Today the release of FreeNAS 0.686b1 has been anounced via the mailinglist. Version o.685RC2 has been skipped because all its improvements and fixes are also included in 0.686b1.
Majors changes:
- Upgrade fusefs-ntfs to 1.1004.
- Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.18.
- Upgrade netbsd-iscsi (iscsi-target) to 20070925.
- Refactor GEOM-Eli implementation + WebGUI. Now it is possible to add existing encrypted disks and change passwords for a encrypted disk.
- Improve device detection for configuration storage when booting from LiveCD.
- Update zoneinfo files.
- Add ‘System/Packages’ WebGUI page to administrate packages (only available in ‘full’ install mode).
- Add LDAP Authentication.
- Add email status report.
- Add ‘Status/Report’ WebGUI page to administrate email status report.
- Upgrade iSCSI Target to version 20070925.
- Update ‘iSCSI Target’ WebGUI + services. Now it is possible to expand existing targets and define RAID0 and RAID1 devices. It is also possible to use disk devices as extents.
- Refactor complete user/group management (code, services & WebGUI).
- Add scheduled reboot feature.
- Add ‘System/Advanced/Cron’ WebGUI to administrate additional cron jobs.
- Add new languages: Slovenian, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmal.
- Add new SSH settings to WebGUI: Password authentication.
- Add WOL patch for some NIC
- Add ‘Hosts allow’ and ‘Hosts deny’ settings on Samba shares WebGUI page.
- Add ‘chroot everyone’ setting on FTP WebGUI page.
- Add ‘Home directory’ support in user management.
- Refactor ‘System/Advanced/Startup’. Renamed to ‘System/Advanced/Command scripts’. Add ability to define scripts executed before system shutdown.
- Add SNMP service support.
- Upgrade Samba to 3.0.26a.
- Permit to convert a ‘full’ release to an ’embedded’ (from the CDROM)
- Add proxy support (WebGUI: ‘System/Advanced/Proxy’).
- Add volume label support when formating disks.
- Modified boot image file system parameter to support USB booting on a greater number of systems.
Minors changes:
- Display used and available disk space as tooltip for mount points on system information (index.php) page.
- Reduce number of virtual consoles to ttyv0 and ttyv1.
- Display ‘MTU’ on interfaces status page.
- Rename ‘Resume’ to ‘Keep all files’ option on FTP WebGUI page.
- Use nano as default editor.
- Remove Samba ‘ReadAhead’ setting because this is not supported on FreeBSD.
- Refresh RAID information pages automatically every 5 seconds to display progress
- Rename CIFS to CIFS/SMB for better understanding.
- Upgrade dp.SyntaxHighlighter to 1.5.
- Add attribute //samba/auxparam and //samba/share/auxparam to add auxiliary parameters.
- Add ‘Auxiliary parameters’ field on CIFS/SMB page to manage auxiliary parameters.
- Improve WebGUI workflow.
- Add ability to define full path of Samba share, not only to choose from a list of defined mount points.
- Add ability to mount a file system read-only.
- Fix a bug when compiling FreeNAS on a FreeBSD 6.2 system with X11 installed.
- Add wpa_supplicant binaries (actually not supported from the webgui).
- Add ‘du’ tool.
- Add Davicom DM910 USB Ethernet driver.
- Update 3Ware drivers to 9.4.1.3.
- Customizable size for OS partition (1) in ‘full’ install mode.
Bug fixs:
- Fix bug in Mount Point WebGUI page when using file system ‘CD/DVD’.
- Fix bug when booting ‘full’ installation.
- Cleanup /var/run during boot process, otherwise sysreboot.reqd won’t be removed.
- Fix bug in /etc/rc.d/afpd script.
- Fix bug in userdb generation. User administrator privilegs were not set correct after a reboot.
- Add missing link /etc/exports -> /var/etc/exports.
- Set //syslogd/nentries to 50 (by default) in config.xml if it is not set. Causes errors in status report.
- Recyle bin setting was not stored when it was activated for a Samba share.
- Handle special characters in config.xml (e.g. öäü).
- Fix bug in make.sh. Partition description was incorrect, ‘fstype’ was not set correct for partition ‘a’.
Source: FreeNAS Mailinglist
