Greetings Asterisk Enthusiasts,
Last week, about 50 developers gathered in Atlanta, GA, USA
at the
Georgia Tech University's Information Security Center
(GTISC) for a week
of discussion about the future of Asterisk. One of the
topics that came
up was the future of the existing Asterisk release
branches.
Asterisk 1.2 was released in the Fall of 2005. At this
time, Asterisk
1.0 was put into security maintenance, meaning that it only
received
changes to fix security issues, and not changes intended to
fix less
severe issues.
Asterisk 1.4 was released in the Fall of 2006. At this
time, Asterisk
1.0 became officially unsupported. However, we continued to
fully
maintain Asterisk 1.2. Now that Asterisk 1.4 has been out
for about 5
months, we are taking steps toward moving Asterisk 1.2 to
security
maintenance only. We plan on aiming for this to happen on
August 1st, 2007.
What does this mean for you?
It means that if you are using Asterisk 1.2, you should
start
considering a plan for upgrading your servers to Asterisk
1.4. Asterisk
1.2 is not going away anytime soon. You can expect that
Asterisk 1.2
will be maintained for security issues until Asterisk 1.6 is
released,
and most likely longer than that. However, some time after
Asterisk 1.6
is available, Asterisk 1.2 will become officially deprecated
and no
longer supported with fixes of any kind from the core
Asterisk
development community.
We ask that you please work with us to help ensure that
Asterisk 1.4 is
a stable platform for your telephony needs. If you find a
bug, please
work with the development community to help get it resolved.
After all,
this is a community project! Remember, before creating a
bug report on
http://bugs.digium.com/,
check to make sure there isn't already a report
for the same problem.
The development team is very dedicated to fixing bugs and
maintaining
feature frozen releases. Our maintenance of the Asterisk
1.2 series for
over a year and a half is a testament to this. We are going
to work
very hard over the next couple of months to help ensure that
Asterisk
1.4 is the best Asterisk release series yet.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we move
forward with
Asterisk development, and as always, thank you very much for
your support!
--
The Asterisk.org Development Team
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