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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first

release candidate of Asterisk 18.6.0.<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 18.6.0-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>Security 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-29415'>ASTERISK-29415</a>] - <td><td>Crash in PJSIP TLS transport <br>(Reported by Andrew Yager)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29381'>ASTERISK-29381</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: Remote denial of service by an authenticated user<br>(Reported by Ivan Poddubny)</li></td></tr>

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<b>New Features 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-29389'>ASTERISK-29389</a>] - <td><td>Add PJSIP_HEADERS() and ability to read header by pattern<br>(Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29477'>ASTERISK-29477</a>] - <td><td>Function to asynchronously store digits dialed<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29454'>ASTERISK-29454</a>] - <td><td>New application to reload modules<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29444'>ASTERISK-29444</a>] - <td><td>Add application to wait for condition<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29442'>ASTERISK-29442</a>] - <td><td>app_dial: Expand A option to allow announcement playback to caller<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

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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-29494'>ASTERISK-29494</a>] - <td><td>cdr_adaptive_odbc: Prevent throwing warnings if CDR filtering is used<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29513'>ASTERISK-29513</a>] - <td><td>statsd: Remove non-standard metric type Meter<br>(Reported by Rijnhard Hessel)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29526'>ASTERISK-29526</a>] - <td><td>G729 audio gets corrupted by Asterisk due to smoother<br>(Reported by under)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29392'>ASTERISK-29392</a>] - <td><td>chan_iax2: Asterisk crashes when queueing video with format<br>(Reported by Michael Welk)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29507'>ASTERISK-29507</a>] - <td><td>STUN timeout is silently delaying calls<br>(Reported by Sébastien Duthil)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27871'>ASTERISK-27871</a>] - <td><td>Remote URL in playback must end with file extension<br>(Reported by Caesar)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29514'>ASTERISK-29514</a>] - <td><td>ari: Audiosocket segfault when no data specified<br>(Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29503'>ASTERISK-29503</a>] - <td><td>Updated identify/match syntax not supported by config wizard<br>(Reported by Sean Bright)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29480'>ASTERISK-29480</a>] - <td><td>fixedjitterbuffer contains an un-wrappered assert that triggers on a negative time slew<br>(Reported by Dan Cropp)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29485'>ASTERISK-29485</a>] - <td><td>core: Inband generation of tones for Busy() and Congestion() may not occur<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-29479'>ASTERISK-29479</a>] - <td><td>[patch] Channels are not put on hold for Session Progress with inactive audio<br>(Reported by Bernd Zobl)</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-29528'>ASTERISK-29528</a>] - <td><td>Add support for multiple files for agent announcements<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29501'>ASTERISK-29501</a>] - <td><td>ARI - Stasis Playback doesn't hangup call when processing a list of invalid files<br>(Reported by Andre Barbosa)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29464'>ASTERISK-29464</a>] - <td><td>ARI - PlaybackFinish skip error events<br>(Reported by Andre Barbosa)</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-18.6.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-18.6.0-rc1</a>

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

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