Today, at the first annual Astricon Conference, Asterisk version 1.0.0 was announced by Mark Spencer and released to the world. Currently, the release can be found on the Digium™ ftp site and also via http. This release marks the outstanding achievements of the developers, the hundreds of friends and tireless supporters from IRC on irc.freenode.net in #asterisk, and the thousands of Asterisk users worldwide.

Also made available today are the 1.0.0 releases of Zaptel (via http), the software drivers for Digium hardware, and libPRI (via http), the GPL-licensed PRI stack supporting North American and EuroISDN PRI protocols. Digium wishes to thank everyone that has contributed their time, energy, money, and passion to this software. We look forward to the continued efforts of this wonderful community, as it extends Asterisk to the undefined limits of imagination. (September 23rd, 2004).