[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.8.0-rc2 Now Available

[Jason Parker]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the second 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-rc2 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 remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver (AST-2011-012) ---
  http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-012.pdf

* --- Fix locking order in app_queue.c which caused deadlocks ---
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18101. Reported by Paul Rolfe, patched by Gregory Nietsky)
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18487. Reported by Jason Legault, patched by Gregory
Nietsky)

* --- Fix regression in configure script for libpri capability checks ---
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18687. Reported by norbert, patched by Richard Mudgett)

* --- Properly ignore AST_CONTROL_UPDATE_RTP_PEER in more places ---
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18610. Reported by Kristijan_Vrban, patched by Terry
Wilson, and again by Kristijan_Vrban)

* --- Fix issue with removing peers by IP ---
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18696. Reported by rsw686, patched by Terry Wilson)

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-rc2

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!