The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.4. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ The release of Asterisk 1.8.4 resolves several issues reported by the community. Without your help this release would not have been possible. Thank you! Below is a sample of the issues resolved in this release: * Use SSLv23_client_method instead of old SSLv2 only. (Closes issue #19095, #19138. Reported, patched by tzafrir. Tested by russell and chazzam. * Resolve crash in ast_mutex_init() (Patched by twilson) * Resolution of several DTMF based attended transfer issues. (Closes issue #17999, #17096, #18395, #17273. Reported by iskatel, gelo, shihchuan, grecco. Patched by rmudgett) NOTE: Be sure to read the ChangeLog for more information about these changes. * Resolve deadlocks related to device states in chan_sip (Closes issue #18310. Reported, patched by one47. Patched by jpeeler) * Resolve an issue with the Asterisk manager interface leaking memory when disabled. (Reported internally by kmorgan. Patched by russellb) * Support greetingsfolder as documented in voicemail.conf.sample. (Closes issue #17870. Reported by edhorton. Patched by seanbright) * Fix channel redirect out of MeetMe() and other issues with channel softhangup (Closes issue #18585. Reported by oej. Tested by oej, wedhorn, russellb. Patched by russellb) * Fix voicemail sequencing for file based storage. (Closes issue #18498, #18486. Reported by JJCinAZ, bluefox. Patched by jpeeler) * Set hangup cause in local_hangup so the proper return code of 486 instead of 503 when using Local channels when the far sides returns a busy. Also affects CCSS in Asterisk 1.8+. (Patched by twilson) * Fix issues with verbose messages not being output to the console. (Closes issue #18580. Reported by pabelanger. Patched by qwell) * Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call (Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by alecdavid, Irontec, ZX81, cmaj) Includes changes per AST-2011-005 and AST-2011-006 For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.4 Information about the security releases are available at: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-005.pdf http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2011-006.pdf Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!