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Asterisk 1.8 beta-1 release

So i woke up early this morning wondering what ever happened to the Asterisk 1.8 that should have came out yesterday. So i grabbed my Android phone and checked out Twitter. Hey! there it was, the new Asterisk beta. I hurried out of bed, to get in to the shower and grabbed a bole of Froot Loops  and a fresh nice cold can of Red Bull. Time to compile the latest and of course greatest version of Asterisk!For those who have never heard of Asterisk it's a PBX (Private branch exchange) and that basically means that it's a phone system. But just calling it a phone system will not be enough in the case of Asterisk so i would recommend that you read this page. So what is so great about this update? Well for me, they included SIP security. This means that the RTP stream will be encrypted so no easy audio sniffing anymore for SIP traffic (a feature that OpenSips has for a while now, but don't get me started on that).  So basically this is a list of the most important changes:

• 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!

But of course there is more, please check out this article on the Asterisk website, and of course like always test it, report bugs and most off all love it, because isn't open source just great?