Firmware Update: AVM FritzBox 7590 – FritzOS 6.98 Lab

AVM has released a beta version of its FritzOS for the FritzBox 7590. This is mainly to promote new features and have them tested by users. Among other things, the speed in combination with USB storage has been improved and Let’s Encrypt certificate options have been added for the web interface. The version number of the underlying FritzOS is fixed at 6.98 with 49686 as the exact build number. The innovations are described as follows:

New features in this lab version

• Internet: NEW – MyFRITZ! Internet access to FRITZ!Box without browser warning (SSL certificates by Let’s Encrypt)
• Internet: Resolved – possibility to circumvent time limits defined in parental controls
• Internet: Change – parental controls no longer differentiate between Windows users
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Fon start screen events: display of received fax
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Fon media player: saving and loading of playlists as .xsfp files possible via FRITZ!NAS
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Fon Smart Home start screen can now be scrolled to show more Smart Home devices
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Fon phone number display shows region and country of prefix codes
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Fon supports updates for FRITZ!Box (option for securing via PIN)
• DECT: NEW – FRITZ!Box supports software updates for compatible handsets from other manufacturers (CAT-iq SUOTA)
• DECT: Resolved – Speedphone 500 could not make calls
• WiFi: Improved – display of frequency bands on Wireless LAN / Radio Channel page in the “Other radio networks in your vicinity” list
• WiFi: Resolved – selection of DFS channels in the 5 GHz band are possible again in repeater mode.
• WiFi: Resolved – the entire network of the base station is displayed in repeater mode
• WiFi: Resolved – display of interference sources on Wireless LAN / Radio Channel page in the “Use of the Wireless LAN Channels” list
• WiFi: Change – improved wireless security through support of activated Protected Management Frames (PMF) (in preparation)
• USB/NAS: Improved – increased speed when using USB storage media with NTFS data systems
• System: Improvement – push mail service “FRITZ!OS update” with extended information on the update progress

Open Items Known:

• WiFi: when the internet provider is selected with “Existing connection over wireless LAN”, the internet doesn’t work
• UMTS (3G): no fallback to mobile communications