The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Asterisk 12.0.0. You can immediately download this release at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases

We strongly encourage all interested Asterisk users to participate throughout the testing process. For any issues you might find, please use the issue tracker to report it: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira. We would like you to come to the #asterisk-bugs channel in order to help communicating issues you found. Also, it is also very useful to see successful test reports. You can use the asterisk-dev mailing list for that (http://lists.digium.com).

The next major release in the series of our favorite VoIP software will be Asterisk 12, which will be a Standard release just like it was Asterisk 10.

There are many new features included in this version of Asterisk, besides of a long list of improvements. Just to mention some of them:

• A new SIP channel driver and accompanying SIP stack named chan_pjsip has been added.
• The Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) has been added.
• Major standardization of the Asterisk Manager Interface and its events have occurred within this version.
• All bridging within Asterisk is now performed using the Asterisk Bridging API, which previously was only used by the ConfBridge application.

And the list continues. For information about the new features, please visit the Asterisk wiki: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+12+Documentation

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!