- The Asterisk Development Team is proud to announce the release of Asterisk
    - 1.8.0. This release is available for immediate download at
    - http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
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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
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    - The release of Asterisk 1.8.0 would not have been possible without the support
    - and contributions of the community. Since Asterisk 1.6.2, we've had over 500
    - reporters, more than 300 testers and greater than 200 developers contributed to
    - this release.
    -
    - You can find a summary of the work involved with the 1.8.0 release in the
    - sumary:
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    - http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.8.0/asterisk-1.8.0-summary.txt
    -
    - A short list of available features includes:
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    -     * 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!
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    - A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file.
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    - http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.8/CHANGES?view=markup
    -
    - For a full list of changes in the current release candidate, please see the
    - ChangeLog:
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    - http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0
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    - Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!