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FreeNAS 11.1-RELEASE
We are pleased to announce the general availability of FreeNAS 11.1. This release delivers many performance improvements, new and updated drivers, new features and enhancements, and bug fixes. FreeNAS 11.1 can be used and distributed free of charge, and updates are freely available.
Operating System
FreeNAS 11.1 is based on the FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE operating system, which includes numerous performance improvements, new and updated drivers, new features, and bug fixes.
OpenZFS
OpenZFS has seen many improvements. Users will notice a significant speedup when listing a large number of snapshots or deleting multiple snapshots and large files.
The scrub and resilver algorithm implement substantial speed improvements which will be most noticeable on fragmented pools.
Resilver Priority has been added to Storage. Resilvering, which rebuilds the storage array, can now be run at a higher priority at configurable times and days of the week.
Hardware Support
The hardware watchdog has been reenabled for recent firmware versions of AsrockRack C2750D4I. The BMC bug which required the watchdog to be disabled is resolved with the 00.35.00 or newer BMC firmware version.
IPMI
The Identify Light button has been added to identify a system in a rack by flashing its Unit ID light.
Cloud Support
Cloud Credentials has been added to System, providing a secure connection with cloud service providers. Supported services include Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Backblaze B2, and Google Cloud Storage.
Cloud Sync has been added to Tasks, giving the capability of synchronizing files or directories with remote cloud storage.
Virtual Machines
VMs have received significant improvements, including:
- selecting which NIC is used by the VM, and setting the MAC address for the VM NIC.
- specifying the sector size used by the emulated disk.
- selecting the VNC screen resolution, the IP address to bind to, the VNC password, and the option to use the Web version of VNC.
- the option to create a Docker instance based on RancherOS.
Services
- The Netdata real-time performance and monitoring system has been added.
- The SNMP MIB has many improvements, including the ability to send SNMP traps for new alerts.
Time Machine
Support for per-backup OS X Time Machine quotas has been added.
Alerts
The Send Test Alert button has been added to Alert Services, making testing of notification services simpler.
The complete list of features is available at http://doc.freenas.org/11/intro.html#new-features-in-release.
Changelogs
BETA1:
| 7493 | Feature | Use inadyn as DDNS backend to support more providers |
| 11534 | Bug | Register enterprise number for FREENAS-MIB |
| 13630 | Bug | Prevent large file delete from starving out write operations |
| 16455 | Bug | Add lsiget tool |
| 17907 | Feature | Add ability to sign CSRs using internal FreeNAS CA |
| 18428 | Feature | Speed up snapshots listing |
| 18615 | Bug | Skip old login failures in daily security run output |
| 19406 | Bug | Remove Snapshot Replication column |
| 19572 | Feature | Allow readonly attribute for datasets to be set/unset from the GUI |
| 19740 | Bug | Update Advanced Console UI description |
| 20230 | Bug | Clarify scrub schedule fields in Guide |
| 20908 | Feature | Add several new providers for Dynamic DNS |
| 21091 | Feature | Script to migrate from warden to iocage jails |
| 21872 | Feature | Apply default permissions to SMB share ACLs |
| 22859 | Bug | Speed up the installation of base-os |
| 23177 | Feature | Add System – General fields to Middlewared |
| 23355 | Feature | Add Netdata service |
| 23361 | Feature | Add unauthorized reboot e-mail alert |
| 23439 | Bug | ZFS VFS objects are optional |
| 23441 | Feature | Add Support for Backblaze B2 |
| 23455 | Feature | Detach device from mirrored boot pool |
| 23481 | Feature | Allow users to access VM guest’s VNC via web shell |
| 23493 | Bug | Fix VM stop |
| 23523 | Feature | Support for mirrored swap partitions |
| 23552 | Bug | Re-enable hardware watchdog for newer firmware versions of AsrockRack C2750D4I |
| 23615 | Bug | Disallow attribute changes for builtin users |
| 23651 | Bug | Add ability to set the VM NIC Mac Address |
| 23652 | Bug | Add ability to use RAW disk with guest VMs |
| 23684 | Bug | Disable Nginx server tokens |
| 23691 | Feature | Add warning in MOTD |
| 23780 | Bug | Allow Wizard to add another user after a user is deleted |
| 23795 | Feature | Add ability to restart a VM |
| 23848 | Bug | Unify zvol create/update code and update API docs |
| 23850 | Bug | Add compression and dedup to zvol API |
| 23857 | Bug | Filter out collectd log spam |
| 23871 | Bug | Don’t create additional dataset at replication destination |
| 23872 | Bug | Allow rsync task with / as remote host |
| 23881 | Bug | Unify API code to create/update zvol |
| 23883 | Bug | Document API for boot environment calls |
| 23894 | Feature | Add ability to choose the VM VNC screen resolution |
| 23916 | Feature | Allow multiple Subject Alternate Names in CAs and Certs |
| 23922 | Feature | Allow WebDAV to function with no authentication |
| 23927 | Bug | Add ability to select the NIC used by a VM |
| 23928 | Feature | Add ability to send test alert to Alert Services |
| 23934 | Bug | Fix traceback when trying to PUT nonexistent object |
| 23943 | Bug | Prevent infinite folder replication within home directory |
| 23977 | Bug | RealVNC Viewer can’t connect to VM VNC with auto quality enabled |
| 23978 | Feature | Enable VLAN priority code point (vlanpcp) for CoS classification |
| 23979 | Feature | Add VNC authentication support to VMs |
| 23989 | Bug | Clarify what replicator does when there is no overlapping snapshot on the sending/receiving system |
| 24013 | Feature | Add “clone promote” functionality to Storage tab |
| 24014 | Bug | Do not auto-hide error messages on top of the GUI |
| 24040 | Bug | Add comments to zvol dict |
| 24042 | Bug | Fix update jail API |
| 24049 | Bug | Only snapshot imported volumes |
| 24051 | Bug | Add SNMP log level and default to LOG_ERR |
| 24071 | Bug | Add VM device to API |
| 24077 | Bug | Remove 120 character limit from SSH Service “Extra Options” field |
| 24099 | Bug | Filter out useless messages |
| 24139 | Bug | Increase timeout to delete boot environment |
| 24172 | Feature | Add Identify Light button to IPMI |
| 24202 | Bug | Document VM serial console access |
| 24211 | Feature | Add compressed ARC stats to top(1) |
| 24212 | Bug | Allow import of encrypted CA key |
| 24217 | Bug | Fix SMART tests for wizard-generated configurations |
| 24221 | Bug | Fix Stop VM button |
| 24222 | Bug | Add NIC default to new VM |
| 24237 | Bug | Allow S.M.A.R.T. tests for boot devices |
| 24278 | Bug | Add API call to update iSCSI portal with unchanged ip:port |
| 24337 | Feature | Add disk description to title of disk reporting graphs |
| 24402 | Bug | Improvements to SNMP MIB |
| 24491 | Bug | Fix traceback when disabling AD directory service |
| 24521 | Bug | Fix traceback when creating jail using iocage |
| 24528 | Bug | Fix iocage fetch traceback |
| 24543 | Bug | Disable daily system uptime report |
| 24571 | Feature | Add multiple NIC selection to VM networking |
| 24573 | Bug | Change middlewared to use asyncio |
| 24574 | Bug | Move BE validation to middleware |
| 24586 | Bug | Make NFS service bind ip use list instead of string |
| 24594 | Bug | Add SSL/TLS Support to S3 |
| 24597 | Feature | Add mmv |
| 24598 | Feature | Randomize default VM NIC Mac Address to avoid conflicts |
| 24599 | Bug | Ensure minimum memory for VM guest |
| 24604 | Feature | Add support for HBA 9400-8i (P2 driver) |
| 24731 | Bug | Replace smartd rc script with smartd-daemon that forks immediately |
| 24782 | Bug | Fix sort error on Replication Column heading |
| 24795 | Bug | Allow zvol comments to work with ‘ character |
| 24816 | Bug | Specify “-o large” when mounting MSDOS filesystems |
| 24819 | Feature | Add devcpu-data to allow CPU microcode update for Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors |
| 24820 | Bug | Update ixl(4) driver |
| 24845 | Feature | Provide a shell websocket to use with xterm.js |
| 24885 | Bug | Update system packages |
| 24926 | Bug | Do not require Options when adding a new Link Aggregation Member |
| 24930 | Bug | Unify dataset create/update code in API |
| 24947 | Bug | Remove LANMAN information from Guide |
| 24949 | Bug | Don’t traceback when unable to send email |
| 24956 | Bug | Reduce migration time when upgrading within 11 series |
| 24964 | Feature | Improve freenas-debug -n (Dump Network Configuration) |
| 24969 | Feature | Add descriptive headers to freenas-debug |
| 24988 | Bug | Add API calls to submit tickets |
| 25037 | Bug | Fix AWS-SNS Alert Service |
| 25038 | Bug | Re-evaluate NICChoices every time |
| 25053 | Bug | Reduce RAM fragmentation |
| 25057 | Bug | Fix traceback when deleting boot environment |
| 25090 | Bug | Fix bhyve core dump |
| 25101 | Bug | Replace SMB min/max protocol fields with sysctls |
| 25113 | Bug | Fix Users sorting error |
| 25140 | Bug | Display multipath disks in View Disks |
| 25151 | Bug | Fix cron job “Run now” button |
| 25158 | Bug | Sync System tab with timezone change |
| 25170 | Feature | Add Resilver Priority to Storage tab |
| 25182 | Feature | Add Offline button for faulted devices |
| 25183 | Bug | Fix Samba PID location |
| 25237 | Bug | Fix ichwd(4) shutdown crash |
| 25239 | Bug | Fix reset of webdav password |
| 25252 | Bug | Add ability to dismiss alert to API |
| 25269 | Feature | Add No Communication Warning Time field to UPS service |
| 25272 | Bug | Update OpenVPN to 2.3.14 |
| 25278 | Bug | Add IPMI to middleware |
| 25283 | Feature | Update API docs for dataset edit |
| 25287 | Bug | Autocreate iocage bridges |
| 25290 | Bug | Create RAM disk for RRD files so they don’t fill up tmp partition |
| 25292 | Feature | Improve dataset resource in API |
| 25303 | Bug | Add ability to edit a Certificate |
| 25316 | Bug | Update Iperf to 3-3.2 |
| 25318 | Bug | Update iocage to 0.9.9 |
| 25323 | Feature | API function to retrieve resilvering progress |
| 25328 | Feature | Add beadm list to freenas-debug |
| 25354 | Bug | Stop VM before deleting it |
| 25356 | Feature | Add mbuffer |
| 25381 | Feature | Add bsdusr_attributes to API |
| 25384 | Feature | Add sector size option for VM block devices |
| 25392 | Feature | Add CP1252 to DOS charset choices |
| 25397 | Feature | Add filtering for filesystem.listdir |
| 25403 | Bug | Restore zvol size warning |
| 25405 | Bug | Support hardware with many interrupt vectors, such as Dell R730 |
| 25429 | Bug | Fix wizard traceback when creating Windows share |
| 25439 | Bug | Increase timeout for shell websocket |
| 25479 | Bug | Fix traceback when creating snapshot with existing name |
| 25501 | Feature | Display available uhid devices in UPS service |
| 25518 | Bug | Prevent creation of duplicate vlan |
| 25521 | Feature | Generate SHA256 checksum for manual update file |
| 25522 | Feature | Add checkbox to enable time machine to home share |
| 25529 | Feature | Add ability to clone VMs |
| 25530 | Bug | Add scrub pause & resume |
| 25531 | Bug | Add scrub sorting feature |
| 25560 | Bug | Allow nfs onestart to work with NFSv4 |
| 25565 | Feature | Add users logic to middlewared |
| 25619 | Bug | Validate LUN ID for associated targets |
| 25621 | Feature | Add feature to force encryption with Amazon S3 Cloud Sync |
| 25645 | Bug | Fix sshd config generation |
| 25657 | Bug | Fix permissions on logs |
| 25685 | Feature | Add enable/disabled option for Init/Shutdown Scripts |
| 25697 | Feature | Uncheck “Wait to boot” VM option by default |
| 25700 | Bug | Add IPv6 support for VNC in VMs |
| 25704 | Bug | Add hot spare description to Guide |
| 25709 | Bug | Update mps driver |
| 25737 | Bug | Clarify replace disk instructions in Guide |
| 25754 | Bug | Fix jail web shell hang |
| 25764 | Bug | Move system dataset business logic to middlewared |
| 25808 | Feature | Add back s3cmd |
| 25821 | Feature | Remove unused idmap backends |
| 25830 | Bug | Update Dojo Toolkit to 1.12.2 |
| 25848 | Feature | Add Cloud Sync, Google Cloud Storage, and Backblaze B2 support |
| 25856 | Bug | Correct HTTP proxy username/password format in Guide |
| 25894 | Bug | Enable IPMI support in collectd |
| 25918 | Feature | Convert FTP service GUI to Middlewared |
| 25919 | Feature | Convert AFP service GUI to Middlewared |
| 25936 | Feature | Add checkbox to toggle Access Based Enumeration on SMB shares |
| 25959 | Bug | Clarify collectd.conf documentation in Guide |
| 25978 | Feature | Indicate that the new GUI is still in beta |
| 25982 | Bug | Allow catia VFS object to be enabled independently from fruit and streams_xattr |
| 25987 | Bug | Add support for Ryzen processors |
| 25990 | Feature | Add ability to query Certificate ID using API |
| 26004 | Feature | Convert System:Email to Middlewared |
| 26011 | Feature | Remove character limitation in Auxiliary Parameters field of FTP service |
| 26012 | Bug | Fix Rsync service tooltip |
| 26020 | Feature | Convert Services:SNMP to Middlewared |
| 26021 | Feature | Convert Services:SMART to Middlewared |
| 26026 | Bug | Fix traceback on certificate import |
| 26030 | Bug | Preserve RRD graphs after hostname change |
| 26043 | Bug | Fix nginx alias bug in new GUI |
| 26049 | Bug | Clarify description for LDAP certificate in Guide |
| 26067 | Bug | Use Object ID for group in API |
| 26080 | Feature | Convert System:Boot Env to Middlewared |
| 26097 | Bug | Preserve new lines in MOTD |
| 26101 | Feature | REST v2.0 OpenAPI Specification |
| 26179 | Feature | Convert Services:DynDNS to Middlewared |
| 26201 | Feature | Support double confirmation on some dialogs |
| 26218 | Bug | Rewrite poor dedup warning |
| 26239 | Bug | Indicate that the Netdata service needs to be started before it can be configured |
| 26241 | Bug | Retire 9.3 train |
| 26242 | Bug | Improve text in VM field names and tooltips |
| 26244 | Bug | Fix traceback when signing a CSR |
| 26270 | Bug | Restart cron after timezone change |
| 26271 | Feature | Use middlewared to get public key and scan remote ssh key |
| 26292 | Feature | Add support for Intel X553 to ixgb(4) |
RC1:
| 24127 | Feature | Update AD and LDAP endpoints in API |
| 25394 | Bug | Remove_ea_value() calls and its 64K limitation |
| 25543 | Bug | Proper error messages for VMware exceptions |
| 25889 | Bug | Allow reporting CPU usage as a percentage |
| 26278 | Feature | Add ability to get console messages to API |
| 26295 | Bug | More improvements to SNMP MIB |
| 26313 | Bug | Merge in additional upstream scrub commits |
| 26329 | Bug | Fix 11.1 Prerelease registering as a downgrade |
| 26343 | Bug | Update iocage section of Guide |
| 26344 | Bug | Preserve leading space in MOTD banner field |
| 26352 | Feature | Update Netdata to 1.8.0 |
| 26357 | Bug | Report PCI UARTs to recognize serial cards |
| 26358 | Feature | Convert Tasks:InitShutdown to Middlewared |
| 26372 | Bug | Handle failed password attempts when logging into new UI |
| 26373 | Feature | Middleware events for scrub/resilver progress |
| 26387 | Bug | Fix SMART service not sending emails |
| 26408 | Bug | Change minimum required memory to 8GB in installer |
RC3:
| 17875 | Bug | Specify a quota per time machine backup |
| 17923 | Feature | Add dataset quota email notifications |
| 21336 | Bug | Add ability to attach smaller disk to a larger one |
| 23357 | Bug | Add ability to create Docker container in VM using RancherOS |
| 23544 | Feature | Allow up to 6 additional domains in DNS search directive |
| 24972 | Feature | Add transfer mode for cloud sync tasks |
| 25034 | Bug | Fix Intel i350 WOL bug |
| 25527 | Bug | Allow $ character in IPMI password |
| 25734 | Bug | Expose zvol state through SNMP |
| 25886 | Bug | Ensure NFS shares networks do not overlap |
| 26047 | Bug | Use certificate chain if certificate contains multiple parts |
| 26165 | Bug | Send email when scrub finishes |
| 26178 | Feature | Convert Services:TFTP to Middlewared |
| 26316 | Bug | Include VirtualBox in note about promiscuous mode in Guide |
| 26330 | Feature | Add API to get Kerberos principal |
| 26340 | Feature | Add location to change lagg MTU to tooltip |
| 26365 | Bug | Ensure uniqueness by combining guest VM name with its ID number |
| 26386 | Bug | Be consistent when restarting NFS |
| 26393 | Bug | Properly detect disks and display in View Disks |
| 26403 | Bug | Don’t send email on authorized system reboot |
| 26416 | Bug | Do not traceback if volume is locked |
| 26441 | Bug | Add back scrub/resilver tunables |
| 26470 | Bug | Allow interfaces to be selected from netcli |
| 26471 | Feature | Add support for CloudSync Azure backups |
| 26492 | Feature | Add zfs-stats command |
| 26498 | Bug | Fix PULL tasks for BackBlaze and Google Cloud storage |
| 26505 | Bug | Fix FTP traceback |
| 26555 | Bug | Fix traceback when creating a volume after destroying the old volume |
| 26557 | Bug | Only create new virtual interface if it does not exist |
| 26563 | Bug | Provide message when configuring a dataset fails |
| 26593 | Bug | Fix snmp-agent.py shebang |
| 26615 | Bug | Remove 0.0.0.0 from VNC option |
| 26650 | Bug | Correctly report ZFS dataset quota overflows |
| 26661 | Bug | Fix traceback in CPU temperature graph |
| 26663 | Bug | Fix disk attach/detach of boot pool |
| 26687 | Bug | Improve performance for speculative prefetch in ZFS for misaligned reads |
| 26774 | Bug | Fix middlewared segfault due to libzfs not being thread safe |
| 26775 | Bug | Samba fixes for CVE-2017-14746 and CVE-2017-15275 |
| 26785 | Bug | Use websockets to prevent Support debug upload from timing out |
| 26797 | Bug | Fix error when replacing a failed disk |
| 26803 | Feature | Add netmap kernel module |
| 26834 | Bug | Do not destroy GELI metadata on failed encrypted import |
| 26878 | Bug | Add zfs.pool.query method to create Docker VM |
| 26913 | Bug | Fixes to address OpenSSL CVE 17:11 |
| 26923 | Bug | Fix volume creation traceback |
| 26925 | Bug | Fix error in volume import |
| 26936 | Bug | Fix deadlock on middlewared startup |
| 26938 | Bug | Remove runtime depend on GCC from grub2-efi |
| 26973 | Bug | Fix error message when unlocking an encrypted volume |
Release:
| 12684 | Bug | Do not create an actual /nonexistent directory |
| 21336 | Bug | Add ability to attach smaller disk to a larger one |
| 23197 | Bug | Try to validate certificate before importing it |
| 24000 | Bug | Improve FHA locality control for NFS read/write requests |
| 24942 | Bug | Register mDNS on all interfaces |
| 25037 | Bug | Fix AWS-SNS Alert Service |
| 25236 | Feature | Add Docker section to Guide |
| 25966 | Bug | Update module that reports ARC Hit Ratio |
| 26470 | Bug | Allow interfaces to be selected from netcli |
| 26509 | Bug | Autostart at boot iocage jails that have property boot=on |
| 26531 | Bug | Make sure mDNS starts |
| 26663 | Bug | Fix disk attach/detach of boot pool |
| 26800 | Bug | Fork netatalk |
| 26990 | Bug | Fix regression that prevented VNC connection |
| 26993 | Bug | Allow special characters in grub-bhyve password |
| 27001 | Bug | Fix mDNS traceback |
| 27018 | Bug | Don’t create iocage datasets if no jails exist |
| 27088 | Bug | Fix iocage logging |
| 27097 | Bug | Avoid exception when number of maximum swap mirrors is reached |
| 27098 | Bug | Fix destroying system datasets on migrate |
| 27099 | Bug | Fix traceback on cloud credentials |
| 27124 | Bug | Fixes to address OpenSSL SA 17:12 |
| 27128 | Bug | Do not destroy volume if wizard import fails |
