Download FreeNAS 0.7.1 build 5024/4997

With FreeNAS, a computer connected to the network can be used for data storage only. The whole is based on a stripped-down FreeBSD installation and provided with a well-organized web interface. The package takes up no more than 32MB of space by default and can therefore be installed with ease on a CF card, the hard disk or a USB stick. Support is available for cifs, ftp, nfs, rsync, ssh, local user authentication and software raid 0, 1, and 5. The developers have released two unstable builds of version 0.7.1, namely build 5024 for i386 systems and build 4997 for amd64 systems. The list of customizations for version 0.7.1 looks like this:

FreeNAS 0.7.1 (Shere):

Major changes:

• Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.9.
• Upgrade istgt to version 20100125.
• Upgrade msmtp to 1.4.19.
• Upgrade transmission to 1.76.
• Upgrade PHP to 5.2.12 (Thanks to Xin LI).
• Upgrade fuppes to 0.660.
• Upgrade rsync to 3.0.7.
• Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.18.08.
• Upgrade netatalk to 2.0.5.
• Upgrade bash to 4.0.35.
• Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.25.
• Upgrade proftpd to 1.3.2c.

Minor changes:

• Modify Samba default buffer size.
• Modify Tuning values.
• Add new MIB in System|Advanced|sysctl.conf.
• Add UTF-8 with English menu in File Manager (quixplorer).
• Restrict NFS sharing directory with alldirs.
• Add serial console support.

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in istgt script.
• Fix Samba ‘Unknown socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY’ messages. Thanks to Daisuke Aoyama. (BR 2894782|2858262).
• Fix mt-daapd/firefly error ‘Undefined symbol “avcodec_decode_audio”‘ (BR 2895960).
• Fix bug in iSCSI initiator script (BR 2916334). Thanks to Daisuke Aoyama.
• Set home dir for Quixplorer users. Thanks to Daisuke Aoyama.
• Remove useless character in email (BR 2928068).
• Every reboot increases the number of ‘proc’ entries in fstab on ‘full’ installations (BR 2929029).
• Fix message in console menu ‘Reset WebGUI password’ (BR 2929338).
• Fix initial resolve issue.
• Fix full install upgrade error.
• Fix nsswitch error when ldap is enabled (BR 2936505).
• Fix transmission umask does not work (BR 2945242).
• Fix WebGUI allows usernames longer than 16 characters (BR 2934168).
• Fix cannot check WebGUI default port.
• Fix fail to apply if webserver authentication is enabled and documentroot is missing.

Permanent restrictions:

• It is not possible to format a SoftRAID disk with MSDOS FAT16/32.
• It is not possible to encrypt a disk partition, only complete disks are supported.
• It is not possible to get separate CPU stats per processor on SMP machines because FreeBSD does not support that feature.
• Enable ‘polling’ on interfaces used by a LAGG interface will make it inoperable.
• It is not possible to mount EXT2 disks with an inode size of 256 bytes. You have to format it with 128 bytes on Linux to use them on FreeBSD.

Known bugs:

• If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be overriden by the IPv4 DNS server.
• Downgrading to 0.69 via WebGUI fails because of broken pipe error.
• FreeBSD’s ext2fs module, as of release 7.1, cannot mount ext2 file systems with 256-byte large inodes, only 128 byte sized. Unfortunately, 256 byte is the default size with many recent Linux distributions.