Firmware Update: Netgear ReadyNAS RAIDiator 4.2.21

Netgear has released a new version of ReadyNAS Raidiator, the software that runs on several of the company’s NAS devices. These are the ReadyNAS 1500, 2100, 3100, 3200, 4200, Ultra 2/Plus, Ultra 4/Plus, Ultra 6/Plus, Pro 2, Pro 4, Pro 6, Pro Business Edition, Pro Pioneer Edition, NVX and NVX Pioneer Edition. Updating can be done by navigating to the System > Update > Remote tab in Frontview or by checking the new image yourself first to download. This release includes newer versions of the cifs-, iSCSI and afp services, which brings improved compatibility and fixes some security vulnerabilities. In addition, some bugs have also been fixed. The full changelog looks like this:

New features and enhancements

• Updated CIFS service to address recent security issues.
• Updated iSCSI service for better ESXi5 compatibility.
• Updated AFP service to address Time Machine compatibility.

Bug fixes

• If using both rear USB ports, backup jobs were using the Right port only.
• Fix to iSNS (iSCSI) service to prevent possible service crash.
• Backup Config will not backup iSCSI config, prevents restore error. Backup Jobs can be confused for iSCSI backups.
• When performing a Remote Update, and already had the latest version, there was no message describing the already up to date situation.
• Update IP validation checks to allow valid IPs such as 10.0.10.0 that were previously blocked.
• Resolve issue where FrontView could take a long time to initially load if there was no Internet connection available.

Limitations

• Once you upgrade to this release, you cannot downgrade back to 4.2.15 or prior releases.
• IE 6 no longer supported. Please update to IE 7 or 8.
• Volume expansion will not work beyond 16TB. To support 16 TB or greater, you’ll have to factory default with that capacity in place.
• Snapshot resizing is disabled in the release. We will re-enable this feature in a future update.