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The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1.  This is the first public release of the
8.3.0 branch of FreeNAS, which upgrades the underlying base system
of FreeNAS to FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p7.  This update brings with it
Version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, as well as a number of updates to
the drivers and utilities in the base system.

FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 can be downloaded from the following location:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA1/

FreeNAS 8.2.0 brought with it the ability to install plugins, this
functionality is present in FreeNAS 8.3.0 as well.  At the moment
upgrading the plugin jail to the version included with FreeNAS
8.3.0-BETA1 will cause plugins to stop working and will require
reinstallation and reconfiguration of all plugins to resume normal
operation.  Our recommendation at this time is to avoid upgrading
working components of the plugin system.

ZFS Version 28 includes several features such as the ability to detach a
dedicated ZIL device, triple parity RAIDZ, and deduplication.  There are
numerous caveats to using deduplication, please do some research into
the possible caveats of using dedup before enabling it.

Upgrading an existing ZFS pool is a one way street, once the upgrade is
done it is not possible to use older versions of FreeNAS, nor is it
possible to downgrade your pool.  This upgrade can be done by running
zpool upgrade from the CLI, it is not done automatically via the
upgrader, nor is there a way to do the upgrade from the GUI.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
Director of IT, iXsystems
Servers For Open Source  http://www.ixsystems.com
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