asterisk users - Sep 2003 - Advantage of Cisco 7960 with 5.x firmware?

I'm currently running firmware version 3.2 on my
Cisco 7960. I've seen on the list that several 
people are running the 5.x latest versions. 

I've avoided going to higher firmware versions
because I'm worried about potential problems
or issues with the encryption mechanism used
in the later firmware versions. (Once you 
go to an encrypted firmware version, you can't
go back, right?)  

For those of you who have gone to the newer
firmware, what features or benefits have
you seen by going with the newer firmware?

their really isn't much fixed between 4.4 and the 5.x stuff but at the
time thats all I had.  So I put that on the phone.  So far everything
works like a champ.  Not one problem.

4.4
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2156/prod_release_note09186a008016096f.html#63943

Resolved Caveats.Release 5.0
No resolved caveats specific to Cisco IP Phone 7940/7960 Release 5.0
require documentation in these release notes.

Resolved Caveats.Release 5.1
All caveats listed in this section are resolved in Cisco IP Phone
7940/7960 Release 5.1. This section lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats
and select severity 3 caveats

CSCdz59328: SIPPhone: The UI responsiveness slow, fast fingers cause digit
drop
CSCdz77783: SIPPhone: Clipping of voice in 7960 SIP phone
CSCea83100: SIP: Dialing # does not work correctly if dialplan is empty
CSCea85697: Phone may fail to reset when an Exception occurs
CSCea93250: SIPPhone: Dialing # does not always work if default rule
missing
CSCeb27906: SIPPhone: Null To-tag in REFER causes transfer fail (race
condition)
CSCeb29575: SIPPhone: NOTIFY Event header shortform is not supported (o:)


Resolved Caveats.Release 5.2
All caveats listed in this section are resolved in Cisco IP Phone
7940/7960 Release 5.2. This section lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats
and select severity 3 caveats

CSCeb41335: DSP mismatch with upgrade failure
CSCeb44769: Phone removes dots in the IP address when sending ACK
CSCeb46028: 79x0 Memory leak issues related to DNS query failures
CSCeb75975: Phone crashes upon any menu exit


Resolved Caveats.Release 5.3
All caveats listed in this section are resolved in Cisco IP Phone
7940/7960 Release 5.3. This section lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats
and select severity 3 caveats

CSCeb85936: SIP phone doesnt use the medium level contact field

Hope that helps.

bkw

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Peter Pauly wrote:
> I'm currently running firmware version 3.2 on my
> Cisco 7960. I've seen on the list that several
> people are running the 5.x latest versions.
>
> I've avoided going to higher firmware versions
> because I'm worried about potential problems
> or issues with the encryption mechanism used
> in the later firmware versions. (Once you
> go to an encrypted firmware version, you can't
> go back, right?)
>
> For those of you who have gone to the newer
> firmware, what features or benefits have
> you seen by going with the newer firmware?
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Peter Pauly wrote:
> I'm currently running firmware version 3.2 on my
> Cisco 7960. I've seen on the list that several 
> people are running the 5.x latest versions. 
> 
> I've avoided going to higher firmware versions
> because I'm worried about potential problems
> or issues with the encryption mechanism used
> in the later firmware versions. (Once you 
> go to an encrypted firmware version, you can't
> go back, right?)  
> 
> For those of you who have gone to the newer
> firmware, what features or benefits have
> you seen by going with the newer firmware?
I'm in the same boat - running 4.4 which is the last release before the 
signed code.

Nobody I've asked has mentioned any bugs that are not present in the pre 
5 code, but then again there don't seem to be any advantages either.

I would be interested to hear if there were some useful new features in 5.x.

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