3CX Releases version 8 RC1

Sep 16th, 2009 | By admin | Category: News

3cx_logo_200-150x1503CX has just released their first release candidate of the upcoming version 8 of their popular Windows-based IP PBX platform. This new released fixes a few bugs from the beta release and adds some new features and support for more phones. Changes from the beta include:

  • Added Polycom BLF support for phones running Polycom firmware 3.2 or higher
  • Added Polycom side-car support
  • Increased maximum simultaneous calls to IVR service to 128 sim calls by default (depending on license limit
  • Added ability to update call assistants network wide from the management console
  • Added Caller ID Variables to Inbound and outbound parameters for gateways and voip providers to give full caller ID flexibility
  • Added ability to run the winforms management console on terminal services
  • New templates for phone provisioning – Linksys sidecar
  • New template for provisioning BLF on Polycom, including sidecar
  • Added support (including provisioning) for new Cisco 5XX phones
  • Added support for Berofix cards
  • Fixed disconnections bug in sip forked id mde
  • Fixed disconnections fixed in remote extensions
  • Fixed IVR service not forwarding calls correctly to the queue.
  • Fixed: Caller ID in transfers was failing after a failed transfer.  It was showing the failed transfer caller ID.  now it shows the proper caller id,.
  • Fixed: Total costs and total calls in the call reporter
  • Fixed busy mechanism when phones are set to phone status and incoming calls are coming from queues.
  • Fixed Caller ID in phone to phone transfers
  • Calls launched via 3CX Assistant now have a valid caller ID

You can download RC1 here:
http://www.3cx.com/downloads/3CXPhoneSystem8.exe

You can download the latest 3CX Assistant (with optionally integrated CRM and 3CXPHone) here:
http://www.3cx.com/downloads/3CXAssistantSetup_80.exe

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