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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.25.0.<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 16.25.0-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-29945'>ASTERISK-29945</a>] - <td><td>pjproject: Security fixes for things<br>(Reported by Kevin Harwell)</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-29853'>ASTERISK-29853</a>] - <td><td>ami: Allow events to be globally disabled<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29840'>ASTERISK-29840</a>] - <td><td>func_channel: Add LASTCONTEXT and LASTEXTEN fields<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-29924'>ASTERISK-29924</a>] - <td><td>res_config_pgsql: omit "unsupported column type 'text'" error<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-29923'>ASTERISK-29923</a>] - <td><td>docs, LICENSE: pbx.digium.com no longer exists<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29904'>ASTERISK-29904</a>] - <td><td>RLS: Batched Notifications stop working<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29365'>ASTERISK-29365</a>] - <td><td>taskprocessor: Can cause assert at shutdown<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-29873'>ASTERISK-29873</a>] - <td><td>[patch] Queue Realtime load<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18416'>ASTERISK-18416</a>] - <td><td>[patch] Realtime queue agents unavailable via AMI before a call event.<br>(Reported by kwk)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27597'>ASTERISK-27597</a>] - <td><td>AMI Queuestatus not working (with realtime queue)<br>(Reported by cagdas kopuz)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29886'>ASTERISK-29886</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk AMI sends not-valid XML<br>(Reported by Napadailo Yaroslav)</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-29906'>ASTERISK-29906</a>] - <td><td>[patch] update RLS to reflect the changes to the lists<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29909'>ASTERISK-29909</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Add support for withdrawing a call<br>(Reported by Kfir Itzhak)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29353'>ASTERISK-29353</a>] - <td><td>Qualify jansson 2.14 for asterisk<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29897'>ASTERISK-29897</a>] - <td><td>channels: Increase core debug levels for chatty debugs<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29896'>ASTERISK-29896</a>] - <td><td>xmldocs: Add since tag<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29861'>ASTERISK-29861</a>] - <td><td>asterisk.h: add macro for curl user agent<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29920'>ASTERISK-29920</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: Warn if trying to manage nonexistent mailbox<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29925'>ASTERISK-29925</a>] - <td><td>func_db: Warn about malformed key names<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29809'>ASTERISK-29809</a>] - <td><td>curl, stir_shaken: refactor curl code<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29891'>ASTERISK-29891</a>] - <td><td>[patch] provide a display name for RLS subscriptions<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29866'>ASTERISK-29866</a>] - <td><td>cli: add core dump information to core show settings<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29898'>ASTERISK-29898</a>] - <td><td>documentation: Add default attributes to documentation<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29900'>ASTERISK-29900</a>] - <td><td>app_mp3: Document and warn about https incompatibility<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-16.25.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.25.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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