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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the release of Certified Asterisk 16.8-cert3.<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-cert3 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-28953'>ASTERISK-28953</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_session: Preserve stream label<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-28938'>ASTERISK-28938</a>] - <td><td>core_unreal / core_local: Add support for multistream and re-negotiation<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-28939'>ASTERISK-28939</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Don't have send/receive buffers on non-WebRTC<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-28944'>ASTERISK-28944</a>] - <td><td>bridge_softmix: Transitioning a stream from inactive -> sendrecv/sendonly doesn't re-negotiation<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-cert3'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/ChangeLog-certified-16.8-cert3</a>

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

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