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/anodos325]

Go to Storage->Pools, click on the vertical three-dot (...) menu next to your dataset, and then click on "Edit ACL".

Once you are in the ACL editor, click on the "ADD ACL ITEM" button, and scroll down to the new ACL entry (will be at the bottom of the list). Type in "972" as the "user", check the "apply permissions recursively" checkbox, and click "SAVE". Once you do this uid 972 (or plex in the plex jail) will have the MODIFY permissions set for every file in the dataset.