[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.28.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.28.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.28.0-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-23547 - [patch] app_queue removing callers from queue
      when reloading (Reported by Italo Rossi)
 * ASTERISK-22846 - testsuite: masquerade super test fails on all
      branches (still) (Reported by Matt Jordan)
 * ASTERISK-23546 - CB_ADD_LEN does not do what you'd think
      (Reported by Walter Doekes)
 * ASTERISK-23620 - Code path in app_stack fails to unlock list
      (Reported by Bradley Watkins)
 * ASTERISK-18331 - app_sms failure (Reported by David Woodhouse)
 * ASTERISK-19465 - P-Asserted-Identity Privacy (Reported by
      Krzysztof Chmielewski)
 * ASTERISK-23707 - Realtime Contacts: Apparent mismatch between
      PGSQL database state and Asterisk state (Reported by Mark
      Michelson)
 * ASTERISK-23665 - Wrong mime type for codec H263-1998 (h263+)
      (Reported by Guillaume Maudoux)
 * ASTERISK-22977 - chan_sip+CEL: missing ANSWER and PICKUP event
      for INVITE/w/replaces pickup (Reported by Walter Doekes)
 * ASTERISK-23709 - Regression in Dahdi/Analog/waitfordialtone
      (Reported by Steve Davies)
 * ASTERISK-23650 - Intermittent segfault in string functions
      (Reported by Roel van Meer)

Improvements made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-23754 - [patch] Use var/lib directory for log file
      configured in asterisk.conf (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.28.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!