Asterisk PBX 1.8.0 Release Candidate 2 Now Available
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the second release candidate of Asterisk PBX 1.8.0. This release candidate is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
Asterisk 1.8.0-rc1 was not released due to an issue found prior to release.
* Make AMI honor enabled=no
(Closes issue #18040. Reported by: twilson
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/938/)
All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the 1.8 testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker,
https://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
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.