[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 15 Beta Released

[Matt Fredrickson]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Dan Jenkins <dan.jenkins88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Matt Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It is with great pleasure I wish to inform you of the first beta
>> release of the new Asterisk 15 branch. It's a very exciting time to be
>> a user of Asterisk! Asterisk 15 is arguably the biggest release of
>> Asterisk that has happened in the last 10 or so years. There has been
>> a lot of work done in the Asterisk core to better support newer
>> multi-stream video and WebRTC related technologies.  For those who are
>> interested, much of this will be covered in blog posts at
>> http://blogs.asterisk.org/ over the next month or two.
>>
>> Typically, when a new major branch of Asterisk is created (13, 14,
>> 15...), there are a few months of testing on the new branch that
>> occurs prior to release in order to find regressions and other issues
>> that may cause a first official release from the branch to be dead on
>> arrival for a significant number of users. With today's release of
>> 15.0.0-beta1, this process has begun. Please feel free to start
>> testing this version of Asterisk in as many adverse environments as
>> possible. Any bugs should be reported on the Asterisk issue tracker at
>> https://issues.asterisk.org/
>>
>> As a side note, due to many of the core changes in the 15 branch that
>> have been made since Asterisk 14 was released, it has been decided
>> that Asterisk 15 will not be an LTS release. For those of you who are
>> not familiar with the differences between LTS versus standard
>> releases, you can find more information here [1].
>>
>> Thanks to all the many Asterisk community members for providing so
>> much help and support to make Asterisk the great open source project
>> that it is.
>>
>> P.S. Binary codecs and other modules distributed by Digium are not
>> immediately available for 15.0.0-beta1, but should be shortly.
>>
>> Best wishes to all, and happy testing!
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Fredrickson
>> Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager
>> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>>
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>
> After talking to Sean McCord about this, I realised you didn't say anything
> about releasing a new LTS; which you don't _have_ to do but personally I
> have clients who are looking to use new features in 14 under an LTS and
> that's what we were expecting - I'm sure there are businesses out there that
> still want an LTS to move to.
>
> The reason we are all expecting an LTS is because of this line in the wiki
> on the page you linked to "New releases of Asterisk will be made roughly
> once a year, alternating between standard and LTS releases."
> (https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions)
>
> I'd like to propose that we make 14.6 (or later) the LTS in a similar
> fashion to how other communities are now promoting versions to LTS mid cycle
> (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS). That way you get to release all the
> exciting things that are in 15 but as a community we get LTS support on
> everything thats now in 14 - as we know, some businesses will not move to a
> non LTS and I think it would be a real shame to not get particular
> organisations moved over to using some of the great things that have been
> added in 14.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts?

Just wanted to let you know that I've seen this, only I've been quite
busy with a few other things and haven't had time to think and decide
what my thoughts are.

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson
Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA