[asterisk-users] What version to upgrade to...?

[Olivier]

2011/12/12, Mike Diehl <mdiehl at diehlnet.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 servers running 1.6.2.9 and I'm about to build a third server.
> This
> suggests the possibility of doing a rolling upgrade of all of my servers.
>
> This brings up the question of what version to install and upgrade to.  I
> don't have many upgrade opportunities, so I'd like to get as much bang for
> my
> buck.  Since I've applied some custom patches to my 1.6, I'd also like to
> get
> to a new enough version that my patches would be useful to the community.
>
> Should I go to 1.8.x?  Or all the way up to 10.x?  This is a production
> system
> and I can't afford to be "testing" code.
>
> --
>
> Take care and have fun,
> Mike Diehl.
>
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I'm roughly wondering the same thing.

If I may add, I read few weeks ago, that Asterisk's SNMP features
required asterisk to run as root. If any of  asterisk 1.8 or 10
version could solve this limitation, that would convince to dive in
that one.