[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.6.2.9 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.9.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.9 resolves several issues reported by the
community, and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following are a few of the issues resolved by community developers:

  * Fix the PickupChan() application
    (Closes issue #16863. Reported, patched by schern. Patched by cjacobsen.
     Tested by Graber, cjacobsen, lathama, rickead2000, dvossel)

  * Improve logging by displaying line number
    (Closes issue #16303. Reported by dant. Patched by pabelanger. Tested by
     dant, pabelanger, lmadsen)

  * Notify CLI when modules are loaded/unloaded
    (Closes issue #17308. Reported, patched by pabelanger. Tested by russell)

  * Make the Makefile logic more explicit and move the Snow Leopard logic down to
    where it's not executed on non-Darwin systems
    (Closes issue #17028. Reported by pabelanger. Patched by seanbright,
     tilghman. Tested by pabelanger)

  * Manager cookies are not compatible with RFC2109. Make that no longer true.
    (Closes issue #17231. Reported, patched by ecarruda)

  * With IMAP backend, messages in INBOX were counted twice for MWI
    (Closes issue #17135. Reported by edhorton. Patched by ebroad, tilghman)

  * Fix possible segfault when logging
    (Closes issue #17331. Reported, patched by under. Patched by dvossel)

  * Fix memory hogging behavior of app_queue
    (Closes issue #17081. Reported by wliegel. Patched by mmichelson)

  * Allow type=user SIP endpoints to be loaded properly from realtime
    (Closes issue #16021. Reported, patched by Guggemand)

Additionally, the following issue may be of interest:

  * Fix transcode_via_sln option with SIP calls and improve PLC usage
    (Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/622/)


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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.9

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!