[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11.17.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 11.17.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 11.17.0-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:

New Features made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-17899 - [patch] Adds a 'ignorecryptolifetime' (Ignore
      Crypto Lifetime) option to sip.conf for SRTP keys specifying
      optional 'lifetime' (Reported by Dwayne Hubbard)

Bugs fixed in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-24742 - [patch] Fix ast_odbc_find_table function in
      res_odbc (Reported by ibercom)
 * ASTERISK-22436 - [patch] No BYE to masqueraded channel on INVITE
      with replaces (Reported by Eelco Brolman)
 * ASTERISK-24479 - Enable REF_DEBUG for module references
      (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24701 - Stasis: Write timeout on WebSocket fails to
      fully disconnect underlying socket, leading to events being
      dropped with no additional information (Reported by Matt Jordan)
 * ASTERISK-24772 - ODBC error in realtime sippeers when device
      unregisters under MariaDB (Reported by Richard Miller)
 * ASTERISK-24451 - chan_iax2: reference leak in sched_delay_remove
      (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24799 - [patch] make fails with undefined reference to
      SSLv3_client_method (Reported by Alexander Traud)
 * ASTERISK-24787 - [patch] - Microsoft exchange incompatibility
      for playing back messages stored in IMAP - play_message: No
      origtime (Reported by Graham Barnett)
 * ASTERISK-24814 - asterisk/lock.h: Fix syntax errors for non-gcc
      OSX with 64 bit integers (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24796 - Codecs and bucket schema's prevent module
      unload (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24724 - 'httpstatus' Web Page Produces Incomplete HTML
      (Reported by Ashley Sanders)
 * ASTERISK-24797 - bridge_softmix: G.729 codec license held
      (Reported by Kevin Harwell)
 * ASTERISK-24800 - Crash in __sip_reliable_xmit due to invalid
      thread ID being passed to pthread_kill (Reported by JoshE)
 * ASTERISK-17721 - Incoming SRTP calls that specify a key lifetime
      fail (Reported by Terry Wilson)
 * ASTERISK-23214 - chan_sip WARNING message 'We are requesting
      SRTP for audio, but they responded without it' is ambiguous and
      wrong in some cases (Reported by Rusty Newton)
 * ASTERISK-15434 - [patch] When ast_pbx_start failed, both an
      error response and BYE are sent to the caller (Reported by
      Makoto Dei)
 * ASTERISK-18105 - most of asterisk modules are unbuildable in
      cygwin environment (Reported by feyfre)
 * ASTERISK-24828 - Fix Frame Leaks (Reported by Kevin Harwell)
 * ASTERISK-24838 - chan_sip: Locking inversion occurs when
      building a peer causes a peer poke during request handling
      (Reported by Richard Mudgett)
 * ASTERISK-24825 - Caller ID not recognized using
      Centrex/Distinctive dialing (Reported by Richard Mudgett)
 * ASTERISK-24739 - [patch] - Out of files -- call fails --
      numerous files with inodes from under /usr/share/zoneinfo,
      mostly posixrules (Reported by Ed Hynan)
 * ASTERISK-23390 - NewExten Event with application AGI shows up
      before and after AGI runs (Reported by Benjamin Keith Ford)
 * ASTERISK-24786 - [patch] - Asterisk terminates when playing a
      voicemail stored in LDAP (Reported by Graham Barnett)
 * ASTERISK-24808 - res_config_odbc: Improper escaping of
      backslashes occurs with MySQL (Reported by Javier Acosta)
 * ASTERISK-20850 - [patch]Nested functions aren't portable.
      Adapting RAII_VAR to use clang/llvm blocks to get the
      same/similar functionality. (Reported by Diederik de Groot)
 * ASTERISK-19470 - Documentation on app_amd is incorrect (Reported
      by Frank DiGennaro)
 * ASTERISK-21038 - Bad command completion of "core set debug
      channel" (Reported by Richard Kenner)
 * ASTERISK-18708 - func_curl hangs channel under load (Reported by
      Dave Cabot)
 * ASTERISK-16779 - Cannot disallow unknown format '' (Reported by
      Atis Lezdins)
 * ASTERISK-24876 - Investigate reference leaks from
      tests/channels/local/local_optimize_away (Reported by Corey
      Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24817 - init_logger_chain: unreachable code block
      (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-24880 - [patch]Compilation under OpenBSD  (Reported by
      snuffy)
 * ASTERISK-24879 - [patch]Compilation fails due to 64bit time
      under OpenBSD (Reported by snuffy)

Improvements made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-24790 - Reduce spurious noise in logs from voicemail -
      Couldn't find mailbox %s in context (Reported by Graham Barnett)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-11.17.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!