[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6.0-beta5 Now Available

[Michael Cargile]

Could someone please update the links on asterisk.org to point to
1.6.0-beta5? They still point to 1.6.0-beta4, and beta 5 has been out
for a few days now.

Michael Cargile
Software Developer
Explido Software USA Inc.
www.explido.us

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:50 -0600, The Asterisk Development Team wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk 1.6.0-beta5.  As of this
> beta of 1.6.0, 1.6.0 is now feature frozen.  In addition to a number of bug
> fixes, the following new features have been added since beta4:
> 
>  * The SMDI interface in Asterisk has been reworked to fix a number of
>    issues as well as add some new features.  SMDI message information
>    is now accessed in the dialplan using some new dialplan functions.
>    New options have been added to map Asterisk voicemail boxes to SMDI
>    station IDs.  Also, MWI will now properly be sent for systems that have
>    some external interface modifying voicemail boxes, such as a web
>    interface, or with an email client in the case of IMAP storage.
> 
>  * The Postgres CDR module now supports some of the features of
>    cdr_adaptive_odbc.  Specifically, you may add additional columns into
>    the table and they will be set, if you set the corresponding CDR
>    variable name.  Also, if you omit columns in your database table,
>    those fields will be silently skipped when inserting the record.
> 
>  * The ResetCDR application now has an 'e' option that re-enables the
>    CDR if it has been disabled using the NoCDR option.
> 
>  * A new CLI command, "devstate change", has been added which allows you
>    to change the state of a Custom device.  Custom device states were
>    previously only settable by using the DEVICE_STATE() dialplan function.
> 
>  * The Originate manager action now has its own permission level called
>    originate.  Also, if you want this action to be able to execute applications
>    that call out to a subshell, it requires the system privilege, as well.
>    These changes were made to enhance the security of the manager interface.
> 
> For a full list of features that have been introduced from Asterisk 1.4 to
> Asterisk 1.6.0, see the following file:
> 
>  * http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.6.0/CHANGES?view=markup
> 
> For a full list of changes to Asterisk 1.6.0 from beta4 to beta5, see the ChangeLog:
> 
>  * http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.6.0-beta5/ChangeLog?view=markup
> 
> There are a few more issues to resolve in 1.6.0 before it can enter release
> candidate status, but we expect that to happen relatively soon.
> 
> Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
> 
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