The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1.
This release marks the beginning of the testing process for the eventual release
of Asterisk 1.8.0.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the 1.8
testing process. Please report any issues found to the issue tracker,
http://issues.asterisk.org/. It is also very useful to hear 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.

