This is a list of significant new features in Enswitch 2.8. It is not an exhaustive list; minor enhancements are too many to list. A full list of features is also available.

• Geographically distributed clusters. Telephony and/or web machines in multiple locations can access a central set of database machines. Customers can register their telephones to their local telephony cluster for low latency calls, with all customers administered from a central location.
• Conferencing works seamlessly across multiple Asterisks without needing a dedicated conference server. The Asterisk machines elect one machine for each conference, and the others forward calls to it. Should it crash, callers can call back in and a different machine will be used.
• Numbers can route straight into a individual conference, either with or without a PIN.
• Fax to email and fax to mailbox now use Hylafax and iaxmodem.
• Busy lamps are enabled by default, and need no configuration on the server side. By default, telephones may monitor any telephone in the same customer.
• Many enhancements to voicemail, including per rate plan email notification messages, dial out and call the sender from the voicemail menu, and telephone notification of new messages. All are fully integrated with billing, and notifications (MWI, email, SMS, and outbound calling) also work with changes to mailboxes made via the web or SOAP API.
• Users can set multiple email addresses for voicemail and fax notifications, invoices, etc.
• Enhancements to calling cards for multiple outbound calls on the same inbound call, batch activation, and management of systems with hundreds of thousands of cards.
• Enhancements for wholesale customers. Calls be authenticated by source IP address (configurable on the web interface), and calls sent to the customer contain a header indicating the diverting number.
• Each rate plan can set which destinations can be used for included minutes.
• Automatic provisioning of Polycom phones. Snom phones are already implemented, and more models are to follow.
• More options for telephone callerids on internal calls.
• Many more dial plans, allowing customers to choose which country each of their telephones are in, and to use that country's dial plan.
• The ability to plug in a 3rd party context sensitive help system.
• Many user interface enhancements for large systems with tens of thousands of customers.