[asterisk-users] Migration from 1.2 to 1.8 in production

[Bryant Zimmerman]

I have used 1.4 & 1.6. I am testing 1.8 for production and it is looking 
very good. I am making some changes to accommodate some minor dialplan 
changes from 1.6. Our 1.4 is very solid 1.6 has some issues with DTMF 
issues when used with Sonus on the back end. 1.8 is looking very good and 
we hope to go production before the end of the year. 

If you have to change righ now are you using custom dialplan code? If you 
are I would roll the dice and go for 1.8 this will give you the longest 
life span. If not there is no real big hit for stepping from 1.4 to 1.8. 
The other issue is if you want really detailed logging for call records the 
CEL method in 1.8 is the way to go. You will need to be able to boil the 
data down but it is there. I have seen a few kinks in the current version 
but it looks like they will be worked out with some incremental updates.

Our hope is to be fully 1.8 on all of our backbone production units by the 
end of Jan 2011 with our first unit by December 2010.
I would shy away of 1.6.x based on our experience. Our 1.6.x boxes will 
move before our 1.4.x boxes.

Thanks
Bryant

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 From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tlesher at digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:26 AM
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Migration from 1.2 to 1.8 in production

On Wednesday 03 November 2010 09:32:10 Danny Nicholas wrote:
> satish patel wrote:
> > We are running asterisk 1.2.x version in production environment since
> > last 5 year and we have no issue at all, But now time to upgrade. and 
i
> > heard about 1.8 which has introduce many features. I am wondering
> > should I use asterisk 1.8 in production ? or should I go with 1.4 or
> > 1.6 stable version?
> > 
> > I would like if you suggest me which version would be good for
> > production since asterisk 1.8 still in beta process.
> 
> 1.8 will introduce many features and is the "supported standard", which
> will be important to you since you are on a "5 year upgrade" plan. It
> also has more "opportunities" than the 1.4 version since it is under
> active development and 1.4 is in a "patch only" state. 

This is not the case. Both 1.8 and 1.4 are in the same state right now.
The only difference in support level is that 1.4's EOL is much sooner than
the EOL for 1.8. 1.6.2 will EOL at approximately the same time as 1.4.
See https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions for the
most up-to-date schedule.

> If immediate
> stability is your goal, you may want to stick with 1.4. If I were
> going to bite the bullet on 1.6, I'd jump straight to 1.8 since there
> is no "end-of-life" advantage.

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