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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first

release candidate of Asterisk 16.18.0.<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 16.18.0-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-29328'>ASTERISK-29328</a>] - <td><td>translate.c: possible buffer overflow when upsampling<br>(Reported by Jean Aunis - Prescom)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29379'>ASTERISK-29379</a>] - <td><td>Segfault - ast_channel_is_multistream (chan=0x0) at channel_internal_api.c:1590<br>(Reported by Ross Beer)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29364'>ASTERISK-29364</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: standard deviation miscalculation <br>(Reported by Kevin Harwell)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29373'>ASTERISK-29373</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Flash events are duplicated<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28356'>ASTERISK-28356</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: CLI set ringinuse for realtime member not working<br>(Reported by Michael)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24631'>ASTERISK-24631</a>] - <td><td>Incorrect description of option "context" in queues.conf.sample<br>(Reported by Etienne Lessard)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26614'>ASTERISK-26614</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: updatecdr option in queues.conf does effectively nothing<br>(Reported by Alexander Gonchiy)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-25358'>ASTERISK-25358</a>] - <td><td>dateformat not read from logger.conf by remote console<br>(Reported by Igor Liferenko)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27542'>ASTERISK-27542</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: When "queue show" CLI command is executed a crash occurs<br>(Reported by Miguel Sanz)</li></td></tr>

<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-29355'>ASTERISK-29355</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Queue member status message sent even if status doesn't change<br>(Reported by Roman Pertsev)</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>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29354'>ASTERISK-29354</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Allow partial reloading of transports<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-29348'>ASTERISK-29348</a>] - <td><td>menuselect doesn't return errors in many cases<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29352'>ASTERISK-29352</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Fix frame delivery time when SSRC changes<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</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-29339'>ASTERISK-29339</a>] - <td><td>loader: Let's output warnings for deprecated modules!<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-29337'>ASTERISK-29337</a>] - <td><td>menuselect: Add ability to set deprecated in and removed in versions for modules<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-29335'>ASTERISK-29335</a>] - <td><td>xml: Embed module information into core XML documentation.<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-29336'>ASTERISK-29336</a>] - <td><td>documentation: Fix inconsistent support levels<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</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-16.18.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.18.0-rc1</a>

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

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