Im not familiar with the Asterisk integration ilself, but I’m generally familiar with HA and community addons to ask if this isn’t that big a deal? If I’m interpreting the pull correctly, HA is dropping the native integration for a mailbox feature that only Asterisk uses, which technology itself is outdated. Looks to me like the Asterisk implementation itself is a HACS resource, and not part of the HA mainline code.

Could be the case the Asterisk community project maintainers will either update their code to live without the native feature, or adopt the deprecated code to maintain it as part of the community add-on.

The corpo-speak seems pretty straightforward to me, though: the asterisk-mbox integration code is unmaintained, outdated, or has fallen out of compliance with the prevailing API usage so it’s planned for being removed from mainline. Happens frequently with legacy code in large projects.

I wouldn’t bring out the pitchforks just yet, OP. Good chance the Asterisk repos will update with a fix or a workaround in the coming weeks to months

Seems weird that according to telemetry only 25 people in the world were using that, while the GitHub repository linked in the other comment has 56 stars and 21 forks 75 issues and 200 pull requests. If it was true, those 25 users are the most passionate in the world.

Same if watching on the ha forums, lots of topics for something used only by 25 people in the world.

Could it be that, because asterisk is difficult to install, only pro users installed that, and pro users always disable telemetry?

Edit: changed metrics for GitHub, indeed stars and forks are pointless numbers, went to watch my GitHub account and saw that completely useless repositories of mine had stars or forks

So OP is one of the only 25 people who used it?

That link has a period at the end, at least in Jerboa. Here’s a non-period link. https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/110930

thanks