asterisk users - Mar 2014 - DAHDI-Linux and DAHDI-Tools v2.9.1-rc2 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the releases of:
DAHDI-Linux-v2.9.1-rc2
DAHDI-Tools-v2.9.1-rc2
dahdi-linux-complete-2.9.1-rc2+2.9.1-rc2

This release is available for immediate download at:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete

This release includes a firmware update for the wcaxx, wcte13xp, and wcte43x
series of cards. This includes the A4B, A8B, TE133, TE131, WCTE235 and WCTE435.
This firmware update resolves a rare case with certain chipsets that would
cause transmitted audio to be muted for a short time on analog cards or spans
to go down for a short time on digital cards.

Additions from -rc1
       xpp: fix PANIC for old dahdi_registration
       hotplug: call handle_device.d/ actions for remove
       registration-order: Added dahdi_auto_assign_compat

Shortlog of dahdi-linux changes since v2.9.0:
Oron Peled (1):
       xpp: fix PANIC for old dahdi_registration
       xpp: PRI stability fixes

Shaun Ruffell (9):
       firmware: Refactor by using build_tools/install_firmware.
       build_tools/install_firwmare: Try to extract the .bin file from .tar.gz
       wcxb: Print running version when recommending power cycle.
       wcxb: Reset TDM engine on IO errors.
       wcxb: Add diagnostic message if DMA retries are increasing when DEBUG is
defined.
       wcte13xp: Update firmware for TE133/TE131 to 780019
       wcaxx: Update firmware for A8B/A4B to 1d0019/b0019.
       wcte43x: Update firmware for TE435 / TE235 to e0019.
       wcxb: Disable presence detect reporting on upstream port during PCIe hard
reset.

Tzafrir Cohen (1):
       dahdi_get_auto_assigned_spans



Shortlog of dahdi-tools changes since v2.9.0.1:
Aslan Laoz (1):
       waitfor_xpds: handle the case of a failing AB

Shaun Ruffell (2):
       hotplug: Check for auto_assign_spans only when ACTION is add.
       dahdi_cfg: error()->perror() when sem_open fails.

Tzafrir Cohen (1):
       auto_assign_spans may be true even if not '1'

Oron Peled (2):
       hotplug: call handle_device.d/ actions for remove
       registration-order: Added dahdi_auto_assign_compat



The diffstat from the dahdi-linux v2.9.0 release:
  build_tools/install_firmware    |  23 +++++
  drivers/dahdi/dahdi-base.c      |  12 ++-
  drivers/dahdi/firmware/Makefile | 191 +++++-----------------------------------
  drivers/dahdi/wcaxx-base.c      |   4 +-
  drivers/dahdi/wcte13xp-base.c   |  13 ++-
  drivers/dahdi/wcte43x-base.c    |   2 +-
  drivers/dahdi/wcxb.c            |  97 ++++++++++++++++----
  drivers/dahdi/wcxb.h            |   9 ++
  drivers/dahdi/xpp/card_pri.c    |  14 ++-
  drivers/dahdi/xpp/xbus-core.c   |   2 +-
  drivers/dahdi/xpp/xpp_dahdi.c   |  53 +++++++----
  drivers/dahdi/xpp/xpp_dahdi.h   |   4 +-
  include/dahdi/kernel.h          |   3 +-
  13 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-)


The diffstat from the dahdi-tools v2.9.0.1 release:
  dahdi_cfg.c                 |  6 +++---
  hotplug/dahdi_handle_device | 21 +++++++++++----------
  hotplug/dahdi_span_config   | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
  xpp/dahdi_registration      |  2 +-
  xpp/waitfor_xpds            |  4 ++++
  5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)


For a full list of changes in these releases, please see the shortlog at:
http://git.asterisk.org/gitweb/?p=dahdi/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/v2.9.1-rc2
http://git.asterisk.org/gitweb/?p=dahdi/tools.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/v2.9.1-rc2

Issues found in this release can be reported in the DAHDI-Linux [1] and
DAHDI-Tools [2] projects at https://issues.asterisk.org/jira

[1] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHLIN
[2] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHTOOL

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!