[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.10.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate
of Asterisk 1.8.10.0. This release candidate is available for immediate download
at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.10.0-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:

* Include iLBC source code for distribution with Asterisk 

  Clarification regarding the iLBC source code was provided by Google, and the 
  appropriate licenses have been included in the codecs/ilbc folder. 
  (closes issue: ASTERISK-18943) Reporter: Leif Madsen

* Don't do a DNS lookup on an outbound REGISTER host if there is an 
  outbound proxy configured.
  (closes issue ASTERISK-16550) reported by: Olle Johansson

* Create and initialize udptl only when a dialog negotiates for image media

  Prior to this patch, the udptl struct was allocated and initialized when a 
  dialog was associated with a peer that supported T.38, when a new SIP 
  channel was allocated, or when an INVITE request was received. This resulted
  in any dialog associated with a peer that supported T.38 having udptl
  support assigned to it, including the UDP ports needed for
  communication. This patch creates and initializes the udptl structure only
  when the SDP for a dialog specifies that image media is supported, or when
  Asterisk indicates that a dialog needs to support T.38.
  (closes issue ASTERISK-16698, ASTERISK-16794) 
  Reported by: under, Elazar; Tested by: Stefan Schmidt   

* Allow only one thread at time to do Asterisk cleanup/shutdown

  Add locking around the really-really-quit part of the core stop/restart part.
  Previously more than one thread could be called to do cleanup, causing atexit
  handlers to be run multiple times, in turn causing segfaults. 
  (issue ASTERISK-18883)
  Patch by: Walter Doekes

* Fix outbound DTMF for inband mode in chan_ooh323

  This tells asterisk core to generate DTMF sounds. (Closes issue
  ASTERISK-19233) Reported by: Matt Behrens Patches:
  chan_ooh323.c.patch uploaded by Matt Behrens (License #6346)

And much more!  For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/ChangeLog-1.8.10.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!