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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second

release candidate of Asterisk 16.6.0.<br>

This release candidate is available for immediate download at <br>

<a href='https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk</a>

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The release of Asterisk 16.6.0-rc2 resolves several issues reported by the<br>

community and would have not been possible without your participation.<br>

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<b>Thank you!</b><br>

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The following issues are resolved in this release candidate:<br>

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<b>Bugs fixed in this release:</b><br>

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<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28521'>ASTERISK-28521</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: Memory Leak<br>(Reported by Mark)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28523'>ASTERISK-28523</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk 16.5.0 Memory leak<br>(Reported by Cyril Ramière)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28538'>ASTERISK-28538</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: Deadlock on fax detection<br>(Reported by Joshua C. Colp)</li></td></tr>

<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28536'>ASTERISK-28536</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk release candidates fail to build on FreeBSD<br>(Reported by Guido Falsi)</li></td></tr>

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

<a href='https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.6.0-rc2'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.6.0-rc2</a>

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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>

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