FreeNAS-9.1.0 Release Candidate 1 is available for download

[alfredperlstein]

I'm pleased to announce that FreeNAS-9.1.0 Release Candidate 1 is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-9.1.0/

Release Notes for FreeNAS 9.1.0-RC1

This is the first release candidate for FreeNAS 9.1.0. We have passed a great alpha and
rolling beta cycle with many bug fixes and regressions fixed. At this point, only bug fixes and
regressions will be addressed.

*** IMPORTANT ***

The image size increased in FreeNAS 9.1.0-ALPHA. The new size requires a 4 GB storage device.
The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3 or BETA4, but upgrades
from earlier releases can only be done from the CD. The other option is to save
the config, reinstall the new version, then restore the config.

Major changes:

1) Version 9.1-STABLE of FreeBSD with performance improvements, bug
fixes, and updated software packages.

2) Many improvements to the ZFS filesystem, including feature flags,
TRIM support, enhanced drive removal notification, LZ4 compression,
improved ARC memory reclamation and reliability improvements.

3) Improved Plugin Jail subsystem which supports multiple jails and
an enhanced UI including enhancements from PC-BSD Warden.

4) Improved Volume manager including auto optimization of volumes
for performance.

5) Improvements to the encryption subsystem.

6) Documentation enhancements.

7) Increased base image size to 3.7GB.

8) GUI UPGRADES FROM FREENAS 8.X ARE NOT SUPPORTED (due to image size #7)

9) **IMPORTANT** Backward compatibility of FreeNAS 9.1 ZFS pools
with older versions of ZFS is not to be expected. Upgrade pools
with extreme caution, as all ZFS pool upgrades are one-way and only
FreeNAS 9.1, FreeBSD 9-STABLE, and FreeBSD 8.4 currently support
this ZFS pool format.

10) To convert 8.* pluginjail to a 9.* pluginjail, please run the
jail migration script like so (prior to configuring jails):

/root/migrate_pluginjail.sh -D

Any plugins installed will need to be updated manually, this can be done
on the services->plugins page.

The bug tracker for FreeNAS is available at http://support.freenas.org

Discussion about FreeNAS occurs in the FreeNAS forums, located at:
http://forums.freenas.org as well as in the official FreeNAS IRC channel
on FreeNode in #freenas.

The following are the list of files for the RC and associated sha256 sums.


Filename:
x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x64.GUI_Upgrade.txz
SHA256 Hash:
3cc675694e46ee956264fe208057985d3f1a1f2dcbcaf5e78ca0716090071056

Filename:
x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x64.img.xz
SHA256 Hash:
04b29c3401214d4cec9e21203ab2b46a85f3c23fd84719b9539c9cc97b5e5568

Filename:
x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x64.iso
SHA256 Hash:
8c6e676a31b99cb69ba4b5eea8c7ed936187889e85d45b24d60db57534b4e20c

Filename:
x64/plugins/firefly-1696_8-amd64.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
128cb39e0395c3db9467d0ad559b0515fe5410fb2859f2706cd5146419907558

Filename:
x64/plugins/minidlna-1.0.25_1-amd64.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
1cc886211128cc6f64e04c31712a79f818363d0df1d29a9300d8ded84c8403a8

Filename:
x64/plugins/transmission-2.77_1-amd64.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
3ac3141926037e7f1b2f59b849b566b849d491f88bd7e7f80bbe407007e14a20

Filename:
x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x86.GUI_Upgrade.txz
SHA256 Hash:
bc1146cbf162d1911fa1e4cb239abf005b8a3a6f7ef75d507c048850bca4ee42

Filename:
x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x86.img.xz
SHA256 Hash:
934fe15910947671e1219fc0e23881dffaec8f538493224ef1eb580a241707d9

Filename:
x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC1-x86.iso
SHA256 Hash:
9d3ed03180e2cd27cfb2f72196d2f2dd730d9a060dd4b2638f481cdc67a05ac2

Filename:
x86/plugins/firefly-1696_8-i386.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
49e295180b24db2a76b277ed946d3cfbdccef557f5f91511ff2691c57d71c067

Filename:
x86/plugins/minidlna-1.0.25_1-i386.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
d849f9f56108d7bb9172b2c0e3f5d0d0089521678712a4eed09d668672a7330e

Filename:
x86/plugins/transmission-2.77_1-i386.pbi
SHA256 Hash:
a73f431544416d5083a42194ba5324702f8cba011cecfeea3632329dd00465fc

 

[cyberjock]

Can I get a favor? Can you make this announcement via the mailing list too?

Congrats! One step closer to RELEASE!

 

[alfredperlstein]

Sure, it's queued however this is the 2-3 hours per night that Josh who still moderates that list sleeps so it won't post until the AM.

 

[Nindustries]

Awesomeeeeee! Can't wait to check it out.
Great work :D

 

[fracai]

I'll be waiting for the release, but I'm wondering if Linux jails made it in? If not, will that be 9.2? Or when might it? It's a huge feature for me (I should be able to excess around 3 machines)

 

[oshortkid]

seems to me that the IMG file is failing CRC when it extracts. anybody experience such a problem?

 

[cyberjock]

seems to me that the IMG file is failing CRC when it extracts. anybody experience such a problem?

Verify your SHA256 checksum as provided on the webpage. More than likely the file was corrupted during the download process.

 

[ClassicGOD]

I can't seem to find plugins for 9.1RC1 for download. Am I the only one? :<

 

[cyberjock]

I can't find them either... Alfred? Did they get taken down?