[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Release Maintenance News

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Not to quibble, but it's the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT, or 
GATech), not Georgia Tech University (GTU). That's a bit like calling 
MIT 'Massachusetts Tech University.'

We alumni take that sort of thing very seriously. ;)

N.


The Asterisk Development Team wrote:
> Greetings Asterisk Enthusiasts,
>
> Last week, about 50 developers gathered in Atlanta, GA, USA at the
> Georgia Tech University's Information Security Center (GTISC) for a week
> of discussion about the future of Asterisk.  One of the topics that came
> up was the future of the existing Asterisk release branches.
>
> Asterisk 1.2 was released in the Fall of 2005.  At this time, Asterisk
> 1.0 was put into security maintenance, meaning that it only received
> changes to fix security issues, and not changes intended to fix less
> severe issues.
>
> Asterisk 1.4 was released in the Fall of 2006.  At this time, Asterisk
> 1.0 became officially unsupported.  However, we continued to fully
> maintain Asterisk 1.2.  Now that Asterisk 1.4 has been out for about 5
> months, we are taking steps toward moving Asterisk 1.2 to security
> maintenance only.  We plan on aiming for this to happen on August 1st, 
> 2007.
>
> What does this mean for you?
>
> It means that if you are using Asterisk 1.2, you should start
> considering a plan for upgrading your servers to Asterisk 1.4.  Asterisk
> 1.2 is not going away anytime soon.  You can expect that Asterisk 1.2
> will be maintained for security issues until Asterisk 1.6 is released,
> and most likely longer than that.  However, some time after Asterisk 1.6
> is available, Asterisk 1.2 will become officially deprecated and no
> longer supported with fixes of any kind from the core Asterisk
> development community.
>
> We ask that you please work with us to help ensure that Asterisk 1.4 is
> a stable platform for your telephony needs.  If you find a bug, please
> work with the development community to help get it resolved.  After all,
> this is a community project!  Remember, before creating a bug report on
> http://bugs.digium.com/, check to make sure there isn't already a report
> for the same problem.
>
> The development team is very dedicated to fixing bugs and maintaining
> feature frozen releases.  Our maintenance of the Asterisk 1.2 series for
> over a year and a half is a testament to this.  We are going to work
> very hard over the next couple of months to help ensure that Asterisk
> 1.4 is the best Asterisk release series yet.
>
> Thank you for your patience and understanding as we move forward with
> Asterisk development, and as always, thank you very much for your 
> support!
>
> -- 
> The Asterisk.org Development Team
>
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