FreeNAS Project Releases Another Beta

CD Details Apparently, I’m not the only one who is working hard these days. FreeNAS has released yet another beta version (FreeNAS-0.683b). This is the second beta in less than a week!

From the website:

Notes:
Major bug fix:

Fix the ‘disk is mounted’ bug when formatting disk.

Upgrade smartmontools, permit to mount CD/DVD drive and minor bug fix and improvement.

Changes:

Upgrade Smartmontools from 5.36 to 5.37

Add the HPN-SSH client (for preparing rsync and unison over ssh)

Permit to mount CDROM drive

fixed the display of ‘DMA’ in the place of the size when controller found non-ATA66 cable

WebGUI: Add all RAID information on the Diagnostic information page, More easy fsck page to use, Improve graid5 tools page

New language: Romana (thanks to Laurentiu Florin Bubuianu)

Permit to configure the hosts file

Fix the disk check mounted bug when formatting a disk.

Add gettext support on PHP (prepare migrating languague file to .po)

I think the one big addition to this beta is the ability to mount CDs and DVDs. Up until now, I have always removed the DVD drive when I was finished to the base installation as I wanted to use the IDE connection for a hard drive. But, it might be useful to have a USB drive around so that you can quickly plug it into the FreeNAS box and then share a DVD to the network.