FreeNAS 11.0 Released!

[Kris Moore]

Loyal FreeNAS users,

After many long nights, too much caffeine, and 4 (count’em) RC’s we are pleased to announce that FreeNAS 11.0 is now available!

This release brings the underlying FreeNAS OS up to FreeBSD 11-STABLE, and with it some performance improvements, newer hardware compatibility and more. On the FreeNAS side we’ve now added the ability to run VMs through bhyve (BSD hypervisor), support for hosting S3 object-stores, an early look at our work-in-progress Angular UI, and the initial API / CLI versions of iocage jail management. In addition there have been a number of behind the scenes improvements, such as migrating to python3, which will allow us to quickly iterate upon the 11.X series, adding new features as we go.

Users who are ready to upgrade can do so today by switching to the 11-STABLE train from their user-interface, while those who want to start fresh can grab ISO’s at the usual download locations.

Thanks for your patience and loyal FreeNAS use! As usual, let us know if you run into any issues on our bug tracker.

 

[heyudude]

Cool! Thanks for the hard work. Updating as we speak!

 

[Liriel]

Thanks for all your hard work! Will the 9.10 train continue to receive updates or is 11 considered the successor to 9.10?

 

[Kris Moore]

Thanks for all your hard work! Will the 9.10 train continue to receive updates or is 11 considered the successor to 9.10?

The FreeNAS engineering / docs / qa teams we have are amazing, so no credit to me, they did fantastic work on this. As for 9.10, at the moment there are no planned updates to that series, 11.0 and beyond is the train to follow.

 

[emk2203]

Thanks for your hard work as usual, and for people encountering a hung update in the last step:

During the update from 11RC4 to 11RELEASE, my systems both hung at the last step (5/5 Installing FreeNAS-UI). I logged into a second user interface instance and got the message "update applied, reboot needed". A manual reboot finished the update process.

 

[BloodyIron]

Ahem... I mean.. Yay!

Serious questions though:

1. NFS v4.1? or pNFS?
2. Samba version?
3. ZFSD?
4. Can the bhyve VM ecosystem import/export VM disk images or packages via the webGUI? (OVA, VMDK, COW2, etc)
5. VMs, can they do "VM-esque" backups (snapshots)? Or is that going to be a ZFS snapshot thing? (unsure if ZFS snapshots will adversely affect consistency)
6. When can I see FreeNAS floppies at my local grocers?
7. SMB 3.1? :^)
8. How are jails being handled 9.10.x -> 11.0? (I'll need this info to tell people)
9. Can I touch cyberjock some time this week?
10. Does it boot up faster? (PLEASE SAY YES)

 

[Pheran]

Sounds great! For those updating from 9.10, what does this mean for jails? Do we have to recreate the jails dataset again to get updated templates, and rebuild all our jails?

 

[wdjchurchill]

Thanks for the hard work guys

 

[colinhd8]

Cool! Thanks for the hard work. Just looking for a new build of FreeNAS, then I find that version 11 released. like FreeNAS 10's ui, hope it will be continued.

 

[scrappy]

A big thanks to everyone involved in making 11.0 possible!

 

[Kris Moore]

Ahem... I mean.. Yay!

Serious questions though:

1. NFS v4.1? or pNFS?
2. Samba version?
3. ZFSD?
4. Can the bhyve VM ecosystem import/export VM disk images or packages via the webGUI? (OVA, VMDK, COW2, etc)
5. VMs, can they do "VM-esque" backups (snapshots)? Or is that going to be a ZFS snapshot thing? (unsure if ZFS snapshots will adversely affect consistency)
6. When can I see FreeNAS floppies at my local grocers?
7. SMB 3.1? :^)
8. How are jails being handled 9.10.x -> 11.0? (I'll need this info to tell people)
9. Can I touch cyberjock some time this week?
10. Does it boot up faster? (PLEASE SAY YES)

1. NFS 4.1, but no pNFS (Still in development on FreeBSD side)
2. https://github.com/freenas/samba/blob/freenas/11.0-stable/VERSION (4.6.4)
3. Built into FreeBSD base system
4. Not yet, command-line yes, but down the road having web-based import/export of various disk formats will be something we are interested in.
5. Snapshots are ZFS based and only snap the storage, not the VM memory
6. Late 2017 - Have a deal with DeliMeats4Less that will offer a 356 Floppy Disk "Special-edition" of FreeNAS 11. Extra charge for 5.25" disks
8. They migrate as usual, that code will mostly be changing in 11.1
9. (I don't want details)
10. Errrr, Yes? (Actually don't know offhand)

 

[Ericloewe]

Boot times are indistinguishable to the naked eye from 9.10, FWIW.

 

[Barlog951]

Thanks for the new release

Will it be possible to migrate from 10.0, in next release? Or late this year?

EDIT:
Doker migration etc ...

 

[Ericloewe]

Thanks for the new release

Will it be possible to migrate from 10.0, in next release? Or late this year?

EDIT:
Doker migration etc ...

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ng-from-freenas-corral-to-freenas-9-10-11.36/

If that doesn't answer your question, tell me so I can make sure it does.

 

[usergiven]

This is good news! Thank you for your efforts. I have a question regarding ZFS replication. Does FN11 allow for sending and/or receiving ZFS snapshots from zfs pools that are located on remote hosts that don't run FN11?

 

[Barlog951]

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ng-from-freenas-corral-to-freenas-9-10-11.36/

If that doesn't answer your question, tell me so I can make sure it does.

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FreeNAS 11.1 (Formerly FreeNAS 9.10.4)

• Adds GUI support for Docker containers, much like Corral

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so this adds opportunity migrate from my docker images from Coral?
Or I must re-create my docker images again (in 11.1)?

 

[Kris Moore]

This is good news! Thank you for your efforts. I have a question regarding ZFS replication. Does FN11 allow for sending and/or receiving ZFS snapshots from zfs pools that are located on remote hosts that don't run FN11?

Yep, no non-standard ZFS features are present, so normal rules for ZFS replication apply. You will be able to replicate to <-> from other ZFS pools.

 

[Ericloewe]

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FreeNAS 11.1 (Formerly FreeNAS 9.10.4)

• Adds GUI support for Docker containers, much like Corral

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so this adds opportunity migrate from my docker images from Coral?
Or I must re-create my docker images again (in 11.1)?

What is there to "recreate"? Just install what you need and copy over the config files.

 

[ajankuv]

Upgrade from 9.10 -> 11 is it pretty straight forward? Or is there anything I should be looking for?

 

[Ericloewe]

Upgrade from 9.10 -> 11 is it pretty straight forward? Or is there anything I should be looking for?

Yes, other than jails, everything should just work. Even jails will mostly work, but you might need to redo them if/when you need to update them.