There will be a presentation “Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3” at FSOSS to be held in Toronto, Canada on Friday, October 26. The link to the presentation will be made available at bsdevents.org. In addition, each attendee will receive a FreeNAS CD in their registration pack. Registration is required for this event. The presentation slides are […]

Several members of the FreeNAS team will be at EuroBSDCon to be held in Warsaw, Poland on October 18-21. There will be a booth in the expo area which will hand out FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 CDs as well as cool swag. Dru Lavigne will give a half-day workshop “Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3” on Thursday, October 18 […]

Another instructional video has been uploaded to Youtube. This video demonstrates how to configure the Transmission, Firefly, and MiniDLNA plugins on FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 to work together as a streaming media platform.

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.0 as it moves towards the final. FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA3/ This BETA includes a refactoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a rework of […]

8.3.0-BETA2 is now available for download and testing. Some of the changes for this upcoming release include: ZFSv28 adds deduplication, RAIDZ3, improved snapshot support, and a removable log device. Based on FreeBSD 8.3 which updated and added some new drivers as described in the FreeBSD 8.3 Release Notes. Reporting graphs now provide buttons for navigating […]

We’ll be giving out FreeNAS 8.2-RELEASE CDs, brochures, and cool swag at the FreeBSD booth during Texas LinuxFest. The booth is #37 in the Red Oak Ballroom of the Norris Conference Center in San Antonio. The expo is open on Saturday, August 4 from 10–6. Registration is required for this event and costs $20 or […]

It’s been nearly a month between betas and there have been several hundred commits in between. The development team is pleased to announce that FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA4 is available for immediate download. There has been a complete refactoring of the plugin networking stack, to allow greater flexibility and functionality. We’ve added the ability to upgrade plugins, […]