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, […]

All FreeNAS 8.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 8.0.4-p3 which was released yesterday. This release update addresses this critical privilege escalation vulnerability. 8.0.4-p3 install and upgrade images are available from the 8.0.4 SourceForge page. Instructions for upgrading are in the FreeNAS Users Guide.