[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.6.0.21 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.0.21.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.6.0.21 resolved several issues reported by the
community, and would have not been possible without your participation. Thank
you!

* Fix to Monitor which previously assumed the file to write to did not contain
   pathing.
   (Closes issue #16377, #16376. Reported by bcnit. Patched by dant.

* If EXEC only gets a single argument, don't crash when the second is used.
   (Closes issue #16504. Reported by bklang. Patched by tilghman.)

* Avoid a crash with large numbers of MeetMe conferences.
   (Closes issue #16509. Reported by Kashif Raza. Tested, Patched by seanbright.)

* Try a test compile to see if PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT requires extra braces (for
   Solaris 10).
   (Patched by seanbright.)

* Allow "REMAINDER" to function properly in expressions.
   (Closes issue #16427. Reported, Patched by wdoekes.)

* Shut down the SIP session timers more gracefully, in order to prevent a
   possible crash.
   (Reported, Tested by corruptor. Patched by tilghman.)

* Fix channel name comparison for Bridge() application.
   (Closes issue #16528. Reported, Patched by telecos82.)


A summary of changes in this release can be found in the release summary:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.0.21-summary.txt

For a full list of changes in this releases, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.0.21

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!