Download Freenas 0.69 rc2

Yesterday the second release candidate of Freenas version 0.69 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 is provided with a clear 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 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).

Minor 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 (eg 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 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.

Known bugs:

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

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