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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the third

release candidate of Asterisk 17.0.0.<br>

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

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

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The release of Asterisk 17.0.0-rc3 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-28561'>ASTERISK-28561</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk Deadlocks<br>(Reported by Aheliotech)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28575'>ASTERISK-28575</a>] - <td><td>MWI Send Notify Crash on 16.6<br>(Reported by Joshua Elson)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28574'>ASTERISK-28574</a>] - <td><td>pjproject fails to build on 16.6.0, works on 16.5<br>(Reported by Niklas Larsson)</li></td></tr>

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

<a href='https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-17.0.0-rc3'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-17.0.0-rc3</a>

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

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