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For those of you who like to be on the cutting edge of technology, FreeNAS has released their latest beta version 0.681b.

There are a few changes that have occurred from the last stable version including:

- Allow the following characters in CIFS workgroup name: ! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) _ - ; : ‘ ” , .
- Modified build scripts
- Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.13
- Upgrade PHP to 5.2.0
- Upgrade Samba to 3.0.23d
- Upgrade RSYNC to 2.6.9
- Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08
- add FreeBSD tools: chgrp
- Lot’s of internal code change about moint point management
- Software RAID: Add geom concat (JBOD) and geom stripe (RAID 0), add confirmation box before formatting RAID, permit to create RAID1+0 (1 gstripe volume created using 2 gmirror volume)
- CIFS: Configure samba for using syslog (circular log file), log message are messed with other system log, but FreeNAS will be more stable.
- WebGUI: add a check to password input (forbid character ‘:’)
- WebGUI: add warning when using FAT32 or NTFS filesystem under FreeNAS
- WebGUI: Prevent to create 2 mountpoint with the same disk/partition couple
- Fixed the SFTP bug
- Added uShare UPnP A/V Media Server service

Other notable changes include:

This release is a ’software RAID oriented testing release’.
It’s permit to play with the geom class:
- mirror (RAID 1)
- stripe (RAID 0)
- concat (JBOD)
- raid5 (RAID 5)
- advanced RAID: RAID 1+0 (create a RAID 0 volume using two RAID 1 volumes), 1+1, 0+1, 5+1, etc…

New services:
- uPnP server (using http://ushare.geexbox.org)

I am the most excited about the fix to the SFTP bug and the uShare uPnP service. This opens up even more options to the FreeNAS community! Guess what I’m going to be working on over Christmas (along with a million other things)!

If you are new to FreeNAS or want to get started with it, you may want to read through some of the FreeNAS articles on DCoT!

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