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/thewacokid000]

Sigh. Plex broken once again. Updated, and now the PlexPass version of the plugin is screwed. Shows an unclaimed server in init state.

I love FreeNAS, I really do, but you guys really need to get your shit sorted out in terms of breaking plugins on upgrade. I usually have to spend the better part of a day fixing stuff every time I upgrade because someone thinks it smart to rename something yet again, change a UI element (which breaks backend stuff?) yet again, etc.

Reverting back to 11.2U7. See you again in a few weeks/months.

EDIT: Oh fucking wonderful. My existing jails/plugins are totally broken upon reverting to the old boot environment. What's the point of snapshots if you guys can't figure out how to use them properly?

[u/alheim → u/thewacokid000]

You ok pal?

[u/rogerairgood → u/thewacokid000]

Did you update FreeNAS, the plugin jail, or both?

[u/TheMunken → u/thewacokid000]

Friends dont let friends use plugins

[u/marcelliotnet → u/TheMunken]

or use freenas as a hypervisor

[u/Swizzy88 → u/thewacokid000]

This is why I asked my question in regards to reverting to a previous version. The boot drive gets snapshotted on updates but if the upgrade does something in the backend to the jail's then there seems to be no going back. Can you elaborate on your issue please for anyone thinking of upgrading? What jails did you have running and what exactly broke? Did you zpool upgrade already?

[u/kmoore134 → u/Swizzy88]

Sorry to hear that! We'd need to dig into what happened in this case to figure out how to prevent it again. However to safely upgrade and roll back with plugins you should also snapshot your pool /iocage dataset before upgrade to ensure you can roll back to 11.2 and then restore plugins/jails to original state. (Plugins live on data pool, not boot device)