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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the first
release candidate of Asterisk 18.15.0.<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 18.15.0-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-30037'>ASTERISK-30037</a>] - <td><td>Add test support to calling external processes<br>(Reported by Philip Prindeville)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30161'>ASTERISK-30161</a>] - <td><td>locks: add AMI event for deadlock<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30211'>ASTERISK-30211</a>] - <td><td>app_confbridge: Add end_marked_any 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-30186'>ASTERISK-30186</a>] - <td><td>res_pjsip: Add support for reloading TLS certificate and key information<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-29899'>ASTERISK-29899</a>] - <td><td>features: Add advanced transfer initiation options<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-30135'>ASTERISK-30135</a>] - <td><td>[res_musiconhold] Allows the moh only for the answered call<br>(Reported by sungtae kim)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26894'>ASTERISK-26894</a>] - <td><td>pjsip should support tel uri scheme<br>(Reported by Gergely Dömsödi)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30210'>ASTERISK-30210</a>] - <td><td>func_frame_trace: Channel masquerade triggers 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-30190'>ASTERISK-30190</a>] - <td><td>res_geolocation: GEOLOC_PROFILE isn't returning correct values on incoming channel<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29185'>ASTERISK-29185</a>] - <td><td>chan_pjsip: Endpoint: allow = all is broken.<br>(Reported by Alexander Traud)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30192'>ASTERISK-30192</a>] - <td><td>res_tonedetect: fix typo for frametype<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29453'>ASTERISK-29453</a>] - <td><td>alembic: incoming_call_offer_pref and outgoing_call_offer_pref missing in "ps_endpoints" table<br>(Reported by Daniel Thümen)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-26826'>ASTERISK-26826</a>] - <td><td>testsuite: Add support for Python 3<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-30167'>ASTERISK-30167</a>] - <td><td>res_geolocation: Refactor for issues found by users<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28422'>ASTERISK-28422</a>] - <td><td>Memory Leak in Confbridge menu<br>(Reported by Ted G)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29917'>ASTERISK-29917</a>] - <td><td>ami: FilterList action doesn't exist<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30018'>ASTERISK-30018</a>] - <td><td>app_meetme: MeetmeList AMI event not documented<br>(Reported by Michael Cargile)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30020'>ASTERISK-30020</a>] - <td><td>ConfbridgeListRooms Event Not Documented<br>(Reported by Michael Cargile)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30151'>ASTERISK-30151</a>] - <td><td>Documentation doesn't include info about "field", a 3rd required parameter.<br>(Reported by Chris Young)</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-30178'>ASTERISK-30178</a>] - <td><td>extend user_eq_phone behavior to local uri's<br>(Reported by Michael Bradeen)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30046'>ASTERISK-30046</a>] - <td><td>Reimplement res/res_crypto.c internals with EVP_PKEY interface to Openssl API's<br>(Reported by Philip Prindeville)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30045'>ASTERISK-30045</a>] - <td><td>Add test coverage to res/res_crypto.c functionality<br>(Reported by Philip Prindeville)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30185'>ASTERISK-30185</a>] - <td><td>res_geolocation: Allow location parameters to be specified in profiles<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30177'>ASTERISK-30177</a>] - <td><td>res_geolocation: Add option to suppress empty elements<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30182'>ASTERISK-30182</a>] - <td><td>res_geolocation: Add built-in profiles to use in fully dynamic configurations<br>(Reported by George Joseph)</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-30163'>ASTERISK-30163</a>] - <td><td>general: fix minor formatting issues<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30164'>ASTERISK-30164</a>] - <td><td>chan_iax2: Add missing option documentation<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30153'>ASTERISK-30153</a>] - <td><td>logger: Improve log levels<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30160'>ASTERISK-30160</a>] - <td><td>cdr.conf: Remove obsolete app_mysql reference<br>(Reported by N A)</li></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top nowrap='nowrap'><li>[<a href='https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-30159'>ASTERISK-30159</a>] - <td><td>general: Remove obsolete SVN references<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-18.15.0-rc1'>https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-18.15.0-rc1</a>
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<b>Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!</b><br>
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