If you are using CIFS/Windows shares on your FreeNAS 8.0.x system, you are urged to update to 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 immediately. Earlier this week, a vulnerability was discovered in Samba that allows remote code execution as the root user from an anonymous connection. All versions of Samba were affected. You can read more about the vulnerability here. […]

There will be a FreeNAS presentation at Indiana LinuxFest on Saturday, April 14 in Indianapolis, Indiana. We will also be giving out FreeNAS CDs at the BSD booth in the expo area. If you are interested in learning more about FreeBSD administration (the operating system FreeNAS is based upon), there is an all day course […]

Michael Dexter will be giving a presentation entitled The FreeNAS Storage Platform: A minute to learn, a lifetime to master at NLUUG’s Spring conference. This event will be held in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands on April 11th.

NorthEast LinuxFest will be held in Worcester, MA on March 17. Dru Lavigne will be giving a presentation on the upcoming 8.2 release and FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE CDs will be given away at the FreeBSD booth in the expo area. Registration is free for this event and there will be an after-party at a local pub. […]

FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE and FreeNAS-8.0.4-multimedia are now available from the Sourceforge website. 8.0.4 is primarily a bug fix release, meaning that there will not be a published 8.0.4 version of the Users Guide. Instead, use the 8.0.3 Users Guide plus the 8.0.4 Release Notes (available on the download page).

On Saturday, March 3, in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, Martin Wilke (FreeBSD Developer, Ports Management, Security Officer), will give a presentation about FreeBSD development and share his experience on how he became a FreeBSD Developer. FreeNAS DVDs will also be given away at this event. The event will be held at Old Town White Coffee, Bangsar […]

8.0.4-RC1 is available for testing. Please report any problems by creating a ticket at http://support.freenas.org with the version set to 8.0.4-RC1. At this point, the 8.0.x branch is fairly mature and  8.0.4-RELEASE should appear very shortly.

This year’s Open Source Days will take place at Copenhagen Business School (in Denmark) on March 10 and 11. Sven Esbjerg will be bringing a supply of FreeNAS 8.0.3 DVDs to give away–you can find him in the “hallway track”.

A new instructional video on configuring FTP is now available on the FreeNAS YouTube channel.