General changes

These changes reflect changes that are generic and may span across multiple modules.

• Visual updates conforming to Bootstrap

• Form buttons moved in to action bar and float on the page

• Moved rnav (right side navigation) to bootnav (bootstrap styled navigation)

New functionality

These changes reflect new functionality within existing modules

• Framework - CLI fwconsole, replaces amportal. fwconsole is a native PHP application, where as amportal was a bash/php hybrid

• Framework - Whoops error handler replaces white screens

• Framework - UTF8 support throughout FreePBX (New installs only). Older installs can upgrade to a UTF8 database manually

• Framework - Intelligent 404 pages when modules are in upgrade mode or disabled

• Framework - Localization throughout FreePBX including javascript files

• Core - Quick create extension dialog for quickly creating extensions without having to load the entire extension page

• Paging - Multicast paging

• Backup - Backup wizard for quick backup creation

• Time Conditions - Timezone support

Changed functionality

These changes reflect a change in behavior or functionality for modules.

• Framework - Make fwconsole chown (was amportal chown) less generic and hookable.

• Framework - Improve reload (apply changes) speed.  Benchmark 2500 extensions took 15 minutes now takes 4.

• Sysadmin - Free features now require system registration and activation

• System Recordings - Multi language support

• System Recordings - In browser recording

• System Recordings - HTML5 in browser playback

• Call Recording Reports - HTML5 In browser playback

• Music on Hold - HTML5 in browser playback

• Find Me/Follow Me - Now resides inside of Extensions/Users when a new Extension or User is created

• Fax - Setting up a fax account now resides inside of User Manager

• Usermanager - LDAP sync support

• Voicemail - No longer uses vm_email.inc and vm_general.inc, these files have been merged into voicemail.conf and the includes have been removed

New Modules

These are new modules released as part of this release.

• Bulk handler - replaces bulk extensions and bulk dids adds support for contact manager and more modules in the future

• Sound Language - Manage multiple language sound files.

• CEL Reports module

• VPN Configuration module (Beta)

Deprecated modules/functionality

These are modules that are no longer officially supported or developed. They will likely break in future releases. Please note deprecation does not prevent security related updates

• Bulk extensions, replaced by bulk handler

• Bulk DIDs, replaced by bulk handler

• Camp on

• Framework - deprecate amportal, replace with fwconsole

Developer level changes

These changes are meant for people developing FreePBX modules.

General

• All modules should conform to the Uniformity Guidelines

Deprecations

• PEAR database functions, all database functions have been moved to use PDO.

New functionality

• Bootstrap tables for interactive tables. 

• Javascript fpbxToast allows toast messages to presented to the user

• Ajax errors present Toast messages for better debuging

• PHP Strict checking turned up  to force cleaner coding. This may cause whoops errors on things that use to work