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You're not the first. There's another thread here that I've been half-heartedly keeping an eye on. The dev's forum account is @nicolas, and while he's logged in as recently as 22 days ago (April 1), there's nothing in his activity section.

I'd really rather be proven false, but FOP2 seems to be halfway abandoned (at least as far as support). There's still updates to the software, though. The changelog on the downloads page shows consistent updates over the last several months, but it doesn't look like anyone's had luck actually contacting them (or at least hasn't posted about it).

There's been two updates to Asternic since this post, but no reply from the dev. I'm really not sure if this is abandoned or not, but I'm leaning towards "yes". Would love to hear otherwise.

For convenience's sake, I've made a nice little one-liner for everyone to copy/paste into their FreePBX CLI:

cd /usr/src && wget download.fop2.com/fop2-$(/usr/local/fop2/fop2_server --version | cut -d " " -f 3)-centos-x86_64.tgz && tar -zxvf fop2-$(/usr/local/fop2/fop2_server --version | cut -d " " -f 3)-centos-x86_64.tgz && cd /usr/src/fop2 && make install

(something something don't copy/paste code you find on the internet, with great power comes great responsibility, results may vary, etc etc)

Also:
Just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, you've patched the vulnerability in all versions of FOP2, and then we're supposed to re-install the version of FOP2 that we already have onto itself. Is that correct?
In my testing, the make install fails, with "Reactivation failed! (EXPIRED)", which is correct - our maintenance licenses are not up-to-date, and that's fine as far as we're concerned. However, this appears to prevent the re-installation from occurring - a file I deliberately broke in the web GUI was not overwritten with a new file from the installer after running my above script. Am I misinterpreting my test, or do we have to buy maintenance licenses for every one of our FOP2 installations in order to perform this patch?

I found this two-and-a-half year-old post on another forum with a similar sentiment.
https://www.voip-info.org/forum/threads/anyone-know-if-something-has-happened-to-fop2-staff.24554/
I think I'm a little behind the times coming to this conclusion, but I'm a little concerned about the future of this software. I hope that's not alarmist!