FreeNAS/Distributions/FreeNAS 0.69.1 (Omnius)

Major changes edit

  • Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34.
  • Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2.
  • Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6.
  • Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22.
  • Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20080819.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.4.
  • Upgrade nut to 2.4.1. Thanks to Joerg Pulz for the core dump patch. This version uses TCP wrappers instead of the internal ACL mechanism. Because of that all client can listen the UPS. If you want to prevent this you have to use the FreeNAS client firewall to block specific IP ranges. See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2009-February/004862.html for a detailed explanation.
  • Upgrade transmission to 1.51.
  • Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.2.1.
  • Upgrade 3Ware serial ATA RAID controller driver to 9.5.1.
  • Upgrade bash to 4.0.10.

Minor changes edit

  • Add 'SSL/TLS only' on 'Services|FTP' page to allow TLS/SSL connections only.
  • Add 'Reverse DNS lookup' on 'Services|FTP' page. This and the 'Ident protocol' option are disabled per default because they may slow down or break the user login to the FTP server in some situations.
  • Add 'Authentication' checkbox on 'Services|BitTorrent' page to enable/disable authentication for TransmissionBT WebGUI.
  • Add checkbox to enable WOL on 'Network|Interfaces|LAN' and 'Interfaces|Optionalx' pages. Please note that WOL only works for nfe, nve, sis, vr, xl. Thanks to Tobias Reber for the patch.
  • Add traceroute6 command (FR 2531610).
  • Add *.iso support to Fuppes UPnP (FR 2521047).
  • Move 'm2ts' video file extension to 'default' section (BR 2643180).
  • Add 'Remote monitoring' to 'Services|UPS' to allow adding remote monitors that monitor the local installed UPS in slave mode.
  • Use WebGUI administrator password for the NUT user 'root'.
  • Add ability to mount UDF ISO images.
  • Disable download feature in Quixplorer because there are misc. (PHP and system) limitations that makes this feature senseless.
  • Prevent generation of core dump files (BR 2662404). Can be enabled via 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf'.
  • Add ability to enable/disable sysctl variables in 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf'.
  • Add XMLRPC services that are available via /xmlrpc.php, e.g. system.getInfo.
  • Add ability to configure ProFTPD module mod_ban via WebGUI (FR 2546338).
  • Add device I/O statistics to 'Status|Disks' page (FR 2704919).
  • Replace msntp with FreeBSD's ntpdate.
  • Allow setting TransmissionBT WebGUI user name (FR 2745563).
  • Allow to set the following TransmissionBT settings via WebGUI: peer port, port forwarding, pex, encryption mode and max. upload/download bandwidth (FR 2765940).

Bug fixes edit

  • Set correct friendly name in fuppes.cfg for Xbox 360. The correct friendly name will be generated automatically (e.g. 'xxxx : 1').
  • Set correct shutdown property in upsmon.conf (BR 2521141).
  • Starting FTP service fails when using DHCP on LAN interface (BR 2519951).
  • FPSyncDir patch correction (BR 2546107).
  • UPS service improvements. Display NUT messages in syslog and send emails when using shutdown mode 'UPS reaches low battery' (BR 2549047).
  • Change user agent string for PS3 to 'PLAYSTATION 3' in fuppes.cfg (BR 2600554).
  • Formatting disks with 'Software RAID' doesn't clear GEOM metadata (BR 2609681).
  • GUI menu separator line too thick in Safari (BR 2652160). Thanks to skabde.
  • Add patch for PHP bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()).
  • Display dialog to set WebGUI port when configuring network settings via console menu (BR 2661938).
  • Fix problem with DAAP & Mac iTunes 8.1 (BR 2701606). Thanks to Alexey Sannikov.
  • Fix false positive bug while detecting disk mount state (BR 2706994). Thanks to desummoner for the patch.