AVM heeft een bètaversie van zijn FritzOS voor de FritzBox 7590 vrijgeven. Dit is voornamelijk om nieuwe features te promoten en te laten testen door gebruikers. Onder andere de snelheid in combinatie met usb-opslag is verbeterd en er zijn Let's Encrypt-certificaatopties toegevoegd voor de webinterface. Het versienummer van het onderliggende FritzOS is vastgesteld op 6.98 met 49686 als het exacte buildnummer. De vernieuwingen worden als volgt beschreven:
New features in this lab versionOpen items known:
- Internet: NEW - MyFRITZ! Internet access to FRITZ!Box without browser warning (SSL certificates by Let's Encrypt)
- Internet: Resolved - possibility to circumvent time limits defined in parental controls
- Internet: Change - parental controls no longer differentiate between Windows users
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Fon start screen events: display of received fax
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Fon media player: saving and loading of playlists as .xsfp files possible via FRITZ!NAS
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Fon Smart Home start screen can now be scrolled to show more Smart Home devices
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Fon phone number display shows region and country of prefix codes
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Fon supports updates for FRITZ!Box (option for securing via PIN)
- DECT: NEW - FRITZ!Box supports software updates for compatible handsets from other manufacturers (CAT-iq SUOTA)
- DECT: Resolved - Speedphone 500 could not make calls
- WiFi: Improved - display of frequency bands on Wireless LAN / Radio Channel page in the "Other radio networks in your vicinity" list
- WiFi: Resolved - selection of DFS channels in the 5 GHz band are possible again in repeater mode.
- WiFi: Resolved - the entire network of the base station is displayed in repeater mode
- WiFi: Resolved - display of interference sources on Wireless LAN / Radio Channel page in the "Use of the Wireless LAN Channels" list
- WiFi: Change - improved wireless security through support of activated Protected Management Frames (PMF) (in preparation)
- USB/NAS: Improved - increased speed when using USB storage media with NTFS data systems
- System: Improvement - push mail service "FRITZ!OS update" with extended information on the update progress
- WiFi: when the internet provider is selected with "Existing connection over wireless LAN", the internet doesn't work
- UMTS (3G): no fallback to mobile communications