FreeNAS

Dear FreeNAS user,

today i'm proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. I want to say 
thanks to all contributors for their help. Please see below the changes 
done in this version.

You can download the ISO and image files here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/stable/0.7

Majors changes:
- Add ability to configure the login shell for a user.
- Upgrade Samba to 3.0.37.
- Upgrade transmission to 1.72.
- Local users must join the group 'ftp' to be able to login via FTP if
  'Local users only' in 'Services|FTP' is enabled.
- Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.23.
- Add a user portal. This allows a local user to login and change it's
  password. The user must have access permissions to login to the user 
portal.
  This can be configured in the user configuration WebGUI. Please note that
  the administrator needs to apply changes done by the local users because
  there have to be restarted several services (which is not allowed to be
  done by a user).
- Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2a.
- Upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.2.3.
- Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.4.4.
- Announce AFP shares using Bonjour/ZeroConf (FR 2839592). Thanks to Morton
  Jonuschat.
- Add AFP FP_SYNCFORK command support (FR 2836955). Thanks to Morton 
Jonuschat
  for the patch.
- Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.8.
- Add Adaptec AACRAID 32/64-bit driver to v5.2.0 Build 17517.
- Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.14.10.
- Upgrade fuppes to SVN-0.640.

Minors changes:
- Set transmission umask to 0002 per default. This can be customize via the
  'Services|BitTorrent' WebGUI or the rc.conf variable 'transmission_umask'
  (FR 2813791).
- Add ixgbe driver to i386 kernel.
- Add ixgb driver to AMD64 kernel (BR 2813759).
- Add support for Blowfish 448 bits encryption (FR 2816028).
- Add configuration option in 'Services|BitTorrent' to enable/disable usage
  of distributed hash table (DHT).
- Add /usr/bin/getopt command (FR 2824548).
- Add extra options for S.M.A.R.T. in 'Disks|Management|Disk|Edit' (FR 
2824730).
- Add RAID1 balance algorithm 'fer' (FR 2833989).
- Add latvian language support. Thanks to the translators.
- Update Quixplorer russian translation (BR 2841900). Thanks to Alexey 
Sannikov.
- Add 'Max. login attempts' to 'Services|FTP' (FR 2844193).
- Get AFP dbd cnid scheme working (BR 2844900).
- Set 'dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"' for the webserver directory listing
  (FR 2872624).
- Display volume serial number in 'Disks|Management' (FR 2881880).
- Now it is possible to configure iSCSI-Targets for export: removable media
  (static & dynamic size), pass-through devices. Thanks to Vasily Chalykh.

Bug fixes:
- Prohibit user 'transmission' to login via FTP.
- ZPool disk space usage isn't displayed correctly (BR 2810584).
- Improved Unison WebGUI to be able to configure ZFS shares as working
  directory (BR 2795084).
- Synchronizing ZFS configuration fails (BR 2814324).
- Restrict bittorrent administrative WebGUI port to [1024,65535] (BR 
2835342).
- The 'Unmount disk/partition' checkbox on 'Disks|Mount Point|Fsck' was
  ignored (BR 2860297).

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 seperate 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.
- It is not possible to mount EXT2 disks with an inode size of 256 
bytes. You
  have to format it with 128 bytes on Linux to use them on FreeBSD.

Known bugs:
- If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server 
will be
  overriden by the IPv4 DNS server.
- Downgrading to 0.69 via WebGUI fails because of broken pipe error.
- FreeBSD's ext2fs module, as of release 7.1, cannot mount ext2 file systems
  with 256-byte large inodes, only 128 byte sized.  Unfortunately, 256 
byte is
  the default size with many recent Linux distributions.

Regards
Volker