[asterisk-users] subject: 1.4 vs 1.6

[Gergo Csibra]

Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:56:50 PM, David wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Juan Sandro <juan.sandro at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>>
>> We are using asterisk 1.4 on all of our platforms for a while now.
>> Some of our partners recommended to use asterisk 1.6 in order to improve
>> overall stability and performance.
>>
>> Can someone please let me know if you have a such experience?
>> Also, do you have any other negative or positive comments on 1.6

> If it isn't broke, don't 'fix' it.

> There are benefits to 1.6, like dramatically enhanced SIP support,
> much faster dialplan processing, easier faxing, changes to dialplan
> syntax, and lots of other features. I would say the improvement of
> going to 1.6 is only if you are trying to expect more from the same
> gear, or want the new features. If you're not actually having
> problems, don't change anything.

Yes, and check this page:

http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-versions

as you can see, the 1.4 version is LTS, and the 1.6 isn't, but the
upcoming 1.8 will be LTS too. So don't change to 1.6 :)

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 Gergo                            mailto:csibra at gmail.com