Rename 'canreinvite' option to 'directmedia', with backwards compatibility.

It is clear from multiple mailing list, forum, wiki and other sorts of posts
that users don't really understand the effects that the 'canreinvite' config
option actually has, and that in some cases they think that setting it to 'no'
will actually cause various other features (T.38, MOH, etc.) to not work properly,
when in fact this is not the case. This patch changes the proper name of the
option to what it should have been from the beginning ('directmedia'), but
preserves backwards compatibility for existing configurations.



git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@210190 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

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diff --git a/UPGRADE.txt b/UPGRADE.txt
index 8097c4bae..20d05807d 100644
--- a/UPGRADE.txt
+++ b/UPGRADE.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@ From 1.6.2 to 1.6.3:
 
 From 1.6.1 to 1.6.2:
 
+* The 'canreinvite' option support by the SIP, MGCP and Skinny channel drivers
+  has been renamed to 'directmedia', to better reflect what it actually does.
+  In the case of SIP, there are still re-INVITEs issued for T.38 negotiation,
+  starting and stopping music-on-hold, and other reasons, and the 'canreinvite'
+  option never had any effect on these cases, it only affected the re-INVITEs
+  used for direct media path setup. For MGCP and Skinny, the option was poorly
+  named because those protocols don't even use INVITE messages at all. For
+  backwards compatibility, the old option is still supported in both normal
+  and Realtime configuration files, but all of the sample configuration files,
+  Realtime/LDAP schemas, and other documentation refer to it using the new name.
+
 * The default console now will use colors according to the default background
   color, instead of forcing the background color to black.  If you are using a
   light colored background for your console, you may wish to use the option