9.2.1.2-RC is now available

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Howdy folks,

In our seemingly never-ending quest to get 9.2.1 polished up just right, we have found it necessary to create yet another point release! 9.2.1.2-RC is now up on http://download.freenas.org - please come and get it!

This release candidate point release for 9.2.1 fixes even more issues found in 9.2.1.1 in CIFS, NFS locking, the new .system dataset, ACLs, migration during upgrades, serial consoles, and a few smaller things. A list of all bugs fixed in 9.2.1.2-RC can be found here.

From a high level, these are the most significant changes:
  • Samba (SMB/CIFS support) upgraded to version 4.1.5
  • Linux Jails now work with UFS
  • NFS lockd now starts properly at boot time
  • Serial console misconfiguration is now harder to do.
  • Logging to the .system dataset is now optional and configurable (and many migration problems with the system dataset and older-style .samba4 datasets have been fixed).
Otherwise, the 9.2.1.1 ReleaseNotes apply so I won't repeat them all here!
We'd like to push 9.2.1.2-RELEASE out the door in a couple of days, so the testing cycle on this RC is very short. We feel this to be reasonable because so little has changed (by design) in this point release and we've all been testing these changes internally quite heavily since 9.2.1.1 was released.
We'd also like to thank the community for its patience in dealing with the many issues we introduced in the name of progress (or just hadn't been found until people really started beating on CIFS) in 9.2.1. We've worked very hard to nail those issues in this series of point releases and are confident that we've finally gotten this branch polished to a pretty high gloss (which is what you want in a NAS!). We certainly could not have done so without all of your testing and feedback over the last month, so again, thanks!
- The FreeNAS Engineering Team
 

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Please fix bug 4383? A major disincentive for upgrading any essential fileserver.
 
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Please fix bug 4383? A major disincentive for upgrading any essential fileserver.

Agreed - that shouldn't even be done at boot, it should be done when you first go to the plugin screen. Will be fixed for 9.2.1.2-RELEASE! Thanks for filing the bug report.
 
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Agreed - that shouldn't even be done at boot, it should be done when you first go to the plugin screen. Will be fixed for 9.2.1.2-RELEASE! Thanks for filing the bug report.


Now fixed in the nightly for 20140227. Please test!
 

ajohnson

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Thank for all the hard work jkh. I'm tracking 4131 very carefully, hoping for a definitive fix on that. The latest comment there seems to indicate there's still an issue with the latest RC nightly
 
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Thank for all the hard work jkh. I'm tracking 4131 very carefully, hoping for a definitive fix on that. The latest comment there seems to indicate there's still an issue with the latest RC nightly


Unfortunately, we still haven't gotten any definitive smoking gun on #4131. We've improved our debugging infrastructure to be able to make more sense of the crashes, but there is currently no fix in sight - we don't even know the problem yet. :( 9.2.1.2 is going to have to go out without a fix for this, since we have a number of other fixes that need to get out to the community in the meantime.
 
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