Checking what's in the latest update

[adrianwi]

Since the upgrade to 9.3, which has received a number of small updates, I can't seem to find details of what's in what update. Is this on the forum or somewhere else on the FreeNAS web site?

Thanks

 

[cyberjock]

Umm... when you click the "check update" it lists the bug tickets fixed.... You can also go to bugs.freenas.org and see the closed tickets by release. I forget the exact links and since I'm quite busy I can't provide you the link.

You can also go to download.freenas.org and look at the 9.3 releases and the "release notes" files.

 

[sef]

It only does that for the FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE train (for now, anyway).

There isn't a particularly good way to find out what's changed for the nightlies; the ChangeLog is generated semi-manually, so it's only done for the -STABLE updates.

This is pretty much as intended from the beginning: the nightlies are just that, built nightly, mostly automatically, and without any checking to see if anything is fixed or added.

 

[jkh]

Actually, the nightlies have ChangeLogs too, but since they happen every 24 hours, it's automated to simply list the git hashes of any commits to the FreeNAS repo since the last Nightly. I should enhance this to also list the commit hashes to the TrueOS repo, since that is obviously included with FreeNAS, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[adrianwi]

Thanks for the link. So in old school, were already on 9.3.15 :o

I'm sure there are lots of benefits to the new update process, but it looks like easy option for fixing things rather than spending extra time at beta ensuring they don't need fixing?

This rsync problem looks like a great example. Rather than fixing the problem, more functionality has been added with the result that neither the fix or the new function work!

 

[jkh]

We could have BETA test periods 6 months long and there would still be bugs. There's no formal QA process yet, and even if there were, things would still slip through. Apple and Microsoft have hundreds of people in QA, and when was the last time you saw a Software Update from either company that was "bug free?" Exactly. Keep your expectations realistic.