The Asterisk Development Team Releases Asterisk 1.6.0.28 and 1.6.1.20

 Asterisk 1.6.0.28 and Asterisk 1.6.1.20 http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the final maintenance releases of Asterisk branches 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 as versions 1.6.0.28 and 1.6.1.20. These releases are available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The Asterisk releases for 1.6.0.28 and 1.6.1.20 are the last maintenance releases for Asterisk branches 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 and have now moved to security maintenance only.

The releases of Asterisk 1.6.0.28 and 1.6.1.20 resolves several issues reported by the community, and would have not been possible without your participation. Thank you!

The following are a few of the issues resolved by community developers:

    * Fix issue where MixMonitor() recordings would be shorter than total duration.
      (Closes issue #17078. Reported,tested by geoff2010. Patched by dhubbard)
    * When StopMonitor() is called, ensure it will not be restarted by a channel event.
      (Closes issue #16590. Reported, patched by kkm)
    * Allow hidecalleridname feature to work.
      (Closes issue #17143. Reported, patched by djensen99)
    * Resolve deadlocks in chan_local.
      (Closes issue #17185. Reported, tested by schmoozecom, GameGamer43)
    * Ensure channel state is not incorrectly set in the case of a very early answer by chan_dahdi.
      (Closes issue #17067. Reported, patched by tzafrir)
    * Registration fix for SIP realtime. Make sure realtime fields are not empty.
      (Closes issue #17266. Reported, patched by Nick_Lewis. Tested by sberney)

More information about the changes to maintenance support can be found at:
http://www.asterisk.org/node/49924

Information about the Asterisk maintenance schedule is available at:
http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions

For a full list of changes in the current release candidates, please see the
ChangeLogs:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.0.28
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.1.20

Asterisk 1.6.0.11-RC1 Ready For Download And Test

Asterisk Developer
Asterisk Developer team has released the latest release candidate for Asterisk 1.6.0 Branch. The release takes care of some issues like;

* Properly ACK 487 responses to canceled INVITEs. Reviewboard

* SIP registration authorization loop caused by stale nonce.

* Ensure outbound NOTIFY requests are properly routed through stateful proxies

* Resolve no audio on chan_dahdi calls until DTMF is sent by caller

* Removed confusing warning message in chan_misdn.

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

Release note : Asterisk 1.4.26-rc6 released

Tags: ACK 487, SIP registration authorization, chan_dahdi calls, DTMF, Asterisk Developer, chan_misdn, Asterisk 1.6.0.11-RC1

Asterisk 1.6.2 Gets MFC/R2 Signaling In chan_dahdi

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Russell Bryant has reported that official support for MFC/R2 signaling in chan_dahdi has been merged and that is available right now and the commit, "Add MFC/R2 support for chan_dahdi." is on this post to the list.
We are also informed that R2 signaling in chan_dahdi will be included in Asterisk 1.6.2. The modifications to chan_dahdi, and the supporting library, LibOpenR2, were both written by Moises Silva.
The code could be checked out from SVN at 1.6.2 branch and you will need to install LibOpenR2 the supporting library.
Readme for 1.6.2 branch is here.
Russells post MFC/R2 support in Asterisk 1.6.2

Tags: Asterisk 1.6.2, MFC/R2, chan_dahdi