The FreeNAS team would like to highlight the efforts of Joshua Parker Ruehlig from the FreeNAS Forums who, in the true spirit of open source, recently published several new plugins for FreeNAS. Joshua had already been using sickbeard and Sabnzbd on a windows-based NAS. When he found out about the plugin system in FreeNAS, Joshua […]

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.1 as it moves towards the final. FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA3/ FreeNAS 8.3.1 adds ZFS volume encryption to the features available in FreeNAS 8.3.0. BETA3 has a number […]

The images for FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA1 are available on sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA1/ This is a BETA! I am very emphatic about this because this is the first image available with ZFS volume encryption. Up to this point we’ve been pretty good about preserving ZFS volumes, not matter what happens to the OS or configuration. With this image […]

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from here. FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1 is a bugfix release for FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE.  The main bug it addresses is the display of a “Welcome to nginx” page instead of the WebUI which occurs sporadically in some situations. […]

There will be a FreeBSD booth in the exhibition area of LISA, to be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, December 12 from 12:00–19:00 p.m and Thursday, December 13 from 9:30–14:00. Registration is required for this event, but is free for the exhibition area. […]

The 8.3.0 Users Guide is available for download in the following formats:     EPUB     HTML     PDF For those who would like to assist the project financially, a Kindle version is also available for purchase from Amazon. The ASIN is B009Z245ZU and this version is text-to-speech enabled. If you are outside of North America, […]

MeetBSD California takes place this upcoming weekend, November 3-4 at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, CA. Josh Paetzel will be presenting “FreeNASâ„¢: Storage for Open Source” on November 3 and several members of the FreeNAS team will also be attending the conference. This event requires registration ($75USD).

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/ This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem. […]