The Asterisk Development Team has announced the second release candidate of Asterisk 1.4.42. This release candidate is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Please note that Asterisk 1.4.42 will be the final maintenance release from the 1.4 branch. Support for security related issues will continue for one  additional year. For more information about support of the various Asterisk branches, see https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

The release of Asterisk 1.4.42-rc2 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:

* Resolve regression with ring groups in the Dial() application
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17874. Reported by mspuhler. Patched by elguero)

* Resolve deadlock when using tab completion on the 'meetme kick' CLI command
   when an invalid (non-existent) conference room is specified.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17771. Reported, patched by zvision)

* Resolve issue where voice frames could be dropped when checking for T.38
   during early media.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17705. Reported, patched by oej)

* Resolve issue where DYNAMIC_FEATURES would not activate after a recent
   DTMF fix.
   (Closes issue ASTERISK-17914. Reported by vrban. Patched by twilson)

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

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.4.42-rc2

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!