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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second

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-rc2 resolves an issue 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 issue is 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-28213'>ASTERISK-28213</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Threads pile up needlessly when AOR is blocked<br>(Reported by Ross Beer)</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-rc2'>http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.2.0-rc2</a>

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

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