The FreePBX team continues its project to phase out the Atlassian stack and streamline OSS efforts for documentation, issue reporting and coding. As part of this, we’re introducing a new Security Policy and a new mechanism for reporting security issues in FreePBX. The official home of FreePBX Security is on GitHub at: https://github.com/FreePBX/security-reporting/security There you’ll find the current version of the security policy as well as this big green button: To report a security issue with the FreePBX project, just login to GitHub, browse to the URL linked above and hit the “Report a v ..read more

This month’s blog is from Chris Dolese, VP of Support at Sangoma and longtime member of the FreePBX community since the days of Asterisk at Home. Chris gave a presentation at Astricon about FreePBX 17, and today introduces the beta launch of the Debian install script. Over to you Chris … ———————————- Hello Everyone A few weeks ago, the FreePBX GitHub repo for the official FreePBX 17 Debian Install script was marked as public. This action marks a major milestone in the history of the FreePBX project. There are a number of firsts to note: First officially supported system based on Debian First ..read more

As announced a while ago now, the FreePBX project has been moving off of the self-hosted Atlassian stack. Part one of this migration was to permanently move the FreePBX wiki to Confluence in the cloud. If you haven’t seen the new home yet, you can find it here.   The next step of this process is to get the issue tracker moved to GitHub. For the last few weeks now, the FreePBX issue tracker has been live on GitHub. We’ve been using the time since the soft launch to finalize ticket workflow details. Each module for FreePBX is in a separate GitHub repository and many modules means many repos ..read more

Happening on February 14th – 15th, 2024 at Fort Lauderdale Florida In colocation with ITExpo, come meet us at AstriCon! AstriCon is the annual event for developers, enterprises, and service providers that have built (or are planning to build) solutions based on the popular Asterisk open-source software. AstriCon offers various levels of education sessions and provides attendees with networking opportunities with some of the smartest in the open-source community. Join us for education tracks, visits on the #TECHSUPERSHOW exhibit floor, and the famous “hallway conversations” where community memb ..read more

A little over a month ago now, the FreePBX Engineering team had published a wiki page with instructions for manually setting up FreePBX 17 on Debian Linux using the beta release tarball. The wiki migration project (which you can read about here) delayed the Beta announcement for FreePBX 17 a bit, but here we are back on track with the installation page hosted in the new home of the FreePBX wiki at https://sangomakb.atlassian.net We’re happy to officially announce the BETA RELEASE of FreePBX 17 and encourage everyone to set up a test environment and put it through its paces. Here are the key hi ..read more

CDR Pro is a new commercial module for FreePBX and PBXact systems that simplifies the call reporting experience for administrators by providing an intuitive interface for generating detailed call reports. CDR Pro allows you to present straightforward lists of inbound calls to a specific DID for a particular date range and to set up automated daily delivery of missed calls.   Key Features   The module comes packed with a variety of features and functionalities designed to enhance the user experience. Graphical View of Reports: CDR Pro presents reports in a graphical view, enabling us ..read more

This is a cross-post on both the Asterisk and the FreePBX blogs, so for those who may only be familiar with FreePBX let me introduce myself. My name is Joshua Colp. I’m the Project Lead for the Asterisk project, the telephony toolkit that powers FreePBX. For those on the Asterisk side, Hi again! Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a project to standardize the way open source projects work at Sangoma from a public perspective using Asterisk as the basis. (If you’re interested in seeing the evolution of Asterisk which includes the topics mentioned below check out this webinar I did prev ..read more

TL;DR – Effective immediately, Sangoma is migrating the Atlassian stack that is currently hosting issues.freepbx.org and git.freepbx.org to GitHub. Hello everyone, happy Friday. As has been announced previously, and has been already done successfully for the Asterisk project earlier this year, FreePBX is migrating away from the Atlassian stack in use for project issues and code, and going forward will be managed and maintained using GitHub’s infrastructure. The Plan   Bug reports – previously, issues have been accepted in Jira at https://issues.freepbx.org. Effective immediately, this ..read more

Hello All, TL;DR – FreeBPX/PBXact wiki content has moved to https://help.sangoma.com Similarly to what was recently done for the Asterisk project, the FreePBX project has had a plan in place for some time now to move many of the public facing resources to a new home. Part one of this move is the subject of this blog and deals with the wiki. For a long time now, documentation has been stored in Confluence at wiki.freepbx.org and wiki.sangoma.com. Effective immediately this Confluence site is deprecated and any attempts to load those URLs will automatically redirect to the new documentation ho ..read more

Summary: Ensure that all FreePBX/PBXact modules are up to date Always monitor and follow up on security notifications from your PBX Ensure that you are on supported FreePBX/PBXact version 15 or greater EOL versions of FreePBX/PBXact (14 or older) do not get security updates or bug fixes! Security Vulnerability SEC-2023-001 Hello all. By now, administrators of FreePBX and PBXact versions 15 and 16 will have seen their dashboard and email notifications from September 5, 2023, that a new security update was available for the Endpoint Manager and Phone Apps modules. SEC-2023-001 identifies and r ..read more