[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.8.5.0 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team announces the release of Asterisk 1.8.5.0. This
release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.5.0 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following is a sample of the issues resolved in this release:

* Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call
  (Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by Irontec, ZX81,
  cmaj)

* Fixes thread blocking issue in the sip TCP/TLS implementation.
  (Closes issue #18497. Reported by vois. Patched by dvossel. Tested by vois,
  rossbeer, kowalma, Freddi_Fonet)

* Be more tolerant of what URI we accept for call completion PUBLISH requests.
  (Closes issue #18946. Reported by GeorgeKonopacki. Patched by mmichelson)

* Fix a nasty chanspy bug which was causing a channel leak every time a spied on
  channel made a call.
  (Closes issue #18742. Reported by jkister. Tested by jcovert, jrose)

* This patch fixes a bug with MeetMe behavior where the 'P' option for always
  prompting for a pin is ignored for the first caller.
  (Closes issue #18070. Reported by mav3rick. Patched by bbryant)

* Fix issue where Asterisk does not hangup a channel after endpoint hangs up. If
  the call that the dialplan started an AGI script for is hungup while the AGI
  script is in the middle of a command then the AGI script is not notified of
  the hangup.
  (Closes issue #17954, #18492. Reported by mn3250, devmod. Patched by rmudgett)

* Resolve issue where leaving a voicemail, the MWI message is never sent. The
  same thing happens when checking a voicemail and marking it as read.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18002. Reported by Leif Madsen. Resolved by Richard
  Mudgett)

* Resolve issue where wait for leader with Music On Hold allows crosstalk
  between participants. Parenthesis in the wrong position. Regression from issue
  #14365 when expanding conference flags to use 64 bits.
  (Closes issue #18418. Reported by MrHanMan. Patched by rmudgett)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.5.0

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!