[VoIP] Asterisk Version

[Shane Young]

You might want to upgrade to the latest release of the version you are  
on potentially for security issues:
http://www.asterisk.org/security
  and
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-security/

Unless there is a particular feature you are looking for, there may be  
no other pressing reason to upgrade.

Although, another reason to upgrade is to prevent some shock.  As  
things mature with asterisk, sometimes they will be deprecated.  For  
example, a dialplan application that worked a certain way in 1.0 may  
be changed in 1.1.  When you first execute that option in 1.1 (with  
the old syntax) you'll get a warning message that you should change to  
the new syntax.  Then, in 1.2, the old syntax may not work at all.

If you use Asterisk only for a CNET gateway and nothing else, just  
staying on top of any security issues is probably just fine.


Quoting Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net>:

> At 05:29 PM 7/18/2007 -0400, John Novack wrote:
>> Perhaps you can elaborate on why those with working systems should move
>> to 1.4.
>> What is to be gained by this move?
>> Simply moving to a new release for the sake of a new release isn't
>> really warranted.
>
>
> Agreed.  I have a working, stable system that's running on a January '05
> HEAD version (makes it a 1.1 something, maybe??) and see no reason to mess
> around with that unless there's some really big benefit or feature to be
> gained.
>
> So, why do we want (or should we want) to upgrade?
>
> Doug.
>
>
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--Shane
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