[asterisk-users] 1.6 and 1.8

[Eric Wieling]

The UPGRADE*.txt files included with the Asterisk tarballs give a nice summery of the major changes between each Asterisk verison.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Parker
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:28 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 1.6 and 1.8

On 12/28/2011 03:10 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> Can somebody point me to an explanation from Kevin or Tzafir or 
> someone else "up the food chain" explaining the differences/benefits 
> of 1.6/1.8 vs 1.4/10.0?
> 

Every branch (1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.8, 10) of Asterisk contains new features that previous branches did not have.  Many of these changes are documented in http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/10/CHANGES

Each branch of Asterisk has a lifecycle, which is documented at https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions.  As you can see,
1.8 and 10 are the currently supported branches.  1.4 and 1.6.2 are in security maintenance mode, which means that the only issues that will be fixed are security issues.  They will both be EOL in April 2012, and will no longer receive any updates.


Short version: If you aren't already using Asterisk 1.8 or higher, you really should be - and soon.

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