The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.
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.
Joseph S. Atkinson will give a “Short Topics” talk on the FreeNAS plugins framework at the next BayLISA meeting on June 21 at 19:30. This month’s meeting will take place at LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA. Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you can attend the meeting, please RSVP first using this […]
FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2 has been released and all users of the 8.0.x series are encouraged to upgrade to this patchset as it addresses 2 security vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-2111: this Samba vulnerability affects FreeNAS systems when the CIFS service is enabled. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to grant themselves the “take ownership” privilege. This privilege is used […]
LinuxFest NorthWest is this weekend at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, WA. James Nixon will be giving a presentation on FreeNAS. There will also be a FreeBSD booth which will be handing out FreeNAS CDs and cool swag. This is a free event, so if you’re in this part of the world, drop by and […]
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. […]