Digium Released Asterisk 1.6 Beta 3 release just yesterday.

Below are a couple of the key features that this version will cover

This release contains a number of bug fixes over beta2, as well as a few new features.

• Added an ”n” option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered
• Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to:
  • list the categories in a file
  • get the contents of a single category
  • empty a single category
  • create a new configuration file
  • delete a line by line number with respect to the category
  • inserting variables and categories at a specified line
  • inserting categories above an existing category
• Added a false condition to the GotoIfTime application
• Added a new manager event for IAX2 jitterbuffer statistics

Asterisk like always can be downloaded at  Asterisk.org