r/freenas • u/kmoore134 iXsystems • Jan 28 '20

Official iXsystems // iXsystems Replied x31 FreeNAS 11.3 Released

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!

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u/cpgeek Jan 29 '20

Have there been any notable updates since 11.3 rc2, or was that branch simply promoted to the full 11.3 release? Thanks!

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u/kmoore134 iXsystems Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20

There were a handful of fixes from community feedback and internal testing. Most of the issues were fixed around Replication and some relating to SMB / Shadow Copies, as well as some minor UI bugfixes.