[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6.0.27-rc2, 1.6.1.19-rc2, and 1.6.2.7-rc2 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the second round of release
candidates of Asterisk for versions 1.6.0.27, 1.6.1.19, and 1.6.2.7. These
releases are available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Note that support for the 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 branches are moving to security fixes
only, scheduled for the first half of May 2010. The Asterisk development team
recommends that all users of Asterisk 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 series move to the 1.6.2
series for continued bug fix support.

More information about the changes to maintenance support can be found at:
http://www.asterisk.org/node/49924

Information about the Asterisk maintenance schedule is available at:
http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions

These release candidates resolve an issue with UDP ports not being freed, per
issue #16774 (https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=16774)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.0.27-rc1
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.1.19-rc1
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.7-rc1

Issues found in any of these release candidates should be reported to the
Asterisk issue tracker at https://issues.asterisk.org

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!