[asterisk-biz] subject: 1.4 vs 1.6

[Juan Sandro]

Guys...thanks.. for your replies..
I found bellow.. and wonder if you have any comments...
Dear AllI have Asterisk 1.4 installed on my Debian server . I am considering upgrading my Asterisk to the latest version (1.6) . Can you please let me know what are the major benefits when upgrading from Asterisk 1.4 to Asterisk 1.6 ?
Please observe that there is no "1.6" version. Previous to 1.6.0, there was "1.0" and "1.2" and "1.4". Then the release policy changed and we had "1.6.0" and "1.6.1" and now (latest) "1.6.2". These three 1.6.x are all very, very different. 
Also note that none of these are LTS releases, something that was recently introduced. LTS is Long Term Support. 1.4 is classified as LTS, and the next LTS will be version 1.8 - yes, we're correcting the mistake and going back to the old way of numbering releases.
Personally, I see the 1.6.x releases as very experimental and don't recommend them for production use. 
In regards to changes, there has been a massive amount of changes, especially work done by the Digium dev team to rebuild the internal structure of Asterisk to support massive scalability and improve stability of Asterisk. The major new feature is of course faxing, that was introduced in 1.6.0 and has been improved in every release. Please download the new version and read the documentation that covers the CHANGES as well as instructions for upgrading your product.
As always, there's no reason to upgrade if there are no features you need. 1.4 is still a supported release.
Best regards,/Olle

> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:35:22 +0000
> From: acunningham at integrics.com
> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] subject: 1.4 vs 1.6
> 
> Juan,
> 
> We've recently moved from 1.4 to 1.6.1 for new Enswitch installations. 
> Existing customers are also gradually migrating over (even though we 
> don't require it), mostly for T.38 support. I would estimate that 8 to 
> 10 production carrier Enswitch systems have been migrated so far. We did 
> have one customer go back to 1.4 due to carrier compatibility problems, 
> but most of the reports have been positive.
> 
> We're happy with 1.6.1.12 and this is the version we're rolling out on 
> new installs. 1.6.1.13 to 1.6.1.16 are not suitable for Enswitch due to 
> bug #16581, but we've been told that this will be fixed in 1.6.1.17 so 
> we'll test that when it's out and if suitable move to it.
> 
> Alistair Cunningham
> +1 888 468 3111
> +44 20 799 39 799
> http://integrics.com/
 		 	   		  
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