Asterisk The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta3.
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. A sampling of the changes in this release include:

• Fix a regression where HTTP would always be enabled regardless of setting.
  (Closes issue #17708. Reported, patched by pabelanger)
• ACL errors displayed on screen when using dynamic_exclude_static in sip.conf
  (Closes issue #17717. Reported by Dennis DeDonatis. Patched by mmichelson)
• Support “channels” in addition to “channel” in chan_dahdi.conf.
  (https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/804)
• Fix parsing error in sip_sipredirect(). The code was written in a way that did a bad job of parsing the port out of a URI. Specifically, it would do badly when dealing with an IPv6 address.
  (Closes issue #17661. Reported by oej. Patched by mmichelson)
• Fix inband DTMF detection on outgoing ISDN calls.
  (Patched by russellb and rmudgett)
• Fixes issue with translator frame not getting freed. This issue prevented g729 licenses from being freed up.
  (Closes issue #17630. Reported by manvirr. Patched by dvossel)
• Fixed IPv6-related SIP parsing bugs and updated documention.
  (Reported by oej. Patched by sperreault)
• Add new, self-contained feature FIELDNUM(). Returns a 1-based index into a list of a specified item. Matches up with FIELDQTY() and CUT().
  (Closes #17713. Reported, patched by gareth. Tested by tilghman)

Asterisk 1.8 contains many new features over previous releases of Asterisk.
A short list of included features includes:

• Secure RTP
• IPv6 Support in the SIP Channel
• 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-beta3

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!