[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.16.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.16.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.16.0-rc1 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following are the issues resolved in this release candidate:

* --- Prevent double uri_escaping in chan_sip when pedantic is enabled
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-20023. Reported by Walter Doekes)

* --- Resolve severe memory leak in CEL logging modules.
  (Closes issue AST-916. Reported by Thomas Arimont)

* --- Handle extremely out of order RFC 2833 DTMF
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18404. Reported by Stephane Chazelas)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.16.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!