From 7c57c0816f93327150004c785bc8c13f6fdc0303 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Bryant Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:28:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 114931 via svnmerge from https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk ........ r114931 | russell | 2008-05-01 12:28:25 -0500 (Thu, 01 May 2008) | 4 lines Clarify the deprecation notice about Macro() to note that it will not be removed for the sake of backwards compatibility, since it is a non-trivial task to convert existing large dialplans that depend on Macro() to use GoSub(), instead. ........ git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.0@114932 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3 --- UPGRADE.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/UPGRADE.txt b/UPGRADE.txt index f7d4492327..1a10842aea 100644 --- a/UPGRADE.txt +++ b/UPGRADE.txt @@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ Applications: Gosub()/Return() applications. To replace MacroExclusive(), we have introduced dialplan functions LOCK(), TRYLOCK(), and UNLOCK(). You may use these functions in any location where you desire to ensure that only one - channel is executing that path at any one time. + channel is executing that path at any one time. The Macro() applications + are deprecated for performance reasons. However, since Macro() has been + around for a long time and so many dialplans depend heavily on it, it will + not be removed for the sake of backwards compatibility. It is also worth + noting that using both Macro() and GoSub() at the same time is _heavily_ + discouraged. * Read() now sets a READSTATUS variable on exit. It does NOT automatically return -1 (and hangup) anymore on error. If you want to hangup on error, you need to do so explicitly in your dialplan.