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Hi folks,
Happy Holidays!
Now that 9.2.0-RELEASE is behind us, we’re already hard at work on 9.2.1, which is currently (as per custom) now in ALPHA status. Since we want the development community to have full and unfettered access to the development process, we’re going to start releasing nightly builds which pass our most basic sanity checks. That’s it though. Just *basic* checks. You should run any ALPHA (or for that matter BETA or even RC) build at your own risk, and on non-mission-critical data, since it obviously has not been fully polished yet and may suffer from any number of issues!
What’s new in this build:
Please feel free to file bugs against this build, taking care to note in your bug report that you saw it in 9.2.1-ALPHA and also note the datestamp of the build, since we will be releasing them almost nightly and it’s otherwise very hard to tell which build you saw the problem in if you don’t tell us!
Enjoy,
- The FreeNAS Development Team
Happy Holidays!
Now that 9.2.0-RELEASE is behind us, we’re already hard at work on 9.2.1, which is currently (as per custom) now in ALPHA status. Since we want the development community to have full and unfettered access to the development process, we’re going to start releasing nightly builds which pass our most basic sanity checks. That’s it though. Just *basic* checks. You should run any ALPHA (or for that matter BETA or even RC) build at your own risk, and on non-mission-critical data, since it obviously has not been fully polished yet and may suffer from any number of issues!
What’s new in this build:
- Samba3 has been updated to Samba4. This may seem like a big jump for 9.2.1, but we’ve actually been sitting on it for awhile, it just didn’t make the cut for 9.2.0. We feel fairly confident that now is a good time to actually drag Samba into the 21st century since Samba4 has been out for a very long time and has a number of improvements to offer for CIFS sharing, among other features we may choose to expose as we look at how to present UI for it.
- NFS + ZFS performance changes, making NFS and ZFS play more nicely together and noticeably improve SPEC benchmark results.
- Miscellaneous bugs that didn’t make the cut-off for 9.2.0
Please feel free to file bugs against this build, taking care to note in your bug report that you saw it in 9.2.1-ALPHA and also note the datestamp of the build, since we will be releasing them almost nightly and it’s otherwise very hard to tell which build you saw the problem in if you don’t tell us!
Enjoy,
- The FreeNAS Development Team