Asterisk Release Candidate 20.17.0-rc1

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The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce
release candidate 1 of asterisk-20.17.0.

The release artifacts are available for immediate download at

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Repository: GitHub - asterisk/asterisk: The official Asterisk Project repository.
Tag: 20.17.0-rc1

This release resolves issues reported by the community
and would have not been possible without your participation.

Thank You!

Change Log for Release asterisk-20.17.0-rc1

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Summary:

  • Commits: 51
  • Commit Authors: 16
  • Issues Resolved: 33
  • Security Advisories Resolved: 0

User Notes:

  • res_stir_shaken: Add STIR_SHAKEN_ATTESTATION dialplan function.

    The STIR_SHAKEN_ATTESTATION dialplan function has been added
    which will allow suppressing attestation on a call-by-call basis
    regardless of the profile attached to the outgoing endpoint.

  • func_channel: Allow R/W of ADSI CPE capability setting.

    CHANNEL(adsicpe) can now be read or written to change
    the channels’ ADSI CPE capability setting.

  • func_hangupcause.c: Add access to Reason headers via HANGUPCAUSE()

    Added a new option to HANGUPCAUSE to access additional
    information about hangup reason. Reason headers from pjsip
    could be read using ‘tech_extended’ cause type.

  • func_math: Add DIGIT_SUM function.

    The DIGIT_SUM function can be used to return the digit sum of
    a number.

  • app_sf: Add post-digit timer option to ReceiveSF.

    The ‘t’ option for ReceiveSF now allows for a timer since
    the last digit received, in addition to the number-wide timeout.

  • app_dial: Allow fractional seconds for dial timeouts.

    The answer and progress dial timeouts now have millisecond
    precision, instead of having to be whole numbers.

  • chan_dahdi: Add DAHDI_CHANNEL function.

    The DAHDI_CHANNEL function allows for getting/setting
    certain properties about DAHDI channels from the dialplan.

Upgrade Notes:

  • pjsip: Move from threadpool to taskpool

    The threadpool_* options in pjsip.conf have now
    been deprecated though they continue to be read and used.
    They have been replaced with taskpool options that give greater
    control over the underlying taskpool used for PJSIP. An alembic
    upgrade script has been added to add these options to realtime
    as well.

  • res_audiosocket: add message types for all slin sample rates

    New audiosocket message types 0x11 - 0x18 has been added
    for slin12, slin16, slin24, slin32, slin44, slin48, slin96, and
    slin192 audio. External applications using audiosocket may need to be
    updated to support these message types if the audiosocket channel is
    created with one of these audio formats.

  • taskpool: Add taskpool API, switch Stasis to using it.

    The threadpool_* options in stasis.conf have now been deprecated
    though they continue to be read and used. They have been replaced with taskpool
    options that give greater control over the underlying taskpool used for stasis.

Developer Notes:

  • chan_pjsip: Add technology-specific off-nominal hangup cause to events.

    A “tech_cause” parameter has been added to the
    ChannelHangupRequest and ChannelDestroyed ARI event messages and a “TechCause”
    parameter has been added to the HangupRequest, SoftHangupRequest and Hangup
    AMI event messages. For chan_pjsip, these will be set to the last SIP
    response status code for off-nominally terminated calls. The parameter is
    suppressed for nominal termination.

  • ARI: The bridges play and record APIs now handle sample rates > 8K correctly.

    The ARI /bridges/play and /bridges/record REST APIs have new
    parameters that allow the caller to specify the format to be used on the
    “Announcer” and “Recorder” channels respecitvely.

  • taskpool: Add taskpool API, switch Stasis to using it.

    The taskpool API has been added for common usage of a
    pool of taskprocessors. It is suggested to use this API instead of the
    threadpool+taskprocessor approach.

Commit Authors:

  • Anthony Minessale: (1)
  • Bastian Triller: (1)
  • Ben Ford: (1)
  • Christoph Moench-Tegeder: (1)
  • Gauravs456: (1)
  • George Joseph: (8)
  • Igor Goncharovsky: (1)
  • Joshua C. Colp: (8)
  • Max Grobecker: (1)
  • Nathan Monfils: (1)
  • Naveen Albert: (17)
  • Phoneben: (2)
  • Roman Pertsev: (1)
  • Sean Bright: (3)
  • Sven Kube: (3)
  • Tinet-Mucw: (1)