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Create an backup of your current configuration. Use 'System / Backup/Restore' via WebGUI.
Majors changes:
- Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.3. Because of this there are some changes:
- WOL kernel patch has to be removed because there is currently no patch available for this version.
- Add msk (Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet) network driver.
- Add pcn (AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 (with precedence over 'lnc')) network driver.
- Remove 'kern.hz="500"' from /boot/loader.conf. With FreeBSD 6.3 it is set to 100 by default.
- Add 'lagg' link aggregation and link failover interface support (kernel).
- Switch back to SCHED_4BSD scheduler.
- Add generic webserver service.
- Complete review and typo fixes in sourcecode. Thanks to Jerome Warnier.
- Upgrade rsync to 3.0.2, smartmontools to 5.38, lighttpd to 1.4.19, unison to 2.27.57, fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 1.2506, e2fsprogs to 1.40.10, PHP to 5.2.6, inadyn-mt to 02.12.04, nano to 2.0.7.
- Use SAJAX to update misc WebGUI pages every 5 seconds to display current states (e.g. 'Status/System', 'Status/Processes' or 'Disks/Format').
- Refactor complete S.M.A.R.T. WebGUI + services. It is possible to receive warning emails on failure.
- Refactor diagnostics WebGUI.
- Refactor ActiveDirectory WebGUI + services.
- Add ability to Webserver WebGUI to configure URL's requiring authentication.
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Minors changes:
- Add ability to enable/disable 'Hide dot files' for SMB/CIFS shares.
- Add WebGUI page 'Diagnostics: Information: CIFS/SMB' to list misc. informations about Samba (e.g. open files).
- Add 'Quiet' parameter to RSYNC client/local shares to suppress non-error messages (FR 1936192).
- Add ssl-keygen (FR 1963342).
- Allow adding a description in 'Disks: Management' (FR 1918964).
Bug fixes:
- Add new parameter to AFP share WebGUI to define path where to store .AppleDB files for AFP shares (BR 1932519). Thanks to Djuri Baars.
- ARP table hangs on resolve IP (BR 1940373). Thanks to Azguy987.
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.
Known bugs:
- If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be override by the IPv4 DNS server.
Changelog and download can be found on Download page.
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.
The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.
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