asterisk announce - Jan 2013 - DAHDI-Linux 2.6.2-rc1 Released

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the releases of:
DAHDI-Linux 2.6.2-rc1

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

2.6.2-rc1 is a bugfix release of which the most noteable changes are:
- Fix compile error on RHEL 5.2 / Centos 5.9 and later
- Development switch from svn to git

Issues closed in this release:
DAHLIN-314 wcb4xxp: kernel oopses when debug st state is enabled
DAHLIN-302 "Failed to apply echo can changes on channel 243 00107001!"
in /var/log/syslog.
DAHLIN-298 dahdi-linux 2.6.1 fails to detect ringing
DAHLIN-312 Error: conflicting types for 'bool' when compiled after
CentOS upgraded to 5.9, kernel 2.6.18-348.el5
DAHLIN-313 When I upgraded to CENTOS 5 V
DAHLIN-315 Error while asterisk to upgrade to centos 5.9

Shortlog of changes since 2.6.1:

Doug Bailey (1):
      Assign NULL values to pointers to insure that future kfree calls do not
cause errors.

Oron Peled (1):
      xpp: usermode_helper() bugfix for kernels >= 3.3.0

Shaun Ruffell (12):
      wcte12xp: Destroy the cache if the linemode is not recognized.
      wcte12xp: Allow default_linemode to be set to j1.
      wcte12xp: Fix pulse digit detection when set for FXO signalling modes.
      wcte12xp: Fix stack corruption when checking T1 RBS states.
      dahdi: pci-aspm.h was included in 2.6.26 not 2.6.25.
      xpp: Do not typedef bool on RHEL 5.2 or later.
      wctdm24xxp: Only two polarity reversals are needed to validate RING on FXO
ports.
      wct4xxp: EC channel calculation in TONEDETECT assumes TE820.
      wct4xxp: t4_serial_setup() was called more often than necessary.
      wcb4xxp: Allocate memory in hfc_decode_st_state() with GFP_ATOMIC.
      wctdm24xxp: Use framecount and not jiffies when looking for battery
present.
      wctdm24xxp: Eliminate chance for channel to be stuck in RED alarm.

Tzafrir Cohen (3):
      xpp: pre/post_unregister: not for the EC
      Add .gitignore file
      gitignore: Add README.html to git ignore list

The diffstat from the 2.6.1 release:

 .gitignore                        |  41 +++++++
 drivers/dahdi/wcb4xxp/base.c      |   3 +-
 drivers/dahdi/wct4xxp/base.c      |  12 +-
 drivers/dahdi/wctdm24xxp/base.c   |  43 ++++---
 drivers/dahdi/wcte12xp/base.c     | 238 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/dahdi/wcte12xp/wcte12xp.h |   1 +
 drivers/dahdi/xpp/card_global.c   |  12 +-
 drivers/dahdi/xpp/xdefs.h         |  14 ++-
 drivers/dahdi/xpp/xpp_dahdi.c     |   4 +-
 include/dahdi/kernel.h            |   2 +-
 10 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 78 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/v2.6.2-rc1

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!