[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6.2.18 Now Available

[Matt Riddell]

On 29/04/11 12:01 PM, Jan Bakuwel wrote:
> Rather than testing and finding issues that have already been resolved,
> I'd prefer to have an efficient way to upgrade Asterisk to released
> versions. A package system provides an efficient way to do this. The
> fact that something like packages.asterisk.org exists seems to prove my
> point. Upgrading the system obviously doesn't mean you won't have to do
> any testing but it should make the testing more efficient - at least for
> "stable" releases.

Each to their own - I find it easier to patch particular issues rather 
than potentially introduce new issues but hey :-)

Asterisk 1.6.2 won't be receiving any bug fixes though as it has gone to 
security only, so I wouldn't personally put it in production.

We're in a kinda interesting scenario - 1.4 is the most "stable" by far.

So if you're happy with the features in 1.4 that's what you should use 
for production.

If you're willing to do a little extra work right now then you should be 
going with 1.8 as it will be supported for quite some time (at least 
till October 2014).

See:

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

Series, Type 	Release Date 	Security Fix Only 	EOL
1.2.X, 	STD  	2005-11-21 	2007-08-07 	2010-11-21
1.4.X.,	LTS 	2006-12-23 	2011-04-21 	2012-04-21
1.6.0.X,STD 	2008-10-01 	2010-05-01 	2010-10-01
1.6.1.X,STD 	2009-04-27 	2010-05-01 	2011-04-27
1.6.2.X,STD 	2009-12-18 	2011-04-21 	2012-04-21
1.8.X,  LTS 	2010-10-21 	2014-10-21 	2015-10-21

Where STD is Standard and LTS is Long Term Support.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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