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3 === Information for upgrading between Asterisk versions
5 === These files document all the changes that MUST be taken
6 === into account when upgrading between the Asterisk
7 === versions listed below. These changes may require that
8 === you modify your configuration files, dialplan or (in
9 === some cases) source code if you have your own Asterisk
10 === modules or patches. These files also include advance
11 === notice of any functionality that has been marked as
12 === 'deprecated' and may be removed in a future release,
13 === along with the suggested replacement functionality.
15 === UPGRADE-1.2.txt -- Upgrade info for 1.0 to 1.2
16 === UPGRADE-1.4.txt -- Upgrade info for 1.2 to 1.4
17 === UPGRADE-1.6.txt -- Upgrade info for 1.4 to 1.6
18 === UPGRADE-1.8.txt -- Upgrade info for 1.6 to 1.8
19 === UPGRADE-10.txt -- Upgrade info for 1.8 to 10
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25 - ConfBridge now has the ability to set the language of announcements to the
26 conference. The language can be set on a bridge profile in confbridge.conf
27 or by the dialplan function CONFBRIDGE(bridge,language)=en.
28 chan_sip - Clarify The "sip show peers" Forcerport Column And Add Comedia
29 - Under the "Forcerport" column, the "N" used to mean NAT (i.e. Yes). With
30 the additon of auto_* NAT settings, the meaning changed and there was a
31 certain combination of letters added to indicate the current setting. The
32 combination of using "Y", "N", "A" or "a", can be confusing. Therefore, we
33 now display clearly what the current Forcerport setting is: "Yes", "No",
34 "Auto (Yes)", "Auto (No)".
35 - Since we are clarifying the Forcerport column, we have added a column to
36 display the Comedia setting since this is useful information as well. We
37 no longer have a simple "NAT" setting like other versions before 11.
40 * res_agi will now properly indicate if there was an error in streaming an
41 audio file. The result code will be -1 and the result returned from the
42 the function will be RESULT_FAILURE instead of the prior behavior of always
43 returning RESULT_SUCCESS even if there was an error.
46 * The default settings for chan_sip are now overriden properly by the general
47 settings in sip.conf. Please look over your settings upon upgrading.
50 * Added the 'n' option to MeetMe to prevent application of the DENOISE function
51 to a channel joining a conference. Some channel drivers that vary the number
52 of audio samples in a voice frame will experience significant quality problems
53 if a denoiser is attached to the channel; this option gives them the ability
54 to remove the denoiser without having to unload func_speex.
56 * The Registry AMI event for SIP registrations will now always include the
57 Username field. A previous bug fix missed an instance where it was not
58 included; that has been corrected in this release.
60 From 11.2.0 to 11.2.1:
61 * Asterisk would previously not output certain error messages when a remote
62 console attempted to connect to Asterisk and no instance of Asterisk was
63 running. This error message is displayed on stderr; as a result, some
64 initialization scripts that used remote consoles to test for the presence
65 of a running Asterisk instance started to display erroneous error messages.
66 The init.d scripts and the safe_asterisk have been updated in the contrib
67 folder to account for this.
71 * Now by default, when Asterisk is installed in a path other than /usr, the
72 Asterisk binary will search for shared libraries in ${libdir} in addition to
73 searching system libraries. This allows Asterisk to find its shared
74 libraries without having to specify LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This can be disabled by
75 passing --disable-rpath to configure.
80 - All voicemails now have a "msg_id" which uniquely identifies a message. For
81 users of filesystem and IMAP storage of voicemail, this should be transparent.
82 For users of ODBC, you will need to add a "msg_id" column to your voice mail
83 messages table. This should be a string capable of holding at least 32 characters.
84 All messages created in old Asterisk installations will have a msg_id added to
85 them when required. This operation should be transparent as well.
88 - The comebacktoorigin setting must now be set per parking lot. The setting in
89 the general section will not be applied automatically to each parking lot.
90 - The BLINDTRANSFER channel variable is deleted from a channel when it is
91 bridged to prevent subtle bugs in the parking feature. The channel
92 variable is used by Asterisk internally for the Park application to work
93 properly. If you were using it for your own purposes, copy it to your
94 own channel variable before the channel is bridged.
97 - Users of res_ais in versions of Asterisk prior to Asterisk 11 must change
98 to use the res_corosync module, instead. OpenAIS is deprecated, but
99 Corosync is still actively developed and maintained. Corosync came out of
103 - MAILBOX_EXISTS has been deprecated. Use VM_INFO with the 'exists' parameter
105 - Macro has been deprecated in favor of GoSub. For redirecting and connected
106 line purposes use the following variables instead of their macro equivalents:
107 REDIRECTING_SEND_SUB, REDIRECTING_SEND_SUB_ARGS,
108 CONNECTED_LINE_SEND_SUB, CONNECTED_LINE_SEND_SUB_ARGS.
109 - The REDIRECTING function now supports the redirecting original party id
111 - The HANGUPCAUSE and HANGUPCAUSE_KEYS functions have been introduced to
112 provide a replacement for the SIP_CAUSE hash. The HangupCauseClear
113 application has also been introduced to remove this data from the channel
118 - ENUM query functions now return a count of -1 on lookup error to
119 differentiate between a failed query and a successful query with 0 results
120 matching the specified type.
123 - cdr_adaptive_odbc now supports specifying a schema so that Asterisk can
124 connect to databases that use schemas.
127 - Files listed below have been updated to be more consistent with how Asterisk
128 parses configuration files. This makes configuration files more consistent
129 with what is expected across modules.
131 - cdr.conf: [general] and [csv] sections
135 - The 'verbose' setting in logger.conf now takes an optional argument,
136 specifying the verbosity level for each logging destination. The default,
137 if not otherwise specified, is a verbosity of 3.
140 - DBDelTree now correctly returns an error when 0 rows are deleted just as
141 the DBDel action does.
142 - The IAX2 PeerStatus event now sends a 'Port' header. In Asterisk 10, this was
143 erroneously being sent as a 'Post' header.
146 - Macro is deprecated. Use cc_callback_sub instead of cc_callback_macro
147 in channel configurations.
150 - The 'c' option (announce user count) will now work even if the 'q' (quiet)
154 - Answered outgoing calls no longer get cut off when the next step is started.
155 You now have until the last step times out to decide if you want to accept
156 the call or not before being disconnected.
159 - chan_gtalk has been deprecated in favor of the chan_motif channel driver. It is recommended
160 that users switch to using it as it is a core supported module.
163 - chan_jingle has been deprecated in favor of the chan_motif channel driver. It is recommended
164 that users switch to using it as it is a core supported module.
168 - A new option "tonezone" for setting default tonezone for the channel driver
169 or individual devices
170 - A new manager event, "SessionTimeout" has been added and is triggered when
171 a call is terminated due to RTP stream inactivity or SIP session timer
173 - SIP_CAUSE is now deprecated. It has been modified to use the same
174 mechanism as the HANGUPCAUSE function. Behavior should not change, but
175 performance should be vastly improved. The HANGUPCAUSE function should now
176 be used instead of SIP_CAUSE. Because of this, the storesipcause option in
177 sip.conf is also deprecated.
178 - The sip paramater for Originating Line Information (oli, isup-oli, and
179 ss7-oli) is now parsed out of the From header and copied into the channel's
180 ANI2 information field. This is readable from the CALLERID(ani2) dialplan
182 - ICE support has been added and is enabled by default. Some endpoints may have
183 problems with the ICE candidates within the SDP. If this is the case ICE support
184 can be disabled globally or on a per-endpoint basis using the icesupport
185 configuration option. Symptoms of this include one way media or no media flow.
188 - Due to massive update in chan_unistim phone keys functions and on-screen
192 - A defined user with hasvoicemail=yes now finally uses a Gosub to stdexten
193 as documented in extensions.conf.sample since v1.6.0 instead of a Macro as
194 documented in v1.4. Set the asterisk.conf stdexten=macro parameter to
195 invoke the stdexten the old way.
198 - This module has been deprecated in favor of the res_xmpp module. The res_xmpp
199 module is backwards compatible with the res_jabber configuration file, dialplan
200 functions, and AMI actions. The old CLI commands can also be made available using
201 the res_clialiases template for Asterisk 11.
206 - This module now expects an 'extra' column in the database for data added
207 using the CELGenUserEvent() application.
210 - ConfBridge's dialplan arguments have changed and are not
211 backwards compatible.
214 - The format interpreter formats/format_sln16.c for the file extension
215 '.sln16' has been removed. The '.sln16' file interpreter now exists
216 in the formats/format_sln.c module along with new support for sln12,
217 sln24, sln32, sln44, sln48, sln96, and sln192 file extensions.
220 - A bindaddr must be specified in order for the HTTP server
221 to run. Previous versions would default to 0.0.0.0 if no
222 bindaddr was specified.
225 - The default value for 'context' and 'parkinglots' in gtalk.conf has
226 been changed to 'default', previously they were empty.
229 - The mohinterpret=passthrough setting is deprecated in favor of
230 moh_signaling=notify.
233 - Execution no longer continues after applications that do dialplan jumps
234 (such as app.goto). Now when an application such as app.goto() is called,
235 control is returned back to the pbx engine and the current extension
236 function stops executing.
237 - the autoservice now defaults to being on by default
238 - autoservice_start() and autoservice_start() no longer return a value.
241 - Mark QUEUE_MEMBER_PENALTY Deprecated it never worked for realtime members
242 - QUEUE_MEMBER is now R/W supporting setting paused, ignorebusy and penalty.
245 - The internal Asterisk database has been switched from Berkeley DB 1.86 to
246 SQLite 3. An existing Berkeley astdb file can be converted with the astdb2sqlite3
247 utility in the UTILS section of menuselect. If an existing astdb is found and no
248 astdb.sqlite3 exists, astdb2sqlite3 will be compiled automatically. Asterisk will
249 convert an existing astdb to the SQLite3 version automatically at runtime. If
250 moving back from Asterisk 10 to Asterisk 1.8, the astdb2bdb utility can be used
251 to create a Berkeley DB copy of the SQLite3 astdb that Asterisk 10 uses.
254 - The AMI protocol version was incremented to 1.2 as a result of changing two
255 instances of the Unlink event to Bridge events. This change was documented
256 as part of the AMI 1.1 update, but two Unlink events were inadvertently left
260 - All modules in the addons, apps, bridge, cdr, cel, channels, codecs,
261 formats, funcs, pbx, and res have been updated to include MODULEINFO data
262 that includes <support_level> tags with a value of core, extended, or deprecated.
263 More information is available on the Asterisk wiki at
264 https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Module+Support+States
266 Deprecated modules are now marked to not build by default and must be explicitly
267 enabled in menuselect.
270 - Setting of HASH(SIP_CAUSE,<slave-channel-name>) on channels is now disabled
271 by default. It can be enabled using the 'storesipcause' option. This feature
272 has a significant performance penalty.
275 - The default UDPTL port range in udptl.conf.sample differed from the defaults
276 in the source. If you didn't have a config file, you got 4500 to 4599. Now the
277 default is 4000 to 4999.
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