FreeNAS

A new nightly build from FreeNAS 0.685b is available.

You can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151951&package_id=229704

Please notice that this is still beta.

FreeNAS 0.685b (unreleased):
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Majors changes:
- Add Dynamic DNS service
- Permit to mount ISO files
- Add IPv6 support on the WebGUI
- Upgrade fusefs-libs to 2.6.4 and fusefs-ntfs to 1.417
- Code review from the FreeNAS core engine
- Upgrade PHP to 5.2.3
- Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.15
- Improve UPnP WebGUI/Service
- Refactoring build scripts (Makefiles)
- New platform name:
    + liveCD (old "generic-pc-cdrom") for the CD-ROM release
    + embedded (old "generic-pc") for install on hard drive or flash device
    + full (new platform) for real install (no more use RAM disk)
- Use sysvinit for services. Convert most of the system and services code into shell scripts.
- Upgrade iscsi_initiator to 2.0.92
- New language: Bulgarian (Thanks to Boris) 

Minors changes:
- Enhance build scripts
- Add missing pccard.conf file to get pccardd daemon working
- Create /etc/hosts file after interface initialization (current IP was not available when using DHCP)
- Add boot splash screen (just for fun)
- Tune graid5 RAM usage depending of detected RAM
- Permit to configure FTP file and directory mask
- Display DNS servers on 'System/General setup' page when using DHCP (edit controls are disabled in this case)
- Fix bug in system_systime_set function. Thanks to Paul Wheels for the tip
- Improve hidden diagnostic status.php page
- ATA timeout default value (5) was changed to 15 second when graid5 is used
- Add geom NOP: Will permit to add drives to an existing graid5 volume (still not possible from the WebGUI)
- CIFS: Added option to enable/disable 'large readwrite' support
- CIFS: Added option to enable/disable 'ea support'
- CIFS: Added new "pipe-lined read support" for improved performance when transferring files with Vista client
- CIFS: Added "netatalk" VFS plugin for hidding Netatalk (AFP) system file (DISABLED: It crash samba)
- Add netatalk patches
- Add sed stream editor (for internal scripting)

Bug fixs:
- Add missing winbind/smbpass pam modules
- French accent are correclty displayed now
- Change the SSL certificate (the previous is no more valid)
- Fix script error in rc.shutdown when pressing Ctrl+halt+del key
- Fix the "You must add disks first" message with older software RAID formatted disk 
- Fix bug in interface initialization code - the 'default' route was deleted
- Fix Bug: Add line PubkeyAuthentication on sshd_config file
- Fix UPnP bug - now supports blanks in directory names
- Fix UPnP bug - service was not started on system startup
- Fix beep bug
- Fix bug in ftp services page - Handle incorrect values for 'Number of clients' and 'Max. conn. per IP'
- Disk encrypted WebGUI - Disk wasn't correct named when using gvinum RAID disk
- Disk size was calculated incorrect for 2 partition installation
- Fix local RSYNC bug logs each minute and crontab bug
- Fix SWAP file size change bug
- Add missing softlink /usr/share/misc/termcap -> /etc/termcap
- Fix bug for preventing to mount system disk (thanks to SF.net user : snikulin)

Known bugs:
- NTFS mount points are not mounted after creation, a reboot is necessary.
- If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be ovverride by the IPv4 DNS server.

NEED TO BE TESTED:
- IPv6: auto mode is not tested
- All services using IPv6 address (NFS, FTP, etc...)

Knowns Bugs to be fixed before to release the 0.685b:
- iscsi-target crash:
 ***ERROR*** getaddrinfo: servname not supported for ai_socktype
 ***ERROR*** iscsi_sock_establish() failed
Tips: http://www.ducea.com/2006/09/11/error-servname-not-supported-for-ai_socktype/
But adding iscsi-target to /etc/services doesn't solve the problem

- netatalk VFS samba module (automatically enabled when netatalk started) crash samba when acces to share
- Need to write a online-test procedure

Help needed:
- Need help for adding LDAP authentication feature:
Major services can be easly authenticated using PAM-LDAP, but for Samba too is harder.

Greetings
Volker

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