[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.29.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.29.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.29.0-rc1 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following are the issues resolved in this release candidate:

Bugs fixed in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-22551 - Session timer : UAS (Asterisk) starts counting
      at Invite, UAC starts counting at 200 OK. (Reported by i2045)
 * ASTERISK-23582 - [patch]Inconsistent column length in *odbc
      (Reported by Walter Doekes)
 * ASTERISK-23803 - AMI action UpdateConfig EmptyCat clears all
      categories but the requested one (Reported by zvision)
 * ASTERISK-23035 - ConfBridge with name longer than max (32 chars)
      results in several bridges with same conf_name (Reported by
      Iñaki Cívico)
 * ASTERISK-23683 - #includes - wildcard character in a path more
      than one directory deep - results in no config parsing on module
      reload (Reported by tootai)
 * ASTERISK-23827 - autoservice thread doesn't exit at shutdown
      (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23814 - No call started after peer dialed (Reported by
      Igor Goncharovsky)
 * ASTERISK-23673 - Security: DOS by consuming the number of
      allowed HTTP connections. (Reported by Richard Mudgett)
 * ASTERISK-23246 - DEBUG messages in sdp_crypto.c display despite
      a DEBUG level of zero (Reported by Rusty Newton)
 * ASTERISK-23766 - [patch] Specify timeout for database write in
      SQLite (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)
 * ASTERISK-23818 - PBX_Lua: after asterisk startup module is
      loaded, but dialplan not available (Reported by Dennis Guse)
 * ASTERISK-23667 - features.conf.sample is unclear as to which
      options can or cannot be set in the general section (Reported by
      David Brillert)
 * ASTERISK-23790 - [patch] - SIP From headers longer than 256
      characters result in dropped call and 'No closing bracket'
      warnings. (Reported by uniken1)
 * ASTERISK-23908 - [patch]When using FEC error correction,
      asterisk tries considers negative sequence numbers as missing
      (Reported by Torrey Searle)
 * ASTERISK-23921 - refcounter.py uses excessive ram for large refs
      files  (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23948 - REF_DEBUG fails to record ao2_ref against
      objects that were already freed (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23984 - Infinite loop possible in ast_careful_fwrite()
      (Reported by Steve Davies)
 * ASTERISK-23897 - [patch]Change in SETUP ACK handling (checking
      PI) in revision 413765 breaks working environments (Reported by
      Pavel Troller)

Improvements made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-23564 - [patch]TLS/SRTP status of channel not currently
      available in a CLI command (Reported by Patrick Laimbock)
 * ASTERISK-23492 - Add option to safe_asterisk to disable
      backgrounding (Reported by Walter Doekes)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.29.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!