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Happy Friday everybody! Already, enough with the pleasantries, let's do what you came here for… Talk some FreeNAS!
First up: 11.0. As many of you have seen, RC2 has gone out the door with a variety of bugfixes earlier this week. Thank you everybody who has helped test and report issues, we very much appreciate it! We are now getting spun up for a RC3 this coming Monday the 22nd, with the release looking like the following Monday the 29th. Please keep testing and reporting issues so we can do our best to make this a rock-solid release.
Meanwhile for those who have been running nightlies, you’ve probably begun seeing some cool new changes in the work-in-progress Angular UI. We’ll get more in-depth on those at a later point, but for now I wanted to show off a nice screenshot with some of the theme work that has gone into it. And before you ask, yes we’re working towards having multiple themes that you can select from.
Lastly, I wanted to turn your attention to something new on the horizon. As many of our dedicated FreeNAS users know, we’ve been working hard on a new direction for our legacy Jails and Plugins infrastructure. This has mainly been focused around our efforts in the new python-based iocage rewrite. With the upcoming RC3 this next week, we will have the latest hotness in the form of iocage 0.9.8 included and we would welcome community testing and feedback. This is going to be available for testing as a command-line interface for 11.0, with the plan to merge it fully into the UI for 11.1. In addition to iocage’s jail functionality, we’ve also worked hard on a much-improved Plugin format. This new framework allows very rapid plugin development and the ability for users to create their own plugins, usually with a very minimal effort involving some JSON and a setup script. We’ve created an example set of plugins already, and before you ask, yes we have Plex, Crashplan and a variety of others, including GitLab. Installing them from the CLI is pretty straight forward using the following command:
Just be sure to replace igb0 with your network interface, and 192.168.0.91/24 with the IP address you want this plugin to run on. We would welcome some brave early testers to start giving us feedback on these plugins (in addition to iocage’s usual jail functionality) as we begin our efforts to merge this work into the user interface, coming soon to a nightly image near you.
Thanks everybody for reading and keep on NAS’ing!
First up: 11.0. As many of you have seen, RC2 has gone out the door with a variety of bugfixes earlier this week. Thank you everybody who has helped test and report issues, we very much appreciate it! We are now getting spun up for a RC3 this coming Monday the 22nd, with the release looking like the following Monday the 29th. Please keep testing and reporting issues so we can do our best to make this a rock-solid release.
Meanwhile for those who have been running nightlies, you’ve probably begun seeing some cool new changes in the work-in-progress Angular UI. We’ll get more in-depth on those at a later point, but for now I wanted to show off a nice screenshot with some of the theme work that has gone into it. And before you ask, yes we’re working towards having multiple themes that you can select from.
Lastly, I wanted to turn your attention to something new on the horizon. As many of our dedicated FreeNAS users know, we’ve been working hard on a new direction for our legacy Jails and Plugins infrastructure. This has mainly been focused around our efforts in the new python-based iocage rewrite. With the upcoming RC3 this next week, we will have the latest hotness in the form of iocage 0.9.8 included and we would welcome community testing and feedback. This is going to be available for testing as a command-line interface for 11.0, with the plan to merge it fully into the UI for 11.1. In addition to iocage’s jail functionality, we’ve also worked hard on a much-improved Plugin format. This new framework allows very rapid plugin development and the ability for users to create their own plugins, usually with a very minimal effort involving some JSON and a setup script. We’ve created an example set of plugins already, and before you ask, yes we have Plex, Crashplan and a variety of others, including GitLab. Installing them from the CLI is pretty straight forward using the following command:
# iocage fetch --plugins ip4_addr="igb0|192.168.0.91/24"Just be sure to replace igb0 with your network interface, and 192.168.0.91/24 with the IP address you want this plugin to run on. We would welcome some brave early testers to start giving us feedback on these plugins (in addition to iocage’s usual jail functionality) as we begin our efforts to merge this work into the user interface, coming soon to a nightly image near you.
Thanks everybody for reading and keep on NAS’ing!
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