[asterisk-users] subject: 1.4 vs 1.6

[Miguel Molina]

Gergo Csibra escribió:
> 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 :)
>
>   
That sounds reasonable, but as I have seen through several years 
following the asterisk project, when 1.8.0 will be released it will be 
far less stable than the more used and mature 1.6.0.X, for example. I 
would prefer to do a middle step for upgrading, that would be 1.4.X - 
1.6.0.X - 1.8.X when it becomes really stable. Asterisk history has 
shown us that a newly released branch, no matter if it's LTS on the new 
release schema, will need time and a large user base that adopts it to 
report bugs and help stabilize it. I would not underestimate the actual 
1.6.X branches.

Just IMHO, any opinions welcome.

Cheers,

-- 
Ing. Miguel Molina
Grupo de Tecnología
Millenium Phone Center

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