On January 1st of every year, Wazo/XiVO versions that are more than 4 years old will be considered as deprecated.
Planned deprecation calendar:
Date | Deprecated versions |
---|---|
2017-01-01 | older than 13.01 |
2018-01-01 | older than 14.01 |
2019-01-01 | older than 15.01 |
2020-01-01 | older than 16.01 |
2021-01-01 | older than 17.01 |
- A deprecated Wazo version does not have a supported upgrade path directly to the latest Wazo
version. This means that running a straight
wazo-upgrade
is not guaranteed to succeed. - Asking questions about a deprecated version (e.g. on the forum) will probably get the following answer: "get a newer version first, then come back and ask your question".
- Binaries (ISO images) for deprecated versions are not available for download.
- Hosting the binaries of older versions is costly and mostly useless: most people install the latest version of Wazo, and the very few cases where an old binary is needed is not worth the cost.
- Maintaining the upgrade machinery for older versions is time-consuming for developers: the more versions are supported by the upgrade, the more cases there are to handle; more cases make the code harder to read, understand and modify, bugs become more probable and the latest upgrades are more difficult to write.
- There are very few Wazo installed with older versions, as far as we can tell: all software should be upgraded frequently and Wazo is no exception. We consider 4 years to be a reasonable time range to upgrade at least once an IPBX. We do not want to hinder development for the very few who did not take the time to upgrade.
There are two main options:
- upgrade to a Wazo version that is more recent, but not the latest: you can use the procedures listed in :ref:`archive-upgrade`.
- install a new server with the latest Wazo version, and reproduce your configuration by using the export/import features of Wazo and copying files