asterisk users - May 2010 - Asterisk 1.6.0.28 and 1.6.1.20 Now Available

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

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!