[asterisk-users] Asterisk Release Time Frames

[Russell Bryant]

Greetings,

Asterisk 1.6.2.0 was released last week.  It's time to revisit release 
plans for both current and future Asterisk releases.

For the past few months, there have been discussions regarding some 
updates to Asterisk release policies.  You can find my original -dev 
list post on this topic here [1].

I also spoke about this as part of my presentation at AstriCon, which 
you can find a text version of on the Asterisk project blog [2].

After much positive feedback, we have proceeded with implementing these 
policy updates.  I made some additional comments on this topic and noted 
plans for next major release yesterday [3].

The key things to note are that all current Asterisk releases now have a 
specified end of life date.  Future releases will have EOL dates from 
their initial release.  For additional details regarding maintenance 
time frames for Asterisk releases, please see the project web site [4].

Thank you all very much for your continued support of Asterisk!

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[1] http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-October/040082.html

[2] 
http://blogs.asterisk.org/2009/11/10/asterisk-project-update-astricon-2009/

[3] http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-December/041336.html

[4] http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions

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Russell Bryant
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