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<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); line-height: 14px; ">Guys...thanks.. for your replies..</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#141414" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#141414" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px;"><div>I found bellow.. and wonder if you have any comments...</div><div><br></div><div><div>Dear All</div><div>I have Asterisk 1.4 installed on my Debian server . I am considering </div><div>upgrading my Asterisk to the latest version (1.6) . Can you please let me </div><div>know what are the major benefits when upgrading from Asterisk 1.4 to Asterisk </div><div>1.6 ?</div><div><br></div><div>Please observe that there is no "1.6" version. Previous to 1.6.0, there was </div><div>"1.0" and "1.2" and "1.4". Then the release policy changed and we had "1.6.0" </div><div>and "1.6.1" and now (latest) "1.6.2". These three 1.6.x are all very, very </div><div>different. </div><div><br></div><div>Also note that none of these are LTS releases, something that was recently </div><div>introduced. LTS is Long Term Support. 1.4 is classified as LTS, and the next </div><div>LTS will be version 1.8 - yes, we're correcting the mistake and going back to </div><div>the old way of numbering releases.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I see the 1.6.x releases as very experimental and don't recommend </div><div>them for production use. </div><div><br></div><div>In regards to changes, there has been a massive amount of changes, especially </div><div>work done by the Digium dev team to rebuild the internal structure of Asterisk </div><div>to support massive scalability and improve stability of Asterisk. The major new </div><div>feature is of course faxing, that was introduced in 1.6.0 and has been improved </div><div>in every release. Please download the new version and read the documentation </div><div>that covers the CHANGES as well as instructions for upgrading your product.</div><div><br></div><div>As always, there's no reason to upgrade if there are no features you need. 1.4 </div><div>is still a supported release.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; ">/Olle</span></div></div></span></font></div><br><br>> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:35:22 +0000<br>> From: acunningham@integrics.com<br>> To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com<br>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] subject: 1.4 vs 1.6<br>> <br>> Juan,<br>> <br>> We've recently moved from 1.4 to 1.6.1 for new Enswitch installations. <br>> Existing customers are also gradually migrating over (even though we <br>> don't require it), mostly for T.38 support. I would estimate that 8 to <br>> 10 production carrier Enswitch systems have been migrated so far. We did <br>> have one customer go back to 1.4 due to carrier compatibility problems, <br>> but most of the reports have been positive.<br>> <br>> We're happy with 1.6.1.12 and this is the version we're rolling out on <br>> new installs. 1.6.1.13 to 1.6.1.16 are not suitable for Enswitch due to <br>> bug #16581, but we've been told that this will be fixed in 1.6.1.17 so <br>> we'll test that when it's out and if suitable move to it.<br>> <br>> Alistair Cunningham<br>> +1 888 468 3111<br>> +44 20 799 39 799<br>> http://integrics.com/<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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