[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.8.0-rc5 Now Available

[Bruce B]

What is the policy regarding Digium repositories in regards to updates? I
only see Asterisk 1.8.7.2-1 despite this release note from yesterday. Does
that take time to update even when there is a security update?

Thanks

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Asterisk Development Team <
asteriskteam at digium.com> wrote:

> 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/<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<http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.8.0-rc5>
>
> Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
>
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