[asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.8.16.0 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.16.0.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.16.0 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:

* --- AST-2012-012: Resolve AMI User Unauthorized Shell Access through
      ExternalIVR
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-20132. Reported by Zubair Ashraf of IBM X-Force Research)

* --- AST-2012-013: Resolve ACL rules being ignored during calls by
      some IAX2 peers
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-20186. Reported by Alan Frisch)

* --- Handle extremely out of order RFC 2833 DTMF
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18404. Reported by Stephane Chazelas)

* --- Resolve severe memory leak in CEL logging modules.
  (Closes issue AST-916. Reported by Thomas Arimont)

* --- Only re-create an SRTP session when needed; respond with correct
      crypto policy
  (Issue ASTERISK-20194. Reported by Nicolo Mazzon)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.16.0

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!