[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8.0-beta2 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

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!