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!