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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.11.0.<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 16.11.0-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-28794'>ASTERISK-28794</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Crash when escaping during URI printing<br>(Reported by nappsoft)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28884'>ASTERISK-28884</a>] - <td><td>x-ast-orig-host not filtered out from request URI and To header<br>(Reported by nappsoft)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28871'>ASTERISK-28871</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_session: Unnecessary re-Invite on call answer<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28903'>ASTERISK-28903</a>] - <td><td>res_srtp: Answered Crypto Suite might be wrong in SDP/SDES.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28898'>ASTERISK-28898</a>] - <td><td>bridge_softmix: Conference bridge not passing silent rtp packets<br>(Reported by Jonathan Hunter)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28892'>ASTERISK-28892</a>] - <td><td>res_musiconhold: Module res_musiconhold throws false warning<br>(Reported by Nicholas John Koch)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28904'>ASTERISK-28904</a>] - <td><td>RTP ICE leaks the memory<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26780'>ASTERISK-26780</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: PJSIP Registration Fails when transport=transport-udp6<br>(Reported by Peter Sokolov)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28854'>ASTERISK-28854</a>] - <td><td>SIGSEGV when pjsip show history encounters IPV6 address<br>(Reported by Roger James)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28804'>ASTERISK-28804</a>] - <td><td>[patch] app_osplookup.c: Avoid a format truncation.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28797'>ASTERISK-28797</a>] - <td><td>[patch] tcptls: Fix notice when TLS is enabled but not configured.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28776'>ASTERISK-28776</a>] - <td><td>Non async-signal-safe syscalls used after fork before exec<br>(Reported by nappsoft)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28870'>ASTERISK-28870</a>] - <td><td>streams: One memory leak and one issue cloning streams<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28829'>ASTERISK-28829</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: leaking stasis subscription when Redirecting call <br>(Reported by lvl)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-25844'>ASTERISK-25844</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Ghost channels in "core show channels" output<br>(Reported by Etienne Lessard)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-22920'>ASTERISK-22920</a>] - <td><td>Crash while Forwarding from TLS extension with CHANNEL args secure_bridge_media and secure_bridge_signaling<br>(Reported by Shlomi Gutman)</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>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28852'>ASTERISK-28852</a>] - <td><td>Unprotected access to nochecksums variable, causes build failures<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28848'>ASTERISK-28848</a>] - <td><td>app_fax: Compile.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</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-28895'>ASTERISK-28895</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_logger: Add tons'o'functionality<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-28896'>ASTERISK-28896</a>] - <td><td>ari: Add support for specifying variables on channel create<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-28879'>ASTERISK-28879</a>] - <td><td>pjproject has race conditions in it's build system<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28866'>ASTERISK-28866</a>] - <td><td>third-party/pjproject/configure.m4 contains bashisms<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28853'>ASTERISK-28853</a>] - <td><td>Missing include on FreeBSD<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28832'>ASTERISK-28832</a>] - <td><td>chan_mobile creates PCMA streams that make some VoIP clients crash or not render received audio<br>(Reported by Peter Turczak)</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-16.11.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.11.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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