AVM confirms: FritzOS 8 launches this month

FritzOS 8.0 was originally supposed to be released shortly after the end of IFA 2024, as Fritzbox manufacturer AVM recently explained. The release will probably not take place quite so soon, but they are on the home stretch, as AVM CEO Marlon Grunert explained to the portal Deskmodder at the trade fair.

FritzOS 8 is set to be released this month. In the next few days, work will continue on the fine-tuning of the upcoming software for the Fritzbox routers, as evidenced by the recently developed laboratory updates for the Fritzbox models 6690, 6670, 6660 and 6591. These changes to the user interface, which are intended to ensure more intuitive operation, also include interoperability with the popular Google browser Chrome.

However, FritzOS 8.0 will not have all the promised functions at launch, as AVM boss Grunert explains. It is also important to the company that everything “runs error-free, even if it may take a little longer in the end.” These features include broad support for the smart home standard Matter, which will only be added to the Fritzbox router at a later and as yet unknown date.