[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6.2.16-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.6.2.16. This release candidate is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.16-rc1 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following is a sample of the issues resolved in this release:

  * Fix cache of device state changes for multiple servers.
    (Closes issue #18284, #18280. Reported, tested by klaus3000. Patched, tested
     by russellb)

  * Resolve issue where channel redirect function (CLI or AMI) hangs up the call
    instead of redirecting the call.
    (Closes issue #18171. Reported by: SantaFox)
    (Closes issue #18185. Reported by: kwemheuer)
    (Closes issue #18211. Reported by: zahir_koradia)
    (Closes issue #18230. Reported by: vmarrone)
    (Closes issue #18299. Reported by: mbrevda)
    (Closes issue #18322. Reported by: nerbos)

* Linux and *BSD disagree on the elements within the ucred structure. Detect
   which one is in use on the system.
   (Closes issue #18384. Reported, patched, tested by bjm, tilghman)

  * app_followme: Don't create a Local channel if the target extension does not
    exist.
    (Closes issue #18126. Reported, patched by junky)

  * Revert code that changed SSRC for DTMF.
    (Closes issue #17404, #18189, #18352. Reported by sdolloff, marcbou. rsw686.
     Tested by cmbaker82)

  * Resolve issue where REGISTER request with a Call-ID matching an existing
    transaction is received it was possible that the REGISTER request would
    overwrite the initreq of the private structure.
    (Closes issue #18051. Reported by eeman. Patched, tested by twilson)

For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.16-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!