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Here we go!  The first non-beta release of FreeNAS has hit the web.  The much anticipated 0.69 RC1 version is finally here and I’m revved about it.  Some of the updates that I find the most exciting are the UPS email notifications, traffic graph improvements, and the quixplorer file system browsing.

The upgrade steps are the same as usual, if you are using the livecd version like I am.  Simply power-down your FreeNAS server, remove the old cd, then put in the new cd and power back up.  The livecd will detect that an older version was in use and update your configuration files.  That was easy.

If you are looking for more info or help on FreeNAS, check out my previous post Review: Learning FreeNAS by Gary Sims.

Here is the details from the changelog:

Majors changes:

• Modify password handling for user ‘admin’. Because of that the password will be set back to the default which is ‘freenas’.
• Add quixplorer 2.3.1 to administrate file system via web browser. It is accessible via http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/quixplorer or WebGUI ‘Advanced|File Manager’. Administrator can login via user ‘admin’ and the WebGUI password. Local system users have access to /mnt only.
• Replace PHPMailer with msmtp SMTP mail client.
• Add UPS email notification.
• Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.20, e2fsprogs to 1.41.3, Adaptec AACRAID 32/64-bit driver to v5.2.0 Build 15753, arcconf to 5.30.17509, scponly to 4.8.

Minors changes:

• Add misc NOTIFYFLAG options to upsmon configuration to make logging more communicative.
• Add ‘Auxiliary parameters’ option to DynamicDNS WebGUI page to allow adding additional parameters to the configuration file for customization (FR 2149626).
• Add ‘MOTD’ option to ‘System|Advanced’ to set the system message of the day. This is displayed when login in via SSH for example.
• Add /sbin/clri command to clear an inode by hand if fsck fails (FR 2177277).
• Run transmission daemon as user ‘transmission’ (FR 2129517).
• Add combobox to select email authentication method on ‘System|Advanced|Email’.
• Add combobox to set cnidscheme for AFP shares (FR 2212374).
• Create user home directory if an alternative one is set (FR 2214123).
• Add ‘Download’ button on ‘Diagnostics|Logs’ pages to download log files (FR 2221603).
• Refactor /etc/rc.d/routing script. 
• Traffic graph color change for viewability (BR 2223207).

Bug fixes:

• Check entered path for iSCSI target extents before storing configuration (BR 2144966).
• Allow line breaks in RSYNC message of the day. Due this fix you have to update your MOTD.
• Fixed bug in S.M.A.R.T WebGUI. The ‘Test email’ checkbox was not enabled/disabled correct.
• Fix bug in NetBIOS name validation code (BR 2163358).

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.

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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Update:  This release requires you to reset your admin username and password.  When you login to the web site, the default username / password will be admin / freenas - be sure that the first thing you do is change this!