FreeNAS 11.0-RC now Available

[Kris Moore]

FreeNAS Community,

I’m pleased to provide a quick update on the status of FreeNAS 11.0. The RC1 update was released this morning, and can be installed via ISO or updated to by switching to the FreeNAS-11-STABLE train in the System -> Update tab. We decided to start this series off with a Release Candidate (RC) version, because it is rebased on a newer version of FreeBSD (11-STABLE). This version has been tested in the nightlies for several months now, but just to play it safe we are asking for users to test out this release and let us know immediately if anything regresses. Or, if you want to let us know that it improves specific things, that’s cool as well.

Now, for the stats. Your loyal, dedicated, and attractive FreeNAS development team has been hard at work on this release. As of this morning, 11.0-RC includes 111 bug fixes and 23 new features. In addition the user-guide has been updated for 11 as well. As usual, if you find bugs please report them ASAP, since we can only fix things that we know about.

This release also includes the first “official” look at the experimental new Angular-based UI. You’ll be given an option to try this out on the Login screen. I just wanted to give you a couple of quick tidbits about this new UI:

• It is NOT feature complete, as we have only been working on this for a few short weeks. While you can use it to do some things, keep this in mind as you “test-drive” it around. The feature complete version is targeted for later this year, most likely the 11.1 or 11.2 time-frame.
  
  
• It follows (mostly) the same workflow as the legacy UI. This is intentional for now. In order to get us rapidly ported to the new Angular framework, we’ve decided to try and keep most of the workflow similar for the time being and focus purely on getting the functionality brought in. Once we have reached the point where all major features are usable in this UI, we will have a chance to do some navel-gazing and re-think workflows of specific sections one at a time. That being said, you are welcome to send in tickets about the new UI and we will be happy to discuss and get to them all in due course.
  
  
• The current theme will be changing down the road. We are planning to offer multiple themes, allowing you to pick between dark/light or perhaps even user-submitted themes.

Lastly, I wanted to mention support for virtualization. 11.0 now has a VM page, allowing you to spin up your own operating systems on FreeNAS. We are actively working on this functionality, so please give it a whirl and report issues to the tracker.

Thanks everybody! We look forward to making the 11.X series better than ever!

 

[maydo]

hi,

Code:

You're not allowed to change away from the nightly train, it is considered a downgrade.
If you have an existing boot environment that uses that train, boot into it in order to upgrade that train.

how can i switch to the stable train from the nightlies ?
i have migrated from corral to fn11 nightlies
(11-MASTER-201704290408)

there cant be an existing boot environment using this train, the train is just generated by today :)

 

[m0nkey_]

I still want my Comic Sans.

 

[Kris Moore]

hi,

Code:

You're not allowed to change away from the nightly train, it is considered a downgrade.
If you have an existing boot environment that uses that train, boot into it in order to upgrade that train.

how can i switch to the stable train from the nightlies ?
i have migrated from corral to fn11 nightlies
(11-MASTER-201704290408)

there cant be an existing boot environment using this train, the train is just generated by today :)

You can force it from the CLI:

# freenas-update -v -T FreeNAS-11-STABLE update

 

[anodos]

I still want my Comic Sans.

I want a pony theme.

 

[berbox]

or updated to by switching to the FreeNAS-11-STABLE train in the System -> Update tab.

Is there a simple way to update the 'update trains' from GUI or console?
Thanks

 

[Jailer]

Is there a simple way to update the 'update trains' from GUI or console?
Thanks

There's a drop down menu on the update page where you can select what train you want to be on.

 

[maydo]

You can force it from the CLI:

# freenas-update -v -T FreeNAS-11-STABLE update

thx :)

 

[berbox]

Hm... yes, oh a misunderstanding.
It's not showing 11-Stable only 11-Night. It's not about the update but about the update of the update trains.

 

[dingma]

What is the relationship between this 11 RC and the 9.10.3?

 

[Jailer]

What is the relationship between this 11 RC and the 9.10.3?

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/this-week-in-freenas-4-21-2017.53798/

 

[John Doe]

Nice, I'll give it a try.
Is there an option to resume interrupted replications? Was actually announced for Corral.

 

[JoshDW19]

I want a pony theme.

Always nice to see people who appreciate hard work... ;)

 

[anodos]

Always nice to see people who appreciate hard work... ;)

Hey, there's always room for improvement. I can put in a feature request. ;)

 

[par]

Plugin/Jails support? Docker support?

 

[Jailer]

Plugins and jails are there. It's been reported previously that Docker is planned for a later release some time late summer or fall of this year.

 

[Apollo]

Nice, I'll give it a try.
Is there an option to resume interrupted replications? Was actually announced for Corral.

It was present under Corral. Resuming was a bit dodgy as it had to involve Tokens. I couldn't make it work in that time frame though.
I would think the open-ZFS (or is that Illumos?) release that comes with FreeNAS 11 has the same ZFS features as Corral back then.

 

[c32767a]

Always nice to see people who appreciate hard work... ;)

I won't be happy until it can read email.. :)

 

[SaskiFX]

So what's the way to go with plugins/jails/docker? I have a FreeNAS system still on 9.10.3, and I recently got some new hardware I'm planning on moving over to. Knowing more now than I did when I set things up, I'm planning on re-doing some of my services. But I'm not sure which way to go. Plain jails, docker stuff, etc. Is the plan still for jails to be eventually depreciated, or...? :)

 

[Jailer]

Jails are being updated to use iocage and from what the devs have posted it seems they plan on keeping them and the plugins are bing updated as well. Docker is coming in a later update. VM's are currently in the nightlies and the RC via bhyve and a GUI manager.

Of course what direction you choose to take with your system management is entirely up to you.