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

[Danny Nicholas]

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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.
>
> --
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> 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.

I'm wondering if the bind 161 as root statement is a mis-statement or if
not, maybe somebody like Tzafir can explain why since none of the other
Asterisk binds require root access (this message is still in 10.0-rc3).