FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here

Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by metalliqaz on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:42PM (#14554451)

Well... that was fast. After the absolute disaster that was 10.0, I think they should have really reconnected with the community to restore their direction. Then, give themselves enough time to implement those changes.

The linked post makes it pretty clear that this is NOT a production ready release. 9.10 continues to be the workhorse. Did they just want to reach a new milestone for the optics?

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by psadauskas on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:43PM (#14556655)

I believe this is just what would have been 9.10.3 just rebranded. They wanted the major number to track the FreeBSD version number.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/this-week-in-fr...

Renaming to 11.0 - As many of you know, we’ve been hard at work on what was to become 9.10.3 in the next few weeks. As part of this update, we have also bumped the base OS version to FreeBSD stable/11. This is a significant enough update that we wanted to take this opportunity to return to a saner form of versioning that more closely follows the underlying OS version. Moving forward you’ll be seeing releases like 11.0, 11.0-U1 (Update #1), 11.1 and so forth, eventually moving to 12.0 once we rebase on FreeBSD 12 (still a couple years off).

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by metalliqaz on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:01PM (#14556961)

Thanks, this explains it perfectly.

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by walterbell on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:32PM (#14557743)

FreeNAS 9.x did not include virtualization. If this was just a 9.x.y release, why would it include major architectural changes like virtualization?

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by ac29 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:11AM (#14558256)

At least FreeNas 9.10 does, via iohyve/bhyve [0]. I installed a Ubuntu Server image using it the other day and it worked flawlessly.

[0] Docs are a little spartan, but google searches got me up and running a virtualized linux image in less than 15 minutes. https://doc.freenas.org/9.10/jails.html#using-iohyve

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by level on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:39PM (#14556641)

I thought the post seemed to indicate it was production ready, but then again, they said the same for Coral. The forum post for this announcement indicates that they have no planned 9.10 updates, so I would think that 11.0 is meant to be the next production ready update. The GUI is a beta release, but that seems to be the only non-complete portion, and I would hardly let that hold me back from upgrading.

That being said, I'm holding onto 9.10 for a few months, to see how this release turns out. Moving my jails to docker is a welcome change, but not something I want to jump on immediately.

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by johnbrodie on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:57AM (#14560980)

Docker isn't included in this release (thought supposedly will be coming in something like 11.1). The GUI is stable in 11, there's just an _option_ to use the redesigned, beta UI.

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Re:FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here by mybeardisgray on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:51PM (#14563264)

Much saner leadership at the helm of the team that released this one. The leadership/team behind FreeNAS Corral (aka FreeNAS 10) was let go after their abortion.

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