ongoing Features​

• Conference: We are working on a better integration of conference actions, such as raising hand or mute/unmute, by adding events and REST APIs to control them.
• Group: Improve users and groups interactions, like avoiding ringing a user's phone when DND is enabled and better mobile push notifications integration.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.08 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Presence: Until Wazo Platform 21.08, the API for user presence changed its line_state to talking right after the user placed a call. In Wazo Platform 21.08, the user's line_state will have two different states: progressing when the called party is ringing, then talking if the called party answers the call.
• Phones: The Grandstream GXP1628, GS-HT801-HT802, GRP2614, GXV3350 are now supported by the latest Grandstream phone plugin in Wazo Platform.
• Events: All call-related events emitted by Wazo Platform now include a timestamp metadata.
• Switchboard: Wazo Platform 21.08 allows changing the music-on-hold for switchboard waiting and hold queues.

Ongoing Features​

• Music on hold: We are working on adding specific music on hold for Incoming calls on specific DID.
• Recordings: We are working on polishing the call recordings API.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.07 release.

New Features in This Release​

• Call recording: Introducing an API to easily export recordings and download the resulting export ZIP archive.

Technical Features​

• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.4.0. See the Asterisk release announcement

Ongoing Features​

• Call recording: We are working to polish the call recordings API.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.06 release.

New features in this release​

• Retention: We added the possibility to automatically delete call recordings. Furthermore, it is now possible to configure the automatic deletion of CDRs and call recordings via REST API for each tenant. For instance, this makes it possible to abide by European GDPR regulations.

Technical features​

Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.3.0. See the Asterisk release announcement

Ongoing features​

• Call recording: We are working to improve the Wazo Platform API to easily retrieve multiple call recordings.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.05 release.

New features in this release​

• Voicemails: To make life easier, we added missing timezones for a few countries: Belgium, Italy, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Britain (United Kingdom), America, Spain and Switzerland. Note that the time format is by default set to 12-hour clock with AM/PM.

Technical features​

• Policies: We revamped the logic that creates default authentication policies

Ongoing features​

• Call recording: We are working to improve the Wazo Platform API to easily get call recordings.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.04 release.

New features in this release​

• Email: Some options only present in database are now exposed through API. It's the first step to improve and allow administrators to configure the email server using the API.
• Call recording: Using API to start/stop a call recording will now trigger a beep.
• Tenant: Add possibility to set a unique human readable identifier (a.k.a "slug") to a tenant, which will used to easily identify resource in asterisk configuration and log. For now this behavior is only used for groups, but will be used for all asterisk resources.
• Events: A new event is sent when a user receives a call but is not answered, be it because the phone is unavailable or the Do-Not-Disturb (DND) mode is activated, among other causes.

Technical features​

• Ring group: Group API now use UUID as primary identifier

Ongoing features​

• Call recording: We are working to improve the Wazo Platform API to easily get call recordings.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.03 release.

New features in this release​

• Call Recording: it is now possible to record calls that are coming from and going to a queue or a group.
• Call Recording: API to delete multiple recordings, useful to purge recordings automatically.

Technical features​

• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.2.2. See the Asterisk release announcement
• Database: call-logs have been moved to their own database, to facilitate usage of distributed architecture.

Ongoing features​

• Call Recording: we are working to improve the Wazo Platform API to easily get call recordings.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!

Hello Wazo Platform community!

Here is a short review of the Wazo Platform 21.02 release.

New features in this release​

• Call Recording: Call recordings are now attached to the call's CDR. There's an API to fetch the media from a given CDR.

Contributions​

• Cisco 88XX: Thanks to Fabrice GUEHO for adding support for Cisco 88XX
• Yealing T4X upgrade: Thanks to Fabrice GUEHO for upgrading the Yealink T4X to v85

Bug fixes​

• Yealink: A loop in Yealink phone DnD has been fixed

Technical features​

• Asterisk: Asterisk has been upgraded to 18.2.0. See the Asterisk release announcement
• Calls: Call API not strip white spaces from the dialed extensions
• Debug: Debug mode can now be enabled in wazo-webhookd without restarting the service

Ongoing features​

• Call recording: we are working to improve the Wazo Platform API to easily get call recordings.

For more details about the aforementioned topics, please see the roadmap linked below.

See you at the next sprint review!