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  • Bugfix: Return correct recording uri for wav49 format with Asterisk.
  • Bugfix: Handle more AMI error responses which mean the channel is not found
  • Bugfix: Reporting statistics should not deadlock call processing
  • Bugfix: Sending the USR2 signal to an Adhearsion application now prints thread stack traces to STDERR.
  • Bugfix: Checking i18n prompts now handles nested keys
  • Bugfix: Shuts down a call which couldn't be routed with a fake end event. This avoids leaking call actors in cases where the call ended before it was dispatched and we missed the real End event.
  • Bugfix: Removes proactive checks on call availability before dispatching events because these are inaccurate; now optimistically dispatches.
  • Bugfix: Don't trigger the exception event handler twice per exception
  • Change: Adhearsion::Call#start_time now consistently tracks the call start time for both incoming and outgoing calls
  • Feature: Add Adhearsion::Call#answer_time to track the time at which the call was answered
  • Feature: Send Adhearsion::Event::Answered events when inbound calls are answered (formerly was only sent when outbound calls were answered)
  • Feature: Add rake task to generate Markdown formatted prompt list for recording
  • Feature: Increases concurrent call routing performance by delegating call routing to Call actors
  • Update: Bump Reel version to 0.6.x, fixing client disconnection bug
  • Update: Bump Blather to 2.x and RubySpeech to 3.x so that Nokogiri can be bumped to 1.8 for security fixes
  • Bugfix: Concurrent access to call collection should not be permitted. See #589
  • Bugfix: Reduced log spam inspecting large controller metadata. We now only log controller names internally; any logging of metadata must happen in the app.
  • Bugfix: Ensure components are deregistered from asterisk translator once the call is ended (#582)
  • Change: Define configuration per-environment for any environment name and without colliding with plugin names. See #442. Syntax is now config.env(:development).foo = :bar instead of config.development.foo = :bar.
  • Feature: Introduce the concept of application specific config. Similar to a plugin, an Application can specify config and an initialiser, and is the place to put such application-wide and unshareable things.
  • Bugfix: Calls remain inactive even after they shut down. Previously, to reliably check if a call was up or down it was necessary to consider the case where the call actor had been shut down. This is irrelevant to the Adhearsion::Call#active? question, which should always return a boolean. It now does.
  • Bugfix: Process joined events on Asterisk 13 in any order, avoiding Join command timeout
  • Bugfix: Handle correct event for confirming that a component stop was completed on Asterisk 13
  • Bugfix: Avoid race conditions in processing calls with interactions between them
  • Change: Removed Adhearsion.ahn_root= which was deprecated in favour of Adhearsion.root=
  • Change: Remove integration with RAILS_ENV
  • Change: Merge #dial_and_confirm into #dial such that #dial has parallel confirmation behaviour. Remove the old broken confirmation behaviour.
  • Merge adhearsion-asr in to core to replace the original #menu and #ask methods
  • Change: Removed #interruptible_play and #stream_file, both leftovers from Adhearsion 1.x which are replaced by #ask
  • Bugfix: Properly load application bundle. This requires the spawning removed in #534.
  • Change: Removed daemonisation (ahn daemon, ahn stop, ahn restart, PID files) and persistent logging in favour of 12factor compliant deployment, which pushes these responsibilities up to a process manager or PaaS
  • Change: Merge Punchblock into Adhearsion core
    • Punchblock::Event::* becomes Adhearsion::Event
    • Punchblock::Component::* and Punchblock::Command::* become Adhearsion::Rayo::Component::* and Adhearsion::Rayo::Command::* respectively
    • Adhearsion::Events.punchblock callback becomes Adhearsion::Events.rayo
    • config.punchblock.* becomes config.platform.*
    • No longer any dependency on Punchblock, or any mention of that name
  • Change: No longer supporting FreeSWITCH via IES (Rayo only) or Asterisk < 11
  • Change: Ruby 1.9 is no longer supported. Minimum supported versions are Ruby 2.2.0 and JRuby 9.0.0.0
  • Change: Rename "platform" to "core" relating to the config system, because "platform" is overloaded. Settings are now config.core.* or AHN_CORE_*.
  • Change: Permit application environment to be set only by AHN_ENV. The config system depends on the environment, and the previous dependency was circular.
  • Change: Define configuration per-environment for any environment name and without colliding with plugin names. See #442. Syntax is now config.env(:development).foo = :bar instead of config.development.foo = :bar.
  • Feature: Add i18n support via CallController#t
  • Feature: Integrate a Rack-based HTTP server from the Virginia plugin
  • Feature: Permit timing out when calling Call#wait_for_end
  • Upgrade to Celluloid 0.16
  • Move events system to Celluloid and do away with GirlFriday
  • Bugfix: Improve Call initialization performance. Use an ActorProxy (subclass) instead of a method_missing definition on every Call.new. This considerably improves Call.new performance; benchmarks show approximately a 30-40% improvement: https://gist.github.com/kares/3576e272250204eb66d1
  • Bugfix: Executing ahn commands (such as start) won't spawn any sub-rubies underneath
  • Bugfix: Allow a generated app to execute Rake tasks with only production dependencies installed
  • Feature: Call#after_hangup_lifetime optionally overrides Adhearsion.config.platform.after_hangup_lifetime (#537)
  • Feature: Accept a :cleanup parameter in Dial options, which specifies a controller to be run on each outbound call before cleanup. (#484)
  • Feature: Add a per-controller callback on_error that is invoked whenever an unhandled exception is raised. This can be used to play apology messages before disconnecting the caller (#486)
  • Feature: Add Call#redirect and CallController#redirect for redirecting calls to other systems (#465)
  • Feature: Ensure logging is available on STDOUT during RSpec runs (#489)
  • Feature: Reduce Adhearsion start-up time by selectively requiring the parts of ActiveSupport we use
  • Feature: Call#unjoin does not require a target, allowing to unjoin from all existing joins (#519)
  • Feature: Add Output#play_document and Output#play_document! for playing an SSML document from a URL (#535)
  • Bugfix: Logging around post-routing call termination now accounts for the call already being down.
  • Bugfix: Bubble component complete events to other registered handlers
  • Bugfix: Calling ahn restart on a stopped application now works
  • Documentation: Improved INFO level log messages (#518)
  • Update: Update Punchblock to fix Celluloid incompatibility (#521)
  • Bugfix: Ignore dead calls when searching by tag
  • Bugfix: Routing a dead call should end cleanly (#441)
  • Bugfix: Ensure config gets correctly loaded by application
  • Bugfix: Do not quiesce until the second SIGTERM, as per documentation (#483)
  • Bugfix: Consistent support for output options in all output methods (#481)
  • Bugfix: Use engine timestamps for joined timestamps in #dial (#466)
  • All changes from 2.5.1 (re-released)
  • Bugfix: Further fix for outbound call race conditions. When a Rayo server does not support client-supplied outbound call URIs, or refuses a requested URI by silently replacing it with a different one, the behaviour of Adhearsion falls back to the one with a race condition.

2.5.1 - 2014-04-07 - yanked

  • Bugfix: Avoid race conditions in event delivery for outbound calls. note: This requires a Rayo server compliant with Rayo v0.4, which includes changes outlined in rayo/xmpp#89. For FreeSWITCH mod_rayo, this means v1.2.23 of FreeSWITCH or the latest v1.2.stable branch.(#439)
  • Bugfix: Fix some omissions in 2.5.0 relating to the new application layout (#439)
  • Bugfix: Log to correct file when supplying an absolute path
  • Bugfix: Delay configuring plugins until after initialisation. Allows plugin config to use things which are not set until initialisation like the current working directory, Adhearsion.root, etc. (adhearsion/adhearsion-i18n#4)
  • Bugfix: Calls which are dead but can still be found now log a warning when receiving events
  • Bugfix: Cleanup generated application routes spacing
  • Bugfix: Use Rayo event timestamps for timing call operations. These timestamps are more accurate than using the time of event processing since event delivery/processing might be delayed due to network conditions or application load. This enables more reliable billing. (#454)
  • Bugfix: Plugins should be more comprehensively loaded for rake tasks
  • Bugfix: Millisecond-level timestamps now appear not only STDOUT, but in the default adhearsion.log as well.
  • Change: Ruby 1.9.2 is no longer supported
  • Change: Set default call post-hangup lifetime to one second for better out of the box performance.
  • Feature: Allow stopping all components executed by a controller when passing from it (#hard_pass) or at will (#stop_all_components)
  • Feature: Generated plugins include a .gitignore file
  • Feature: Detect something like "1234#" as characters instead of text
  • Feature: Add --empty switch to app generator for power users. Generates an app with less fluff.
  • Feature: Default generated applications with config appropriate for Telephony Dev Box
  • Feature: Allow preventing automatic call hangup after controller completion. Set Call#auto_hangup = false prior to controller termination.
  • Feature: Allow specifying a pre-join callback to #dial
  • Feature: Allow specifying ringback to #dial as either a list or a proc
  • Feature: Allow passing :join_options parameter to #dial to specify the kind of join to perform.
  • Feature: Allow passing :join_target parameter to #dial to specify who to join to (eg a mixer).
  • Feature: Generated apps now encourage storing most app code in app/, which is in the load path. Nothing in this directory is auto-loaded, but can be easily required without messy relative paths.
  • Feature: Routes and event handlers are now split out of main config file for readability. They may be retained in the main config file for existing apps.
  • Feature: Add Call#end_code, which specifies the platform code for the call end event.
  • Feature: Allow XMPP messages to be sent via Punchblock
  • Bugfix: Don't block shutdown waiting for the console to terminate
  • Bugfix: Ensure that splitting a dial rejoined to an alternative target (eg a mixer) or merged with another dial can still be split properly.
  • Bugfix: Ensure that hungup calls don't prevent dial splits/merges.
  • Bugfix: Ensure that merged dials which are split and rejoined all get rejoined to the mixer.
  • Bugfix: Ensure that Call#peers are correctly maintained - this was broken by Rayo moving to full call URIs in joined/unjoined events
  • Bugfix: Ensure that failure to dial a call kills the actor
  • Bugfix: Adhearsion call actors should do recursion detection on #inspect
  • Bugfix: Fix controller block context on JRuby
  • Bugfix: Require only Bundler groups appropriate to application environment
  • Bugfix: Call event handlers now cannot crash the call, and no longer stop on return value
  • Bugfix: Call controllers are gracefully terminated when a command is attempted against a dead call
  • Deprecation: Ruby 1.9.2 support is deprecated and will be dropped in a future version of Adhearsion
  • Deprecation: Some media options from Punchblock config are now overriden by other core config, and will eventually be removed.
  • Deprecation: Core implementations of CallController#ask and #menu are deprecated, and will be replaced in future with those in adhearsion-asr. See http://adhearsion.com/docs/common_problems#toc_3 for details.
  • Feature: Update to Punchblock 2.0 for JRuby compatibility, better performance and Rayo spec compliance
  • Feature: Add Call#wait_for_end, which blocks until the call ends and returns its end reason
  • Feature: Track call start/end time and duration
  • Feature: Add per-call join duration and disposition to DialStatus
  • Feature: Add CallController#dial_and_confirm which allows parallel confirmation of outbound calls and apologies to losing parties
  • Feature: Add CallController::Dial::Dial#split, #rejoin, #merge and #skip_cleanup to support conferencing and transfer use cases
  • Feature: Add #originate method to console as alias for Adhearsion::OutboundCall.originate
  • Feature: Allow the console to be disabled using --no-console
  • Feature: Add CLI commands to generate hooks for a plugin to register on ahnhub.com
  • Feature: Add #say_characters method and an async cousin, #say_characters!
  • Bugfix: Removed unnecessary Mocha reference from generated plugin
  • Bugfix: Call loggers are deleted after a call finishes, fixing a memory leak
  • Bugfix: A menu definition's block context is now available
  • Bugfix: Ensure call's command registry is not leaked outside the actor
  • Bugfix: An application's lib/ directory is now in the load path so dependencies may be reasolved more simply. You may now require 'foo' instead of require "#{Adhearsion.root}/lib/foo.rb"
  • Bugfix: Resolve hostname to some local name when experiencing network issues
  • Bugfix: Ensure smooth shutdown of console and XMPP connections
  • Bugfix: Warn when booting Adhearsion with an invalid environment name
  • Bugfix: CallController#reject now terminates a call controller in the same way as #hangup
  • Bugfix: Call actors can now process other queries while waiting for responses to commands from a VoIP engine
  • Bugfix: Allow the CLI to function on JRuby
  • Bugfix: Fix race conditions in barging in before output start is acknowledged
  • Performance enhancement: Use Celluloid's thread pool for call controller threads to reduce thread setup overhead
  • Bugfix: Process signals safely in the main thread - fixes shutdown on Ruby 2.0
  • Bugfix: Expose the cert store directory in Punchblock config
  • Bugfix: Support Celluloid 0.14's new block semantics
  • Bugfix: Correctly register readiness to handle calls with VoIP platform.
  • Bugfix: Don't raise when the router tries to clear up after a CallController which outlived its Call actor.
  • Bugfix: Don't share metadata between all controllers invoked by a route. This was causing concurrent mutation bugs and all sorts of weirdness.
  • Bugfix: Ensure that a CallController can still log safely even if its Call (and therefore scoped logger) is gone.
  • Bugfix: Fix some spec false positives and failures due to dependency changes.
  • Bugfix: Fix a leftover Celluloid deprecation warning
  • Feature: Allow specifying a renderer per invocation of #menu, #interruptible_play, #ask, #play and #play!

    play 'tt-monkeys', renderer: :native
  • Feature: Make it possible to disable punchblock connection by way of settings

  • Feature: Allow specifying exact input digits to recognize for interrupting a recording

  • Bugfix: Run input validations before length check so we always return the more appropriate response

  • Bugfix: Plugin initializers now run in the context of the plugin class, not nil

  • Bugfix: Write PID without race conditions (#266)

  • CS: Prevent Celluloid deprecation warnings

  • Bugfix: No longer crash logging randomly
  • Bugfix: Correctly route outbound calls
  • Bugfix: Handle calls when daemonized correctly
  • Bugfix: Test suites now pass on JRuby and Ruby 2.0.0
  • Feature: Statistics API providing counts of calls dialed, offered, rejected, routed and active

    Adhearsion.statistics.dump # => #<Adhearsion::Statistics::Dump timestamp=2012-12-17 10:31:05 -0500, call_counts={:dialed=>0, :offered=>18, :routed=>6, :rejected=>0, :active=>0}, calls_by_route={"Sesame Street"=>3, "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood"=>2, "default"=>1}>
  • Feature: Accessor for peer calls when bridged

    call.peers # => {"0f4h382j290k09k" => #<Adhearsion::Call ...>}
  • Feature: Allow specifying controller metadata when originating outbound calls

    Adhearsion::OutboundCall.originate 'foo@bar.com', controller: FooBarController, controller_metadata: {foo: 'bar'}
  • Feature: Allow specifying confirmation controller metadata to CallController#dial

    dial 'foo@bar.com', confirm: ConfirmationController, confirm_metadata: {foo: 'bar'}
  • Feature: Set default voice on output components when specified in config

    config.punchblock.default_voice = 'kal'
  • Feature: Be more flexible about DTMF utterance parsing

  • Feature: Added specs for the SimonGame

  • Feature: Allow configuring the lifetime of a call object after hangup. This makes it possible to control the number of call objects (and therefore threads) in use by Adhearsion, by expiring them earlier or later than the 30 second default (as measured from the point at which the call disconnects).

    config.platform.after_hangup_lifetime = 10
  • Feature: Support collections passed to CallController#play

    recordings = ['one', 'two', 'three']
    play recordings
  • Feature: Support arrays passed to #match in a CallController#menu

    possible_digits = [1,2,3,4]
    menu 'foobar' do
      match possible_digits, FooController
    end
  • Feature: Output document formatter for a call controller is now overridable

    # Replacement formatter designed to render all TTS extra slow
    class MyFormatter < Adhearsion::CallController::Output::Formatter
      def ssml_for_text(argument, options = {})
        RubySpeech::SSML.draw do
          prosody rate: 'x-slow' do
            argument
          end
        end
      end
    end
    
    class MyController < Adhearsion::CallController
      def run
        speak "This will be sloooooow"
      end
    
      def output_formatter
        MyFormatter.new
      end
    end
  • Feature: Refactored recording functionality into a Recorder class for easier implementation of specific APIs

    # Alternative #record implementation, returning the input component also
    def record(options = {})
      recorder = Recorder.new self, options
    
      recorder.handle_record_completion do |event|
        catching_standard_errors { yield event if block_given? }
      end
    
      recorder.run
      [recorder.record_component, recorder.stopper_component]
    end
  • Bugfix: Generate sane spec defaults for new apps and controllers

  • Bugfix: CallController#record now allows partial-second timeouts

  • Bugfix: Ensure calls are removed from the active collection when they terminate cleanly

  • Bugfix: Plug a big memory leak

  • Bugfix: Originating call is now answered before joining calls using CallController#dial
  • Bugfix: Output controller methods no longer falsely detect a string with a colon as a URI for an audio file
  • Bugfix: CallController#record takes timeout in seconds instead of milliseconds
  • Bugfix: Generating controllers given lower case names now works properly
  • Update: Bump Celluloid dependency
  • CS: Log when a controller is executed on a call
  • Bugfix: Celluloid 0.12.x dependency now disallowed due to incompatible API changes.
  • Bugfix: Generated Gemfiles no longer pessimistically locked. Matches promise of SemVer compliance.
  • Bugfix: Added missing API documentation for Adhearsion::OutboundCall.
  • Bugfix: Controller spec now includes a useful example.
  • Bugfix: #dial timeout now does not place an upper limit on the duration of a bridged call

Features

  • Initial support for FreeSWITCH
  • Added the possibility to specify a confirmation controller on #dial operations
  • Allow specifying a controller to run when originating an outbound call
  • Allow Call#execute_controller to take a block instead of a controller instance. Simplifies event-based execution of simple controllers (eg whisper into a call)
  • Allow route modifiers such that they:
    • Do not accept calls that match
    • Do not execute a controller
    • Do not hangup after controller execution
  • Permit asynchronous output using bang version of methods (eg CallController#play!), returning an output component, which can be stopped
  • Added CallController#safely which will catch and log StandardError in a call controller, but will not allow it to crash the controller
  • CallController#record now has an :interruptible option that allows recording to be stopped by pressing any DTMF key
  • Added Call#on_joined and Call#on_unjoined for easily registering joined/unjoined handlers
  • Adhearsion.root and Adhearsion.root= are now available to return the root path to the application. Adhearsion.ahn_root= is deprecated
  • Adhearsion.deprecated added for internal use to clearly mark deprecated methods

Bugfixes

  • All output methods will now raise Adhearsion::CallController::Output::PlaybackError when output fails, instead of failing silently
  • CallController#hangup now prevents further execution of the controller
  • Calls which do not match any routes are rejected with an error
  • Calls are not accepted until a matching route is found
  • Give sensible dependency defaults for generated plugins
  • Fixed mocha-fail in generated plugins
  • Plugins generated with a snake_case name did not have the appropriate constants camelized
  • CallController#dial no longer creates outbound calls if the dialing party hangs up before it executes
  • CallController#ask no longer loops on timeout
  • Correct default port for Asterisk
  • Bugfix: Avoid infinitely recursive exception handlers
  • Bugfix: Don't require rubygems where we don't need it
  • Bugfix: Patch method name conflict with new Celluloid release
  • Bugfix: Generated applications are now locked to Adhearsion major version
  • Bugfix: Ensure the #logger method is defined more robustly on all objects
  • Bugfix: Ensure actor (call) loggers are accessible outside the object
  • Cleanup: Remove old invalid rake tasks, improve some documentation

Major architectural changes

  • Adhearsion is no longer a framework for creating Asterisk applications, and it does not know anything about the specifics of Asterisk. Adhearsion now makes use of the Punchblock library which abstracts features from common telephony engines. Supported engines are now:
    • Asterisk 1.8+
    • Voxeo Prism 11 w/ rayo-server
  • Adhearsion now makes use of libraries for advanced concurrency primitives such as Actors, meaning Adhearsion is no longer compatible with Ruby 1.8. Officially supported Ruby platforms are:
    • Ruby 1.9.2+ (YARV)
    • JRuby 1.6.5+ (in 1.9 mode)
    • Rubinius 2.0 (on release, in 1.9 mode)
  • The old components architecture has been deprecated in favour of Adhearsion::Plugin (further details below).
  • Theatre has been replaced in favour of a girl_friday and has-guarded-handlers based event queueing/handling system (further details below).
  • The dialplan.rb file has been removed and is replaced by the routing DSL.

Plugin system

  • Plugin system is the way to extend Adhearsion framework and provides the easiest path to add new functionality, configuration or modify the initialization process.
  • Created Plugin infrastructure. Adhearsion::Plugin class allows to create dialplan, rpc, event and console methods, add initializers and create or update any configuration
  • Moved deprecated Adhearsion::Components behaviour to the dedicated gem adhearsion-components
  • Moved ami_remote component to adhearsion-asterisk plugin
  • Moved Rails integration to adhearsion-rails plugin as it is not an Adhearsion core feature
  • Moved Active Record integration to adhearsion-rails plugin
  • Moved XMPP integration to adhearsion-xmpp plugin
  • Moved DRb integration to adhearsion-drb plugin
  • Moved LDAP integration to adhearsion-ldap plugin
  • Translate STOMP gateway component to a plugin and remove the component generators entirely
  • Translate simon_game component to plugin
  • CallController and Console can have modules of methods mixed in using CallController.mixin and Console.mixin

Configuration

  • New configuration mechanism based on Loquacious that allows to configure both Adhearsion platform and plugins
  • Added rake tasks to check the config options (rake adhearsion:config:desc) and config values (rake adhearsion:config:values)
  • automatically_answer_incoming_calls has been replaced with automatically_accept_incoming_calls, which when set to true (as is the default), will automatically indicate call progress to the 3rd party, causing ringing. answer must now be used explicitly in the dialplan.
  • Adhearsion now has environments. By default these are development, production, staging, test, and the set can be extended. The environment in use is dictated by the value of the AHN_ENV environment variable. Config may be set per environment.
  • Added the ability to override configuration using environment variables. The correct names are given when running rake adhearsion:config:show, and are automatically added for all plugins. Plugins may define how the string environment variable is transformed to be useful.
  • adhearsion process is named via configuration module

Dialplan changes

  • The dialplan no longer responds to methods for retrieval of call variables. This is because variables are aggregated from several sources, including SIP headers, which could result in collisions with methods that are required in the dialplan/controllers.

Media output

  • Output functions reworked to to take advantage of Punchblock features, though method signatures have been kept similar.
  • Output now allows for usage of String, Numeric, Time/Date, files on disk, files served via HTTP, and direct SSML. All non-file types are played via TTS.
  • Output types are automatically detected and played accordingly
  • CallController#speak is now CallController#say

Ask

  • CallController#input has been removed in favour of #ask
  • CallController#ask returns a Result object from which the status and response may be established
  • CallController#ask processes prompts and gathers input until some termination event (terminator digit, digit limit or timeout)

Menu system

  • #menu method and related code completely rewritten to take advantage of the new controller functionality and streamline the DSL.
  • The #menu block now uses #match instead of #link, and allows for blocks as match actions
  • #menu now resumes execution inside the current controller after completion

Recording

  • A dual-mode #record method has been added to CallController allowing both blocking and non-blocking recording

Call Joining

  • CallController supports joining of calls, or calls to mixers using #join
  • CallController#dial now supports overriding or extra options for each call destination
  • CallController#dial now returns a DialStatus object indicating the status of the dial command
  • CallController#dial now defaults the outbound caller ID to that of the controller's call

Call routing & controllers

  • To be platform agnostic, inbound calls are no longer routed by Asterisk context. There is now an inbound call routing DSL defined in config/adhearsion.rb which routes calls based on their parameters to either a controller class or specifies a dialplan in a block.
  • Call controllers (classes which inherit from Adhearsion::CallController) are the mechanism by which complex applications should be written. A controller is instantiated per call, and must respond to #run. Controllers have many "dialplan" methods, the same as dialplan.rb did.
  • dialplan.rb is removed and no longer used. These should be moved to the router.

Eventing system

  • Removed Theatre
  • Event namespaces no longer need to be registered, and events with any name may be triggered and handled.
  • The DSL has been simplified. See the generated config file for examples.

Logging

  • Switched logging mechanism from log4r to logging
  • Any logging config value can be updated via the centralized configuration object
  • 6 logging levels are supported by default: TRACE < DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL
  • The default logging pattern outputs the class name in any log message, using a colorized pattern in STDOUT to improve readability
  • Any log message from an Adhearsion::Call object outputs the call unique id to distinguish messages from any call
  • Log file location is configurable

Removal of non-core-critical functionality

  • Removed all asterisk specific functionality
    • ConfirmationManager
    • Asterisk AGI/AMI connection/protocol related code
    • Asterisk h extension handling
  • Removed LDAP, XMPP, Rails, ActiveRecord and DRb functionality and replaced them with plugins.
  • Extracted some generic code to dependencies:
    • future-resource
    • ruby_ami
    • punchblock

Miscellaneous

  • Removed a lot of unused or unecessary code, including:
    • Outbound call routing DSL
    • FreeSWITCH support. This will be added to Punchblock at a later date.
  • Replaced the rubigen generators with Thor
  • New CLI command structure. Run ahn for details.
  • Advanced shutdown routine:
    • On first :shutdown, we flag the state internally. The intent is to shut down when the active calls count reaches 0, but otherwise operate normally.

    • On second :shutdown, we start rejecting new incoming calls. Existing calls will continue to process until completion. Shut down when active call count reaches 0.

    • On third :shutdown, send a Hangup to all active calls. Shut down when active call count reaches 0.

    • In addition, the process can be force-stopped, which simply closes the connection to the server (and any component connections as well).

  • ahn command now elminates all version mis-matches between installed and bundled gems
  • Adhearsion is now ruby warning-free
  • Reopen logfiles on SIGHUP
  • Toggle TRACE logging on SIGALRM (useful for debugging a live process)
  • Adhearsion::Calls (Adhearsion.active_calls) is now an actor for better thread-safety, and mirrors the Hash API exactly.
  • ahn generate command allows invocation of generators for call controllers, plugins or those provided by plugins
  • The command to take control of a call is now 'take' rather than 'use'. 'take' called without a call ID presents a list of currently running calls
  • Defined some project management guidelines for Adhearsion core (see http://adhearsion.com/contribute).
  • Transferred copyright in the Adhearsion codebase from individual contributors to Adhearsion Foundation Inc, the non-profit organisation responsible for supporting the Adhearsion project.
  • Re-licensed as MIT.

1.2.1 - 2011-09-21

  • Removed the restful_rpc component since it is now in a gem.
  • Allow overriding the path to a component in the testing framework so as to support new style components (lib/)
  • Added a GUID to the default recording filename to ensure uniqueness
  • ECONNRESET exceptions are now handled as a call hangup
  • Fixed escaping of TTS strings containing commas when used with Cepstral via #speak
  • Made logging exceptions the responsibility of the framework rather than the app, so that this may not be disabled

1.2.0 - 2011-08-14

  • New method: `#play_or_speak1 allows playback of an audio file with TTS fallback
  • #input now takes :speak as a hash for TTS prompt or fallback
  • New method: #speak provides abstracted TTS rendering for UniMRCP and Cepstral
  • Allow leading "+" in Caller ID (E.164 format)
  • Allow using --pid-file without "daemon" for JRuby
  • Allow passing a block to #input to enable caller to detect when enough digits are collected.
  • Fix some issues with starting apps outside of their directory, generally related to Bundler/gem environments
  • Allow configuration of logging outputters/formatters
  • Using ahn_log in a dialplan context or on a call object logs to the call's context, named after its unique identifier
  • New method: #record_to_file with more useful return values

1.1.1 - 2011-06-13

  • Command#play now returns false if audio failed to play
  • Added new commands (#play!, #interruptible_play!, #input!) which raise PlaybackError if audio fails to play

1.1.0 - 2011-05-29

  • Added interactive call control console: ahn start console
  • Added centralized exception handler through eventing system
  • Support for using ahn_hoptoad to send Adhearsion exceptions to Hoptoad
  • Adhearsion.active_calls can now use hash syntax to find calls by ID
  • Added Adhearsion::Calls#to_h
  • Add a Monitor to synchronize access to an AGI connection

1.0.3 - 2011-05-05

  • Fix the play() command regression when passing an array of strings. This was breaking the SimonGame
  • Deprecate ManagerInterface#send_action_asynchronously

1.0.2 - 2011-04-09

  • Fix rcov Rake task
  • Add Ben Langfeld as an author (Thanks, Ben!)
  • Add "rake" as a runtime dependency
  • Remove usage of BEGIN blocks (for Rubinius; CS)

1.0.1 - 2010-02-22

NOTE for Ruby 1.9 users: The behavior of Ruby 1.9 and case statements has changed in a way that renders NumericalString objects incompatible with case statements. The suggested workaround is to cast the NumericalString to a string and then compare. Example:

  obj = NumericalString.new("0987")
  case obj.to_s
  when "0987" then true
  else false
  end

  # Or, if you need to ignore the leading zero:
  case obj.to_i
  when 987 then true
  else false
  end

See https://adhearsion.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5871/tickets/127-ruby-19-and-numericalstring-comparisons-in-case-statements

  • Add say_chars command.
  • Add say_phonetic command.
  • Update play_time to accept format and timezone paramenters. This allows you to read back any particular section of the Time object. (i.e. Using :format => 'IMp' would result in "eleven twenty-three" being said.)
  • Update play_time to allow using Date objects.
  • QueueAgentsListProxy#new now returns an AgentProxy instance if the agent was added successfully.
  • Add state_interface parameter to QueueAgentsListProxy#new. This allows you to specify a separate interface to watch for state changes on. (i.e. Your agents log in with Local channel extensions, but you want to check their direct SIP exten for state.)
  • Fixed issue with Queue#join! that would raise a QueueDoesNotExist error if the call was completed successfully.
  • Add support for AGI script parameter to Queue#join!
  • Migrate unit tests to RSpec 2
  • New components now include RubyGems skeleton files
  • Fix support for setting Caller ID name on AGI dial() command
  • Generate new apps with Bundler support, including auto-requiring of all gems
  • Update component testing framework to RSpec 2.x and mock with rspec

1.0.0 - 2010-10-28

  • Fall back to using Asterisk's context if the AGI URI context is not found
  • Enable configuration of :auto_reconnect parameter for AMI
  • Replace all uses of Object#returning with Object#tap
  • Add support for loading Adhearsion components from RubyGems
  • Fix long-running AMI session parser failure bug (#72)
  • Support for Rails 3 (and ActiveSupport 3.0)

0.8.6 - 2010-09-03

  • Fix packaging problem so all files are publicly readable
  • Improve AMI reconnecting logic; add "connection refused" retry timer
  • AGI protocol improvements: parse the status code and response text

0.8.5 - 2010-08-24

NOTE: If you are upgrading an Adhearsion application to 0.8.5, note the change to how request URIs are handled. With 0.8.4, the context name in Asterisk was required to match the Adhearsion context in dialplan.rb. Starting in 0.8.5 if an application path is passed in on the AGI URI, it will be preferred over the context name. For example:

[stuff]
exten => _X.,1,AGI(agi://localhost/myapp)

AHN 0.8.4- will execute the "stuff" context in dialplan.rb AHN 0.8.5+ will execute the "myapp" context in dialplan.rb

If you followed the documentation and did not specify an application path in the URI (eg. agi://localhost) you will not be impacted by this change.

Other changes:

  • Added XMPP module and sample component. This allows you to easily write components which utilise a persistent XMPP connection maintained by Adhearsion
  • Prefer finding the dialplan.rb entry point by the AGI request URI instead of the calling context
  • Added :use_static_conf option for "meetme" to allow the use of disk-file-managed conferences
  • Logging object now shared with ActiveRecord and Blather
  • Fixed a longstanding bug where newlines were not sent after each AGI command
  • Fixed parsing of DBGet AMI command/response
  • Better shutdown handling/cleanup
  • Attempt to allow the AMI socket to reconnect if connection is lost
  • Improved support for Ruby 1.9
  • Numerous smaller bugs fixed. See: https://adhearsion.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5871-adhearsion/milestones/76510-085

0.8.4 - 2010-06-24

  • Add configurable argument delimiter for talking to Asterisk. This enables Adhearsion to support Asterisk versions 1.4 (and prior) as well as 1.6 (and later).
  • Fixed using ActiveRecord in Adhearsion components
  • Daemonizing no longer truncates the Adhearsion log file
  • Add support for using ActiveLdap
  • Misc improvements to support Asterisk 1.6 changes
  • Escape commands sent to Asterisk via AGI
  • Manager Events now work when daemonized

0.8.3 -

  • The uniqueid call channel variable available in dialplan.rb is now always a String
  • Renamed interruptable_play to interruptible_play and made interruptible_play public instead of protected.
  • Fixed an Asterisk Manager Interface parsing issue in which colons sometimes got stuck into the key name.
  • AGI "request" variable coercer will not blow up if no request is given. (Helps in testing with netcat/telnet)

0.8.2 -

  • When a call hangs up, Adhearsion will no longer show random exceptions (that were okay) and instead allows the user to rescue a Hangup exception.
  • ManagerInterfaceResponse now include()s DRbUndumped, allowing send_action() to be called directly over DRb.
  • Fixes an inconsequential bug when CTL-C'ing Adhearsion.

0.8.1 - 2009-01-29

  • The sandbox component now comes
  • Minor bug fixes

0.8.0 rev 2

  • Added a few non-critical files to the .gemspec. They were ignored

Notes from before 0.8.0:

  • (NOTE: This is obviously not a comprehensive list of pre-0.8.0 work. 0.8.0 was a complete rewrite of the previous version)
  • Adding a deprecation warning about Fixnum#digit and Fixnum#digits
  • Removed the AMI class and replaced it with the ManagerInterface class.
  • The old AMI high-level instance methods are available in the new ManagerInterface class, but a deprecation warning will be logged each time they're used. When the SuperManager class is implemented, they'll be removed entirely.
  • Moved Theatre into Adhearsion's lib folder.