asterisk users - Mar 2014 - Asterisk 11.8.0 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 11.8.0.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk

The release of Asterisk 11.8.0 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-22544 - Italian prompt vm-options has advertisement in
      it (Reported by Rusty Newton)
 * ASTERISK-21383 - STUN Binding Requests Not Being Sent Back from
      Asterisk to Chrome (Reported by Shaun Clark)
 * ASTERISK-22478 - [patch]Can't use pound(hash) symbol for custom
      DTMF menus in ConfBridge (processed as directive) (Reported by
      Nicolas Tanski)
 * ASTERISK-12117 - chan_sip creates a new local tag (from-tag) for
      every register message (Reported by Pawel Pierscionek)
 * ASTERISK-20862 - Asterisk min and max member penalties not
      honored when set with 0 (Reported by Schmooze Com)
 * ASTERISK-22746 - [patch]Crash in chan_dahdi during caller id
      read (Reported by Michael Walton)
 * ASTERISK-22788 - [patch] main/translate.c: access to variable f
      after free in ast_translate() (Reported by Corey Farrell)
 * ASTERISK-21242 - Segfault when T.38 re-invite retransmission
      receives 200 OK (Reported by Ashley Winters)
 * ASTERISK-22590 - BufferOverflow in unpacksms16() when receiving
      16 bit multipart SMS with app_sms (Reported by Jan Juergens)
 * ASTERISK-22905 - Prevent Asterisk functions that are 'dangerous'
      from being executed from external interfaces (Reported by Matt
      Jordan)
 * ASTERISK-23021 - Typos in code : "avaliable" instead of
      "available" (Reported by Jeremy Lain??)
 * ASTERISK-22970 - [patch]Documentation fix for QUOTE() (Reported
      by Gareth Palmer)
 * ASTERISK-21960 - ooh323 channels stuck (Reported by Dmitry
      Melekhov)
 * ASTERISK-22350 - DUNDI - core dump on shutdown - segfault in
      sqlite3_reset from /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (Reported by Birger
      "WIMPy" Harzenetter)
 * ASTERISK-22942 - [patch] - Asterisk crashed after
      Set(FAXOPT(faxdetect)=t38) (Reported by adomjan)
 * ASTERISK-22856 - [patch]SayUnixTime in polish reads minutes
      instead of seconds (Reported by Robert Mordec)
 * ASTERISK-22854 - [patch] - Deadlock between cel_pgsql unload and
      core_event_dispatcher taskprocessor thread (Reported by Etienne
      Lessard)
 * ASTERISK-22910 - [patch] - REPLACE() calls strcpy on overlapping
      memory when <replace-char> is empty (Reported by Gareth Palmer)
 * ASTERISK-22871 - cel_pgsql module not loading after "reload" or
      "reload cel_pgsql.so" command (Reported by Matteo)
 * ASTERISK-23084 - [patch]rasterisk needlessly prints the
      AST-2013-007 warning (Reported by Tzafrir Cohen)
 * ASTERISK-17138 - [patch] Asterisk not re-registering after it
      receives "Forbidden - wrong password on authentication"
      (Reported by Rudi)
 * ASTERISK-23011 - [patch]configure.ac and pbx_lua don't support
      lua 5.2 (Reported by George Joseph)
 * ASTERISK-22834 - Parking by blind transfer when lot full orphans
      channels (Reported by rsw686)
 * ASTERISK-23047 - Orphaned (stuck) channel occurs during a failed
      SIP transfer to parking space (Reported by Tommy Thompson)
 * ASTERISK-22946 - Local From tag regression with sipgate.de
      (Reported by Stephan Eisvogel)
 * ASTERISK-23010 - No BYE message sent when sip INVITE is received
      (Reported by Ryan Tilton)
 * ASTERISK-23135 - Crash - segfault in ast_channel_hangupcause_set
      - probably introduced in 11.7.0 (Reported by OK)

Improvements made in this release:
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 * ASTERISK-22728 - [patch] Improve Understanding Of 'Forcerport'
      When Running "sip show peers" (Reported by Michael L. Young)
 * ASTERISK-22659 - Make a new core and extra sounds release
      (Reported by Rusty Newton)
 * ASTERISK-22919 - core show channeltypes slicing  (Reported by
      outtolunc)
 * ASTERISK-22918 - dahdi show channels slices PRI channel dnid on
      output (Reported by outtolunc)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-11.8.0

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!