[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6.2.19-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.6.2.19. This release candidate is available for immediate 
download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Please note that Asterisk 1.6.2.19 will be the final maintenance release 
from the
1.6.2 branch. Support for security related issues will continue for one
additional year. For more information about support of the various Asterisk
branches, see https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.19-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:

* Don't broadcast FullyBooted to every AMI connection
   The FullyBooted event should not be sent to every AMI connection
   every time someone connects via AMI. It should only be sent to
   the user who just connected.
   (Closes issue #18168. Reported, patched by FeyFre)

* Fix thread blocking issue in the sip TCP/TLS implementation.
   (Closes issue #18497. Reported by vois. Tested by vois, rossbeer, 
kowalma,
    Freddi_Fonet. Patched by dvossel)

* Don't delay DTMF in core bridge while listening for DTMF features.
   (Closes issue #15642, #16625. Reported by jasonshugart, sharvanek. 
Tested by
    globalnetinc, jde. Patched by oej, twilson)

* Fix chan_local crashs in local_fixup()
   Thanks OEJ for tracking down the issue and submitting the patch.
   (Closes issue #19053. Reported, patched by oej)

* Don't offer video to directmedia callee unless caller offered it as well
   (Closes issue #19195. Reported, patched by one47)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.19-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!