[asterisk-users] Old Asterisk Release wanting to upgrade ...

[Johan Wilfer]

2014-04-15 10:37, Lee, John (Sydney) skrev:
> Hello,
> I have been running Asterisk for the past 5+ years on RedHat and I never upgraded it before.
> All my Asterisk software is of the following release:
> 1) Asterisk 1.4.21.2
> 2) Libpri-1.4.4
> 3) Zaptel-1.4.11
> I would like to move the OS to CentOS and then I thought I can at the same time ponder about upgrading Asterisk releases.
> However, I am bewildered by the myriad of different releases like 1.6, 1.8, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x
> Can someone please give me some advice as to what release I should upgrade?
> Or should I just stick to 1.4.x and just upgrade DAHDI?
> Thanks.
> Regards,
> John Lee
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1.4, and 1.6-series have no support anymore. 1.8 is an LTS and have 
support currently, but this is also true for 11 and asterisk 11 will be 
supported longer.

You have the full list here:
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

I would go for Asterisk 11 in your case. You will have to think of it 
more like a migration than an upgrade thought, as a lot has happened 
since asterisk 1.4.

On a side-note, I still run some old installations with a current Dahdi 
+ Asterisk 1.4.44 and they work great together. There is the non-support 
catch however.

Good luck!

-- 
Johan Wilfer