[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1 is Now Available!

[Asterisk Development Team]

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!