The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.9. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.9 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 the PickupChan() application (Closes issue #16863. Reported, patched by schern. Patched by cjacobsen. Tested by Graber, cjacobsen, lathama, rickead2000, dvossel) * Improve logging by displaying line number (Closes issue #16303. Reported by dant. Patched by pabelanger. Tested by dant, pabelanger, lmadsen) * Notify CLI when modules are loaded/unloaded (Closes issue #17308. Reported, patched by pabelanger. Tested by russell) * Make the Makefile logic more explicit and move the Snow Leopard logic down to where it's not executed on non-Darwin systems (Closes issue #17028. Reported by pabelanger. Patched by seanbright, tilghman. Tested by pabelanger) * Manager cookies are not compatible with RFC2109. Make that no longer true. (Closes issue #17231. Reported, patched by ecarruda) * With IMAP backend, messages in INBOX were counted twice for MWI (Closes issue #17135. Reported by edhorton. Patched by ebroad, tilghman) * Fix possible segfault when logging (Closes issue #17331. Reported, patched by under. Patched by dvossel) * Fix memory hogging behavior of app_queue (Closes issue #17081. Reported by wliegel. Patched by mmichelson) * Allow type=user SIP endpoints to be loaded properly from realtime (Closes issue #16021. Reported, patched by Guggemand) Additionally, the following issue may be of interest: * Fix transcode_via_sln option with SIP calls and improve PLC usage (Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/622/) For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.9 Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!