Software Update: FreeNAS 8.2.0

The final release of FreeNAS version 8.2.0 has been released. With this package, a computer included in the network can be used as ‘network attached storage’, so purely for storing data. The whole is based on FreeBSD version 8.2 and provided with a clear web interface. Where the system requirements in version 7 were still very low and it could run fine on an old computer, there is slightly more extensive hardware for version 8 necessary† The complete changelog for this release is on this page to find, the announcement looks like this:

FreeNAS 8.2 has been released!

The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE.

FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE is the first release on new branch of code that incorporates tighter integration between the ZFS command line and the FreeNAS GUI. This release also features the ability to run arbitrary services and interact with them through the FreeNAS GUI in a FreeBSD jail. This jail allows a wide range of third party software to be run on top of FreeNAS, using the PBI format from PC-BSD or FreeBSD packages or ports, as well as official FreeNAS plugins.

Additional features include:

• Support for iSCSI target reload.
• GUI support for SAS and FC multipath hardware.
• Web shell accessible from the FreeNAS web interface.
• ZFS scrubs are configurable from the GUI.
• A newer web toolkit is used in the GUI, enabling use of mobile browsers.
• An autotuning script tunes ZFS for the hardware it’s running on.