Sail 5.0

[sysadmin]

Sail 5 is in late alpha and should make it into beta in about three weeks at which point you will be able to download and install it to test yourself.  Lots of new features and a new UI which has direct and stepwise navigation for larger users; new features for single-tenant users.   Here's a brief list of what made it into the first out of 5.0

Asterisk 11 or higher
HTTPS only
Frameless design and output buffering make rendering faster, particularly for large tables
some HTML5 usage; older browsers may not run these features
tested with IE/Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera
No longer requires DAHDI unless your are running TDM cards
Jquery and Datatables at latest levels
New session management - Login/Logout/Timeout/Nag
New menus and icon set
Navigation re-written, new controls
New searchkey and "steplinks"
Step/Searchkey navigation means you don't need to visit the tables so often on big systems
Sticky tabs, scroll and search
Adaptive tables fit to Window Height (more rows in view)
Proxy now uses dynamic on-the-fly iFrames
New "fast add? tab
ConfBridge replaces MeetMe
Active Xrefs
LDAP Directory can upload Vcard files on-the-fly; export from contacts, import to LDAP.
Ajax cells now single click (ready for touch)
New info boxes in Trunk/Exten edit
extension SIP password default length now 12 characters
Visible counts on the big tables
Adopt feature in Discover panel
Queue Preannounce
Persistent agents
Holiday planner (xmas, Easter, Eid, bank holidays etc.)
Highlight active timers agents conferences and holidays
Highlight down trunks and phones
Take phones on and offline (active/inactive)
Timer state shown in globals
Jquery makes IVR faster/easier
Backup/Restore enhanced with selective restore
Greetings upload/download (mp3 or wav)
Factory Reset with selective parameters
Easy TLS/SRTP with full provisioning support for Snom/Yealink
Easy cellphone twinning to an extension
Voicemail view/playback/delete for non-admin users
Visible logs
Simplified Firewall front-end
IP Blacklist feature

[sysadmin]

V5 is now available to install from the repos.  Please follow the instructions here

http://www.sailpbx.com/mediawiki/index.php/SARK_V5.0.0_Debian_install#SARK_5.0.0_Debian_Install

The product is still early Beta so you should not run it in production.  We managed to get some extra features into the product over and above the ones listed above but you can discover them for yourself by spinning it up and playing with it.   

[sysadmin]

Sail_5.0.0-22 has just gone up to the servers.  It isn't on the repo yet but you can grab the deb and install it manually.  Among other things it has hotdesk capability which works by re-provisioning phones on-the-fly.   Initial out is for Snom and Yealink with Panasonic KX-HDV range in -23