FreePBX will support Asterisk 1.4 (Updated)
Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com
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Update:
One of the FreePBX people, James had this to add! Thanks James. It is bit hard to think in another language and write in another.!;
"Topic sentence is a little confusing. freePBX isn’t ‘dropping’ support for asterisk 1.2. It’s adding 1.4 support in freePBX version 2.3"
If you did not already hear that it was decided at the recent Asterisk Developers Conference, to drop Asterisk 1.2 and move whole heartedly to Asterisk 1.4
“One decision that we took was to stop maintaining 1.2 as a current release from August 1st 2007. At that date, we will move 1.2 of Asterisk, Asterisk-addons, libpri and zaptel to security maintenance status. 1.4 will at that point be the recommended release.”
So where do we go? and the answer comes from Phillipel at the FreePBX in behalf of the team.But before lead you to the answer, let me remind you that the FreePBX team have been supporting you all these years. Providing you with guidance and of course FreePBX. Now the FreePBX team needs your help and support or we need our support. Here is the gist of Phillipel’s post;
"So what about freePBX® and Asterisk 1.4?
As a community leader we will respect Digium’s desire to get more users onto Asterisk 1.4 and will do our part to support their efforts. We’ve been planning to enable Asterisk 1.4 on our freePBX® 2.3, which is the current development branch. freePBX® 2.3 is currently very stable on Asterisk 1.2.
What this means
We will branch the development trunk into its proper 2.3 release candidate shortly, and start the formal beta program. If you run the freePBX® 2.3 beta on Asterisk 1.2, you should have a very stable system. If you choose to start “kicking the tires” with Asterisk 1.4, you should consider it alpha quality. We will address bugs as they surface and quickly find out just how much work there is to do.
Things are going to be heating up for the team with this plan; we’ll try to get you more details soon. In the mean time – moral support to help accelerate the effort is always appreciated, especially the kind that you can show with that nifty donate button off on the left."
So head over to FreePBX, read more and click that button.
Also do not forget to leave a note for Rob Thomas. He has had a hard time lately. All my sympathies are with him. I am so sorry.
