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NAS4Free Changelog

What's new in NAS4Free 10.1.0.2.1454 Beta

Apr 29, 2015
  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE p9.
  • Add Home, Insert, Delete, End, Page Up/Down keys to shell.
  • Upgrade php to 5.6.8.
  • Upgrade tzdata to 2015d.
  • Upgrade mDNSResponder to 567.
  • Upgrade msmtp to 1.6.2.
  • Fixes:
  • AFP share is not shown in Time Machine.

New in NAS4Free 9.3.0.2.1310 (Jan 18, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.3 RELEASE p8.
  • Upgrade to Samba4.1 and add SMB3 in WebGUI.
  • Convert to pkgng.
  • Ability to backup and restore encrypted configuration.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.6.
  • Improved WebGUI with Chrome.
  • Improved config restore verbose output.
  • Improved ZFS pool usage/tool and import ZFS disks.
  • Improved ZFS pool import on embedded.
  • Improved HAST switch with net.inet.carp.preempt.
  • Improved PHP session handle.
  • Replaced /dev/md0 with xmd using LZ4 compression.
  • Replaced the server certificate with 2048bits key and sha256 signature.
  • Changed samba reload when changing the shares. (it takes few secs.)
  • Changed rootfs layout. (2GB USB/CF is required. Full is 4GB or more.)
  • Changed image files to use XZ.
  • Drop SSLv3 support. (HTTPS must use TLS)
  • Drop LiveCD mode support with less than 2GB memory. (install/upgrade only). Supported minimum spec except LiveCD is 512MB memory + 512MB swap device or partition. 1024MB swap device or partition is recommended. File based swap and ZFS volume swap is not recommended.
  • Add WebGUI access restriction.
  • Add NFS support in HAST service.
  • Add default swap of 512MB for LiveUSB and before user configuration.
  • Adjust number of Status|Processes.
  • Add MBR partition to LiveUSB.
  • Add log/mirrored log support in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Add expires HTTP header. (some js must be force reloaded.)
  • Increase http upload size to 512MB.
  • Remove last slash of the path added by filechooser.
  • Add wait_on and spindown.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.12.
  • Upgrade transmission to 2.84.
  • Upgrade isboot to 0.2.8.
  • Upgrade istgt to 20141125.
  • Upgrade smartmontools 6.3
  • Upgrade xmlstarlet to 1.6.1.
  • Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.24.43.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2014j.
  • Change iperf2.x for iperf3.
  • Upgrade php to 5.6.4.
  • Upgrade mDNSResponder to 561.1.1.
  • Upgrade xmd to 0.4.2.
  • Upgrade bash 4.3 to patch 33.
  • Upgrade unison to 2.48.3.
  • Upgrade netatalk to 3.1.7.
  • Upgrade samba to 4.1.16.
  • Fixes:
  • Missing /etc/uams/uams_randnum.so
  • Missing nutdrv_atcl_usb nut driver.
  • Never reject SMB3 and sendfile combination.
  • Failed to mount NTFS with read-only.
  • Missing mount_fusefs in /usr/local/sbin.
  • Missing usb device configuration file.
  • Missing default pkg repository.
  • mount_ntfs is not installed to /sbin.
  • Wrong variable in HAST script.
  • /boot/kernel/fuse.ko is missing.
  • /etc/platform is broken on full installation.
  • Some DHCP setting of WebGUI does not work.
  • xmlrpc is broken.
  • Missing GPT partition in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Switching DHCP and static IP cause unexpected behavior.
  • Some drives can't get disk model/description.
  • The text on graph is not sized on Chrome.
  • Firmware page show incorrectly.
  • ntfs-3g is broken.
  • Form size is too small on Chrome.
  • HAST device is not imported by import disks.
  • Stop flooding "Unknown USB device" to syslog.

New in NAS4Free 9.3.0.2.1283 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.3 RELEASE p7.
  • Upgrade to Samba4.1 and add SMB3 in WebGUI.
  • Convert to pkgng.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.6.
  • Improved WebGUI with Chrome.
  • Improved config restore verbose output.
  • Improved ZFS pool usage/tool and import ZFS disks.
  • Improved ZFS pool import on embedded.
  • Improved HAST switch with net.inet.carp.preempt.
  • Improved PHP session handle.
  • Replaced /dev/md0 with xmd using LZ4 compression.
  • Replaced the server certificate with 2048bits key and sha256 signature.
  • Changed rootfs layout. (2GB USB/CF is required. Full is 4GB or more.)
  • Changed image files to use XZ.
  • Drop SSLv3 support. (HTTPS must use TLS)
  • Drop LiveCD mode support with less than 2GB memory. (install/upgrade only) Supported minimum spec except LiveCD is 512MB memory + 512MB swap device or partition. 1024MB swap device or partition is recommended. File based swap and ZFS volume swap is not recommended.
  • Add WebGUI access restriction.
  • Add NFS support in HAST service.
  • Add default swap of 512MB for LiveUSB and before user configuration.
  • Adjust number of Status|Processes.
  • Add MBR partition to LiveUSB.
  • Add log/mirrored log support in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Add expires HTTP header. (some js must be force reloaded.)
  • Increase http upload size to 512MB.
  • Remove last slash of the path added by filechooser.
  • Add wait_on and spindown.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.12.
  • Upgrade transmission to 2.84.
  • Upgrade isboot to 0.2.8.
  • Upgrade istgt to 20141125.
  • Upgrade smartmontools 6.3
  • Upgrade xmlstarlet to 1.6.1.
  • Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.24.43.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2014j.
  • Change iperf2.x for iperf3.
  • Upgrade samba to 4.1.14.
  • Upgrade php to 5.6.4.
  • Upgrade mDNSResponder to 561.1.1.
  • Upgrade xmd to 0.4.2.
  • Upgrade bash 4.3 to patch 33.
  • Upgrade unison to 2.48.3.
  • Fixes:
  • Never reject SMB3 and sendfile combination.
  • Failed to mount NTFS with read-only.
  • Missing mount_fusefs in /usr/local/sbin.
  • Missing usb device configuration file.
  • Missing default pkg repository.
  • mount_ntfs is not installed to /sbin.
  • Wrong variable in HAST script.
  • /boot/kernel/fuse.ko is missing.
  • /etc/platform is broken on full installation.
  • Some DHCP setting of WebGUI does not work.
  • xmlrpc is broken.
  • Missing GPT partition in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Switching DHCP and static IP cause unexpected behavior.
  • Some drives can't get disk model/description.
  • The text on graph is not sized on Chrome.
  • Firmware page show incorrectly.
  • ntfs-3g is broken.
  • Form size is too small on Chrome.
  • HAST device is not imported by import disks.
  • Stop flooding "Unknown USB device" to syslog.

New in NAS4Free 9.3.0.2.1213 (Dec 20, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.3 RELEASE p6.
  • Upgrade to Samba4.1 and add SMB3 in WebGUI.
  • Convert to pkgng.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.6.
  • Improved WebGUI with Chrome.
  • Improved config restore verbose output.
  • Improved ZFS pool usage/tool and import ZFS disks.
  • Improved ZFS pool import on embedded.
  • Improved HAST switch with net.inet.carp.preempt.
  • Improved PHP session handle.
  • Replaced /dev/md0 with xmd using LZ4 compression.
  • Replaced the server certificate with 2048bits key and sha256 signature.
  • Changed rootfs layout. (2GB USB/CF is required. Full is 4GB or more.)
  • Changed image files to use XZ.
  • Drop SSLv3 support. (HTTPS must use TLS)
  • Drop LiveCD mode support with less than 2GB memory. (install/upgrade only)
  • Supported minimum spec except LiveCD is 512MB memory + 512MB swap device or partition.
  • 1024MB swap device or partition is recommended.
  • File based swap and ZFS volume swap is not recommended.
  • Add WebGUI access restriction.
  • Add NFS support in HAST service.
  • Add default swap of 512MB for LiveUSB and before user configuration.
  • Adjust number of Status|Processes.
  • Add MBR partition to LiveUSB.
  • Add log/mirrored log support in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Add expires HTTP header. (some js must be force reloaded.)
  • Increase http upload size to 512MB.
  • Remove last slash of the path added by filechooser.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.12.
  • Upgrade bash 4.3 to patch 30.
  • Upgrade transmission to 2.84.
  • Upgrade isboot to 0.2.8.
  • Upgrade istgt to 20141125.
  • Upgrade smartmontools 6.3
  • Upgrade xmlstarlet to 1.6.1.
  • Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.24.43.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2014j.
  • Change iperf2.x for iperf3.
  • Upgrade samba to 4.1.14.
  • Upgrade php to 5.6.4.
  • Fixes:
  • mount_ntfs is not installed to /sbin.
  • Wrong variable in HAST script.
  • /boot/kernel/fuse.ko is missing.
  • /etc/platform is broken on full installation.
  • Some DHCP setting of WebGUI does not work.
  • xmlrpc is broken.
  • Missing GPT partition in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Switching DHCP and static IP cause unexpected behavior.
  • Some drives can't get disk model/description.
  • The text on graph is not sized on Chrome.
  • Firmware page show incorrectly.
  • ntfs-3g is broken.
  • Form size is too small on Chrome.
  • HAST device is not imported by import disks.

New in NAS4Free 9.3.0.2.1190 (Dec 14, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade FreeBSD to 9.3 RELEASE p6.
  • Upgrade to Samba 4.1.13 and add SMB3 in WebGUI.
  • Convert to pkgng.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.6.
  • Improved WebGUI with Chrome.
  • Improved config restore verbose output.
  • Improved ZFS pool usage/tool and import ZFS disks.
  • Improved ZFS pool import on embedded.
  • Replaced /dev/md0 with xmd using LZ4 compression.
  • Replaced the server certificate with 2048bits key and sha256
  • signature.
  • Changed rootfs layout. (2GB USB/CF is required. Full is 4GB or more.)
  • Changed image files to use XZ.
  • Drop SSLv3 support. (HTTPS must use TLS)
  • Drop LiveCD mode support with less than 2GB memory. (install/upgrade
  • only)
  • Supported minimum spec except LiveCD is 512MB memory + 512MB swap device or partition.
  • 1024MB swap device or partition is recommended.
  • File based swap and ZFS volume swap is not recommended.
  • Add NFS support in HAST serivce
  • Add default swap of 1024MB for LiveUSB and before user configuration.
  • Adjust number of Status|Processes.
  • Add MBR partition to LiveUSB.
  • Add log/mirrored log support in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Add expires HTTP header. (some js must be force reloaded.)
  • Increase http upload size to 512MB.
  • Remove last slash of the path added by filechooser.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.12.
  • Upgrade bash 4.3 to patch 30.
  • Upgrade transmission to 2.84.
  • Upgrade isboot to 0.2.8.
  • Upgrade istgt to 20141125.
  • Upgrade smartmontools 6.3
  • Upgrade xmlstarlet to 1.6.1.
  • Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.24.43.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2014j.
  • Upgrade php to 5.6.3.
  • Change iperf2.x for iperf3.
  • Fixes:
  • xmlrpc broken.
  • Missing GPT partition in Disks|ZFS|Pools|Tools.
  • Switching DHCP and static IP cause unexpected behavior.
  • Some drives can't get disk model/description.
  • The text on graph is not sized on Chrome.
  • Firmware page show incorrectly.
  • ntfs-3g is broken.
  • Form size is too small on Chrome.
  • HAST device not imported by import disks.

New in NAS4Free 9.2.0.1.943 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.2 RELEASE p3.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.5.
  • Add 'twa' (3ware 9000/9500/9550/9650 series SATA RAID controller) and 'twe' (3ware 5000/6000/7000/8000 series PATA/SATA RAID adapter) support.
  • Add Broadcom BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 support.
  • Add areca SAS/SATA HBA ARC-1300/ARC-1320 series adapter driver.
  • Add loader.conf configuration option to gui.
  • Add zfs lz4 compression option to gui.
  • Add tmux (A terminal multiplexer).
  • Add tw_cli (Command Line Interface Storage Management Software for AMCC/3ware ATA RAID Controllers.
  • Remove zfs zfs_prefetch_disable=1 default variabele. (now it's an user option).
  • amdtemp include support for AMD A10-5700 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics.
  • Upgrade gzip to 1.6 with gzip-rsyncable patch added (see http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2005/02/03/rsyncable-gzip/ for further details).
  • Upgrade netatalk to 2.2.5.
  • Upgrade dmidecode to 2.12.
  • Upgrade samba to 3.6.22.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2013i.
  • Upgrade nut to 2.7.1.
  • Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.42.9.
  • Upgrade php to 5.5.8.
  • New feature:
  • Add additional check to device's controller to detect scenario when a device is moved/shuffled to different controllers
  • Highlight the entire row when device detected does not match with device in config.xml
  • Provide more detailed information at Status column to help troubleshooting
  • Remove zfs zfs_prefetch_disable=1 default variabele. (now it's an user option)
  • Backup and restore the loader.conf.local settings with livecd/usb upgrades and convert.
  • Backup and restore the loader.conf (/boot/loader.conf.local) settings on firmware upgrades.
  • Fixes:
  • mDNSResponder not starting.
  • WOL patch bge driver.
  • Fix parsing incorrect device model.
  • Fix bridge from the WebUi.

New in NAS4Free 9.2.0.1.925 (Jan 14, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Upgrade to FreeBSD 9.2 RELEASE p2.
  • Improved WebGUI under PHP 5.5.
  • Add 'twa' (3ware 9000/9500/9550/9650 series SATA RAID controller) and 'twe' (3ware 5000/6000/7000/8000 series PATA/SATA RAID adapter) support.
  • Add Broadcom BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 support.
  • Add areca SAS/SATA HBA ARC-1300/ARC-1320 series adapter driver.
  • Add loader.conf configuration option to gui.
  • Add zfs lz4 compression option to gui.
  • Add tmux (A terminal multiplexer).
  • Add tw_cli (Command Line Interface Storage Management Software for AMCC/3ware ATA RAID Controllers.
  • Remove zfs zfs_prefetch_disable=1 default variabele. (now it's an user option).
  • amdtemp include support for AMD A10-5700 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics.
  • Upgrade gzip to 1.6 with gzip-rsyncable patch added (see http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2005/02/03/rsyncable-gzip/ for further details).
  • Upgrade netatalk to 2.2.5.
  • Upgrade dmidecode to 2.12.
  • Upgrade mDNSResponder-541.
  • Upgrade php to 5.5.7.
  • Upgrade samba to 3.6.22.
  • Upgrade zoneinfo to 2013i.
  • Upgrade nut to 2.7.1.
  • New feature:
  • Add additional check to device's controller to detect scenario when a device is moved/shuffled to different controllers
  • Highlight the entire row when device detected does not match with device in config.xml
  • Provide more detailed information at Status column to help troubleshooting
  • Remove zfs zfs_prefetch_disable=1 default variabele. (now it's an user option)
  • Backup and restore the loader.conf.local settings with livecd/usb upgrades and convert.
  • Backup and restore the loader.conf (/boot/loader.conf.local) settings on firmware upgrades.
  • Fixes:
  • mDNSResponder config format.