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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first

release candidate of Asterisk 17.8.0.<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 17.8.0-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-25665'>ASTERISK-25665</a>] - <td><td>Duplicate logging in queue log for EXITEMPTY events<br>(Reported by Ove Aursand)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29043'>ASTERISK-29043</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Leave empty sometimes not recorded as abandoned<br>(Reported by Kfir Itzhak)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29042'>ASTERISK-29042</a>] - <td><td>res_parking: Parker UUID is no longer copied<br>(Reported by Misha Vodsedalek)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28878'>ASTERISK-28878</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: PJSIP_MEDIA_OFFER Broken asterisk 16<br>(Reported by Joseph Ades)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29046'>ASTERISK-29046</a>] - <td><td>pbx: Deadlock when doing a reload, while simultaneously doing an ExtensionState on a pattern match hint that ends up adding an extension<br>(Reported by Ramarajan)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29040'>ASTERISK-29040</a>] - <td><td>res_speech: Assertion on format<br>(Reported by Nickolay V. Shmyrev)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29001'>ASTERISK-29001</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip does not process or forward 181 responses<br>(Reported by Torrey Searle)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29034'>ASTERISK-29034</a>] - <td><td>Lastpause of realtime members is reseting<br>(Reported by Evandro César Arruda)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27273'>ASTERISK-27273</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: When a voicemail is marked as "Urgent", it is not sent by email/processed by the mailcmd command<br>(Reported by Leandro Dardini)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29033'>ASTERISK-29033</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_session: Aggressively terminates session on failed re-INVITE<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-28974'>ASTERISK-28974</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: T.140 messages have appended RTP string to each message block.<br>(Reported by Thomas Johnson)</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-17.8.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-17.8.0-rc1</a>

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

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