1 Information for Upgrading From Previous Asterisk Releases
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4 Command Line Interface:
6 * 'show channels concise', designed to be used by applications that will parse
7 its output, previously used ':' characters to separate fields. However, some
8 of those fields can easily contain that character, making the output not
9 parseable. The delimiter has been changed to '!'.
13 * In previous Asterisk releases, many applications would jump to priority n+101
14 to indicate some kind of status or error condition. This functionality was
15 marked deprecated in Asterisk 1.2. An option to disable it was provided with
16 the default value set to 'on'. The default value for the global priority
17 jumping option is now 'off'.
19 * The applications Cut, Sort, DBGet, DBPut, SetCIDNum, SetCIDName, SetRDNIS,
20 AbsoluteTimeout, DigitTimeout, ResponseTimeout, SetLanguage, GetGroupCount,
21 and GetGroupMatchCount were all deprecated in version 1.2, and therefore have
22 been removed in this version. You should use the equivalent dialplan
23 function in places where you have previously used one of these applications.
25 * The application SetVar has been renamed to Set. The syntax SetVar was marked
26 deprecated in version 1.2 and is no longer recognized in this version.
28 * app_read has been updated to use the newer options codes, using "skip" or
29 "noanswer" will not work. Use s or n. Also there is a new feature i, for
30 using indication tones, so typing in skip would give you unexpected results.
34 * The builtin variables ${CALLERID}, ${CALLERIDNAME}, ${CALLERIDNUM},
35 ${CALLERANI}, ${DNID}, ${RDNIS}, ${DATETIME}, ${TIMESTAMP}, ${ACCOUNTCODE},
36 and ${LANGUAGE} have all been deprecated in favor of their related dialplan
37 functions. You are encouraged to move towards the associated dialplan
38 function, as these variables will be removed in a future release.
40 * The CDR-CSV variables uniqueid, userfield, and basing time on GMT are now
41 adjustable from cdr.conf, instead of recompiling.
45 * The function ${CHECK_MD5()} has been deprecated in favor of using an
46 expression: $[${MD5(<string>)} = ${saved_md5}].
48 * The 'builtin' functions that used to be combined in pbx_functions.so are
49 now built as separate modules. If you are not using 'autoload=yes' in your
50 modules.conf file then you will need to explicitly load the modules that
51 contain the functions you want to use.
53 * The ENUMLOOKUP() function with the 'c' option (for counting the number of records),
54 but the lookup fails to match any records, the returned value will now be "0" instead of blank.
58 * The "incominglimit" setting is replaced by the "call-limit" setting in sip.conf.
62 * On BSD systems, the installation directories have changed to more "FreeBSDish" directories. On startup, Asterisk will look for the main configuration in /usr/local/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
63 If you have an old installation, you might want to remove the binaries and move the configuration files to the new locations. The following directories are now default:
64 ASTLIBDIR /usr/local/lib/asterisk
65 ASTVARLIBDIR /usr/local/share/asterisk
66 ASTETCDIR /usr/local/etc/asterisk
67 ASTBINDIR /usr/local/bin/asterisk
68 ASTSBINDIR /usr/local/sbin/asterisk