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Hey folks,
Due to the huge amount of community participation in FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC (during which 49 bugs, some of them fairly significant, were reported and fixed) we have decided to take the unusual step of rolling and releasing another Release Candidate image, FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC2, due to the significant number of changes we had to make in fixing those bugs.
We were all extremely gratified by the response to FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC. While it is always unfortunate (and a little embarrassing) to have significant bugs in a Release Candidate image, we are nonetheless a small development team and simply cannot visit all the corners and various usage cases of FreeNAS by ourselves. All of you together, however, can! That is where community participation, and your willingness to use the bug tracker, has been absolutely invaluable in to helping to polish FreeNAS 9.2.0! Since FreeNAS 9.1.1 was released, we have now fixed 245 bugs (and requested feature enhancements) in the bug tracker and countless more during our own testing and "fix a bug to fix a bug" investigations. We have also substantially improved performance, the UI, and the overall level of polish in FreeNAS along the way.
In any case, barring any more significant bugs being found, this will be our last Release Candidate before going to 9.2.0-RELEASE (hopefully to be released by Christmas). Please jump on this one with the same enthusiasm you did the first release candidate, and if you find a bug, please file a bug report as quickly as you can! Should any "show stopper" bugs be found, we will obviously not release 9.2.0-RELEASE until those bugs are fixed, so in a very real sense, all of you are gating the release process!
If you have any questions about this process during the run-up to 9.2.0-RELEASE, you can also look for us here on the forums or in the #freenas channel on irc.freenode.net. The FreeNAS development team is more than happy to engage with the community in real-time!
Please see the ReleaseNotes for a list of changes in this RC2 release (which have changed since RC, so even those who already installed 9.2.0-RC may wish to review them).
Again, the 9.2.0-RC2 bits may be found here: http://cdn.freenas.org/9.2.0/RC2/
Thanks for your help in making 9.2.0 an excellent release!
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Development Team
Due to the huge amount of community participation in FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC (during which 49 bugs, some of them fairly significant, were reported and fixed) we have decided to take the unusual step of rolling and releasing another Release Candidate image, FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC2, due to the significant number of changes we had to make in fixing those bugs.
We were all extremely gratified by the response to FreeNAS 9.2.0-RC. While it is always unfortunate (and a little embarrassing) to have significant bugs in a Release Candidate image, we are nonetheless a small development team and simply cannot visit all the corners and various usage cases of FreeNAS by ourselves. All of you together, however, can! That is where community participation, and your willingness to use the bug tracker, has been absolutely invaluable in to helping to polish FreeNAS 9.2.0! Since FreeNAS 9.1.1 was released, we have now fixed 245 bugs (and requested feature enhancements) in the bug tracker and countless more during our own testing and "fix a bug to fix a bug" investigations. We have also substantially improved performance, the UI, and the overall level of polish in FreeNAS along the way.
In any case, barring any more significant bugs being found, this will be our last Release Candidate before going to 9.2.0-RELEASE (hopefully to be released by Christmas). Please jump on this one with the same enthusiasm you did the first release candidate, and if you find a bug, please file a bug report as quickly as you can! Should any "show stopper" bugs be found, we will obviously not release 9.2.0-RELEASE until those bugs are fixed, so in a very real sense, all of you are gating the release process!
If you have any questions about this process during the run-up to 9.2.0-RELEASE, you can also look for us here on the forums or in the #freenas channel on irc.freenode.net. The FreeNAS development team is more than happy to engage with the community in real-time!
Please see the ReleaseNotes for a list of changes in this RC2 release (which have changed since RC, so even those who already installed 9.2.0-RC may wish to review them).
Again, the 9.2.0-RC2 bits may be found here: http://cdn.freenas.org/9.2.0/RC2/
Thanks for your help in making 9.2.0 an excellent release!
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Development Team