Update the Asterisk version

Owned by Valerio Ciotta
Last updated: Feb 13, 2017
1 min read

Update Asterisk to the release 11.25.1

Important

All the call center's operations must be stopped before start the update procedure.

The Asterisk update takes approximately 15 - 30 min (it might take more time if you have a slow network connection)


Check the current Asterisk release:

asterisk -rx "core show version"
Asterisk 11.16.0 built by root @ XSHUTTLE-TRAI on a x86_64 running Linux on 2015-06-03 12:33:42 UTC


Download the update script:

wget https://provisioning.xcally.com/files/packages/update_asterisk.sh -O update_asterisk.sh
Download succeeded
--2017-02-13 16:12:55--  https://provisioning.xcally.com/files/packages/update_asterisk.sh
Resolving provisioning.xcally.com... 95.110.187.86
Connecting to provisioning.xcally.com|95.110.187.86|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4428 (4.3K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: "update_asterisk.sh"

100%[======================================================================================================>] 4,428       --.-K/s   in 0s

2017-02-13 16:12:55 (17.4 MB/s) - "update_asterisk.sh" saved [4428/4428]


Make executable the downloaded file

 chmod +x update_asterisk.sh

Run the script

./update_asterisk.sh

Important

Please do not turn off the server, disconnect the ssh console or interrupt the update procedure.



Check the updated version:

asterisk -rx "core show version"


Asterisk 11.25.1 built by root @ XSHUTTLE-TRAI on a x86_64 running Linux on 2017-02-13 15:16:23 UTC