[asterisk-users] Major benefits when upgrade from Asterisk 1.4 to Asterisk 1.6?

[hadi motamedi]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net> wrote:

>
> 13 jan 2010 kl. 06.56 skrev hadi motamedi:
>
> > Dear All
> > I have Asterisk 1.4 installed on my Debian server . I am considering
> upgrading my Asterisk to the latest version (1.6) . Can you please let me
> know what are the major benefits when upgrading from Asterisk 1.4 to
> Asterisk 1.6 ?
>
> Please observe that there is no "1.6" version. Previous to 1.6.0, there was
> "1.0" and "1.2" and "1.4". Then the release policy changed and we had
> "1.6.0" and "1.6.1" and now (latest) "1.6.2". These three 1.6.x are all
> very, very different.
>
> Also note that none of these are LTS releases, something that was recently
> introduced. LTS is Long Term Support. 1.4 is classified as LTS, and the next
> LTS will be version 1.8 - yes, we're correcting the mistake and going back
> to the old way of numbering releases.
>
> Personally, I see the 1.6.x releases as very experimental and don't
> recommend them for production use.
>
> In regards to changes, there has been a massive amount of changes,
> especially work done by the Digium dev team to rebuild the internal
> structure of Asterisk to support massive scalability and improve stability
> of Asterisk. The major new feature is of course faxing, that was introduced
> in 1.6.0 and has been improved in every release. Please download the new
> version and read the documentation that covers the CHANGES as well as
> instructions for upgrading your product.
>
> As always, there's no reason to upgrade if there are no features you need.
> 1.4 is still a supported release.
>
> Best regards,
> /Olle
>
>
>
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Thank you for your reply . I downloaded the Asterisk-1.6.2.0 and left my
libpri-1.4 and zaptel-1.4 as they are . After the installation , according
to you , I just have the fax feature that is being added . Can you please
confirm if nothing wrong in my case?
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