The Asterisk Development Team announces the release of Asterisk 1.8.6.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.8.6.0 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:

• Fix an issue with Music on Hold classes losing files in playlist when realtime is used. (Closes issue ASTERISK-17875. Reported by David Cunningham. Patched by Igor Goncharovsky)

• Resolve a potential crash in chan_sip when utilizing auth= and performing a 'sip reload' from the console. (Closes issue ASTERISK-17939. Reported by wdoekes. Patched by Richard Mudgett)

• Address some improper sql statements in res_odbc that would cause an update to fail on realtime peers due to trying to set as "(NULL)" rather than an actual NULL. (Closes issue ASTERISK-17791. Reported by marcelloceschia. Patched by Tilghman Lesher)

• Resolve issue where 403 Forbidden would always be sent maximum number of times regardless to receipt of ACK. (Patched by Richard Mudgett)

• Resolve issue where if a call to MeetMe includes both the dynamic(D) and always request PIN(P) options, MeetMe will ask for the PIN two times: once for creating the conference and once for entering the conference. (Patched by Kinsey Moore)

• Fix New Zealand indications profile based on http://www.telepermit.co.nz/TNA102.pdf (Closes issue ASTERISK-16263. Reported, Patched by richardf)

• Segfault in shell_helper in func_shell.c (Closes issue ASTERISK-18109. Reported by Michael Myles, patched by Richard Mudgett)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.6.0