Software Update: FreeNAS 11.1-U4

Two new updates to FreeNAS version 11.1 have been released in quick succession. With this software, a computer included in the network can be used as ‘network attached storage’, so purely for storing data. Additional functionality can be added with the help of plugins. The whole is based on FreeBSD and provided with a clear web interface. More information about the possibilities of FreeNAS can be found at this page are being found.

FreeNAS version 11.1 uses FreeBSD 11.1 as its foundation and adds cloud synchronization, a first step towards Docker container support and performance improvements in OpenZFS. Since update 2, the following improvements have been made:

FreeNAS 11.1 U4 changelog:

• 29521 – Bug: Remove ‘%s’ literal from configuration database backup name
• 30309 – Bug: Use polling requests to get debug
• 30480 – Bug: Don’t change the permissions on the Samba private files
• 30501 – Bug: Set “inherited” flag when winmsa changes ACL

FreeNAS 11.1 U3 changelog

• 26275 – Bug: Update Apache version to 2.4.27
• 26303 – Bug: Don’t try to send email when no email address is set for root
• 26355 – Bug: More fixes to prevent freenas-health warnings from spamming /var/log/messages
• 26931 – Feature: Use ifconfig -vvv in freenas-debug
• 27498 – Bug: Do not auto-fill root account at login prompt
• 27607 – Bug: Fix migration from 11.0-U6
• 27764 – Bug: Add filesystem.put to middlewared
• 27824 – Bug: Properly handle 401 in dgrid error
• 27977 – Bug: Set limit on number of open files for python during early boot
• 28078 – Bug: Do not expose root password in traceback
• 28094 – Bug: Do not log freenas-health warnings to /var/log/messages
• 28105 – Bug: Conform to RFC-7530 when using NFSv3 UID-GIDs with NFSv4 protocol
• 28125 – Bug: Fix traceback by ensuring uuid always exists
• 28133 – Bug: Fix error that prevented proper deletion of boot environment
• 28385 – Bug: Fix middlewared calling job with process=True
• 28634 – Bug: Only run freenas-debug -B when explicitly specified through CLI
• 28684 – Feature: Add “-v” to zpool status in freenas-debug script
• 28786 – Bug: Fix traceback when migrating system dataset
• 28792 – Bug: Increase size of RAM disk used by Reporting for systems with many disks
• 28936 – Bug: Detach geli provider when removing a ZFS disk
• 28982 – Bug: Temporary fix to silence “@job(pipe=True) leaking file descriptors” messages
• 28988 – Bug: Do not detach pool if extending a volume fails
• 29040 – Bug: Rework manual upgrade to use polling requests
• 29133 – Bug: Fix” Unauthorized Reboot” emails when system did not actually reboot
• 29361 – Bug: Write nginx access log to tmpfs
• 29551 – Bug: Fix traceback when multiplex.proc_dump returns bool
• 29753 – Bug: Fixes for CVE-2018-1050 and CVE-2018-1057
• 29853 – Bug: Prevent” [Errno 48] Address already in use” error by not using SO_REUSEADDR for ephemeral ports