Druid 2.0 is has a ton of new feature and a highly improved interface. Asterisk stability has also been greatly improved and will offer a new level of scalability and speed.

- Improved Web GUI, faster and smoother

- Switched to Dahdi from Zaptel

- Full FAX support

- BLF enabled Groups

- Group faxing, Call groups and Group voicemail

- Sorting and Searching on all tables and grids in the web UI.

- New quick launch / status bar in user-portal

- Web dialer with CRM integration

- Easy to use and maintain

- Improved Asterisk stability and scalability

- Extension hotdesking (*110), Agent hotdesking (*120)

- Improved visual status status and usage graphs

- Added concept of users in addition to stations and extensions

Druid 2.0 is not in the repository as yet. It will be in a couple days, after which you can easily upgrade your existing Druid 1.3 installs. We have currently made the ISO available.

The latest update to Druid OSE version 1.0.2 has been released it has a ton of bug fixes and new features.

For more information click here:
http://forums.voiceroute.org/showpost.php?p=375&postcount=1

Track the Druid Youtube channel for guide's and other videos. Email ming@voiceroute.net with any requests for guide videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/voiceroute

We are on Flickr too.

http://flickr.com/search/?q=voiceroute

Druid is different from many other IP telephony solutions you might have worked with. Below are few of the
differences that make Druid a great platform. (#druid on irc.freenode.net)

1. Extensions and phones are not the same thing. Extensions are attached or detached from an IP handset.

2. Phones are auto provisioned. You just have to plug your IP handset into a network port, and it is automatically detected by Druid using CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) or Zeroconf and will show up as a detached phone (A detached phone is a phone without an extension). Just plug and play!

3. Druid has its own tagged VLAN (Virtual Lan) and DHCP server which does not affect your existing network in anyway. All phones are automatically placed into this VLAN. Druid also supports RIP, which if supported by your router, allows the phone to access the outside network.

4. Every extension automatically has an IMAP mail account that stores your voicemail, an instant messenger (Jabber) account, a (IAX/SIP) softphone account and a web-portal that is also accessible through a mobile phone.

5. Each attached extension (one associated with an IP handset) can also login using a softphone (SIP and IAX). When the extension is called both the deskphone and the softphone are rung. You do *NOT* need to create a separate extension for your softphone. You also do not need to configure your IP handset with this information neither.

6. The web based user portal can be accessed though a normal browser or a mobile browser and is an extremely useful component of Druid. You can use it to see your voicemail, schedule routing of calls to your extension, and see your call details among other things.

7. You can bridge your calls to any mobile phone though the web-portal. When mobile bridging is enabled, any calls to your extension ring your mobile phone, deskphone and your softphone. Your mobile phone is like your desk phone; you can record, park, and transfer calls even when you are out.

8. When using IMAP, IM, Softphone, Voicemail, Web-Portal, Mobile-Portal your username is your extension number and your password is your unified extension PIN.

9. The web-interface is Ajax powered and all communication between your browser and Druid is done using light weight JSON, making it fast and responsive.

10. Druid is based on a lightweight CentOS installation, with a full graphical easy-to-use installer. Druid can be upgraded using a single command 'yum upgrade'.

We are on facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21001662768 (Group: Voiceroute Open Source) feel free to drop by and join in.

We've just posted a bunch of pictures of our lab and some of the cool hardware we have here. If any of
you guys have pictures of your IP Telephony hardware upload it to the group.

We will also be posting events and smoking the Druid pipe :) hope to see you there.

cheers,