Download NAS4Free 9.3.0.2.1190

Version 9.3.0.2.1190 of NAS4Free has been released. This open source program is intended to serve as the operating system for a network attached storage device, or a NAS. Like FreeNAS, it is based on FreeBSD and both are descendants of the original FreeNAS. An extensive story about the history of and a comparison between the two is at Ars Technica to find. A few days ago, version 9.3.0.2 of NAS4Free was released and the changelog of that release looks like this:

changes

• Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.3 RELEASE p6.
• Upgrade to Samba 4.1.13 and add SMB3 in WebGUI.
• Convert to pkgng.
• Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.6.
• Improved WebGUI with Chrome.
• Improved config restore verbose output.
• Improved ZFS pool usage/tool ​​and import ZFS disks.
• Improved ZFS pool import on embedded.
• Improved HAST switch with net.inet.carp.preempt.
• Replaced /dev/md0 with xmd using LZ4 compression.
• Replaced the server certificate with 2048bits key and sha256 signature.
• Changed root fs layout. (2GB USB/CF is required. Full is 4GB or more.)
• Changed image files to use XZ.
• Drop SSLv3 support. (HTTPS must use TLS)
• Drop LiveCD mode support with less than 2GB memory. (install/upgrade only)
  Supported minimum spec except LiveCD is 512MB memory + 512MB swap device or partition.
  1024MB swap device or partition is recommended.
  File based swap and ZFS volume swap is not recommended.
• Add WebGUI access restriction.
• Add NFS support in HAST service.
• Add default swap of 1024MB for LiveUSB and before user configuration.
• Adjust number of Status|Processes.
• Add MBR partition to LiveUSB.
• Add log/mirrored log support in Disks|ZFS|Polish|Tools.
• Add expires HTTP header. (some js must be force reloaded.)
• Increase http upload size to 512MB.
• Remove last slash of the path added by filechooser.
• Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.12.
• Upgrade bash 4.3 to patch 30.
• Upgrade transmission to 2.84.
• Upgrade isboot to 0.2.8.
• Upgrade istgt to 20141125.
• Upgrade smartmon tools 6.3
• Upgrade xmlstarlet to 1.6.1.
• Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.24.43.
• Upgrade zone info to 2014j.
• Upgrade PHP to 5.6.3.
• Change iperf2.x for iperf3.

Fixes:

• xmlrpc is broken.
• Missing GPT partition in Disks|ZFS|Polish|Tools.
• Switching DHCP and static IP cause unexpected behavior.
• Some drives can’t get disk model/description.
• The text on graph is not sized on Chrome.
• Firmware page show incorrectly.
• ntfs-3g is broken.
• Form size is too small on Chrome.
• HAST device is not imported by import disks.

Experimental memory disk (geom_xmd.ko)
This version contains a special memory disk driver called “xmd”. If you find a bug of xmd, please report to NAS4Free forum. The following are the main features.

• on-demand memory allocation and de-allocation (zero fill/TRIM support)
• on the fly block level compression
• multiple compression methods and levels (none, LZ4/LZ4HC, ZLIB, LZMA2)
• mixed compressed blocks (can be changed at any time by xmdconfig)
• pre-compressed mfsroot by mkuzip(8) or mkulzma(8)
• provide the ioctl interface for the xmdconfig utility like mdconfig(8)