FreeNAS-9.1.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for download

[alfredperlstein]

Release Notes for FreeNAS 9.1.0-RC2

This is the second 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.

Major changes:

1) Synced with version 9.1-STABLE of FreeBSD for many 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) New Plugin management interface, with support for direct uploading and easy browsing and installation of plugins a central FreeNAS plugin repository.

4) Improved Jail subsystem with support for multiple jails and an enhanced UI including enhancements from PC-BSD's Warden.

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

6) Improvements to the encryption subsystem.

7) Documentation enhancements.

8) **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.

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

/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.



SHA256 (x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x64.iso) = 6a85fe5055994f717befa69ce8fb5c1340c2a6523b854bcc3fc214e7e7287571

SHA256 (x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x86.iso) = e7bab2435a9873a87ad6476780ef609adc77f9ad046eaebdc16e16886e80f4f1

SHA256 (x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x64.img.xz) = 5308dd0b702892f786349510c158a68830ebdb0e66b8214682b7734fe49f66a2

SHA256 (x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x86.img.xz) = 726d9084a315f941451b3cedbeecb4083b02c186edc6060f83dbfa4b46e694d3

SHA256 (x64/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x64.GUI_Upgrade.txz) = 378b293c291a9522f063fa6e8a2b1b910a3bd9c56f1615ca8e6b4317bc56897f

SHA256 (x86/FreeNAS-9.1.0-RC2-x86.GUI_Upgrade.txz) = f0bf5a980618ecd7b5f55223d865a5a62de4bb2ef34a7c4376fdf3ba6979ff6c

SHA256 (x64/plugins/firefly-1696_8-amd64.pbi) = ca9b7935f11963c4df44535d48990bc174bdf99a0d71808fff4b13a3a03fee0d

SHA256 (x64/plugins/minidlna-1.0.25_1-amd64.pbi) = a9795aacdf6728011e3105940d750cf3cb5ae1280bf3fd11023748ae33f61cc7

SHA256 (x64/plugins/transmission-2.77_1-amd64.pbi) = 32741ed26d35284fdda72f4035fac7c5bfc6a064a439ced0d1e6904d2a1a7f0b

SHA256 (x86/plugins/firefly-1696_8-i386.pbi) = 29255dfbd9d3d6c35f389702f9f0a697d46407b9f562ab0ba038607474f6ea8a

SHA256 (x86/plugins/minidlna-1.0.25_1-i386.pbi) = 528b6a86679d31d2523d1213a2b7c84c6a17e1d4ac37bf6c397b93d541ec4478

SHA256 (x86/plugins/transmission-2.77_1-i386.pbi) = c4302a069978d84c50d30299a685cda69984f4c8f1b2243950d1db58cc384d9d

 

[cyberjock]

WOOT! Congrats to the FreeNAS team!

 

[Savell Martin]

Awesome!

Just installed RC1 yesterday so will blow that up and install RC2 instead :)

Keep it up

 

[Savell Martin]

Can I just confirm that RC2 is only 307mb download.
And RC1 was 504mb download.

Iso download on both.
Just double checking as saving 200mb is a pretty feat.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Yes, jails sources have been removed from the image, now you have to download them.

 

[joeschmuck]

Great news, can't wait to run this tonight.

 

[Savell Martin]

Unfortunately my testing time is short lived.
I cannot install via CD.
As soon as it gets into the menu to Install/Upgrade the keyboard numlock goes out and keyboard is unresponsive.

Tried multiple usb ports...

 

[Savell Martin]

Used the USB installer and that worked fine.

 

[Ziltoid]

The download page at http://www.freenas.org/download-releases.html only shows RC1, but your message does not say where else I should be looking for RC2...

 

[Yatti420]

Loving it so far.. Going to upgrade shortly..

Found on Sourceforge.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-9.1.0/RC2/

 

[ender979]

No problems upgrading from 9.1.0-RC1, thanks!

 

[cyberjock]

It shows RC2 for me. Maybe try clearing browser cache?

 

[joeschmuck]

The webpage wasn't updated until later yesterday. I too didn't find it on the webpage at 1:58PM (eastern time) so had to go to the sourceforge site. The plugin setup sure has changed. Now that I've played with it some, time to read the user guide to see how I should have set things up. I have only run this on my VM but for what I do with it, no real complaints yet.

 

[Alfred Melvin]

Adding newer MB and double ram (32gb) on new build. Should I start with 9.1.0RC2 and import old volumes or stay with 8.3.1p2 ?

 

[cyberjock]

Adding newer MB and double ram (32gb) on new build. Should I start with 9.1.0RC2 and import old volumes or stay with 8.3.1p2 ?

That's a personal choice. I stick with official RELEASE versions only on my servers. If I want to play with alpha/beta/RC I play with them in a VM or spare hardware.

 

[joeschmuck]

Adding newer MB and double ram (32gb) on new build. Should I start with 9.1.0RC2 and import old volumes or stay with 8.3.1p2 ?

If you are changing your MB, make sure you are getting something that supports ECC RAM! I will not try out the 9.1.0 on my real hardware until it's in RELEASE form as I don't want a hidden bug destroying my data. I run all this pre-release code in a VM.

 

[cliffboss]

Hello,

Is there a tentative release date yet? I am looking on moving from FreeBSD to FreeNAS and would rather just do the install/update once.

 

[cyberjock]

Hello,

Is there a tentative release date yet? I am looking on moving from FreeBSD to FreeNAS and would rather just do the install/update once.

Haha. Nope. It's out when its out. Everyone asks this question every time we get to an RC.

 

[joeschmuck]

Hello,

Is there a tentative release date yet? I am looking on moving from FreeBSD to FreeNAS and would rather just do the install/update once.

Only install it once? Where is the fun in that :D.
We all wait while people test it out and fix bugs. There is no need to be in a hurry as many of us here can attest that when it's rushed, there are generally bug fixes released shortly after that could have been fixed beforehand. It could be a week to 2 months but I'll patiently wait.

 

[cliffboss]

Thanks for the reply.

I guess good thing come, to those who wait :)