[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.8.0-rc5 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the fifth release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.8.0. This release candidate is available for immediate 
download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.8.0-rc5 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:

* Don't crash on INFO automon request with no channel

   AST-2011-014. When automon was enabled in features.conf, it was possible
   to crash Asterisk by sending an INFO request if no channel had been
   created yet.

* Fixed crash from orphaned MWI subscriptions in chan_sip

   This patch resolves the issue where MWI subscriptions are orphaned
   by subsequent SIP SUBSCRIBE messages.

* Default to nat=yes; warn when nat in general and peer differ

   AST-2011-013.  It is possible to enumerate SIP usernames when the 
general and
   user/peer nat settings differ in whether to respond to the port a 
request is
   sent from or the port listed for responses in the Via header. In 1.4 and
   1.6.2, this would mean if one setting was nat=yes or nat=route and 
the other
   was either nat=no or nat=never. In 1.8 and 10, this would mean when one
   was nat=force_rport and the other was nat=no.

   In order to address this problem, it was decided to switch the default
   behavior to nat=yes/force_rport as it is the most commonly used option
   and to strongly discourage setting nat per-peer/user when at all
   possible.

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.8.0-rc5

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!