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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the release of Asterisk 16.4.0.<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 16.4.0 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>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-28375'>ASTERISK-28375</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: New configuration setting to allow disabling norefersub<br>(Reported by Dan Cropp)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28320'>ASTERISK-28320</a>] - <td><td>Added ARI resource /ari/channels/{channelid}/rtp_statistics<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</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-28427'>ASTERISK-28427</a>] - <td><td>new mwi.h include missing from some dahdi source files, causes build failure<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28412'>ASTERISK-28412</a>] - <td><td>GCC 9 catches more string formatting issues<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28379'>ASTERISK-28379</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: show channelstats incorrect information output<br>(Reported by Vyrva Igor)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28399'>ASTERISK-28399</a>] - <td><td>channel.c: Exceptionally long queue length queuing<br>(Reported by Abhay Gupta)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28392'>ASTERISK-28392</a>] - <td><td>The no-partial-inlining flag isn't passed to the bundled pjproject or jansson builds<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28402'>ASTERISK-28402</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_registrar: SEGV in registrar_find_contact<br>(Reported by Ross Beer)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27756'>ASTERISK-27756</a>] - <td><td>bridge: Failure to impart a channel results in bad data causing crash<br>(Reported by Abhay Gupta)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26718'>ASTERISK-26718</a>] - <td><td>ARI: Bridge destroying doesn't work as expected<br>(Reported by Marin Odrljin)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28143'>ASTERISK-28143</a>] - <td><td>app_amd: Infinite loop on silent calls <br>(Reported by Abhay Gupta)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28353'>ASTERISK-28353</a>] - <td><td>stasis: Crash at shutdown when statistics enabled<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-28374'>ASTERISK-28374</a>] - <td><td>latest asterisk unconditionally launch gcc --version, even if the compiler is different<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28391'>ASTERISK-28391</a>] - <td><td>res_indications: Crash requesting autocomplete on indications cli command<br>(Reported by Lucas Mendes)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27935'>ASTERISK-27935</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: emailbody per user can't contain commas<br>(Reported by Sébastien Duthil)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17695'>ASTERISK-17695</a>] - <td><td>1.8.3.2 extenpatternmatchnew=yes cannot find extensions with '-' in them<br>(Reported by test011)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17799'>ASTERISK-17799</a>] - <td><td>AEL reload causes loss of control in a macro<br>(Reported by Kirill Katsnelson)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18593'>ASTERISK-18593</a>] - <td><td>AEL for loops use Macro app and pipe delimiter<br>(Reported by Luke-Jr)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-14939'>ASTERISK-14939</a>] - <td><td>AEL parsers does not find existing label<br>(Reported by klaus3000)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20182'>ASTERISK-20182</a>] - <td><td>Parsing a label beginning with a numeric character in all Goto/GotoIf/GotoIfTime application causes unexpected behavior<br>(Reported by Janu)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28348'>ASTERISK-28348</a>] - <td><td>Failed to initialize OOH323 endpoint-OOH323 Disabled<br>(Reported by Dmitry Shubin)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28371'>ASTERISK-28371</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: DTMF Mode auto_info fallback lead to both inband and info<br>(Reported by Salah Ahmed)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28319'>ASTERISK-28319</a>] - <td><td>musl: Crash on startup when loading modules<br>(Reported by Sebastian Kemper)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28362'>ASTERISK-28362</a>] - <td><td>strtok_r() makes gcc compile warning<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28255'>ASTERISK-28255</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: REMB RTCP packet sending may be incorrect<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-28401'>ASTERISK-28401</a>] - <td><td>app_confbridge: Add *_all remb behavior variants<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-28400'>ASTERISK-28400</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk / res_pjsip_sdp_rtp: Add support for transport-cc<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-28363'>ASTERISK-28363</a>] - <td><td>Millisecond-resolution call stats including PDD in channel variables<br>(Reported by Antoni Goldstein)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20207'>ASTERISK-20207</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk should clear out any .lock files in the voice mail directory on startup.<br>(Reported by Steven Wheeler)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28111'>ASTERISK-28111</a>] - <td><td>build: CHANGES/UPGRADE are irritating to work with.<br>(Reported by Corey Farrell)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28343'>ASTERISK-28343</a>] - <td><td>Added app_name, app_data to channel type<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28264'>ASTERISK-28264</a>] - <td><td>Added topic_all container<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-16.4.0'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.4.0</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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