[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11.8.0-rc1 Now Available

[Asterisk Development Team]

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the first release candidate of
Asterisk 11.8.0. This release candidate is available for immediate
download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 11.8.0-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:

* --- config: Allow ConfBridge DTMF menus to have '#' as the first
      digit.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-22478. Reported by Nicolas Tanski)

* --- app_queue: Honor penalty limits of 0
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-20862. Reported by Schmooze Com)

* --- chan_sip: Hangup transferer/transferee when transfer to Parking
      fails
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-22834. Reported by rsw686)

* --- res_fax_spandsp: Always init T.38 session to avoid crashes
      during state change
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-21242. Reported by Ashley Winters)

* --- res_rtp_asterisk: Fails to resume WebRTC call from hold
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-22911. Reported by Vytis Valentinavičius)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-11.8.0-rc1

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!