Merge the dialplan_aesthetics branch. Most of this patch simply converts applications

using old methods of parsing arguments to using the standard macros.  However, the big
change is that the really old way of specifying application and arguments separated by
a comma will no longer work (e.g. NoOp,foo|bar).  Instead, the way that has been
recommended since long before 1.0 will become the only method available (e.g. NoOp(foo,bar).


git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@76703 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b

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diff --git a/UPGRADE.txt b/UPGRADE.txt
index f98654452..1e76c4130 100644
--- a/UPGRADE.txt
+++ b/UPGRADE.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ Core:
   like sin, cos, tan, log, pow, etc. The ability to call external functions
   like CDR(), etc. was also added, without having to use the ${...} notation.
  
+* The delimiter passed to applications has been changed to the comma (','), as
+  that is what people are used to using within extensions.conf.  If you are
+  using realtime extensions, you will need to translate your existing dialplan
+  to use this separator.  To use a literal comma, you need merely to escape it
+  with a backslash ('\').  Another possible side effect is that you may need to
+  remove the obscene level of backslashing that was necessary for the dialplan
+  to work correctly in 1.4 and previous versions.  This should make writing
+  dialplans less painful in the future, albeit with the pain of a one-time
+  conversion.
+
 Voicemail:
 
 * The voicemail configuration values 'maxmessage' and 'minmessage' have