Incredible PBX 2026 VirtualBox Image Asterisk Version

[gregarican]

So I fired this up on my laptop and am starting to poke around some. It's awesome that this FreePBX v17 is sitting on top of Debian 13. I ran updates on this yesterday and worked like a champ. Other than a GPG error when apt was also looking at legacy Debian Sarge repos. Once I put [trusted=yes] for those sources we were good to go.

One observation and question. While this image contains current FreePBX and Debian versions, I see that it's running Asterisk 18. A little long in the tooth TBH. I did not see the asterisk-version-switch script present to update this to Asterisk 22. What is the recommended method to switch over to Asterisk 22? Looking in the /root directory I didn't see any script file name that looked close.

Any suggestions?

 

[gregarican]

I did run across this post here --> https://www.voip-info.org/forum/threads/upgrade-asterisk-22-under-ubuntu-24-04-lts.28562/. Will give this a shot and see how it goes.

 

[kenn10]

This script will give you Asterisk-23 which runs perfectly with FreePBX=17 and Incredible-2026. You can change 23 to 22 if you prefer the latest LTS of Asterisk.

#!/bin/bash

echo "This utility upgrades to Asterisk 23 current release"
read -p "Press Enter to proceed at your own risk or Ctrl-C to abort..."
cd /usr/src
rm -rf asterisk-*
wget https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-23-current.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-23*
rm -f asterisk-23*.tar.gz
cd asterisk-23*
contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
make distclean
tar zxvf /root/menuselect-incredible17*.tar.gz
./configure --with-pjproject-bundled --with-jansson-bundled
make menuselect.makeopts
menuselect/menuselect --disable-category MENUSELECT_TESTS menuselect.makeopts
make menuselect
read -p "Press Enter to proceed at your own risk or Ctrl-C to abort..."
make && make install && ldconfig
touch /etc/asterisk/stir_shaken.conf
fwconsole restart

 

[gregarican]

Thanks. I got it now. I looked inside the IncrediblePBX2026.sh script and was able to wget the upgrade-asterisk script that was referenced in there. Will save this one off and just up the version number as newer versions are available.