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=checkout
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!