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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 16.27.0.<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 16.27.0-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>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-30090'>ASTERISK-30090</a>] - <td><td>xmldocs: Use example tags for examples<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29906'>ASTERISK-29906</a>] - <td><td>[patch] update RLS to reflect the changes to the lists<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29891'>ASTERISK-29891</a>] - <td><td>[patch] provide a display name for RLS subscriptions<br>(Reported by Alexei Gradinari)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30086'>ASTERISK-30086</a>] - <td><td>res_parking: Warn when invalid parking space requested<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30058'>ASTERISK-30058</a>] - <td><td>Evaluate dialplan functions and variables in agi exec<br>(Reported by Shloime Rosenblum)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30027'>ASTERISK-30027</a>] - <td><td>ari: expose channel driver's unique id (i.e. Call-ID for chan_sip/chan_pjsip) in ARI channel resource<br>(Reported by Moritz Fain)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29845'>ASTERISK-29845</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_outbound_registration: Show time remaining until registration lapses<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-30097'>ASTERISK-30097</a>] - <td><td>console: Recent documentation changes for connecting to remote console are inconsistent<br>(Reported by Matthias Hensler)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30043'>ASTERISK-30043</a>] - <td><td>Wrong party is disconnected when hook-flashing on 3-way bridge<br>(Reported by Josh Alberts)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29603'>ASTERISK-29603</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: UPDATE/re-INVITE not sent when "timers=always" is specified in pjsip.conf<br>(Reported by Ray Crumrine)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30092'>ASTERISK-30092</a>] - <td><td>DateTime application: wrong inflection for one o'clock in German<br>(Reported by Christof Efkemann)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30064'>ASTERISK-30064</a>] - <td><td>pbx: iax2 switch causes crash due to deadlock and assertion<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29981'>ASTERISK-29981</a>] - <td><td>res_calendar: Asterisk crashes when starting, and will not run<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30039'>ASTERISK-30039</a>] - <td><td>cli: Targeted debug on startup deadlocks and creates unstable system<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30051'>ASTERISK-30051</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: No video after un-hold with moh_passthrough=yes<br>(Reported by Maximilian Fridrich)</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-30060'>ASTERISK-30060</a>] - <td><td>loader: format warnings in dev mode<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30059'>ASTERISK-30059</a>] - <td><td>menuselect: libxml include fails under Gentoo<br>(Reported by waltermoeller)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30065'>ASTERISK-30065</a>] - <td><td>pjsip: Open Websocket connection is not reused for outgoing requests<br>(Reported by LA)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30042'>ASTERISK-30042</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_transport_websocket: Registration over websocket returns a rewritten contact<br>(Reported by Thomas Guebels)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29993'>ASTERISK-29993</a>] - <td><td>chan_dahdi: Operator control option borks both lines involved on callee disconnect<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30044'>ASTERISK-30044</a>] - <td><td>GCC 12 issues<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
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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-30063'>ASTERISK-30063</a>] - <td><td>app_voicemail: Add option to prevent deletion of messages<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30087'>ASTERISK-30087</a>] - <td><td>res_parking: Add music on hold override option<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29965'>ASTERISK-29965</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip_outbound_registration: Make max registration delay configurable<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30036'>ASTERISK-30036</a>] - <td><td>app_confbridge: Add CONFBRIDGE_CHANNELS function<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-16.27.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-16.27.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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