Download FreeNAS 0.69.1

On Sunday, with the nickname Omnius version 0.69.1 of FreeNAS was released. With this package, a computer in the network can be used for pure data storage only. The whole is based on M0n0wall, a stripped-down FreeBSD installation, and features a well-organized web interface. It has onboard support for Cifs (Samba), ftp, nfs, Rsync, ssh, local user authentication and software raid 0, 1 and 5. Installed, FreeNAS takes up no more than 32MB of space and can be stored with ease. the hard disk or a USB stick are installed. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Major changes:

• Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34.
• Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2.
• Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6.
• Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22.
• Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20080819.
• Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.4.
• Upgrade utility to 2.4.1. Thanks to Joerg Pulz for the core dump patch. This version uses TCP wrappers instead of the internal ACL mechanism. Because of that all client can listen the UPS. If you want to prevent this you have to use the FreeNAS client firewall to block specific IP ranges. See for a detailed explanation.
• Upgrade transmission to 1.51.
• Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.2.1.
• Upgrade 3Ware serial ATA RAID controller driver to 9.5.1.
• Upgrade bash to 4.0.10.

Minor changes:

• Add ‘SSL/TLS only’ on ‘Services|FTP’ page to allow TLS/SSL connections only.
• Add ‘Reverse DNS lookup’ on ‘Services|FTP’ page. This and the ‘Ident protocol’ option are disabled by default because they may slow down or break the user login to the FTP server in some situations.
• Add ‘Authentication’ checkbox on ‘Services|BitTorrent’ page to enable/disable authentication for TransmissionBT WebGUI.
• Add checkbox to enable WOL on ‘Network|Interfaces|LAN’ and ‘Interfaces|Optionalx’ pages. Please note that WOL only works for nfe, nve, sis, vr, xl. Thanks to Tobias Reber for the patch.
• Add traceroute6 command (FR 2531610).
• Add *.iso support to Fuppes UPnP (FR 2521047).
• Move ‘m2ts’ video file extension to ‘default’ section (BR 2643180).
• Add ‘Remote monitoring’ to ‘Services|UPS’ to allow adding remote monitors that monitor the local installed UPS in slave mode.
• Use WebGUI administrator password for the NUT user ‘root’.
• Add ability to mount UDF ISO images.
• Disable download feature in Quixplorer because there are misc. (PHP and system) limitations that makes this feature senseless.
• Prevent generation of core dump files (BR 2662404). Can be enabled via ‘System|Advanced|sysctl.conf’.
• Add ability to enable/disable sysctl variables in ‘System|Advanced|sysctl.conf’.
• Add XMLRPC services that are available via eg system.getInfo.
• Add ability to configure ProFTPD module mod_ban via WebGUI (FR 2546338).
• Add device I/O statistics to ‘Status|Disks’ page (FR 2704919).
• Replace msntp with FreeBSD’s ntpdate.
• Allow setting TransmissionBT WebGUI user name (FR 2745563).
• Allow to set the following TransmissionBT settings via WebGUI: peer port, port forwarding, pex, encryption mode and max. upload/download bandwidth (FR 2765940).

Bug fixes:

• Set correct friendly name in fuppes.cfg for Xbox 360. The correct friendly name will be generated automatically (eg ‘xxxx : 1’).
• Correctly set shutdown property in upsmon.conf (BR 2521141).
• Starting FTP service fails when using DHCP on LAN interface (BR 2519951).
• FPSyncDir patch correction (BR 2546107).
• UPS service improvement. Display NUT messages in syslog and send emails when using shutdown mode ‘UPS reaches low battery’ (BR 2549047).
• Change user agent string for PS3 to ‘PLAYSTATION 3’ in fuppes.cfg (BR 2600554).
• Formating disks with ‘Software RAID’ doesn’t clear GEOM metadata (BR 2609681).
• GUI menu separator line too thick in Safari (BR 2652160). Thanks to skabde.
• Add patch for PHP bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()).
• Display dialog to set WebGUI port when configuring network settings via console menu (BR 2661938).
• Fix problem with DAAP & Mac iTunes 8.1 (BR 2701606). Thanks to Alexey Sannikov.
• Fix false positive bug while detecting disk mount state (BR 2706994). Thanks to the summoner for the patch.

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 separate 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.
• It is not possible to mount EXT2 disks with an inode size of 256 bytes. You have to format it with 128 bytes on Linux to use them on FreeBSD.

Known bugs:

• If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be overriden by the IPv4 DNS server.