[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.6.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team announces the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.6.0. This release candidate is available for immediate 
download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.6.0-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 candidate:

* Fix an issue with Music on Hold classes losing files in playlist when 
realtime
   is used.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17875. Reported by David Cunningham. Patched 
by Igor
    Goncharovsky)

* Resolve a potential crash in chan_sip when utilizing auth= and 
performing a
   'sip reload' from the console.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17939. Reported by wdoekes. Patched by Richard 
Mudgett)

* Address some improper sql statements in res_odbc that would cause an 
update
   to fail on realtime peers due to trying to set as "(NULL)" rather than an
   actual NULL.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17791. Reported by marcelloceschia. Patched by 
Tilghman
    Lesher)

* Resolve issue where 403 Forbidden would always be sent maximum number 
of times
   regardless to receipt of ACK.
   (Patched by Richard Mudgett)

* Updated chan_gtalk to work with changes made by Google.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-18804. Patched by Terry Wilson)

* Resolve issue where if a call to MeetMe includes both the dynamic(D) and
   always request PIN(P) options, MeetMe will ask for the PIN two times: 
once for
   creating the conference and once for entering the conference.
   (Patched by Kinsey Moore)

* Fix New Zealand indications profile based on
   http://www.telepermit.co.nz/TNA102.pdf
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-16263. Reported, Patched by richardf)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.6.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!