asterisk announce - Oct 2010 - Asterisk 1.8.0 Release Candidate 5 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the fifth release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.0. This release candidate is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

With all currently 1.8.0 blocker issues closed, Asterisk 1.8.0-rc5 is currently
scheduled to become the full release of Asterisk 1.8.0.

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

The release of Asterisk 1.8.0-rc5 was triggered by some last minute platform
compatibility IPv6 changes. In addition, the availability of the English sound
prompts with Australian accents has been added.

A full list of new features can be found in the CHANGES file.

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:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-rc4

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

On 10-10-18 07:54 PM, Asterisk Development Team wrote:
> For a full list of changes in the current release candidate, please see the
> ChangeLog:
>
> http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-rc4
Apologies, this link should be:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-rc5

-- The Asterisk Development Team

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:58:07PM -0400, Asterisk Development Team
wrote:
> On 10-10-18 07:54 PM, Asterisk Development Team wrote:
> > For a full list of changes in the current release candidate, please
see the
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> >
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-rc4
> 
> Apologies, this link should be:
> 
> http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0-rc5
> 
> -- The Asterisk Development Team
Is it worth mentioning somewhere (ChangeLog? This list?) that all the
asterisk-core-sounds tarballs were updated today?  It would remind someone
[me!] who's trying to upgrade from an earlier rc to rc5 a chance to do a
'make sounds' before stopping asterisk for the install.  My test system
is
on a slow link, and waiting for the tarball downloads in the middle of
installing is frustrating.

-- 
Barry