<div dir="ltr">You're highlighting why we have an open source community, its where the community steps up, helps figure this out and contributes the solution to the problem for all to benefit from, Its the least anyone could do thats running FreeSWITCH as the hardest part is already done for you for free! :)<div><br></div><div>/b</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Olgierd Ziolko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists.fs-users@uce.pw" target="_blank">lists.fs-users@uce.pw</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi*</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">But when it's cross-checked against inventory or network drawings he's going to be busted (and put in much worse position).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Personally I find CentOS 7 waaaaaay too edgy for corporate requirements - we (as in my company) are running servers on specific OS version (inc. 6.5, but not 7), custom subset of software, sometimes with custom patches, customised (a whole lot) kernel, so I just can't afford throwing it all out the window just for the sake of using most recent packaged version (and when we're at packages: Debian's packaging is horrendous, how can't such simply systemd service file problem unresolved for months?).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">So I'm very on the Andrew's (the first) side.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">* hello everyone, I'm kind of fresh FreeSWITCH user and I'll try my best to contribute to the community (because I've already got so much). Thank you all.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2015 at 10:29, Andrew Cassidy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@cassidywebservices.co.uk" target="_blank">andrew@cassidywebservices.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">You can pass PCI-DSS with proper firewall rules. For example, if you FS server only needs to accept calls from certain IP addresses, firewalling it out will pass the automated tests easily.<div><br></div><div>I know it's not ideal, but I've managed to make unpatched Windows 2003 servers pass the automated tests just by hiding them behind a proxy. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not condoning this practise, just timelines on that particular project required that they pass until we could upgrade them to Windows 2012. It bought us the time we needed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 19 November 2015 at 08:21, Andrew Keil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.keil@visytel.com" target="_blank">andrew.keil@visytel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Jerris<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:12 AM<span><br>
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</span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH version 1.4.x end of life - recommendation please<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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the FreeSWITCH version 1.4.x branch is going end of life in early 2016, then obviously I need my client to migrate to the FreeSWITCH version 1.6.x branch ASAP. Is there a definite date when the FreeSWITCH version 1.4.x branch is going end of life?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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significant changes in the code between 1.4 and 1.6. This continues to get worse over time.<u></u><u></u></p>
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understand that CentOS 7 is recommended, however upgrading the OS is a much bigger task than simply upgrading FreeSWITCH. Especially since my client is also PCI compliant to enable credit card processing, which requires rigorous Operating System lockdown.
Currently my client will not be using the video features inside FreeSWITCH (ie. initially only using the feature set inside the FreeSWITCH version 1.4.x branch).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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