Yesterday (December 17, 2014) Cisco has released a much-anticipated X8.5 update to their VCS/Expressway appliances. In addition to some cool new features (support for SSO to CUCM over MRA, CDR logging/reporting, media statistics, etc.), the update adds support for Early Media over MRA, which squishes two bugs that may affect your Jabber environment: CSCul52293 (“Edge calls are missing or have incorrect tones and announcements”) and CSCua72781 (“VCS does not forward early media on 183 or 180 with SDP”). Refer to the posted release notes for more information about this update.