asterisk announce - Feb 2008 - Asterisk 1.6.0-beta4 Released

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0-beta4.

Here are some highlights from the changes, with the associated issue numbers
from bugs.digium.com if an issue was associated with the change.

This release contains the following improvements:
 - 12020, a CLI formatting improvement
 - 11964, added the ability to get the original called number on SS7 calls
 - 11873, Added core API changes to handle T.38 origination and termination
   (The version of app_fax in Asterisk-addons now supports this.)
 - 11553, Added a status variable to the ChannelRedirect() application

The changes in this release include fixes for the following issues (trivial and
minor issues not included):
 - 11960, a crash in chan_sip
 - 12021, a crash related to invalid formats being specified for voicemail
 - 11779, fix enabling echo cancellation for incoming SS7 calls
 - 11740, DTMF handling fixes
 - 11864, Fixed device state reporting on incoming calls on FXO
 - 12012, a crash in chan_local
 - Fix a regression in codec handling that was introduced in 1.6.0-beta3

A full list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog.  This release is available
for immediate download from http://downloads.digium.com/.

Thank you for your support!