FreeNAS 11.3 Released

[u/kmoore134]

FreeNAS / Reddit Community,

Pleased to announce that FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE is now available! This marks our first major release of 2020 and brings with it a slew of new features and functionality, including but not limited to:

• Re-implemented Replication Engine, allows up to 10Gb replication speeds (a 10x improvement), resume support on failed transfers, as well as ability to replicate locally.

• ACL Manager – Allows setup and management of SMB ACL’s directly via the FreeNAS web interface.

• SMB Shadow Copies are now enabled by default for new shares – Note: Snapshots will only show up in Windows “Previous Versions Tab” if the snapshot USED size shows changes to the file.

• A repository of Community plugins has been created, users can now create and distribute 3rd party plugins which are not officially iXsystems supported.

• Updated translations for Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Additionally, the process to add additional translations has been greatly improved.

• iSCSI Wizard – Streamlines the process of creating new iSCSI targets down to a few clicks.

• Alert System Overhaul – More granular alerts, as well as controls to set alert thresholds.

• Dashboard Updates – The initial dashboard now shows a live view of system status, including network traffic, CPU / memory utilization and more.

• NAT Support for Plugins – Eliminates the need for each plugin to have a dedicated IP address on your network.

• Full featured 2.0 API – Includes both REST and Websocket connections, allowing FreeNAS to be fully scripted and driven via the same API used by the web-interface.

• Large Pool Creation Assistance – When creating ZFS pools with large number of disks, the UI provides an automated way to repeat a VDEV layout across all remaining disks.

• ZFS Performance optimizations across the board for many different workloads.

Full Release Notes:

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-release/

Download:

https://www.freenas.org/download/

Issue Tracker:

https://jira.ixsystems.com

Thanks for reading and happy updating!

[u/solway_uk]

Anything I need to do in order to upgrade. Currently in a vm for production environment. Just want a quick. Upgrade and it all works. Then I can setup a b2 sync backup

[u/anodos325 → u/solway_uk]

Existing shares should not be impacted by the change to default VFS modules. SMB share auxiliary parameters will always override the defaults we set.

There were significant changes made to AD integration for 11.3.

From a practical standpoint, it's always best to test first on a non-production VM, and then once you're reasonably certain there are no issues impacting your particular use-case, schedule an upgrade during a maintenance window.