Latest Module Updates

I thought Fonality was updating it's own modules now that it is owned or put into CE by Fonality. Not sure how that works.

Personally I avoid the forked version and use the real thing.
Fonality say they update their own modules but are very slow to fix bugs (if at all) ...

Let's be real clear, PBXSettings is FreePBX integrated into the trixbox "look and feel"

To this date Fonality has not contributed a single line of code back to the FreePBX product. They take the FreePBX updates and at an unspecified and undetermined interval they "patch" the modules and place them in the repository.

Scott

M2Mcom,
all the release notes for FreePBX are on the FreePBX site. You can get gory details from the svn changelog and a pretty good summary from the module changelog.

The confusion comes in that Fonality has done a 'black box re-branding' fork with the claim that they are also fixing bugs. They also provide no access to their process or svn tree so there is no immediate way that you can see what they may have changed from the original FreePBX code when they do their own release.

If they were to provide access to their internal SVN that would answer the question. Otherwise, you can do a recursive diff on "equivalent" versions of their code and FreePBX code, and determine what changed on their's. You can then use that in conjunction with our completely transparent and published information to determine what is different.

So, no fighting going on here. FreePBX is just in the same boat as you and all the users. We know what we released, but Fonality does not give you any access to see what they did. So without jumping through the hoops above, it's not possible to say anymore. You and the community are at the mercy of Fonality, and they seem to want to keep it that way. The fact is that requests to expose their SVN for code that is open source continues to fall on deaf ears. There must be something really scary that they don't want to expose, or otherwise ??? I don't recall them ever even providing an answer of we don't because ... And the effort to do such is trivial.

FreePBX 2.5 is awesome.

Currently in RC2 ... I suggest you wait for the release and install that, but in the meantime you could install the latest 2.4 version. The FreePBX crew are really on top of module updates and you can get support on their own forums as well as here.

Philippe has even got an Upgrade module to 2.5 (and yes it works fine with the forked version on TB 2.6.1).

Personally, i've been updating all my customers to the freepbx version and away from the fonality version for a couple reasons. 1. The backup module works, and i'm finding that it is now grabbing the tftproot directory now as well. I've got very little confidence in the trixbox backup and having it even work. 2. I like the freedom to move someone to another falvour of asterisk if I so choose. 3. I see now reason to even use their version, what for? I'm seeing much more progress with the full blown freepbx, it's a waste of resources if you ask me.

2.5Rc2 is lookin REALLY good!!

Easy - just grab the update module from FreePBX.

http://freepbx.org/news/2008-08-13/freepbx-release-candidate-easy...