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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.2.0.<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 16.2.0-rc1 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-28173'>ASTERISK-28173</a>] - <td><td>Deadlock in chan_sip handling subscribe request during res_parking reload<br>(Reported by Giuseppe Sucameli)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28104'>ASTERISK-28104</a>] - <td><td>AstriCon Feedback: Automatically create a 1 line dialplan context for stasis apps<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28271'>ASTERISK-28271</a>] - <td><td>Opensuse Leap 15 --with-jannson-bundled will not compile<br>(Reported by David Wilcox)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28238'>ASTERISK-28238</a>] - <td><td>PJSIP realtime. getcontext not working with DUNDI<br>(Reported by Ray)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28263'>ASTERISK-28263</a>] - <td><td>codec_opus: errors setting max_playback_rate and bitrate to "sdp"<br>(Reported by Gianluca Merlo)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28250'>ASTERISK-28250</a>] - <td><td>build: Cross-compilation fails for target arm-linux-gnueabihf<br>(Reported by Jean Aunis - Prescom)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28257'>ASTERISK-28257</a>] - <td><td>res_http_websocket: PING / PONG opcodes break data reception<br>(Reported by Jeremy Lainé)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28252'>ASTERISK-28252</a>] - <td><td>HangupHandler manager events are never thrown<br>(Reported by Gerald Schnabel)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28213'>ASTERISK-28213</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Threads pile up needlessly when AOR is blocked<br>(Reported by Ross Beer)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28249'>ASTERISK-28249</a>] - <td><td>res_monitor: Segfault with Monitor(wav,file,i)<br>(Reported by Valentin Vidić)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28244'>ASTERISK-28244</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Filter messages at publishing to AMI/ARI<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28231'>ASTERISK-28231</a>] - <td><td>res_http_websocket: Not responding to Connection Close Frame (opcode 8)<br>(Reported by Jeremy Lainé)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28197'>ASTERISK-28197</a>] - <td><td>stasis: ast_endpoint struct holds the channel_ids of channels past destruction in certain cases<br>(Reported by Mohit Dhiman)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28232'>ASTERISK-28232</a>] - <td><td>core: RAII using clang use-after-scope issue<br>(Reported by Diederik de Groot)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28230'>ASTERISK-28230</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: abs-send-time extension added with Asterisk 15.5.0 breaks GXV3140 video telephony<br>(Reported by David Kuehling)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28162'>ASTERISK-28162</a>] - <td><td>[patch] need to reset DTMF last sequence number and timestamp on RTP renegotiation<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28225'>ASTERISK-28225</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: Channel variable VM_MESSAGEFILE not updated correctly if message marked "urgent"<br>(Reported by boatright)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28218'>ASTERISK-28218</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Asterisk crashes when using Queue with a pre-dial handler (option b)<br>(Reported by Mark)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28212'>ASTERISK-28212</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Statistics broke ABI under developer mode<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28222'>ASTERISK-28222</a>] - <td><td>Regression: MWI polling no longer works<br>(Reported by abelbeck)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28221'>ASTERISK-28221</a>] - <td><td>Bug in ast_coredumper<br>(Reported by Andrew Nagy)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28215'>ASTERISK-28215</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: Leaving voicemail sometimes doesn't trigger NOTIFYs<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27959'>ASTERISK-27959</a>] - <td><td>[patch] Asterisk 15.4.1 h264 fmtp negotiation problem<br>(Reported by David Kuehling)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28201'>ASTERISK-28201</a>] - <td><td>[patch] confbridge: no announce to the marked users when they join an empty conference<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28117'>ASTERISK-28117</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Add statistics for usage when in developer mode<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28186'>ASTERISK-28186</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Filter messages at publishing based on to_* presence<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28194'>ASTERISK-28194</a>] - <td><td>chan_sip: Leak using contact ACL<br>(Reported by Giuseppe Sucameli)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27095'>ASTERISK-27095</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: When connected_line_method is set to invite, we're not trying UPDATE<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28182'>ASTERISK-28182</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: When connected_line_method is set to invite, asterisk is not trying UPDATE<br>(Reported by nappsoft)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28157'>ASTERISK-28157</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk crashes when the res_pjsip_* modules unload<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
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<b>Improvements made 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-28246'>ASTERISK-28246</a>] - <td><td>Support skipping on the g726 format<br>(Reported by Eyal Hasson)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28196'>ASTERISK-28196</a>] - <td><td>bridge_softmix: Does not support WebRTC source with multi video tracks.<br>(Reported by Xiemin Chen)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28198'>ASTERISK-28198</a>] - <td><td>res_ari: Add new hangup causes for ARI Channel DELETE command<br>(Reported by Sebastian Damm)</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-16.2.0-rc1'>http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.2.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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