A new release

• Asterisk has two concurrent development branches

• The release branch

  • Only changes for documentation or bug fixes
  • Releases are produced regurlarly as .tar.gz distributions on ftp.digium.com
  • Even numbers: 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 …

• The development branch

  • Changes often, not always fully tested
  • Not recommended for production use
  • The base for the next release version
  • Uneven version numbers: 1.1dev, 1.3dev, 1.5dev

Notes: