FRITZ! Box 6590 and 6490 Cable get FRITZ! OS 7.25

Now AVM has given the FRITZ! Box 6590 and 6490 Cable the final FRITZ! OS 7.25. This gives both boxes new functions and, of course, errors have also been fixed.

New function

• Right of way in the home office - prioritization of a computer for Internet access can be easily activated
• FRITZ! Fon shows the weather forecast on the start screen
• "Wake up / fall asleep" light sequence for the FRITZ! DECT 500 and compatible DECT LED lamps
• Great room climate with FRITZ! DECT 440 - the humidity easily in view
• FRITZ! Smart Home now also supports compatible roller shutter controls
• For the fax machine integrated in the FRITZ! Box: Journal for received and sent faxes
• Numerous improvements to the user interface for the use of the telephone book, call diversions and call barring

New functions in FRITZ! OS 7.25

Internet:

• NEW You can now easily activate the prioritization of a home network device on the FRITZ! Box user interface

Telephony:

• NEW Fax function: Journal for received and sent fax messages
• NEW Support of the business telephony platform "Telekom CompanyFlex" (SIP trunk and Cloud PBX)
• DECT / FRITZ! Fon: NEW New start screen with current weather information

Smarthome:

• NEW FRITZ! DECT 440 measures air humidity and enables its display with the FRITZ! App Smart Home and FRITZ! Fon
• NEW FRITZ! DECT 440 displays the QR code for easy access to the wireless guest access
• NEW Switching the wireless guest access or answering machine on and off at the touch of a button on the FRITZ! DECT 440
• NEW At the push of a button on FRITZ! DECT 440 or 400, an internal telephone rings and displays a short text
• NEW Roller shutter control via FRITZ! DECT 440, FRITZ! Fon and the FRITZ! Box user interface
• NEW "Wake up / fall asleep" light sequence for the FRITZ! DECT 500 and compatible DECT LED lamps via "automatic switching"

Further improvements in FRITZ! OS 07.25

Internet:

• Improvement of child protection: Tickets to extend the surfing time, if necessary, can now be distributed more easily and reset altogether
• Improvement of the settings for the access profile in the child protection to include the assignment of devices
• Improvement of device status (active / inactive) is shown in the device selection for port sharing displayed
• Improvement of the port release overview on mobile devices improved
• Improvement Independent port releases for a device are now allowed if the request via IPv6 for the IPv4 address of the device has been made - and vice versa
• Improvement of the event message when port 80 is temporarily used for issuing a certificate for letsencrypt.org is released
• Improved robustness of DNS over TLS (DoT) increased
• Change In the online monitor, the utilization of the guest network is only displayed for the downstream.
• Corrected display in the overview of port forwarding. Corrected After updating from FRITZ! OS 7.03 or older, the IP network was not updated. Address at MyFRITZ! Net (DynDNS)
• Fixed Changes in access profiles were partially rejected without justification with the error message: “List of blocked network applications with the same ID already exists”
• Fixed VPN connections via L2TP (including Windows 10) were unexpectedly slow
• Fixed Repeated cancellation and re-establishment of VPN connections after forced disconnection
• Fixed After resetting to factory settings, the first configured VPN connection did not work
• Fixed Formatting errors occurred when setting up IPv6 routes
• Fixed IPv6: After renewing the home network prefix, invalid IPv6 addresses for guest access were not deleted
• Fixed IPv6: In the IPv6 router advertisement (RA) with option 25 (Recursive DNS Server) bits of the "Reserved" field were partly set. Fixed DNS queries of the "PTR" type were sometimes not correctly resolved. After importing a configuration with an alternative LAN IPv4 network in the settings transfer the local DNS server remained in the old network
• Resolved When a saved configuration was selectively adopted, not all originally configured push mails were adopted.
• Resolved Extended support data transmission did not trigger a push mail.
• Corrected The TR-064 parameter "WANAccess" was possibly incorrect ("granted") if there was no WAN when restarting was available
• Fixed Online monitor for cellular networks sometimes did not show any data when the "Extended failure protection" setting was activated

WLAN:

• Improvement Improved auto channel function after detection of sources of interference (5 GHz band)
• Improvement Revision of the "WLAN / radio channel" page
• Improvement of messages for WLAN under "System / Events" improved
• Improvement Detection of several parallel WPS activations improved
• Improvement New message Under "System / Events" when the maximum number of WLAN repeaters is exceeded
• Improvement Naming of the WLAN guest access (SSID, default) depending on the language
• selection Change In the "Mesh Repeater" operating mode, only WLAN radio networks are included when the Mesh Master is selected visible name displayed
• Fixed Incorrect display of the channel bandwidth when connected to the HUAWEI P30
• Fixed After radar detection with reduced power consumption (Green Access Point) in combination with channel bandwidths of 160 MHz (VHT160), initialization problems could occur.
• Fixed After FRITZ! OS was updated, no WLAN channels were found on the "WLAN / radio channel" page and under certain circumstances no wireless networks displayed in the vicinity.
• Fixed Activation of WPS immediately after the start of the Mesh Master led to non-DBDC uplinks to Mesh repeaters.
• Corrected Incorrect event under "System / Events" for WPS during the DFS waiting time

Mesh:

• Improvement Improved information about an active takeover of settings for a FRITZ! Box as Mesh Repeater Fixed Incorrect formatting in the mobile view of the "Mesh Settings" page on a FRITZ! Box in "Mesh Repeater" mode Fixed Settings for the WLAN timing could be found under Can not be changed if the "FRITZ! Box as Mesh Repeater" setting was used.
• Fixed With a FRITZ! Box that was set as a Mesh Master but not as a router (DHCP server), the name and IP address of the Do not change the router
• Fixed The display of the WLAN channel bandwidth in the user interface could differ from the Mesh Repeater on the Mesh Master

Telephony:

• Improving voice quality for calls in mobile networks and abroad increased enhancement settings pages for call forwarding and call barring completely revised improvement diversions offer option selected calls to a particular phone to the FRITZ! Box redirect!
• Improving representation and management of entries in telephone directories completely revised (including photo visible in the overview, columns can be selected for display, multiple selection as well as copying and moving entries between phone books added)
• Improvement With the country setting Germany and the phone number set up automatically by the provider, the area code contained therein is automatically recognized and transferred to the connection settings
• Improvement After opening all newly received fax documents in the fax journal, the "Info" LED no longer flashes
• Improvement Settings for sending faxes and receiving faxes are summarized under "Telephony / Telephony devices"
• Improvement Added setting for using the internal fax device to "only send faxes" Improvement Integration of several CardDAV telephone books supports
• Improvement of compatibility with encrypted telephony increased
• Improvement of the compatibility of the SIP registrar of the FRITZ! Box with the SIP client LinPhone increased
• Improvement of the compatibility with the telephony providers Easybell and VoIPfoneUK Increased
• Improvement of the forwarding of calls accepted by Snom on IP telephones is carried out without consultation supported
• Improvement of the "E-Mail" and "RSS" tabs in the "Telephony / Telephony Devices" menu, if DECT is switched off.
• Improvement of stability. B. in the context of call blocks
• Fixed In the case of online telephone books, the Internet address of the CardDAV server could not be changed afterwards Fixed On a FRITZ! Box used as a Mesh Repeater for telephony, the phone numbers transferred from the Mesh Master could be edited and new phone numbers created
• Fixed Telephone numbers of provider 1 & 1 could no longer register after editing via "Other provider".
• Fixed Telekom SIP trunk account could not be deactivated
• Fixed Integration of online phone books from certain CardDAV providers failed with error code 26
• Fixed With integrated iCloud phone books (Apple), first and last name were sometimes displayed in inconsistent order
• Fixed When synchronizing entries in online phone books (CardDAV), certain constellations All e-mail addresses deleted
• Fixed Certain phone numbers were temporarily not registered (including Sipgate, EnviaTel, Teledate)
• Fixed Connection breaks after approx. 30 seconds for TLSonly-secured telephony connections (including KPN)
• Fixed When telephoning via IPv6, only one-sided voice transmission was possible in certain constellations
• Fixed Unsuitable default setting for telephony provider Vodafone Italy
• Fixed Registration of phone numbers with telephony profile for provider Vodafone Italia was not possible
• Fixed Sporadic errors when faxing via T.38 connections
• Fixed No waiting announcement after resetting to factory settings
• Fixed Pick-up on IP telephones not possible for longer than 4 seconds
• Fixed After a fax was sent A recipient selected via the telephone book is not displayed by name in the call list
• Fixed Editing of door intercoms sometimes led to the loss of the e-mail notification for door intercoms
• Corrected After importing answering machine settings including saved messages into another FRITZ! Box model, some of the imported ones could be imported Then stop playing messages
• Fixed incorrect ringing sequences for the country setting Australia Fixed Sporadic loss of the time switch settings for the answering machine after an update of the FRITZ! OS

Home network:

• Improving display of network connections in very large networks accelerated improvement Leaving the device details is an indication to the modified device name only if the name was actually changed change When setting an individual name for the FRITZ! Box is the name of the working group of the home network share (! "USB / memory") unchanged
• Fixed In the device details of guest devices, the section for the device lock was displayed, although the function is reserved for home network devices. Fixed Changed IP settings of the FRITZ! Box were not offered for printing.
• Fixed Time synchronization (NTP) was in certain scenarios unstable

Smarthome:

• Improvement of the template for a quick change of the color setting and the brightness with FRITZ! DECT 500

USB:

• Improvement Several files can be marked with the shift key on fritz.nas Fixed The home network share of a network drive (SMB) was not visible in Windows Explorer under Network
• Fixed Data transfer via network drive function (SMB) failed with the Windows error message "STATUS_NO_MEMORY"

System:

• Improvement In the user interface, a password can be made visible when it is entered (eye symbol)
• Improvement Security query when leaving a page without saving the changed settings
• Improvement Saving and restoring settings, expanded to include telephony data from the internal memory of the FRITZ! Box ( ringtones, phonebook images, voice messages)
• Improvement in the user interface, the list of events of the FRITZ! box are simply copied from the print version in the clipboard
• Improve detail corrections in the "diagnostics / function" in the area of mesh and USB
• improvement improvements in ease of use in the initial setup
• Improvement status overview page within the initial setup will improve the wizard for initial setup can be interrupted and resumed
• Improve after delivery of support data to AVM, a second delivery is possible after completion of the transmission without waiting
• Change switch to "Level III: About new FRITZ inform OS versions and new versions automatically (Recommended) "is only offered to update if before the update" stage II: OS versions informed and necessary install updates automatically "was used to set new FRITZ
• Change assignment of an email address to a User will be eliminated in the future (existing email addresses will be retained with Upate)
• Change The previously not recommended option of logging in to a FRITZ! Box (user interface) without a password is no longer supported * 1
• Change If "only with the FRITZ! Box password" was set for logging in to the user interface, a FRITZ! Box User with the name "fritz" and a random four-digit number as well as the FRITZ! Box password are automatically created. To log in to the user interface in the home network, it is still sufficient to enter the FRITZ! Box password. * 2
• Fixed FRITZ! Box users could not be sorted in the overview.
• Fixed Podcast settings were not imported into another FRITZ! Box model when restoring settings
• Fixed Parental control access profiles with blocked applications were not available after restoring the settings
• Fixed Number of messages in "System / Events" was too low in some areas
• Fixed Display of the installation date for the last update was not correct in certain scenarios

Cellular:

• Improvement New option for the generic integration of variants of known mobile radio sticks "Compatibility mode for mobile radio sticks" Improvement of the country-specific list of mobile network providers when using the FRITZ! Box with a USB mobile radio stick (not for mobile radio boxes ) Improvement of detailed optimizations for the "Extended failure protection" setting
• Improvement of mobile operator "Magenta Mobil" for country Austria added.
• Improvement of support for USB cellular stick Huawei E3372h-320