FusionPBX

Is FusionPBX actively maintained?

Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 1093 commits, of which 248 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 83 commits a month.

The most recent tagged release, 5.6.5, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Of the 13 projects we track in Communication - SIP, FusionPBX ranks #4 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.

What FusionPBX actually does

FusionPBX provides a web-based administration interface for the FreeSWITCH voice switch platform. It allows you to manage multi-tenant telephony environments, routing, and user extensions through a graphical browser UI. The software acts as a control panel layer rather than handling the underlying audio processing directly.

Best fit: Administrators who want to deploy and manage FreeSWITCH setups without relying entirely on raw configuration files. It suits environments requiring multi-tenant voice routing.

Worth knowing: The Mozilla Public License 1.1 can present copyleft compliance challenges depending on how you modify and distribute the source code. It also inherits the steep configuration complexity of the underlying FreeSWITCH engine.

Deployment notes

As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server like Nginx or Apache, a separate relational database for state management, and a persistent backend for FreeSWITCH data. You will also need to configure proper network routing for SIP signaling and RTP media streams.

Links

• Official website
• Source code