This release upgrade lot's of FreeNAS components (fupes, netatalk, iSCSI initiator, PHP, etc…), permit to use Asynchronous IO (disabled by default) that improve a lot's samba file transfers and fix lot's of bugs.

All details are available here:
http://freenas.org/changelog

After a long time i'm proud to announce the release of the 0.7 final release. Thanks to all that help to find bugs and improve FreeNAS. Please see the changes below:

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.... read more

Today i'm proud to announce the release of the first release canditate of version 0.7. It took a really long time to make this version as it is now, but i think it was worth to wait.

Please see the changes in this version below.

Majors changes:
- Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2.
- Include ZFS support. Thanks to Nelson Silva for doing core coding and Falk
Menzel for testing and giving some tipps and ideas.
- Upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.1.1.
- Replace iSCSI target by istgt. Thanks to Daisuke Aoyama for the WebGUI
adaption. Please note, if you have used devices with the previous iSCSI target
software you have to recreate your target.
- Add WOL patch for nVidia(nfe(4)) and 3Com(xl(4)). Thanks to Tobias Reber.
- Upgrade mt-daapd/firefly to svn-1696.
- Refactor 'Diagnostics|Log' WebGUI.
- Add kernel patches to get ARTiGO A2000 hardware working. Thanks to
David Davis for the patches.
- Respect the modified log file location (via rc.conf for syslog, fuppes,
mt-daapd, ...) in the WebGUI (FR 2778803/2791772).
- Upgrade transmission to 1.61. Add 'Watch directory' and 'Extra options'
fields to 'Services|BitTorrent' WebGUI.
- Add entry 'FTP - Ban module' to the list of log files in 'Diagnostics|Log'
if the module is enabled (FR 2797652).
- Add 'iperf', a tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth (FR 2785038).
- Add 'bsnmp-ucd' module that implements parts of UCD-SNMP-MIB.
- Add SNMP client tools: bsnmpget, bsnmpset and bsnmpwalk
- Add 'Auxiliary parameters' to 'Services|SNMP' that will be added to the end
of the snmpd.config file.
- Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.5.
- Upgrade rsync to 3.0.6.
- Upgrade tftp-hpa to 0.49.... read more

This is the latest maintenance release for the 0.69 branch. Please see below what has been improved and fixed in this release.

Regards
Volker Theile

Majors changes:
- Add another WOL patch. It is tested for nfe(4) und xl(4). Thanks to Tobias
Reber.
- Add switch in 'System|Advanced' WebGUI to enable the console screensaver
(FR 2777301).
- Upgrade Adaptec SCSI RAID administration tool to 6.10.18359.
- Add ability to enable or disable rc.conf variables configured via
'System|Advanced|rc.conf'.
- Add danish WebGUI translation. Thanks to all translators.
- Add kernel patches to get ARTiGO A2000 hardware working. Thanks to
David Davis for the patches.
- Add ability to use %d (date) and %h (hostname) in email subjects (e.g.
Services|UPS) (FR 2796141).... read more

This release brings you some new features and improvements, please see a detailed list of changes below.

Regards
Volker Theile

Download:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151951&package_id=168081&release_id=676839

Changelog:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=676839&group_id=151951

Release name meaning:
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Omnius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnius... read more

After a long time of development FreeNAS 0.69 Kwisatz Haderach (revision 4276) has been released today.

Below you'll find the following changelog showing all changes since 0.686.4. Please notice that there are some limitations to upgrade to 0.69 because of various changes like increasing the root file system size due adding many new features. This only affect users that are using 'embedded' + DATA partition installations. In this case you have to backup your DATA partition and install FreeNAS completely new. The 'embedded' and 'full' installations are not affected.... read more

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please note, due adding many new features which have blown
up the image size of FreeNAS it is not possible to upgrade
to the latest 0.69RC2 from versions < 0.69b4 if you
have choosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode.
In this case you have to backup your data from the DATA
partition and do a fresh installation.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read more

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please note, due adding many new features which have blown
up the image size of FreeNAS it is not possible to upgrade
to the latest 0.69RC1 from versions < 0.69b4 if you
have choosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode.
In this case you have to backup your data from the DATA
partition and do a fresh installation.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read more

NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS/SMB, FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, Webserver, iSCSI protocols, local and MS AD authentication, SoftRAID (JBOD,0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T, WebGUI. Requires only 32MB on DOM.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please note, due adding many new features which have blown
up the image size of FreeNAS it is not possible to upgrade
to the latest 0.69b3 from previous installations if you
have choosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode.
In this case you have to backup your data from the DATA
partition and do a fresh installation.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... read more

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please note, due adding many new features which have blown
up the image size of FreeNAS it is not possible to upgrade
to the latest 0.69b3 from previous installations if you
have choosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode.
In this case you have to backup your data from the DATA
partition and do a fresh installation.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read more