Asterisk The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta2.
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 see 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

This release contains fixes since the last beta release as reported by the community. Some of the changes include:

• Remove duplicate -c flag when using $(INSTALL)
  (Closes issue #17695. Reported, patched by pabelanger)
• Don’t re-register CDR module on reload.
  (Closes issue #17304. Reported, tested by jnemeth. Patched by tilghman)
• Don’t assume qlog is open.
  (Closes issue #17704. Reported, tested by vrban. Patched by pabelanger)
• Expand the correct value within AST_OPTION_ONLY.
  (Closes issue #17703. Reported by stuarth. Patched by seanbright)
• Allow for systems without locale support to be usable.
  (Closes issue #17697. Reported, patched by pprindeville. Tested by mmichelson)
• Fixes for sounds/Makefile to install on systems using older GNU make.
  (Closes issue #17716. Reported by farisraouf. Patched by tilghman, qwell, seanbright)
• Update logger.conf.sample to include documentation about new ‘fax’ logger level.
  (Closes issue #17715. Reported, tested by vrban. Patched by pabelanger)

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-beta2

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!