13 Changes and Features

Overall Planned Changes

• Framework

  • Rewrite the installer (Andrew Nagy and Jason Parker)
  • Self Signing GPG
  • Restructure Nav Bar
  • Retire usage of PearDB and in it's place use PDO (Tracking Branch) (Andrew Nagy)
  • Use Bootstrap Front End to standardize the layout format of FreePBX (James Finstrom)
    • Extend rnav to full length and adjust width FREEPBX-7224FREEPBX-5718 (James Finstrom)
    • See Visual Changes Tracker
  • Nav Bar uses Bootstrap (Bryan Walters)
    • Add search text (Rob Thomas)
  • Floating "Save" and "Delete" (Action Bar) (Bryan Walters)
    • Go through all modules to make the appropriate changes for the action bar (James Finstrom)
  • Rework amportal using console (James Finstrom)
    • Make modular
    • CLI Module Admin improvements
      • Allow package lists example: amportal a ma install package1 package2
  • Migrate database to UTF8 (FREEPBX-8057), InnoDB as well (Andrew Nagy and Jason Parker)
  • Auto Heal Key Value store and others (Rob Thomas)
  • Add 'simple extension create' (Andrew Nagy)
  • Improve reload speeds. (2,500 Extensions went from 15 minutes to 4)
  • Module vetting. Allow usage of "EDGE" track vs "STABLE" track. Changeable in the GUI

• Core

• • Rework internals so that they don't overwrite $_REQUEST and allow external calls to create a device, this applies to trunks,routes and extensions (users + devices) (Andrew Nagy)
  • Rework current component to be more modern, support tabs and use html bootstrap (Andrew Nagy)

• Certificate Manager

  • TLS and DTLS Support (Andrew Nagy and Rob Thomas)
    • Letsencrypt support
    • Self Signed Support
    • Upload Support
    • Automatically check expire dates and warn or update
    • central place to select a certificate as the default
    • UCP Node, WebRTC, Asterisk support 

• Contact Manager

• Paging

• • Allow Multicast Paging (Asterisk Wiki Link) (Rob Thomas)

• Reporting

  • CEL integration and Reporting To CDR reports or independent module (FREEPBX-5779) (Jason Parker)
  • CEL Diagnostic reports (Call trace report) (Jason Parker) 

• Bulk Handler

  • Global Bulk Handler any module can plug into
  • Initially support for the following modules
    • Extensions
    • DIDs
    • User Management

• Multi Language Sound Prompt Manager

  • Allow installing other core sound files from the GUI

• Music on Hold

  • Rework and redesign functionality of this module using HTML5

  • Allow uploading most formats and convert on upload to wav

• System Recordings

  • Rework and redesign functionality of this module using HTML5

  • Allow recording from page
  • Multiple Language support

List of Active Issues Planned to Be Fixed in 13.0

List of Issues Fixed in 13.0