[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.4.37-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.4.37. This release candidate is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.4.37-rc1 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 candidate:

  * Fix issue with decoding ^-escaped characters in realtime (res_pgsql)
    (Closes issue #17790. Reported denzs. Patched by Qwell)

  * Don't send a devstate change on poke_noanswer if the state did not change.
    (Closes issue #17741. Reported, patched by schmidts)

  * Transmit silence when reading DTMF in ast_readstring. Otherwise you could get
    issues with DTMF timeouts causing hangups.
    (Closes issue #17370. Reported, patched by makoto)

  * Fix to SIP extension state update (deadlock issues)
    (Closes issue #17888. Reported by zerohalo. Patched by dvossel)

  * Fix issue with MoH where it doesn't recover cleanly when it can't play a file
    and would just stop, instead of continuing to find the next playable file in
    the MoH class.
    (Closes issue #17807. Reported by kshumard. Patched by bbryant)


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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.4.37-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!