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Folks,
Wanted to give a brief update on some of the new functionality / features that's starting to appear in the 9.10 nightlies.
First of all, we've bumped the version of FreeBSD from 10.3 -> 11-STABLE. This brings with it a host of updated drivers, new features, bhyve enhancements and more. Please test and let us know if anything appears to regress from this switch-over.
Next, you may notice a new "VM" button on the toolbar. We've imported a bhyve front-end from another git project, which allows you to start / run VM's directly from the UI now. This is still under active work by Marcelo at iX, so please test and report issues to the bug tracker.
Another project in the pipeline is the migration to Python3 for FreeNAS. This is currently in a feature branch, but will hopefully be making an appearance in the nightlies in the near future.
Lastly, we've started the process of bringing in the new 'iocage' backend for Jail and Plugin management. This will probably only be available in API form for 9.10.3, but for 9.10.4 we hope to have the full UI switched over, and migration from the legacy 'warden' based jails complete. In particular we are trying to greatly improve and simplify the process of creating new plugins for FreeNAS, which will allow you to create and publish your own relatively easily (No python / django knowledge required). At the moment this is still under heavy development, but for those interested in which repos to follow, here's some good links to get started:
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/
https://github.com/iXsystems/iocage-plugin-plexmediaserver
https://github.com/iXsystems/iocage-ix-plugins
Some additional documentation will begin appearing at those URLs in the coming days, and for the adventurous you'll be able to experiment with iocage jails / plugins at the CLI (which is how we do most of our internal development/testing)
Wanted to give a brief update on some of the new functionality / features that's starting to appear in the 9.10 nightlies.
First of all, we've bumped the version of FreeBSD from 10.3 -> 11-STABLE. This brings with it a host of updated drivers, new features, bhyve enhancements and more. Please test and let us know if anything appears to regress from this switch-over.
Next, you may notice a new "VM" button on the toolbar. We've imported a bhyve front-end from another git project, which allows you to start / run VM's directly from the UI now. This is still under active work by Marcelo at iX, so please test and report issues to the bug tracker.
Another project in the pipeline is the migration to Python3 for FreeNAS. This is currently in a feature branch, but will hopefully be making an appearance in the nightlies in the near future.
Lastly, we've started the process of bringing in the new 'iocage' backend for Jail and Plugin management. This will probably only be available in API form for 9.10.3, but for 9.10.4 we hope to have the full UI switched over, and migration from the legacy 'warden' based jails complete. In particular we are trying to greatly improve and simplify the process of creating new plugins for FreeNAS, which will allow you to create and publish your own relatively easily (No python / django knowledge required). At the moment this is still under heavy development, but for those interested in which repos to follow, here's some good links to get started:
https://github.com/iocage/iocage/
https://github.com/iXsystems/iocage-plugin-plexmediaserver
https://github.com/iXsystems/iocage-ix-plugins
Some additional documentation will begin appearing at those URLs in the coming days, and for the adventurous you'll be able to experiment with iocage jails / plugins at the CLI (which is how we do most of our internal development/testing)