[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.23.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.23.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.23.0-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:

* --- Fix a memory copying bug in slinfactory which was causing
      mixmonitor issues.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-21799. Reported by Michael Walton)

* --- app_voicemail: Add blank argument to externnotify if no context
      argument
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18207. Reported by Barry L. Kline)

* --- Fix CDR not being created during an externally initiated blind
      transfer
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-21394. Reported by Ishfaq Malik)

* --- Fix segfault when dealing with chan_agent channels.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-21793. Reported by Rodrigo P. Telles)

* --- Fix For Not Overriding The Default Settings In chan_sip
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-21225. Reported by Alexandre Vezina)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.23.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!