The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1. This release marks the beginning of the testing process for the eventual release of Asterisk 1.8.0.
This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the 1.8 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker, http://issues.asterisk.org/. It is also very useful to hear successful test reports. Please post those to the asterisk-dev mailing list. Asterisk 1.8 is the next major release series of Asterisk. It will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release, similar to Asterisk 1.4. For more information about support time lines for Asterisk releases, see the Asterisk versions page. http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions Asterisk 1.8 contains many new features over previous releases of Asterisk. A short list of included features includes: * Secure RTP * IPv6 Support * Connected Party Identification Support * Calendaring Integration * A new call logging system, Channel Event Logging (CEL) * Distributed Device State using Jabber/XMPP PubSub * Call Completion Supplementary Services support * Advice of Charge support * Much, much more! A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file. http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.8/CHANGES?view=markup For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-beta1 Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk! -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
