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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the release of Asterisk 16.3.0.<br>
This release 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 16.3.0 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:<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-28260'>ASTERISK-28260</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk segfault when rtp negotiation is wrong or fails<br>(Reported by Sotiris Ganouris)</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-28267'>ASTERISK-28267</a>] - <td><td>res_stasis: Add ability to switch applications<br>(Reported by Benjamin Keith Ford)</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-27541'>ASTERISK-27541</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Queue paused reason was (big number) secs ago when reason is set<br>(Reported by César Benjamín García Martínez)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20986'>ASTERISK-20986</a>] - <td><td>QUEUE_MEMBER 's description is inaccurate<br>(Reported by Olivier Krief)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28350'>ASTERISK-28350</a>] - <td><td>manager: Stasis backed up due to locking<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-25792'>ASTERISK-25792</a>] - <td><td>chan_sip: qualifygap bounds checking<br>(Reported by Paul Sandys)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28341'>ASTERISK-28341</a>] - <td><td>res_config_odbc eliminates empty custom (“@” prefix) variables <br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28333'>ASTERISK-28333</a>] - <td><td>StasisEnd event makes wrong timestamp value<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28306'>ASTERISK-28306</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_mwi: MWI NOTIFY occasionally takes minutes to be sent<br>(Reported by Jared Hull)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28332'>ASTERISK-28332</a>] - <td><td>Variable ALTCONF ignored when service is used in Debian<br>(Reported by Cirillo Ferreira)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28314'>ASTERISK-28314</a>] - <td><td>ARI: API changed but "apiVersion" in rest-api\resources.json did not<br>(Reported by Stefan Repke)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28335'>ASTERISK-28335</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Make topic and maybe subscription names unique and more useful<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-28321'>ASTERISK-28321</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Fixing possible divide by zero for rtcp stat calculation<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28322'>ASTERISK-28322</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: Add option to allow ignoring of 183 without SDP<br>(Reported by Torrey Searle)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28328'>ASTERISK-28328</a>] - <td><td>MeetMe global non-admin mute is muting admins that subsequently join<br>(Reported by Philip Mott)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27964'>ASTERISK-27964</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: ring_entry accesses nativeformats without channel lock or reference<br>(Reported by Francisco Seratti)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28168'>ASTERISK-28168</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Adding a blank entry into sql queue_members crashes asterisk.<br>(Reported by Michael)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28323'>ASTERISK-28323</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: sip.conf to pjsip.conf conversion script fails<br>(Reported by Guido Weckwerth)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28272'>ASTERISK-28272</a>] - <td><td>The basic-pbx config samples don't produce a running 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-28312'>ASTERISK-28312</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_diversion: Corrupted SIP Diversion field after handling a 302 redirect<br>(Reported by Alex Odrov)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24173'>ASTERISK-24173</a>] - <td><td>File menuselect/menuselect_gtk.c has no license header<br>(Reported by Jeremy Lainé)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28309'>ASTERISK-28309</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Wrong Contact and Via fields with multiple UDP interfaces<br>(Reported by Nikolay shakin)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27992'>ASTERISK-27992</a>] - <td><td>PJSIP: Adding `sends_registrations = yes` to pjsip_wizard.conf causes crash<br>(Reported by Jonathan Harris)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28166'>ASTERISK-28166</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: Asterisk unresponsive after changing voicemail password with ODBC<br>(Reported by Michael)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28213'>ASTERISK-28213</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Threads pile up needlessly when AOR is blocked<br>(Reported by Ross Beer)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28301'>ASTERISK-28301</a>] - <td><td>Allow voicemail boxes to be subscribed to with a presence event package<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28303'>ASTERISK-28303</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Interaction between smoother and DTMF can cause out of order timestamps<br>(Reported by Torrey Searle)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28302'>ASTERISK-28302</a>] - <td><td>ARI: "Error destroying mutex" when listing all ARI applications<br>(Reported by Stefan Repke)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28300'>ASTERISK-28300</a>] - <td><td>AST_PBX_MAX_STACK is too low for some applications<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28106'>ASTERISK-28106</a>] - <td><td>Astricon Feedback: Unable to filter ARI events when GETting causes overload of events<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28284'>ASTERISK-28284</a>] - <td><td>switching between native_bridge and simple_bridge can cause one way audio<br>(Reported by Torrey Searle)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28251'>ASTERISK-28251</a>] - <td><td>CI: Fix CI so it reverifies commit message changes<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28277'>ASTERISK-28277</a>] - <td><td>database: Add some basic logging<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-28181'>ASTERISK-28181</a>] - <td><td>ari: Originating overwrites channel start time<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</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-28326'>ASTERISK-28326</a>] - <td><td>ari: Added timestamp for some ari events.<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28317'>ASTERISK-28317</a>] - <td><td>Add logical group at DAHDIChannel event and create "dahdi_group" at CHANNEL function<br>(Reported by Cirillo Ferreira)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28279'>ASTERISK-28279</a>] - <td><td>Added creation timestamp for bridge<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27483'>ASTERISK-27483</a>] - <td><td>Allow wrapuptime to be set for each queue member<br>(Reported by Rodrigo Ramirez Norambuena)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28055'>ASTERISK-28055</a>] - <td><td>app_queue: Per-member wrapup time missing from AddQueueMember application<br>(Reported by Niksa Baldun)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28292'>ASTERISK-28292</a>] - <td><td>Changed to show all channel stats including wrong media<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28253'>ASTERISK-28253</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_session: Adding rtcp stats result into the session<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
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For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog:<br>
<a href='https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.3.0'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.3.0</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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