# Release Summary - asterisk-1.8.4-rc1

# Release Summary

### asterisk-1.8.4-rc1

### Date: 2011-02-23

### <asteriskteam@digium.com>

## Table of Contents

1. Summary
2. Contributors
3. Closed Issues
4. Other Changes
5. Diffstat

## Summary

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This release includes only bug fixes. The changes included were made only to address problems that have been identified in this release series. Users should be able to safely upgrade to this version if this release series is already in use. Users considering upgrading from a previous release series are strongly encouraged to review the UPGRADE.txt document as well as the CHANGES document for information about upgrading to this release series.

The data in this summary reflects changes that have been made since the previous release, asterisk-1.8.3.

## Contributors

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This table lists the people who have submitted code, those that have tested patches, as well as those that reported issues on the issue tracker that were resolved in this release. For coders, the number is how many of their patches (of any size) were committed into this release. For testers, the number is the number of times their name was listed as assisting with testing a patch. Finally, for reporters, the number is the number of issues that they reported that were closed by commits that went into this release.

### Coders

### Testers

### Reporters

18 rmudgett
13 lathama
13 qwell
12 tilghman
8 jpeeler
6 russell
5 seanbright
5 twilson
4 may
4 mmichelson
4 mnicholson
4 pabelanger
2 cmaj
2 jcovert
2 lmadsen
2 zaltar
1 alexo
1 bbryant
1 bluecrow76
1 cjacobsen
1 clegall
1 crjw
1 fnordian
1 gbour
1 kkm
1 kobaz
1 kshumard
1 one47
1 rgagnon
1 thedavidfactor
1 wdoekes
1 whizemen

9 rmudgett
2 mmichelson
2 seanbright
2 tilghman
2 wimpy
1 alexo
1 andrel
1 asgaroth
1 bklang
1 cmaj
1 efutch
1 enegaard
1 ernied
1 francesco_r
1 kkm
1 lathama
1 lathama bas
1 loloski
1 oej
1 one47
1 qwell
1 rfrantik
1 russell
1 wedhorn

2 cmaj
2 GeorgeKonopacki
2 jcovert
2 zaltar
1 alecdavis
1 alexo
1 bas
1 bklang
1 bluecrow76
1 bluefox
1 clegall_proformatique
1 edhorton
1 ernied
1 francesco_r
1 gbour
1 gelo
1 gincantalupo
1 grecco
1 imcdona
1 irroot
1 iskatel
1 jacco
1 JJCinAZ
1 job
1 junky
1 kenji
1 kerframil
1 kkm
1 kobaz
1 kshumard
1 marioabajo
1 mcallist
1 notahat
1 oej
1 one47
1 pabelanger
1 pj
1 rgagnon
1 shawkris
1 shihchuan
1 thedavidfactor
1 var
1 vrban
1 wdoekes
1 whizemen
1 wimpy

## Closed Issues

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This is a list of all issues from the issue tracker that were closed by changes that went into this release.

### Category: Applications/app_dial

#18264: [patch] Dail L(x) shows "Setting call duration limit to x seconds" in CLI
Revision: 302918
Reporter: jacco
Coders: lmadsen
#18379: attended transfer weird behaviour
Revision: 302713
Reporter: gincantalupo
Testers: rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett

### Category: Applications/app_meetme

#17317: MeetMe 'L' and 'S' ignore 'C' option
Revision: 304774
Reporter: var
Coders: seanbright
#18225: [patch] Segfault with new meetme function (count callers in menu8)
Revision: 304730
Reporter: kenji
Testers: seanbright
Coders: seanbright
#18343: [patch] [regression] meetme conf_run leaks refs
Revision: 304777
Reporter: kobaz
Coders: kobaz
#18444: [patch] leak in meetme
Revision: 304727
Reporter: junky
Testers: seanbright
Coders: seanbright

### Category: Applications/app_queue

#18499: [patch] Fallthrough in get_member_status can cause unwarranted exit from queue
Revision: 306356
Reporter: zaltar
Coders: zaltar
#18747: [regression] changeset 298596 harm the ring/moh logic in queues
Revision: 308010
Reporter: vrban
Coders: qwell

### Category: Applications/app_voicemail

#18486: [patch] Voicemail files out of sequence
Revision: 303678
Reporter: bluefox
Coders: jpeeler
#18498: [patch] [regression] Resequencing of mailbox not working as expected.
Revision: 303678
Reporter: JJCinAZ
Coders: jpeeler

### Category: Applications/app_voicemail/IMAP

#17870: [patch] greetingsfolder variable should be greetingfolder
Revision: 302834
Reporter: edhorton
Coders: lmadsen
#18718: [regression] Implicit declaration of copy yields broken app_voicemail when building with IMAP support
Revision: 306962
Reporter: kerframil
Coders: jpeeler

### Category: Channels/General

#18585: [patch] AMI redirect from meetme - calls fail
Revision: 303549
Reporter: oej
Testers: oej, wedhorn, russell
Coders: russell

### Category: Channels/chan_dahdi

#17085: [patch] [regression] Overlap dialing to PSTN failing after #16789
Revision: 303771
Reporter: shawkris
Testers: wimpy, rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#17273: atxfer *2 channel dahdi FXS no hangup
Revision: 302174
Reporter: grecco
Testers: rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#18509: [patch] Sending out unnecessary PROCEEDING messages breaks overlap dialing
Revision: 303771
Reporter: wimpy
Testers: wimpy, rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#18874: [patch] sig_pri_new_ast_channel should return NULL when new_ast_channel fails to create a channel
Revision: 308622
Reporter: cmaj
Coders: cmaj

### Category: Channels/chan_iax2

#18162: [patch] deny=all in iax.conf results in segmentation fault
Revision: 304638
Reporter: imcdona
Testers: enegaard
Coders: pabelanger
#18194: [patch] Loading chan_iax2.so allocates >100M RSS
Revision: 304950
Reporter: job
Testers: tilghman
Coders: tilghman
#18545: [patch] IAX Incorrectly reports IAX/Registry astdb host:port invalid
Revision: 305692
Reporter: jcovert
Coders: jcovert

### Category: Channels/chan_local

#18238: [patch] can't have a conversation between two users if the only allowed codec is speex16.
Revision: 302412
Reporter: whizemen
Coders: whizemen

### Category: Channels/chan_sip/General

#16675: "sip show peer/user <tab>" doesn't complete correctly
Revision: 303860
Reporter: pj
Coders: tilghman
#18371: [patch] asterisk crash when dialing SIP/${var} where var is empty or not set
Revision: 305254
Reporter: gbour
Coders: gbour
#18491: [patch] fix SIP indicate deadlocks when lots of state changes
Revision: 306215
Reporter: cmaj
Testers: cmaj
Coders: cmaj
#18640: [patch] Potential malfunction due to unitialized local variable
Revision: 302414
Reporter: jcovert
Coders: jcovert

### Category: Channels/chan_sip/Subscriptions

#18336: [branch] No response is received if we try to subscribe for call completion after we have received a 180 Ringing
Revision: 307879
Reporter: GeorgeKonopacki
Testers: mmichelson, rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#18337: (Call Completion / SIP) Asterisk Server Fails To Send A Response To A Re-Subscribe After The Expires Timer Matures
Revision: 307879
Reporter: GeorgeKonopacki
Testers: mmichelson, rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett

### Category: Core/General

#18515: [patch] Asterisk produces many zombie processes while under load.
Revision: 302634
Reporter: ernied
Testers: ernied
Coders: tilghman
#18580: [patch] Using 'asterisk -r' no longer displays welcome_message
Revision: 307092
Reporter: pabelanger
Coders: qwell
#18758: [patch] astobj2.c does not report ref changes during internal_ao2_callback for refcounter util
Revision: 307273
Reporter: rgagnon
Coders: rgagnon
#18776: [patch] asterisk -rx 'core show version' returns an ANSI string, which is not evaluated correctly with debian init.d script.
Revision: 307314
Reporter: alecdavis
Testers: andrel, lathama
Coders: lathama

### Category: Core/ManagerInterface

#18363: [patch] bad format in post_manager_event() i.e. ParkedCallGiveUp and ParkedCallTimeOut
Revision: 302552
Reporter: clegall_proformatique
Coders: clegall

### Category: Core/Netsock

#16135: [patch] ast_gethostbyname doesn't set h_length if argument is an IP Address
Revision: 302505
Reporter: thedavidfactor
Coders: thedavidfactor

### Category: Core/PBX

#17999: Issues with DTMF triggered attended transfers
Revision: 302174
Reporter: iskatel
Testers: rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#18310: [patch] hint state changes deadlock/race
Revision: 302266
Reporter: one47
Coders: one47

### Category: Documentation

#18443: [patch] doc/tex dir removed, but corresponding entries in Makefile & README still exists
Revision: 305560
Reporter: bas
Testers: lathama bas
Coders: lathama
#18622: [patch] Remove reference to "priorityjumping" configuration option in extensions.conf.sample
Revision: 302417
Reporter: kshumard
Coders: kshumard

### Category: Features

#18395: C should not receive request call again after C cancel if B blind transfer using atxfer call C
Revision: 302174
Reporter: shihchuan
Testers: rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett

### Category: Features/Parking

#17946: [patch] Minor fixes to multiparking
Revision: 307228
Reporter: bluecrow76
Coders: bluecrow76

### Category: Formats/format_wav

#16610: [patch] [OpenSolaris] wav format produces garbage files
Revision: 304097
Reporter: bklang
Testers: bklang, asgaroth, efutch
Coders: crjw

### Category: Functions/func_env

#18731: [path] func_env.c FILE estatement left file descriptors open
Revision: 305844
Reporter: marioabajo
Coders: tilghman

### Category: Functions/func_odbc

#18795: [patch] func_odbc insertsql option may not work
Revision: 307837
Reporter: irroot
Testers: tilghman
Coders: tilghman

### Category: General

#18042: [patch] inefficient strlen() in ast_uri_decode loop
Revision: 302555
Reporter: wdoekes
Coders: wdoekes
#18456: [patch] Asterisk HTTP response contains wrong Content-type
Revision: 305083
Reporter: alexo
Testers: alexo
Coders: alexo

### Category: PBX/pbx_ael

#18729: [patch] [regression] Dial() and Queue() with a macro argument are broken by AEL macro compilation change
Revision: 307750
Reporter: kkm
Testers: kkm
Coders: tilghman, kkm

### Category: Resources/res_agi

#16032: [patch] AGI returns bogus "510 Invalid or unknown command"
Revision: 302549
Reporter: notahat
Coders: fnordian

### Category: Resources/res_config_ldap

#18435: [patch] Memory leak in res_config_ldap when using realtime
Revision: 304866
Reporter: zaltar
Coders: zaltar

### Category: Resources/res_features

#17096: C keeps ringing when hanging A and B after blind transfer using atxfer
Revision: 302174
Reporter: gelo
Testers: rmudgett
Coders: rmudgett
#18262: [patch] No MOH When Call Parked
Revision: 303107
Reporter: francesco_r
Testers: francesco_r, rfrantik, one47
Coders: cjacobsen

### Category: Resources/res_musiconhold

#18457: [patch] moh reload leaks file descriptors to dahdi timing channel
Revision: 305473
Reporter: mcallist
Testers: qwell, loloski
Coders: qwell

## Commits Not Associated with an Issue

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This is a list of all changes that went into this release that did not directly close an issue from the issue tracker. The commits may have been marked as being related to an issue. If that is the case, the issue numbers are listed here, as well.

Revision | Author | Summary | Issues Referenced
302267 | russell | Don't enable AO2_DEBUG by default if AST_DEVMODE is on. |
302314 | mnicholson | URI encode the user part of the contact header. |
302318 | rmudgett | Use the expanded format type instead of plain int. |
302462 | pabelanger | Handle 'Resource temporarily unavailable' error more gracefully. |
302600 | qwell | Fix typo pointed out on asterisk-users list. |
302680 | tilghman | Add some API documentation |
302785 | russell | Resolve a memory leak with the manager interface is disabled. |
302789 | russell | Turn a noisy verbose message into a debug message. |
302831 | pabelanger | Add binutils-dev for BETTER_BACKTRACES |
302837 | russell | Only check container count if it exists. |
302921 | russell | Resolve a compiler warning. |
303009 | jpeeler | Add new queue strategy to preserve behavior for when queue members moved to ao2. |
303153 | rmudgett | Merged revision 303098 from |
303286 | qwell | Reset configuration before parsing users.conf. |
303375 | qwell | Temporarily revert r303286 |
303467 | qwell | Reset configuration before parsing users.conf. |
303907 | mnicholson | Reimplemented fax session reservation to reverse the ABI breakage introduced in r297486. |
303962 | twilson | Guard against retransmitting BYEs indefinitely |
304007 | rmudgett | DTMF attended transfers sometimes fail for no apparent reason. |
304150 | rmudgett | Update documentation for DAHDISendCallreroutingFacility() application. |
304186 | seanbright | Make sure the sample queues.conf is properly commented. |
304245 | mnicholson | This patch modifies chan_sip to route responses to the address the request came from. It also modifies chan_sip to respect the maddr parameter in the Via header. |
304251 | mmichelson | Get rid of unused 'verbose' field in ast_udptl |
304339 | jpeeler | Change delimiter used internally for GOTO_ON_BLINDXFR to commas to match 76703. |
304462 | qwell | Rerun bootstrap.sh with no changes, so that it is more obvious what my next commit changes. |
304466 | qwell | Fix default prefix=/usr regression on non-Linux systems. | #17013
304554 | rmudgett | Warning message if CALLCOMPLETION(cc_callback_macro or cc_agent_dialstring) are empty. |
304683 | seanbright | Don't leak references if we can't create a pseudo channel for mixing in MeetMe. |
304908 | lathama | Add Function and Application Relationships to documentation |
304985 | tilghman | Fix compilation when ODBC_STORAGE is defined. |
305040 | tilghman | Use the non-specific API aliases, to avoid a problem with building the utils directory. |
305131 | qwell | Set file descriptors to -1 on creation, so that we don't see weirdness later. |
305198 | qwell | Fix compile error. pseudofd no longer exists. |
305247 | qwell | Add alternative name for config option. |
305343 | rmudgett | Obtain the pri lock for PRI queue counters. |
305603 | bbryant | Add a possible solution to a customer problem with reloading cel_pgsql.so |
305649 | lathama | SIP Configuration Documentation |
305753 | lathama | Replace link to old doc with new wiki page. |
305798 | lathama | Replacing doc/* with wiki links |
305838 | lathama | Replacing doc/* and asterisk.pdf with wiki links |
305923 | rmudgett | Minor AST_FRAME_TEXT related issues. |
305987 | lathama | res_phoneprov add snom 300, 320, 360, 370, 820, 821, 870 support | #18713
306124 | jpeeler | Set exception on channel in parking thread when POLLPRI event detected. |
306127 | twilson | Set hangup cause in local_hangup |
306324 | rmudgett | Don't send redirecting updates to the caller if the dialplan forked the call. |
306575 | mmichelson | Rearrange a bit of code in the generic CC recall operation. |
306619 | twilson | Don't allow a REFER w/replaces to replace its own dialog |
306674 | twilson | Don't try to pickup a call in the middle of a masquerade |
306826 | lathama | Documentation Updates. | #16505
306866 | jpeeler | make this safer and fully correct, pointed out by Steve Davis |
306967 | jpeeler | fix this line again |
306979 | twilson | Fix comparison for REFER Replaces tags with pedantic=yes |
306999 | lathama | Documentation Updates | #16505
307065 | mmichelson | Add a couple of useful channel variables for the CC recall macro. |
307142 | tilghman | Initialize tracking variable in structure properly. Fixes a memory leak. |
307467 | mmichelson | Fix a gaffe in the CCSS sample configuration. |
307509 | may | Corrections for properly work with H.323v2 (older) endpoints and other |
307536 | qwell | Remove color when executing commands via a remote console. | #18776
307793 | tilghman | Increment usage count at first reference, to avoid a race condition with many threads creating connections all at once. | #18156
307962 | rmudgett | Don't crash when forcing caller id. |
307970 | may | include tcp keepalive socket calls only on linux, freebsd and others |
308098 | may | ifdef __linux__ keepalive variables also |
308150 | pabelanger | Fix FreeBSD builds. |
308242 | may | added g729onlyA option for announce only AnnexA g.729 codec in |
308288 | tilghman | A few more (copies of) files to ignore in this directory. |
308330 | lathama | Add CSS MIME Type |
308393 | lathama | Add HTTP URI Debug logging and update notice |
308416 | mnicholson | Properly check the bounds of arrays when decoding UDPTL packets. Also, remove broken support for receiving UDPTL packets larger than 16k. That shouldn't ever happen anyway. |
308526 | lathama | Use ast_debug for console logging |

## Diffstat Results

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This is a summary of the changes to the source code that went into this release that was generated using the diffstat utility.

    .cleancount                               |    2
    CHANGES                                   |   30 -
    Makefile                                  |    6
    README                                    |    8
    UPGRADE.txt                               |    4
    addons/chan_ooh323.c                      |   44 +
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooCalls.h              |    1
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooSocket.c             |   12
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooStackCmds.c          |    3
    addons/ooh323c/src/oochannels.c           |   11
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooh245.c               |    7
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooh323.c               |   75 +-
    addons/ooh323c/src/ooq931.c               |   37 -
    addons/ooh323cDriver.c                    |   12
    addons/ooh323cDriver.h                    |    2
    apps/app_dial.c                           |   54 +
    apps/app_externalivr.c                    |    2
    apps/app_meetme.c                         |   45 +
    apps/app_privacy.c                        |    2
    apps/app_queue.c                          |  194 ++++++
    apps/app_sendtext.c                       |    2
    apps/app_voicemail.c                      |   56 +
    cel/cel_pgsql.c                           |   10
    channels/chan_dahdi.c                     |   37 -
    channels/chan_iax2.c                      |    2
    channels/chan_local.c                     |    5
    channels/chan_sip.c                       |  152 ++++-
    channels/sig_pri.c                        |  274 +++++++--
    channels/sig_pri.h                        |   25
    channels/sig_ss7.c                        |   48 +
    channels/sig_ss7.h                        |   26
    channels/sip/include/reqresp_parser.h     |   40 +
    channels/sip/include/sip.h                |   11
    channels/sip/reqresp_parser.c             |  272 ++++++---
    configs/asterisk.conf.sample              |    4
    configs/ccss.conf.sample                  |    6
    configs/chan_dahdi.conf.sample            |    4
    configs/dundi.conf.sample                 |    2
    configs/extconfig.conf.sample             |    4
    configs/extensions.conf.sample            |    8
    configs/h323.conf.sample                  |    5
    configs/iax.conf.sample                   |    2
    configs/iaxprov.conf.sample               |    2
    configs/mgcp.conf.sample                  |    2
    configs/phoneprov.conf.sample             |    3
    configs/queues.conf.sample                |    2
    configs/res_snmp.conf.sample              |    3
    configs/sip.conf.sample                   |   11
    configs/skinny.conf.sample                |    5
    configs/sla.conf.sample                   |   10
    configs/unistim.conf.sample               |    2
    configs/voicemail.conf.sample             |    2
    configure.ac                              |    8
    contrib/scripts/install_prereq            |    2
    doc/asterisk.8                            |  498 +++++++++-------
    doc/asterisk.sgml                         |  879 +++++++++++++++---------------
    funcs/func_callcompletion.c               |    4
    funcs/func_enum.c                         |    2
    funcs/func_env.c                          |    6
    funcs/func_odbc.c                         |    5
    funcs/func_realtime.c                     |   30 +
    include/asterisk/astdb.h                  |   27
    include/asterisk/ccss.h                   |   23
    include/asterisk/channel.h                |   23
    include/asterisk/doxygen/mantisworkflow.h |    3
    include/asterisk/lock.h                   |   61 +-
    include/asterisk/manager.h                |    2
    include/asterisk/res_fax.h                |   22
    main/acl.c                                |   20
    main/app.c                                |   61 +-
    main/ast_expr2.fl                         |    2
    main/ast_expr2f.c                         |    2
    main/asterisk.c                           |    2
    main/astobj2.c                            |    8
    main/ccss.c                               |   86 ++
    main/channel.c                            |   40 +
    main/config.c                             |    2
    main/features.c                           |   59 +-
    main/file.c                               |   10
    main/heap.c                               |    6
    main/http.c                               |   14
    main/lock.c                               |  494 +++++++++-------
    main/logger.c                             |   18
    main/manager.c                            |    8
    main/pbx.c                                |  180 +++---
    main/tcptls.c                             |    2
    main/udptl.c                              |   53 -
    main/utils.c                              |    6
    phoneprov/snom-mac.xml                    |   24
    res/res_agi.c                             |    4
    res/res_calendar.c                        |   30 +
    res/res_config_ldap.c                     |    6
    res/res_fax.c                             |   65 +-
    res/res_musiconhold.c                     |    6
    res/res_odbc.c                            |   11
    res/res_srtp.c                            |    2
    res/res_timing_dahdi.c                    |    2
    res/res_timing_timerfd.c                  |    2
    98 files changed, 2809 insertions(+), 1599 deletions(-)