FreeBSD – the unknown Giant

Over the weekend FreeNAS 0.686b2 was released. Download link

Majors changes:

• Set correct sysid when formating disks with FAT32(0×0b) and EXT2(0×83).
• Enable user to set volume label when formating disk using EXT2.
• Refactor complete disk/RAID initialization/management/encryption PHP code && WebGUI.
• Refactor API for better maintenance and feature enhancement.
• Upgrade PHPMailer to 2.0.0 rc1.
• Upgrade PHP to 5.2.5.
• Upgrade netbsd-iscsi (iscsi-target) to 20071025.
• Add GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Apple Public Source License and PHP License text (located in usr/local/www).

Minors changes:

• ‘dd’ destination disks and partitions during install process.
• Modify filechooser. Now ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons are on the top of the dialog for easier navigation in huge file lists.

Bug fixs:

• Fix xml parser bug when switching language, e.g. English ISO-8859-1) to Bulgarian (UTF-8).
• Fix bug in function get_mount_usage(). Now mount points containing whitespace characters are displayed on index.php.
• Fix mount bug. Mount disks using UFS without GPT successfully.
• Fix bug in config convertion function. Convertion does not stop at version 2.1 anymore. This fixes many bugs, e.g.
  unreachable CIFS/Samba shares, …
• Fix bug in disk management. After modifying a disk (e.g. change UDMA mode) configuration was corrupted.
• Enable usage of USB stick to store configuration in non LiveCD scenario.

Related posts:

1. FreeNAS 0.686b1 Released
2. FreeNAS 0.686.1 (stable) released
3. FreeNAS 0.686 (stable) released
4. FreeNAS 0686c (BETA3) released
5. FreeNAS 0.7RC1 (Sardaukar) released