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Hi folks,
By now, many of you have probably noticed that this week was not our Best Week Ever with respect to having to roll a lot of updates, updates to the updates, and so on. We apologize for that, and we're pleased to say that we've finally come through the storm and are fairly confident that FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201501162230 is of good quality and will be the last update for at least a little while, so please, by all means update to that build and join us in breathing a sign of relief!
So, what happened?
Well, it's been one of those weeks. First, we managed to fix a long-standing bug in the grub boot loader that was preventing DTrace from working. It's a long story, but it should suffice to say that DTrace needs to know where the kernel is, the bug in grub prevented that from happening, and without DTrace you also don't get utilities like "zilstat", which people rather missed, so we really wanted that fix to go out. Unfortunately, updating the boot loader required rather more gymnastics in the new updater than we initially expected, and our first couple of attempts at said gymnastics resulted in spectacular fails, which yielded a couple of broken updates while we tried to fix the fail and then introduced more fail in the process. Ahem. We learned a lot in the process, at least, and can now deal with these sorts of updates much better in the future as we have fixed several problems with the updater itself in the process.
Then, of course, OpenSSL issued a series of security vulnerabilities and we needed to do an update for that immediately after just issuing an update, so wheee, that was fun too. Finally, a long-standing ZFS bug that prevented some folks from importing their pools was rather coincidently just found and fixed last night, so we deemed it worthy to release an update for that. Like I said, it's simply been one of those weeks, but we've come through it with a much better 9.3-STABLE than we started the week with, some really long-standing and annoying bugs were fixed, and life is now better for everyone, so there is that consolation!
As always, those doing new installs can also start with the very latest update to 9.3 as we also release all of our updates as fully-installable releases and point the "9.3/latest" link at them, or they can install 9.3-RELEASE and then immediately jump to the latest update using the updater. If anyone installed one of the "broken updater" releases and now finds themselves to be slightly hosed, they can also go back to a boot environment that predates the breakage and then update again, or they can use the ISO or "manual update" image to bypass the breakage and get healthy again.
Thanks for your patience!
The FreeNAS Development Team
By now, many of you have probably noticed that this week was not our Best Week Ever with respect to having to roll a lot of updates, updates to the updates, and so on. We apologize for that, and we're pleased to say that we've finally come through the storm and are fairly confident that FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201501162230 is of good quality and will be the last update for at least a little while, so please, by all means update to that build and join us in breathing a sign of relief!
So, what happened?
Well, it's been one of those weeks. First, we managed to fix a long-standing bug in the grub boot loader that was preventing DTrace from working. It's a long story, but it should suffice to say that DTrace needs to know where the kernel is, the bug in grub prevented that from happening, and without DTrace you also don't get utilities like "zilstat", which people rather missed, so we really wanted that fix to go out. Unfortunately, updating the boot loader required rather more gymnastics in the new updater than we initially expected, and our first couple of attempts at said gymnastics resulted in spectacular fails, which yielded a couple of broken updates while we tried to fix the fail and then introduced more fail in the process. Ahem. We learned a lot in the process, at least, and can now deal with these sorts of updates much better in the future as we have fixed several problems with the updater itself in the process.
Then, of course, OpenSSL issued a series of security vulnerabilities and we needed to do an update for that immediately after just issuing an update, so wheee, that was fun too. Finally, a long-standing ZFS bug that prevented some folks from importing their pools was rather coincidently just found and fixed last night, so we deemed it worthy to release an update for that. Like I said, it's simply been one of those weeks, but we've come through it with a much better 9.3-STABLE than we started the week with, some really long-standing and annoying bugs were fixed, and life is now better for everyone, so there is that consolation!
As always, those doing new installs can also start with the very latest update to 9.3 as we also release all of our updates as fully-installable releases and point the "9.3/latest" link at them, or they can install 9.3-RELEASE and then immediately jump to the latest update using the updater. If anyone installed one of the "broken updater" releases and now finds themselves to be slightly hosed, they can also go back to a boot environment that predates the breakage and then update again, or they can use the ISO or "manual update" image to bypass the breakage and get healthy again.
Thanks for your patience!
The FreeNAS Development Team
