13 jan 2010 kl. 09.26 skrev hadi motamedi: > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Olle E. Johansson <o...@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 > > > > > 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? >
I'm sorry, I don't understand you. Please check the documentation to find all new features added, the CHANGES file is a good start. If you update to latest Asterisk, I think you should update libpri and change zaptel to Dahdi to get access to the latest features of all packages. /O -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
