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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second

release candidate of Asterisk 13.18.0.<br>

This release candidate is available for immediate download at <br>

<a href='http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk'>http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk</a>

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The release of Asterisk 13.18.0-rc2 resolves several issues reported by the<br>

community and would have not been possible without your participation.<br>

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<b>Thank you!</b><br>

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The following issues are resolved in this release candidate:<br>

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<b>Bugs fixed in this release:</b><br>

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<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27346'>ASTERISK-27346</a>] - <td><td>res_xmpp: Crash if OAuth 2.0 is used before curl is loaded<br>(Reported by Ronald Raikes)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27372'>ASTERISK-27372</a>] - <td><td>ARI: Node ARI client broken in latest versions of 13 and 14<br>(Reported by Benjamin Keith Ford)</li></td></tr>

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

<a href='http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-13.18.0-rc2'>http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-13.18.0-rc2</a>

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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>

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