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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first

release candidate of Asterisk 18.8.0.<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 18.8.0-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>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-29656'>ASTERISK-29656</a>] - <td><td>Add CHANNEL_EXISTS function<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-20219'>ASTERISK-20219</a>] - <td><td>[patch] - IAX2 Call Encryption Fails with RSA authentication<br>(Reported by Michael Munger)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29402'>ASTERISK-29402</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_t38: Socket is bound to IPv4/IPv6 but platform does not support it<br>(Reported by Matthew Kern)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29673'>ASTERISK-29673</a>] - <td><td>app_read: Fix null pointer crash regression<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29671'>ASTERISK-29671</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: memory leak<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-29668'>ASTERISK-29668</a>] - <td><td>ari: Listing bridges fails when dialing bridge exists<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-29663'>ASTERISK-29663</a>] - <td><td>messaging: AMI MessageSend does not support same parameters as dialplan application<br>(Reported by Brian J. Murrell)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29578'>ASTERISK-29578</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Custom device state using included hints do not update<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29660'>ASTERISK-29660</a>] - <td><td>Build failure when disabling PJSIP support<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</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-29637'>ASTERISK-29637</a>] - <td><td>Add support for future dates in Say.c<br>(Reported by Shloime Rosenblum)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29525'>ASTERISK-29525</a>] - <td><td>PJSIP remove_existing unavailable contacts<br>(Reported by Joseph Nadiv)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29661'>ASTERISK-29661</a>] - <td><td>func_vmcount: Add support for multiple mailboxes<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29275'>ASTERISK-29275</a>] - <td><td>Support of MIME-type for wav16<br>(Reported by Boris P. Korzun)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29529'>ASTERISK-29529</a>] - <td><td>Add custom logging level<br>(Reported by N A)</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-18.8.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-18.8.0-rc1</a>

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

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