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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second

release candidate of Asterisk 16.17.0.<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 16.17.0-rc2 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-29215'>ASTERISK-29215</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_session: NULL active_media_state topology caused asterisk crash<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29035'>ASTERISK-29035</a>] - <td><td>chan_local: Multistream support breaks T.38 faxing<br>(Reported by Matthias Hensler)</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-16.17.0-rc2'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.17.0-rc2</a>

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

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