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FreeNAS 0.69RC2 (Kralizec)

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Please note, due adding many new features which have blown up the image size of FreeNAS it is not possible to upgrade to the latest 0.69RC1 from versions < 0.69b4 if you have choosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode. In this case you have to backup your data from the DATA partition and do a fresh installation.

Majors changes:

Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE.
Add system firewall. Please note this is only for the local system and not for the network (this will also never be implemented, use pfSense or m0n0wall instead).
Upgrade transmission to 1.40.
Introduce new WebGUI look (fixes some MSIE rendering bugs also).

Minors changes:

Add UPS service WebGUI option to define shutdown mode.
Add option 'Use sendfile' to 'Services|CIFS/SMB|Settings'. Some users report problems with this option (which is enabled by default), so now it is really easy to disable it.
Check if configured port is already used (e.g. UPnP, Bittorrent, DAAP, ...).

Bug fixes:

Fix web server security hole (file .htpasswd was downloadable) (BR 2255936).
Re-enable fuppes transcoding support (BR 2276571).
Remove garbage at end of downloaded log files (BR 2309257).

Permanent restrictions:

It is not possible to format a SoftRAID disk with MSDOS FAT16/32.
It is not possible to encrypt a disk partition, only complete disks are supported.
It is not possible to get seperate CPU stats per processor on SMP machines because FreeBSD does not support that feature.
Enable 'polling' on interfaces used by a LAGG interface will make it inoperable.

Known bugs: