Download Firmware Synology Disk Station Manager 2.2-0914 Beta

Synology on Thursday released the first beta release of version 2.2 of Disk Station Manager, the management software that runs on several of the company’s NAS products. The Disk, Cube and Rack drives offer more than just extra storage space. They can also make backups of all clients on the network and download files via http, ftp, BitTorrent, Usenet and eMule, so that, for example, the PC can be turned off at night while the download is still coming in. In addition, the built-in iTunes server can stream audio and video files over the network, host a dynamic website using PHP and MySQL, and act as a print server.

Version 2.2 brings a large number of changes. For example, support has been added for dnla, a standard for exchanging media files between consumer electronics from different manufacturers. In addition, there is a firewall that allows only certain services or IP addresses to access the Disk Station, a portion of the hard drive can be assigned as an iSCSI target, there is support for the iPhone and can now can also be written to an external hard drive in NTFS format. Finally, several parts of the Disk Station Manager have been improved, including the Download Station, Web Station, File Station, Surveillance Station and the iTunes server. Below is the full changelog for version 2.2-0914 beta:

New Features

• New DLNA Compliant Media Server:
  • Disk Station Manager 2.2 has been certified DLNA compliant (certified on DS209 and will work with all Disk Station models). It further interoperability between Synology Disk Station and your DLNA home devices.
  • Supports customization of the DMA browsing menu for your multimedia files. 3 default menu styles are provided and you can customize 3 more styles based on personal preferences, including using iTunes smart playlist.
  • Supports streaming music, photo and video with Windows Media Player on Vista.
  • Supports MP3 and M4A metadata indexing including composer, disc number, track number, album artwork, and comment.
  • Supports more video formats, including MKV, TS, M2TS, M2T, MTS, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, QT, SWF, DVR-MS, MOV, TRP, TP, and ISO.
  • Supports PCM audio format.
  • Supports on-the-fly transcoding of FLAC, OGG, AAC (.aac, .m4a, .m4b) and AIFF (.aif, .aiff) to WAV or PCM to enjoy high quality lossless music on compatible DMAs.
• iPhone Support: 2 iPhone applications are currently under Apple® App Store’s approval process.
  • DS photo allows you to easily upload photos from iPhone/iPod touch to your Disk Station and instantly share it out to the world.
  • DS audio allows you to stream and enjoy the music stored on Disk Station with your iPhone/iPod touch where Internet is available.
• Mobile Photo Station & File Station: Supports viewing photos and reading supported file formats stored on Disk Station with a mobile device whenever the Internet is available. Windows Mobile 6.0 (Internet Explorer Mobile or Opera 9.0 and onward) and iPhone OS 2.2.1 and onward (Safari) are required.
• iSCSI: Designate portion of your volume space to be an iSCSI target, and expand it later at your preference. You can assign up to 10 iSCSI targets on each Disk Station.
• firewall: The built-in firewall function allows you to decide which service or IP address are allowed to access the Disk Station and prevent uninvited connections.
• SNMP: SNMP protocol support allows you to monitor Disk Station with network management softwares.
• car block: Auto block function protects your Disk Station from hostile attacks. IP address with pre-defined number of failed login attempts will be blocked and cannot access the server until manually removed from the block list by admin. The failed login attempts include connections via management UI, File Station, FTP, SSH, Telnet, rsync and mobile devices including iPhone.
• Resource Monitor: Resource monitor allows you to easily monitor Disk Station’s CPU usage, memory usage, network flow and volume usage.
• Mac OS X Time Machine Support: Simply choose a destination folder on your Disk Station, and you can easily back up data of your Mac OS to the server.
• SMS Notification: By setting up SMS notification, you will be notified immediately if any critical event occurs on your Disk Station.
• Windows ADS Support Enhancements:
  • Supports large size domain environment with up to 100,000 domain users and 100,000 domain groups.
  • Advanced setting options help the server to join domain more easily.
  • Supports user home function for domain users. When enabled, a private home folder will be created automatically upon the domain user’s login.
  • Supports setting up sub-folder privileges for domain user/group in File Station.
• Surveillance Station Enhancements:
  • Flexible live view layout management allows you to choose from 1 channel, 2×2, 3×3, 4×4 grids, sequential rotation and other options.
  • Enhanced live view and event playback allows you to digitally zoom in/out, drag and move the frame or slow/fast forward the video when the event is playing.
  • 50 more camera models from 10 renowned brands are newly included in the support list, making the total 189.
  • Supports MPEG-4 over RTP streaming.
  • Supports SMS notification, allowing you to receive an immediate notice upon the occurrence of designated critical events.
  • Camera support numbers are increased to 8 and 12 on certain 9-series models.
• iTunes Server Enhancements:
  • Supports video files sharing for MOV, MP4 and M4V formats.
  • Supports MP3 and M4A metadata indexing including composer, disc number, track number, album artwork and comment.
• Download Station Enhancements:
  • Supports RSS and RapidShare download.
  • For BitTorrent download, private tracker support has been improved.
  • For eMule download, you can create multiple download tasks by entering more than one ed2k links at once, or simply upload a text file containing multiple links. eMule protocol obfuscation is supported.
  • Supports assigning the download service location to an external hard drive.
  • An email notification will be sent to admin upon a download task complete.
• Photo Station Enhancements: Added 3 new Photo Station templates and 5 more Blog banners. Thumbnails quality of newly added photos has been improved.
• Web Station Enhancement: Added PHP cache option.
• File Station Enhancement: All files upload/download transfer will be recorded when File Station transfer log is enabled.
• Shared Folder Privilege Setting Enhancement: More flexible privileges setting by subdividing write-only privilege into 3 options (1) disable directory browsing (2) disable file downloading (3) disable modification of existing files. The rules apply to File Station and FTP file transfer.
• NTFS External HDD Support: Supports writing data to the NTFS formatted external hard disk.
• New DDNS Provider: Added SelfHost.de to the DDNS provider list.
• Management Enhancements:
  • Supports changing the management UI ports from default 5000/5001 to any available port(5).
  • Supports setting up user accounts expiration date, or disallowing certain user accounts to change password.
• UPS Setting Enhancement: You can now set up the time period before the server enters safe mode after a power failure.
• DX5/RX4 Support: DX5/RX4 are now supported on DS109+ and DS109.
• System Upgrade:
  • Samba has been upgraded to 3.2.8.
  • Apache has been upgraded to 2.2.11.
  • PHP has been upgraded to 5.2.10.
  • MySQL has been upgraded to 5.1.34.
  • OpenSSH has been upgraded to 4.7.
  • OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.8k.
  • PostgreSQL has been upgraded to 8.3.7.
• Czech Support: Czech localization is now added to DSM 2.2, Synology Assistant, Synology Data Replicator 3, and Synology Download Redirector.
• SqueezeCenter Package Upgrade: SqueezeCenter package has been upgraded to 7.3.3.