Back in January, iXsystems had a major release in the form of FreeNAS 11.3. This is not to be confused with last month’s major announcement of FreeNAS and TrueNas gaining name parity along with other shared features.This week saw the release of iXsystems FreeNAS 11.3-U2 that mainly focuses on bug fixes and other housekeeping issues.
Back in January, iXsystems had a major release in the form of FreeNAS 11.3. This is not to be confused with last month’s major announcement of FreeNAS and TrueNas gaining name parity along with other shared features.This week saw the release of iXsystems FreeNAS 11.3-U2 that mainly focuses on bug fixes and other housekeeping issues.
The 11.3 update laid the earlier groundwork for the parity announced later, including TrueNAS gaining several of the features that were already running in FreeNAS, fully vetted and ready to go to the enterprise. These features include the modernized web UI as well as the ability to use and manage jails, plugins, and VMs. The new features are available in TrueNAS X-Series and M-Series platforms that scale from 10TB to over 10PB with hybrid or all-flash models. There was also several updates to TrueCommand, the company’s unified management system that monitors and controls TrueNAS and FreeNAS systems from a single-pane-of-glass.
The U2 release combines 150 bug fixes, updates, and improvements. Some highlights of this version include:
- An update to Samba, version 4.10.13 (NAS-105349)
- Bug fix when importing a pool (NAS-105297)
- Fix for a middleware memory leak (NAS-104437)
- Mitigation for specific LSI 9X00 cards (NAS-105568)
Availability
iXsystems FreeNAS 11.3-U2 is available now.
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