Asterisk v1.8

Branched on July 23, 2010.

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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.

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!