Because there is a huge install base on 1.2 which is fairly stable but still needs bug fix/security patches. There are no new features being developed by the code group on this version, but there are outside people who are still modifying it.
1.4 has many new features and some areas re-written. This makes the code base less stable but usable. The feature set is complete for this therefore, it was released. Now it is up to us bold souls to verify it works. At some time, when the 1.2 base starts to wane, I would see the 1.2 going away, just not now.
1.6 is where new development/features are being planed. I hope they finally write the SIP stack so it lines up with the SIP specification instead of being a adjunct to the IAX code. I am not looking for SER type functionality but better performance and support for things like CallInfo messages being passed from Origin to Destination.
On the whole, most proprietary software companies support their older versions. Microsoft has patches being developed for versions back to Windows 2000.
> Hi all,
> i never understood that why is there 2 branches of asterisk going
> on parallel. asterisk 1.2.* and asterisk 1.4.*, i also heard about
> beginning of another branch which will be 1.6.*. so whats the
> difference between these 2 or 3 versions, can anybody plz tel me?
_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
