FreePBX 15 Release Candidate Announcement

Matt Fredrickson

Matt Fredrickson

Hey All,

Before I get down to business, I’d like to introduce myself to you, as I don’t think I’ve had an opportunity to do so. My name is Matthew Fredrickson, and I’m the new FreePBX project lead at Sangoma. I began working at Sangoma as a part of the Digium acquisition and have had the role of Asterisk project lead for the last few years. After Andrew decided to leave Sangoma, the leadership at Sangoma asked me if I would be willing to step in and work with the many great developers and community members of FreePBX in addition to those of the Asterisk project. Taking on that mantle from Andrew has been no small undertaking, but has been an enjoyable opportunity for me to grow as well.

My background in telecommunications started in 2001 when Mark Spencer asked me to work for him doing open source software development with Asterisk. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to do extensive work on DAHDI, Asterisk, and many of Digium’s traditional telephony products. The acquisition by Sangoma allowed both Digium’s and Sangoma’s world class teams to come together and try to improve our part of the telecom industry in a more synergistic way.

All that being said, my goal today is not to go extensively into my own past, but to write about the present. Today, we’d like to announce that the FreePBX 15 branch is graduating from beta into a release candidate phase. This is the final step that will take place prior to an official FreePBX 15 release. The goal is to have an approximately 4 week period in the release candidate phase and have all major issues and regressions resolved by the end of the month, at around Astricon time (Oct 28-Oct 30 or so). So for those of you who like to test new releases, please do your best to test things in the FreePBX 15 branch so that we can get as many pesky bugs knocked out as possible prior to a final release.

In conclusion, I want to thank all of you that contribute regularly to the FreePBX project – whether it be in the forums answering questions, doing code level contributions, or all the many other ways there are to directly and indirectly contribute. I have learned in my work with the Asterisk project that it takes a lot of time and effort from not just one, but many individuals to help make all the parts of an open source project to run smoothly.

Also, be on the lookout over the next few weeks for a few blog posts editorializing some of the new features in FreePBX 15.

Happy testing to you all, and best wishes!

Matthew Fredrickson

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