The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Asterisk 10.0.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ With the release of the Asterisk 10 branch, the preceding '1.' has been removed from the version number per the blog post available at http://blogs.digium.com/2011/07/21/the-evolution-of-asterisk-or-how-we-arrived-at-asterisk-10/ All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the Asterisk 10 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker, https://issues.asterisk.org/jira. It is also very useful to see successful test reports. Please post those to the asterisk-dev mailing list. All Asterisk users are invited to participate in the #asterisk-testing channel on IRC to work together in testing the many parts of Asterisk. Asterisk 10 is the next major release series of Asterisk. It will be a Standard support release, similar to Asterisk 1.6.2. For more information about support time lines for Asterisk releases, see the Asterisk versions page: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions A short list of features includes: * T.38 gateway functionality has been added to res_fax. * Protocol independent out-of-call messaging support. Text messages not associated with an active call can now be routed through the Asterisk dialplan. SIP and XMPP are supported so far. * New highly optimized and customizable ConfBridge application capable of mixing audio at sample rates ranging from 8kHz-192kHz * Addition of video_mode option in confbridge.conf to provide basic video conferencing in the ConfBridge() dialplan application. * Support for defining hints has been added to pbx_lua. * Replacement of Berkeley DB with SQLite for the Asterisk Database (AstDB). * Much, much more! A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file. http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/10/CHANGES For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-10.0.0-beta2 Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
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