[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.8.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team announces the first 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-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:

  * Updated SIP 484 handling; added Incomplete control frame
    When a SIP phone uses the dial application and receives a 484 Address
    Incomplete response, if overlapped dialing is enabled for SIP, then 
the 484
    Address Incomplete is forwarded back to the SIP phone and the 
HANGUPCAUSE
    channel variable is set to 28. Previously, the Incomplete application
    dialplan logic was automatically triggered; now, explicit dialplan 
usage of
    the application is required.
    (Closes ASTERISK-17288. Reported by: Mikael Carlsson Tested by: Matthew
     Jordan Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1416/)

  * Prevent IAX2 from getting IPv6 addresses via DNS IAX2 does not 
support IPv6
    and getting such addresses from DNS can cause error messages on the 
remote
    end involving bad IPv4 address casts in the presence of IPv6/IPv4 
tunnels.
    (Closes issue ASTERISK-18090. Patched by Kinsey Moore)

  * Fix bad RTP media bridges in directmedia calls on peers separated by 
multiple
    Asterisk nodes.
    (Closes issue ASTERISK-18340. Reported by: Thomas Arimont. Closes issue
     ASTERISK-17725. Reported by: kwk. Tested by: twilson, jrose)

  * Fix crashes in ast_rtcp_write()
    (Closes issue ASTERISK-18570)
    Related issues that look like they are the same problem:
    (Issue ASTERISK-17560, ASTERISK-15406, ASTERISK-15257, ASTERISK-13334,
     ASTERISK-9977, ASTERISK-9716)
    Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1444/
    Patched by: Russell Bryant

  * Fix for incorrect voicemail duration in external notifications.
    This patch fixes an issue where the voicemail duration was being 
reported
    with a duration significantly less than the actual sound file duration.
    (Closes ASTERISK-16981. Reported by: Mary Ciuciu, Byron Clark, Brad 
House,
     Karsten Wemheuer, KevinH Tested by: Matt Jordan
     Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1443)

  * Prevent segfault if call arrives before Asterisk is fully booted.
    (Patched by alecdavis. https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1407/)

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-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!