asterisk announce - Jul 2014 - Asterisk 1.8.29.0 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.29.0.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 1.8.29.0 resolves several issues reported by the
community and would have not been possible without your participation.
Thank you!

The following are the issues resolved in this release:

Bugs fixed in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-22551 - Session timer : UAS (Asterisk) starts counting
      at Invite, UAC starts counting at 200 OK. (Reported by i2045)
 * ASTERISK-23582 - [patch]Inconsistent column length in *odbc
      (Reported by Walter Doekes)
 * ASTERISK-23803 - AMI action UpdateConfig EmptyCat clears all
      categories but the requested one (Reported by zvision)
 * ASTERISK-23035 - ConfBridge with name longer than max (32 chars)
      results in several bridges with same conf_name (Reported by
      I??aki C??vico)
 * ASTERISK-23683 - #includes - wildcard character in a path more
      than one directory deep - results in no config parsing on module
      reload (Reported by tootai)
 * ASTERISK-23827 - autoservice thread doesn't exit at shutdown
      (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23814 - No call started after peer dialed (Reported by
      Igor Goncharovsky)
 * ASTERISK-23673 - Security: DOS by consuming the number of
      allowed HTTP connections. (Reported by Richard Mudgett)
 * ASTERISK-23246 - DEBUG messages in sdp_crypto.c display despite
      a DEBUG level of zero (Reported by Rusty Newton)
 * ASTERISK-23766 - [patch] Specify timeout for database write in
      SQLite (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky)
 * ASTERISK-23818 - PBX_Lua: after asterisk startup module is
      loaded, but dialplan not available (Reported by Dennis Guse)
 * ASTERISK-23667 - features.conf.sample is unclear as to which
      options can or cannot be set in the general section (Reported by
      David Brillert)
 * ASTERISK-23790 - [patch] - SIP From headers longer than 256
      characters result in dropped call and 'No closing bracket'
      warnings. (Reported by uniken1)
 * ASTERISK-23908 - [patch]When using FEC error correction,
      asterisk tries considers negative sequence numbers as missing
      (Reported by Torrey Searle)
 * ASTERISK-23921 - refcounter.py uses excessive ram for large refs
      files  (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23948 - REF_DEBUG fails to record ao2_ref against
      objects that were already freed (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-23984 - Infinite loop possible in ast_careful_fwrite()
      (Reported by Steve Davies)
 * ASTERISK-23897 - [patch]Change in SETUP ACK handling (checking
      PI) in revision 413765 breaks working environments (Reported by
      Pavel Troller)

Improvements made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-23564 - [patch]TLS/SRTP status of channel not currently
      available in a CLI command (Reported by Patrick Laimbock)
 * ASTERISK-23492 - Add option to safe_asterisk to disable
      backgrounding (Reported by Walter Doekes)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.29.0

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!