[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 16.20.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.20.0.
This release candidate is available for immediate download at 
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 16.20.0-rc1 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.

Thank you!

The following issues are resolved in this release candidate:

Security bugs fixed in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-29415 - Crash in PJSIP TLS transport 
     
      (Reported by Andrew Yager)
 * ASTERISK-29381 - chan_pjsip: Remote denial of service by an
      authenticated user
      (Reported by Ivan Poddubny)

New Features made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-29389 - Add PJSIP_HEADERS() and ability to read
      header by pattern
      (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)
 * ASTERISK-29477 - Function to asynchronously store digits
      dialed
      (Reported by N A)
 * ASTERISK-29454 - New application to reload modules
     
      (Reported by N A)
 * ASTERISK-29444 - Add application to wait for condition
     
      (Reported by N A)
 * ASTERISK-29442 - app_dial: Expand A option to allow
      announcement playback to caller
      (Reported by N A)

Bugs fixed in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-29494 - cdr_adaptive_odbc: Prevent throwing warnings
      if CDR filtering is used
      (Reported by N A)
 * ASTERISK-29513 - statsd: Remove non-standard metric type
      Meter
      (Reported by Rijnhard Hessel)
 * ASTERISK-29526 - G729 audio gets corrupted by Asterisk due to
      smoother
      (Reported by under)
 * ASTERISK-29392 - chan_iax2: Asterisk crashes when queueing
      video with format
      (Reported by Michael Welk)
 * ASTERISK-29507 - STUN timeout is silently delaying calls
    
      (Reported by S��bastien Duthil)
 * ASTERISK-27871 - Remote URL in playback must end with file
      extension
      (Reported by Caesar)
 * ASTERISK-29503 - Updated identify/match syntax not supported
      by config wizard
      (Reported by Sean Bright)
 * ASTERISK-29480 - fixedjitterbuffer contains an un-wrappered
      assert that triggers on a negative time slew
      (Reported by
      Dan Cropp)
 * ASTERISK-29485 - core: Inband generation of tones for Busy()
      and Congestion() may not occur
      (Reported by Joshua C.
      Colp)
 * ASTERISK-29479 - [patch] Channels are not put on hold for
      Session Progress with inactive audio
      (Reported by Bernd
      Zobl)

Improvements made in this release:
-----------------------------------
 * ASTERISK-29528 - Add support for multiple files for agent
      announcements
      (Reported by N A)
 * ASTERISK-29501 - ARI - Stasis Playback doesn't hangup call
      when processing a list of invalid files
      (Reported by Andre
      Barbosa)
 * ASTERISK-29464 - ARI - PlaybackFinish skip error events
     
      (Reported by Andre Barbosa)

For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.20.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
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