Asterisk 1.8.5-rc1 Now Available

The release of Asterisk 1.8.5-rc1 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 candidate:

• Fix Deadlock with attended transfer of SIP call
  (Closes issue #18837. Reported, patched by alecdavis. Tested by Irontec, ZX81,
  cmaj)
• Fixes thread blocking issue in the sip TCP/TLS implementation.
  (Closes issue #18497. Reported by vois. Patched by dvossel. Tested by vois,
  rossbeer, kowalma, Freddi_Fonet)
• Be more tolerant of what URI we accept for call completion PUBLISH requests.
  (Closes issue #18946. Reported by GeorgeKonopacki. Patched by mmichelson)
• Fix a nasty chanspy bug which was causing a channel leak every time a spied on
  channel made a call.
  (Closes issue #18742. Reported by jkister. Tested by jcovert, jrose)
• This patch fixes a bug with MeetMe behavior where the 'P' option for always
  prompting for a pin is ignored for the first caller.
  (Closes issue #18070. Reported by mav3rick. Patched by bbryant)
• Fix issue where Asterisk does not hangup a channel after endpoint hangs up. If
  the call that the dialplan started an AGI script for is hungup while the AGI
  script is in the middle of a command then the AGI script is not notified of
  the hangup.
  (Closes issue #17954, #18492. Reported by mn3250, devmod. Patched by rmudgett)
• Resolve issue where leaving a voicemail, the MWI message is never sent. The
  same thing happens when checking a voicemail and marking it as read.
  (Closes issue ASTERISK-18002. Reported by Leif Madsen. Resolved by Richard
  Mudgett)
• Resolve issue where wait for leader with Music On Hold allows crosstalk
  between participants. Parenthesis in the wrong position. Regression from issue
  #14365 when expanding conference flags to use 64 bits.
  (Closes issue #18418. Reported by MrHanMan. Patched by rmudgett)
• Fix timerfd locking issue.
  (Closes ASTERISK-17867, ASTERISK-17415. Patched by kobaz)

For a full list of changes in this release candidate, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.5-rc1
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!