Fritz Labor: New betas for Fritz boxes and repeaters

New beta versions for Fritz boxes and repeaters

Betas for FritzBox 7590 AX (FritzOS 7.39-96138) and FritzBox 7590 (FritzOS 7.39-96137)

smart home

• New: Create and activate/deactivate routines (if-then link).
• New: Extension of the template for radiator controllers with comfort and lowering temperatures as well as frost protection and boost functions
• Improvement: Astronomical timer

Internet

• Improvement: Automatic prioritization ensures fairness in bandwidth distribution in the entire FritzBox network (home and guest network)
• Fixed: Alternatively configured DNS servers were not considered for WireGuard VPN connections
• Fixed: With a FritzBox with its own IP address range and its own firewall on an external modem or router, the IPv6 address was not updated on MyFritzNet
• Fixed: Network conflicts occurred with parallel WireGuard VPN connections from a device to two connected FritzBox products
• Fixed: Name resolution by configured DNS servers could be affected with active fallback to public DNS servers

telephony

• Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the initiator of a three-way conference couldn’t hear the other two participants

home network

• Improvement: Display of the “Mesh overview” expanded to include LLDP switches
• Fixed: Under certain circumstances, changing names for the mesh master were displayed in the mesh
• Fixed: After the update, network devices PC-00-00-00-00-00-00 were incorrectly displayed

system

• Change: “Help & Info” at the end of the menu area summarizes helpful information about the FritzBox
• Change: Adjusted width of UI content area

WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS

• Fixed: Fritz boxes in repeater mode registered incorrectly when the PMF option was activated
• Fixed: WPS status messages under System > Events didn’t always appear
• Fixed: Possible error situation with parallel activation of WPS (“session overlap”) on the main and guest access was not recognized
• Fixed: changes on the page WLAN > radio channel were not always adopted
• Fixed: WPS started via the user interface could not be clicked on Abort not be aborted
• Change: Arrangement and layout of various areas in the “WLAN” menu

Beta for FritzBox 6890 LTE (FritzOS 7.39-95589)

smart home

• New: Create and activate/deactivate routines (if-then link).
• New: Extension of the template for radiator controllers with comfort and lowering temperatures as well as frost protection and boost functions
• Improvement: Astronomical timer
• Fixed: Error message when setting up a Google calendar for devices and groups

cellular

• Improvement: Added failure detection via DNS validation for the primary internet connection in fallback configurations
• Improvement: Cellular connection stability increased
• Fixed: Information about estimated data rate and resource share was missing
• Fixed: Auto-detection of the provider matching the SIM card sometimes ran endlessly if there was no match
• Fixed: Auto-detection of the provider matching the SIM card does not work
• Fixed: Possible crash in modem control routine (lua error)

Internet

• Improvement: Automatic prioritization ensures fairness in bandwidth distribution in the entire FritzBox network (home and guest network)
• Improvement: More tolerant handling of responses from a DNS server with “Refused”
• Improvement: With automatic switching to public DNS servers, the public DNS server used is displayed in the online monitor
• Fixed: Devices in the guest network with a caption page were not connected to the internet via IPv6
• Improvement: Revision of the WireGuard event messages
• Improvement: Automatic switching to public DNS servers is deactivated by default if adjustments have been made to the DNS settings
• Fixed: Alternatively configured DNS servers were not considered for WireGuard VPN connections
• Fixed: With a FritzBox with its own IP address range and its own firewall on an external modem or router, the IPv6 address was not updated on MyFritzNet
• Fixed: Network conflicts occurred with parallel WireGuard VPN connections from a device to two connected FritzBox products
• Fixed: With remote access from the Internet, the “FritzBox Users” page could not be reached
• Fixed: The Internet connection was displayed as “Not Online”, although the FritzBox was connected to the Internet via a WAN port
• Fixed: Import of a WireGuard configuration file with a remote station with a manually specified IP address was rejected and not imported
• Fixed: Correction of the masquerading in the tftp area

telephony

• Improvement: Revised display of the caller number in the call list if there is a user and network provided number
• Improvement: Optimization of the automatic setup of phone numbers by the Internet provider
• Improvement: Texts for the push mails from the fax function and answering machine revised
• Improvement: Support for more call scenarios with voice data transmission before answering the call (P-Early-Media)
• Fixed: Newly created phone numbers may have been created with the “readonly” property and could therefore not be edited
• Fixed: Umlauts in the names of telephony devices were converted into special characters under certain circumstances
• Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the initiator of a three-way conference couldn’t hear the other two participants

USB

• Fixed: Added radio stations were only displayed after manual indexing

system

• Improvement: Areas of information have been consolidated on the “Overview” page
• Improvement: New display of the WLAN connections between Fritz products
• Improvement: New design for the FritzBox login
• Improvement: Stability
• Change: Adjusted width of UI content area
• Change: “Help & Info” at the end of the menu area summarizes helpful information about the FritzBox
• Fixed: It was not possible to switch between the FritzBox model and assigned FritzBox name in the page header with a mouse click
• Fixed: Push service for saving settings was delivered with wrong text
• Fixed: Push service was too restrictive when evaluating allowed characters in an email address

WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS

• Improvement: WLAN messages under System > Events revised when registering repeaters
• Change: Arrangement and layout of various areas in the “WLAN” menu
• Fixed: Fritz boxes in repeater mode registered incorrectly when the PMF option was activated
• Fixed: WPS status messages under System > Events didn’t always appear
• Fixed: Possible error situation with parallel activation of WPS (“session overlap”) on the main and guest access was not recognized
• Fixed: changes on the page WLAN > radio channel were not always adopted
• Fixed: WPS started via the user interface could not be clicked on Abort not be aborted
• Fixed: Activation of WPS via the user interface did not work
• Fixed: It was not possible to use the “existing access via WLAN” function

home network

• Improvement: Display of the “Mesh overview” expanded to include LLDP switches
• Improvement: interoperability with switches
• Fixed: Under certain circumstances, changing names for the mesh master were displayed in the mesh
• Fixed: After the update, network devices PC-00-00-00-00-00-00 were incorrectly displayed

Beta for FritzRepeater 2400 (FritzOS 7.39-96114)

• Fixed: Occasional Wi-Fi module initialization error (LED flashing red)
• Improvement: More details in the support data
• Improvement: Improved interoperability with various WLAN devices
• Improvement: Increased stability

FritzOS 7.50: The most important innovations

For the first time since FritzOS 7.25, version 7.50 brings fresh functions. These are the most important innovations:

• Appointment calendar for FritzFon
• Voice announcement for FritzFon
• Call diversions and blocks for callers who are not in the phone book
• WireGuard VPN
• Faster and more stable WLAN with FritzBox in repeater mode
• New smart home templates
• Support of window sensors with DECT
• Network access to storage media in exFAT file format possible