It seems The Asterisk Development team has been working overtime to really crank out the code. Great work guys!

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0 Beta 4.

• 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

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