FritzOS 7.50: Greater telephone convenience
With FritzOS 7.50, AVM has given the FritzFon a new appointment calendar and a caller announcement. With the latter, voice announcements can be stored in the address book for appointments and callers, which the phone plays instead of the ringtone. For example, you can hear who is calling before you pick up the phone. Also new: Unwanted callers can now be rejected or diverted to an answering machine if they are not in the phone book.
FritzOS 7.50: WireGuard VPN and WLAN mesh
AVM integrates the popular VPN method WireGuard under FritzOS 7.50. This should make it even easier to set up a secure connection from the Internet to the home network. There are also innovations when it comes to mesh: If you use a FritzBox as a mesh repeater, you can look forward to faster WiFi and greater stability – because now the connection between the FritzBox on the connection and the repeater FritzBox is both 2.4 and the 5 gigahertz frequency is available.
FritzOS 7.50: Smart Home and FritzNAS
There are other innovations in the Smart Home area: Under FritzOS 7.50, users use additional templates for actions in conjunction with the WLAN guest network, the answering machine and the push mail service. The FritzBox now also supports window sensors with DECT, which detect an open window, for example. Anyone who has a USB hard drive attached to the FritzBox can now integrate it into the home network more quickly. From now on, not only storage media in the file formats FAT and NTFS can be called up from the network, but also in exFAT. AVM has recently revised the user interface of the FritzBox – among other things, the company has made the “WLAN” area clearer.
FritzOS 7.50: Here you will find the beta version
Internet
- New: Support for WireGuard VPN connections
- Improvement: When activating Internet access to storage media via FTP/FTPS, the randomly assigned port number is displayed
- Improvement: The IPv6 Interface Identifier used on the WAN is chosen randomly
- Improvement: In the user interface, an image now clarifies the different VPN connection types
- Improvement: Other FritzBox products in the Mesh are automatically registered in the Mesh Master’s MyFritz account
- Change: Display and setting of the NetBIOS filter enabled (FritzBox Cable only)
- Change: When creating a port release, the “Emule” application is no longer provided
- Change: Predefined selection of DynDNS providers replaced by a general setting option
broadband
- Improvement: Improved interoperability with ADSL2+ and VDSL remote stations
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS
- Improvement: When changing the encryption to “unencrypted” on the Mesh Master, activation of the 5 GHz wireless network is ensured and WLAN devices are correctly logged off if necessary
- Improvement: Increased data rates against some wireless devices
- Improvement: The legend below “Occupancy of WLAN channels” on the page WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS > radio channel now with single-line display
- Improvement: Optimized the automatic channel selection when checking for priority use in the 5 GHz wireless network
- Improvement: In the mesh mode as a repeater, connections with several WLAN bands are now possible
- Improvement: Repeat channel selection by auto channel function when target channel is blocked by radar
- Improvement: Overlay with information text in the graphic display “Utilization of the current radio channel” now also with active VHT160 mode
- Change: The WLAN radio network, security and radio channel pages on the user interface have a new structure
- Change: New message under system > events if the permitted maximum number of repeaters is exceeded (only 7590 AX)
mesh
- Improvement: Display of home network connections on the “Mesh” page of the user interface responds more quickly to changes
- Improvement: A user interface of newly connected home network devices can be called up faster via the link in the mesh graphic
- Improvement: Changed country and language settings of the mesh master are automatically transferred to the mesh repeater
- Improvement: New note in the system events when a network loop was resolved by FritzOS
telephony
- New: Call diversions and call blocks can be applied to callers who are “not in the phone book” (phone book as white list)
- Improvement: Increased interoperability when using encrypted telephony
- Improvement: Table display of the configured call diversions revised
- Improvement: Support for photos for online phone books from Apple, Telekom and CardDAV providers
- Improvement: Encrypted telephony more robust against connection losses
DECT/FritzFon
- New: Caller announcement for calls, alarm clock and appointments
- New: appointment calendar in FritzFon
- Improvement: Convenient control of DECT headsets that are GAP or CAT-iq-2.x compliant
- Improvement: Speed dials for the number keys 2-9 can be set up directly on the FritzFon by pressing and holding the number
- Improvement: Higher/optimal resolution of images from the Google online phone book
- Change: No signaling to FritzFon for missed calls that are older than 28 days
home network
- Improvement: FritzPowerline devices can be found in the device details of the FritzBox user interface under home network > network restarted or logged in via button
- Improvement: More flexibility when assigning your own device names in the home network for display in the user interface
smart home
- New: Enhancement of the templates with comfort functions (switch WLAN access, switch WLAN guest access, initiate phone call, switch answering machine, send push mail, call up URL)
- New: Support for external window sensors for window open detection
- Improvement: The “Adaptive start of heating” function can be deactivated for radiator controllers
system
- Improvement: The user interaction when logging in to the user interface has been revised
- Improvement: During the initial setup, the user interface gives an overview of the status and progress
- Improvement: The push service e-mail “Forgot password” has been expanded to include information about the device on which this e-mail was requested
- Change: Changed operating concept for the user interface when changing settings
- Change: Updated copyright notice in legal notice
- Change: Layout revision of the FritzBox user interface
USB
- New: Support for exFAT formatted storage media
- Improvement: A list of FritzBox users with NAS rights is displayed under Home Network Sharing
- Change: When uploading files to fritz.nas, the creation date of the respective file is now displayed