[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.4.26-rc2 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the second release
candidate of Asterisk 1.4.26. Asterisk 1.4.26-rc2 is available for
immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

This release fixes some issues reported by the community since the first release
candidate. The most significant issues resolved include:

* Treat an empty FORWARD_CONTEXT channel variable the same way we treat a
   non-existant one (issue #15056).

* If using a deprecated musiconhold.conf format, reloading the module would
   cause the class to disappear (issue #14759).

* Creation of generic call forward API, ast_call_forward() which is used to
   resolve a potentional SIP spiral detection problem (issue #13630).

* Resolve a regression introduced after changes to module load order that were
   necessary to close another issue. The regression caused issues with the usage
   of #exec, affecting FreePBX users (issue #15189).

Additionally, updates that went into Asterisk 1.4.25.1 to resolve a chan_iax2
issue have been merged into this release candidate (AST-2009-001).

The original security advisory can be found here:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2009-001.html

For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.4.26-rc2/ChangeLog

Issues found in this release candidate can be reported at
http://issues.asterisk.org

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!