The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.16.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk The release of Asterisk 1.8.16.0 resolves several issues reported by the community and would have not been possible without your participation. Thank you! The following is a sample of the issues resolved in this release: * --- AST-2012-012: Resolve AMI User Unauthorized Shell Access through ExternalIVR (Closes issue ASTERISK-20132. Reported by Zubair Ashraf of IBM X-Force Research) * --- AST-2012-013: Resolve ACL rules being ignored during calls by some IAX2 peers (Closes issue ASTERISK-20186. Reported by Alan Frisch) * --- Handle extremely out of order RFC 2833 DTMF (Closes issue ASTERISK-18404. Reported by Stephane Chazelas) * --- Resolve severe memory leak in CEL logging modules. (Closes issue AST-916. Reported by Thomas Arimont) * --- Only re-create an SRTP session when needed; respond with correct crypto policy (Issue ASTERISK-20194. Reported by Nicolo Mazzon) For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.16.0 Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!