On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Olle E. Johansson <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > 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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