[asterisk-users] Major changes between 1.4/1.6.1.8/10?

[Richard Mudgett]

> >No, unfortunately that's not quite correct. The UPGRADE files list
> >*important* changes that users need to know about because they are
> >changes in behavior of existing functionality. New features, even
> >really
> >useful and widely anticipated ones, that don't cause backwards
> >compatibility issues are only listed in the CHANGES files. For
> >example,
> >the addition of T.38 gateway support in Asterisk 10 only appears in
> >CHANGES, not UPGRADE, because if you don't use it, it doesn't affect
> >you.
> 
> Thanks for the tip. However, the CHANGES fille is just a dump of
> every
> single change that was made with each release, so it's hard to tell
> why a user should upgrade to the next major release (eg. 1.6 to 1.8).

The CHANGES file is not just a dump.  It is a manually created file that
documents each feature addition.  There is a ChangeLog file that is a dump
of every single commit made to the source file.

Richard