Download FreeNAS 8.3.0

The final release of FreeNAS version 8.3.0 has been released. With this package, a computer included in the network can be used as ‘network attached storage’, so purely for storing data. The whole is based on FreeBSD and provided with a clear web interface. Where the system requirements in version 7 were still very low and the package could run fine on an old computer, version 8 requires slightly more extensive hardware. required. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 p3 and includes a newer version of zfs. No changes have been made since the release candidate, but some minor issues have been fixed.

FreeNAS 8.3.0 has been released!

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE.

FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem. This is a major milestone in FreeNAS development, bringing in the plugin system with ZFS version 28. Development of the FreeNAS 8.2 branch has come to a halt, as both ZFS version 15 as well as FreeBSD 8.2 are no longer supported.

There have been no major changes between 8.3.0-RC1 and RELEASE, mostly bug fixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the release notes for a complete list: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/README/download

The bug tracker for FreeNAS is available at

Discussion about FreeNAS occurs in the FreeNAS forums, located at: as well as in the official FreeNAS IRC channel on FreeNode in #freenas.

FreeNAS 8.0 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.