The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.29.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk The release of Asterisk 1.8.29.0 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: ----------------------------------- * ASTERISK-22551 - Session timer : UAS (Asterisk) starts counting at Invite, UAC starts counting at 200 OK. (Reported by i2045) * ASTERISK-23582 - [patch]Inconsistent column length in *odbc (Reported by Walter Doekes) * ASTERISK-23803 - AMI action UpdateConfig EmptyCat clears all categories but the requested one (Reported by zvision) * ASTERISK-23035 - ConfBridge with name longer than max (32 chars) results in several bridges with same conf_name (Reported by I??aki C??vico) * ASTERISK-23683 - #includes - wildcard character in a path more than one directory deep - results in no config parsing on module reload (Reported by tootai) * ASTERISK-23827 - autoservice thread doesn't exit at shutdown (Reported by Corey Farrell) * ASTERISK-23814 - No call started after peer dialed (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky) * ASTERISK-23673 - Security: DOS by consuming the number of allowed HTTP connections. (Reported by Richard Mudgett) * ASTERISK-23246 - DEBUG messages in sdp_crypto.c display despite a DEBUG level of zero (Reported by Rusty Newton) * ASTERISK-23766 - [patch] Specify timeout for database write in SQLite (Reported by Igor Goncharovsky) * ASTERISK-23818 - PBX_Lua: after asterisk startup module is loaded, but dialplan not available (Reported by Dennis Guse) * ASTERISK-23667 - features.conf.sample is unclear as to which options can or cannot be set in the general section (Reported by David Brillert) * ASTERISK-23790 - [patch] - SIP From headers longer than 256 characters result in dropped call and 'No closing bracket' warnings. (Reported by uniken1) * ASTERISK-23908 - [patch]When using FEC error correction, asterisk tries considers negative sequence numbers as missing (Reported by Torrey Searle) * ASTERISK-23921 - refcounter.py uses excessive ram for large refs files (Reported by Corey Farrell) * ASTERISK-23948 - REF_DEBUG fails to record ao2_ref against objects that were already freed (Reported by Corey Farrell) * ASTERISK-23984 - Infinite loop possible in ast_careful_fwrite() (Reported by Steve Davies) * ASTERISK-23897 - [patch]Change in SETUP ACK handling (checking PI) in revision 413765 breaks working environments (Reported by Pavel Troller) Improvements made in this release: ----------------------------------- * ASTERISK-23564 - [patch]TLS/SRTP status of channel not currently available in a CLI command (Reported by Patrick Laimbock) * ASTERISK-23492 - Add option to safe_asterisk to disable backgrounding (Reported by Walter Doekes) For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.29.0 Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!