Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Will Asterisk 1.8.0 Stable Version Be Far Away?

It’s been quite a while since asterisk team released  the first candidate  of asterisk 1.8.0 and just now the 3rd one is announced to the open source community. So, will the asterisk 1.8.0 stable one be far away? Let’s wait and see!


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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


With the availability of the Asterisk 1.8.0 release candidates, the binary add-on modules for Asterisk produced by Digium have been updated with new versions that are compatible with Asterisk 1.8. The availability of these modules will assist with the testing of Asterisk 1.8.0 in a wider variety of situations.


This release candidate contains fixes since the release candidate as reported by the community. A sampling of the changes in this release candidate include:


•Still build chan_sip even if res_crypto cannot be built (use, but not depend)
(Reported by a user on the mailing list. Patched by tilghman)
•Get notifications for call files only when a file is closed, not when created
(Closes issue #17924. Reported by mkeuter. Patched by abeldeck)
•Fixes to chan_gtalk to allow outbound DTMF support to work correctly. Gtalk expects the DTMF to arrive on the RTP stream and not via jingle DTMF signalling.
(Patched by dvossel. Tested by malcolmd)
•Fixes to allow chan_gtalk to communicate with the Gmail web client.
(Patched by phsultan and dvossel)
•Fix to GET DATA to allow audio to be streamed via an AGI.
(Closes issue #18001. Reported by jamicque. Patched by tilghman)
•Resolve dnsmgr memory corruption in chan_iax2.
(Closes issue #17902. Reported by afried. Patched by russell, dvossel)


A short list of available features includes:


•Secure RTP
•IPv6 Support in the SIP channel driver
•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!


1 comment:

  1. Asterisk 1.8 emerged from release candidate status six weeks ago, with the release of Asterisk 1.8 on October 26, 2010. Read more here: http://www.asterisk.org/node/51444

    Please note that the Asterisk developers tend to avoid words like "stable." Once a packaged release is made, users are encouraged to install it. Keep in mind that while there are portions of Asterisk that change with each new release, the bulk of the code is quite mature after 11 years of development.

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