On 29/04/11 12:01 PM, Jan Bakuwel wrote:
Rather than testing and finding issues that have already been resolved,
I'd prefer to have an efficient way to upgrade Asterisk to released
versions. A package system provides an efficient way to do this. The
fact that something like packages.asterisk.org exists seems to prove my
point. Upgrading the system obviously doesn't mean you won't have to do
any testing but it should make the testing more efficient - at least for
"stable" releases.
Each to their own - I find it easier to patch particular issues rather
than potentially introduce new issues but hey :-)
Asterisk 1.6.2 won't be receiving any bug fixes though as it has gone to
security only, so I wouldn't personally put it in production.
We're in a kinda interesting scenario - 1.4 is the most "stable" by far.
So if you're happy with the features in 1.4 that's what you should use
for production.
If you're willing to do a little extra work right now then you should be
going with 1.8 as it will be supported for quite some time (at least
till October 2014).
See:
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions
Series, Type Release Date Security Fix Only EOL
1.2.X, STD 2005-11-21 2007-08-07 2010-11-21
1.4.X., LTS 2006-12-23 2011-04-21 2012-04-21
1.6.0.X,STD 2008-10-01 2010-05-01 2010-10-01
1.6.1.X,STD 2009-04-27 2010-05-01 2011-04-27
1.6.2.X,STD 2009-12-18 2011-04-21 2012-04-21
1.8.X, LTS 2010-10-21 2014-10-21 2015-10-21
Where STD is Standard and LTS is Long Term Support.
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Cheers,
Matt Riddell
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