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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.13.0.<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 16.13.0-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-29011'>ASTERISK-29011</a>] - <td><td>chan_sip: ToHost property not cleared on reload<br>(Reported by Dennis)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29021'>ASTERISK-29021</a>] - <td><td>[patch] Fix VERSION(ASTERISK_VERSION_NUM) on certified versions<br>(Reported by cmaj)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28927'>ASTERISK-28927</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk crash in music on hold<br>(Reported by David Cunningham)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28973'>ASTERISK-28973</a>] - <td><td>Malformed IP address in SDP of 2nd SIP timer triggered INVITE when NAT is active (UDP transport with external_media_address)<br>(Reported by Michael Neuhauser)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28995'>ASTERISK-28995</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_registrar: Expires on statically configured contacts is not correct<br>(Reported by tootai)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28987'>ASTERISK-28987</a>] - <td><td>BridgeCreated ARI event shows wrong video_mode info<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28978'>ASTERISK-28978</a>] - <td><td>acl: named_acl rule misconfiguration results in segfault on reading rule from realtime<br>(Reported by Andrew Yager)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28975'>ASTERISK-28975</a>] - <td><td>res_http_websocket: Text payload data doesn't necessary include trailing zero<br>(Reported by Nickolay V. Shmyrev)</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-16.13.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.13.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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