[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.8.0-beta3 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

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
     * 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!