For the first time in a while, the FreePBX Engineering team has published a new Open Source module, the Missed Call Notification module. This module satisfies the request that comes up periodically in the FreePBX Community Forum to have the PBX generate a notification whenever a call to an extension goes unanswered. With this module, either the PBX admin or the user can configure email notifications for whenever they miss a call. Installation The module has been available for the past few weeks in Module Admin for FreePBX 16+. Installation proceeds just like any other module, simply browse to ..read more

Hello Everyone! We are pleased to announce the launch of a new commercial module named “PBX MFA” to the FreePBX ecosystem. It is targeted towards FreePBX and PBXact version 16 and above, but it can also be used by systems running version 15. What is MFA? Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more proofs of identity to gain access to a PBX system, rather than relying solely on a username and password combination. MFA provides more robust security and protection against hackers.  Why might someone need this module? Nowadays MF ..read more

Hi Everyone, We are very pleased to announce the release of a new module named “SMS Plus” to enhance the SMS functionality into the FreePBX/PBXact. This module provides the following functionalities: SMS Blocking Integration with the Blacklist module allows the PBX users to block any abusive users and add their caller-ID to the Blacklist module. PBX Users can use the UCP SMS/Chat window to block any User/DID.  We can also block the user for SMS/Text directly from the Blacklist module. We added new configuration options i.e. Block type which can be set to Call, SMS or both.  Once ..read more

This past week saw two noteworthy threads posted to the FreePBX community forum separated by a few days; independent reports of a “Tampered File Warning” showing up in the FreePBX dashboard. This warning is connected to a core security feature of FreePBX. In FreePBX (and PBXact) each module is published with a signature, and in the event that any FreePBX file is altered from its published state, a security warning is generated on the dashboard; and, if enabled, also by email. If such a warning appears on your FreePBX system, it’s important to identify what is happening; DON’T ignore it! In thi ..read more

The GA release for FreePBX 16 was about a year ago now, and since that time both versions 15 and 16 have continued to get new features and updates.  The majority of our current development efforts now are laser focused on the next version of FreePBX, which will be built on a new FreePBX Distro based on Rocky Linux. There is still much to do for our next release, expect an announcement in this regard in the Spring. Historically, the FreePBX engineering team has supported only two major versions at any given time –  the current version and the previous one. When a new FreePBX beta gets ..read more

For years, Sangoma has offered cloud based PBX hosting with PBXact Cloud, the fully supported commercial system powered by FreePBX and Asterisk. Last year, PBXact Cloud relaunched as version 2.0 with some fun work going behind the scenes. If you’ve been watching the evolution of the GraphQL features in the API module, you will have noticed many new features for deploying systems in a cloud environment that benefit the whole community. The end result being a smoother experience for those automating spin-up of new instances. As a Cloud 2.0 customer, you get the familiar Admin GUI and UCP, with s ..read more

Back in February, Sangoma announced the beta launch of Sangoma Phone, the next generation desktop client for FreePBX and PBXact systems. Sangoma Phone is an evolution of the desktop client available for years on the Switchvox platform. After several months of successful deployments and incremental releases of new features, we’re officially announcing the end of the beta period. Sangoma Phone desktop client for FreePBX and PBXact is now released for General Availability. Since the beta launch in February, the following feature updates have been added to Sangoma Phone: Chat Text Messaging – onc ..read more

Hi Everyone, We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of a suite of new features for the Sangoma Connect mobile app. These new integrated apps for Sangoma Connect provide the freedom for users to use native PBX features of your FreePBX or PBXact system from any place, anytime directly from their mobile device. Here is the list of new apps which are now available for Sangoma Connect mobile: Visual Voicemail Presence Call Forward Follow Me Visual Voicemail Browse new and existing voicemails visually from your mobile. You can easily playback any voicemail without dialing into ..read more

On July 15, 2022, Palo Alto Networks published a blog “Digium Phones Under Attack: Insight Into the Web Shell Implant” warning of high volume of malicious IP traffic targeting “Sangoma PBX” phone systems. The blog post references the exploit CVE-2021-45461 that was originally reported on Dec 2021 over 6 months ago. Sangoma is a leading, global Communications as a Service (CaaS) provider and is the maintainer of FreePBX PBX/UC system that is released as open source as well as a commercial product, both supported by Sangoma. The exploit mentioned in the above blog post has been patched and secur ..read more

Dear Asterisk and FreePBX Communities, Today I would like to announce the advancement of Joshua Colp to Asterisk Project Lead and Lorne Gaetz to FreePBX Project Lead, with Kapil Gupta acting as Engineering Lead for FreePBX. For those that know them well, they already do so much for the community that this is a formal recognition of the efforts they already make and will continue to make in the future. Josh, Lorne, and Kapil have been with Sangoma for a very long time and have been extremely active in their respective open source communities. I have confidence that the leadership at Sangoma con ..read more