Just got off the phone with Digium and they informed me (I knew this already, but forgot about the date) that Asterisk 1.4 reached it's end of life last month. I want to upgrade to 1.8 but I'm curious how bad it will be.
Obviously, there's things in .conf files that I will need to go through and un-comment and things I will need to comment out but I don't know what those things are, and/or if there's something I need to do so that Thirdlane "knows" I'm using 1.8 and writes config files correctly through the admin or user portals. Presumably, the things I should un-comment are the ones marked ";;=Asterisk 1.6" and the things I should comment are the ones marked ";;=Asterisk 1.4" but, maybe not since 1.6 != 1.8 ? I'm not really sure.
Any advice that can be offered would be awesome. I have to do the upgrade soon, so it's going to happen one way or another. I'm just hoping for the least amount of trial-and-error as possible.
Thirdlane patches the configs for the version of Asterisk you're using when it installs the webmin module. I just upgraded from 1.4 to 1.8 last night on three of my boxes. All of them happened to have out-of-date Thirdlane PBX Manager modules on them. So I just told Thirdlane to update itself after upgrading asterisk, and it detected the new version and re-patched for it.
90% of the stuff just worked. There was one script I had to edit and comment out a 1.4 line and uncomment a 1.6+ line. I was about to file a bug report about a deprecation warning I'm getting in the inbound route config (it works, it just complains that the syntax is deprecated in the log)