*** SIP Channel fixed in CVS stable ----------------------------------- During a few days there's been a buggy SIP channel in CVS STABLE, but not in the 1.0.3 release tarballs on the FTP server and mirrors. We have now removed the patch that was integrated by mistake so CVS should be ok again. As far as I know, this was the first error introduced in Asterisk STABLE since we forked into a stable and a development branch. The Asterisk project has never before maintained a stable branch, so that is a very good track record. We are now improving the communication between developers and the maintainer of the stable source tree, Russel Bryant, in order to try to make sure that this does not happen again. *** Run production systems on released code -------------------------------------------- Please remember that almost every developer wants to develop new, fancy code and add functionality. Maintaining an old code base, being very restrictive in what you add, requires someone with a lot of integrity and good routines. Russel is doing a wonderful job and is propably one of the most important persons in the project right now, when we really need a stable version of Asterisk for production use. The best way for you to avoid this, is to run production systems on releases, like 1.0.2 or 1.0.3. Before releasing a fixed version with a version number we always make sure that there are no known bugs in there. *** CVS HEAD is not an alternative ---------------------------------- Do not jump to the CVS head in production, because there we are introducing new code every day, some of it more risky than other parts. There is simply no guarantee that that code base will do anything more than fill up a large amount of your hard disk drive. The only guarantee is that you will end up having to spend a lot of time testing the code for us, reporting bugs and suggesting improvements. You are much welcome, but make sure that you are doing this on a test system. /Olle