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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 18.5.0.<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 18.5.0-rc1 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>New Features made 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-29446'>ASTERISK-29446</a>] - <td><td>app_confbridge: New ConfKick application<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29440'>ASTERISK-29440</a>] - <td><td>app_confbridge: Allow ConfBridge answer to be suppressed<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29431'>ASTERISK-29431</a>] - <td><td>Minimum and maximum dialplan functions<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29439'>ASTERISK-29439</a>] - <td><td>func_volume: Volume function can't be read<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
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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-29475'>ASTERISK-29475</a>] - <td><td>SayNumber triggers WARNING if caller hangs up during application execution<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29404'>ASTERISK-29404</a>] - <td><td>Consolidate res_pjsip_messaging fixes for domain name<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29441'>ASTERISK-29441</a>] - <td><td>Core reload making TCP endpoints go offline<br>(Reported by Luke Escude)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28237'>ASTERISK-28237</a>] - <td><td>"FRACK!, Failed assertion bad magic number" happens when unsubscribe an application from an event source<br>(Reported by Lucas Tardioli Silveira)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28393'>ASTERISK-28393</a>] - <td><td>Multidomain support issue<br>(Reported by Andrea Sannucci)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29433'>ASTERISK-29433</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Server reflexive candidates use incorrect raddr for RTCP<br>(Reported by Chris)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29397'>ASTERISK-29397</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: Asterisk isn't tolerant of RFC8760 UASs<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24601'>ASTERISK-24601</a>] - <td><td>[patch]Missing RFC4235 tags and attributes in PJSIP NOTIFY event: dialog XML body<br>(Reported by Marco Paland)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29370'>ASTERISK-29370</a>] - <td><td>chan_sip does not recognize application/hook-flash<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29377'>ASTERISK-29377</a>] - <td><td>cpool_release_pool "double free or corruption (out)"<br>(Reported by Robert Sutton)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29372'>ASTERISK-29372</a>] - <td><td>file.c switch does not account for flash events<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29358'>ASTERISK-29358</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: Trace message for progress is output even if frame is not queued<br>(Reported by Michael Maier)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29407'>ASTERISK-29407</a>] - <td><td>chan_local: Filtering audio formats should not occur on removed streams<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-29030'>ASTERISK-29030</a>] - <td><td>res_rtp_asterisk: Additional RTP-frame (with wrong SSRC) gets inserted when switching from progress to established<br>(Reported by Matthias Hensler)</li></td></tr>
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<b>Improvements made 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-29450'>ASTERISK-29450</a>] - <td><td>Allow setting channel variables using Originate application<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29459'>ASTERISK-29459</a>] - <td><td>Missing configuration from PJSIP to SIP conversion script<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29460'>ASTERISK-29460</a>] - <td><td>Recognize application/hook-flash in PJSIP<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29434'>ASTERISK-29434</a>] - <td><td>Asterisk reveals pjproject version in STUN packets<br>(Reported by Jeremy Lainé)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29349'>ASTERISK-29349</a>] - <td><td>Silent voicemail option is not completely silent<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29380'>ASTERISK-29380</a>] - <td><td>Add Flash AMI event to handle flash events<br>(Reported by N A)</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-18.5.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-18.5.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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