[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.17.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 1.8.17.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.17.0-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 Not Unreferencing A Spied Channel
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-17515. Reported by Arkadiusz Malka)

* --- LDAP Realtime Peers Cannot Register
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-17222. Reported by John Covert)

* --- dsp.c: Fix multiple issues when no-interdigit delay is present,
      and fast DTMF 50ms/50ms
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-19610. Reported by Jean-Philippe Lord)

* --- Fix bug where final queue member would not be removed from
      memory.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-19793. Reported by Marcus Haas)

* --- Fix memory leak when CEL is successfully written to PostgreSQL
      database
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-19991. Reported by Etienne Lessard)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.17.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!