[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk versions after the 1.2 release

[Matt Florell]

Hello,

Several of us were told that there would be a 1.0.10 release as the
final release of Asterisk 1.0 tree. There are several serious bugs in
the 1.0 tree that have been fixed in v1-0 cvs and it would be nice to
have this packaged as a release before the tree stops being accessible
on the CVS server.

If all that is needed is someone to do it, I volunteer to tar-gz it up
and call it a release.

Yes, I am using 1.2 on several Production servers right now, but I do
see the need for there to be a final release of 1.0 before it is
buried for good.

Thanks,

MATT---

On 11/21/05, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
> Friends in the Asterisk community,
>
> There have been a lot of questions about Asterisk version numbers on the
> mailing lists. Here's a clarification:
>
> * Executive summary
> -------------------
> - Asterisk 1.2 = RELEASE version (previously called "stable")
>     Asterisk 1.2.0 = First release of 1.2 (released now)
>     Asterisk 1.2.1 = Second release of 1.2 (not out yet)
> - Asterisk 1.0 = old version, not maintained any more
>     Asterisk 1.0.9 = Final release of Asterisk 1.0
> - Asterisk 1.3 = DEVELOPMENT code base, dangerous territory
>
>
>
> * Asterisk 1.2 is the RELEASE version
> -------------------------------------
> This version is maintained in the v1-2 CVS branch. The released code,
> that you want to use in production servers, is released as tar.gz
> archives on ftp.digium.com and mirrors. These reflect the tagged CVS
> code, the first tag in the 1.2 tree being v1-2-0. The next release will
> be version 1.2.1, consisting of updated code including bug fixes that
> has been done since the 1.2 release date. From the minute of the
> release, we've had a lot of interest in testing the new version and a
> constant flow of bug reports.
>
> You do not want to follow the v1-2 CVS tree in production, since it is
> changing quite a lot and not all changes are tested and stabilized.
> After testing, we product tar.gz archives that you want to use. Make
> sure you subscribe to the asterisk-announce mailing list to get updates
> if you do not follow the massive flow of messages in asterisk-users.
>
> For the 1.2 tree functionality is frozen. No new functionality is added
> to this code. The rule is that we only apply additional documentation
> and bug fixes to a release version.
>
> * Asterisk 1.0 is no longer maintained
> --------------------------------------
> The old release version, 1.0 is no longer maintained, apart from the
> possibility of serious security bugs that needs to be fixed. This code
> is over one year old now and we've successfully managed to avoid adding
> new functionality to it since the release in september 2004. Before
> filing a bug report for a 1.0 version, make sure you also test the 1.2
> version - a lot of things have been fixed in 1.2. If the bug exists in
> 1.2, go ahead and make a note in the bug report that it doesn't work in
> either version.
>
>
> * Asterisk 1.3 is the new development code base
> -----------------------------------------------
> "CVS head" is the name currently used for the development code base,
> which now is on version 1.3dev. This is the base for a future 1.4 RELEASE.
>
> During the development process of 1.3, we will move from CVS as a
> versioning system to "subversion", a new system used by many open source
> projects. "cvs head" will not be a useful name for 1.3dev for much longer.
>
> WARNING :: Be warned that developers will go crazy with this code after
> a long period of bug-fixing and release engineering with 1.2. New things
> will be added quickly, and this version may or may not work at all from
> time to time. A lot of quite large internal architectures changes will
> be implemented in 1.3. These will have to be tested and propably cause a
> lot of very interesting craches, from a coding perspective. From a user
> perspective, those crashes will not be interesting or fun at all. Avoid
> the development tree in production use.
>
> I hope this message clarifies the confusion a bit.
>
> Regards,
> /Olle
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