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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the release of Certified Asterisk 16.8-cert2.<br>

This release is available for immediate download at<br>

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

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The release of Certified Asterisk 16.8-cert2 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:<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-28811'>ASTERISK-28811</a>] - <td><td>Crash occurs when fax session switches from T.38 to audio<br>(Reported by Alexey Vasilyev)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28839'>ASTERISK-28839</a>] - <td><td>Sporadic crashes with Segmentation fault<br>(Reported by Joeran Vinzens)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28824'>ASTERISK-28824</a>] - <td><td>BuildSystem: Search for Python/C API when possibly needed only.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27717'>ASTERISK-27717</a>] - <td><td>[patch] BuildSystem: In NetBSD, the Python Programming Language is python-2.7.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28859'>ASTERISK-28859</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: Increase maximum candidate count<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>

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

<a href='https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/ChangeLog-certified-16.8-cert2'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/ChangeLog-certified-16.8-cert2</a>

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

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