 So free Ness 11 dot 1 dot u4 is now available for download and some of you are probably going but Tom didn't 11 and 3 Just 11 dot u3 just come out a little while ago. Yeah, but yeah, there was since there was a bug So some people are icing, you know, they're gonna crack the jokes for I'm gonna wait to the u5 version or whatever Not really that big of a deal the well I mean the deal is big but I'm gonna talk about why mitigation and bug reports and all this and we're gonna kind of Sum this up here. So 11 u4 came out to do squash a very particular bug And the bug was people who lost the ability to User shares, which is probably a primary reason a lot of people have these so the shares Specific related to samba shares were broken now This is kind of there's a forum in this and it sounds like when I look through the bug here that it was just kind of a Pointing in the wrong direction and had the wrong permission. So the when they were doing a diff between them Which is this enough wonderful thing about open source is the community can immediately kind of jump into action and say Hey, what's the difference between these two updates and what's different and it looks like private dirt equals root samba private Versus it should have been I believe it's the Etsy directory then private So if you care about the details, they're all in here and how they quash the bug and of course it's open source You can look at the source code But what I think is important is that when they acted quickly they do not go into denial mode They're not some of the other companies that we've dealt with and because they're open source The community can help participate and say hey, let's just do a quick look here and find what the differences are and go Oh, this is how we can fix that bug. So it's all done and very if you're into coding at all plain sight and able for you to see it and see the Code changes that need to be made for that and this is just a good sign of a company When I see updates like this to fix things, but let's talk about what happens when things don't get fixed. So This is my demo free nas server and for those you don't know I was looking in my production and accidentally click yes So I've actually been running the you for for a little while and I'm happy to report everything works wonderfully in it It hasn't had any issues other than the fact that I turned I did it not like I don't know new niche on a Friday Which was a bad thing Back to the system itself here though So if you go into free nas and you go here and we're gonna go look at the you know updates are available right now There's not one in here because I just loaded it But if you look at the boot so go system them boot you can see here's you three here's you for now What if you four didn't work or in a lot of people's cases you three didn't work? Well, they were on you to and you to work perfectly fine This is the model by which the free nas system was built on now If you have a true nas server, I've covered this in there It actually updates the motherboards independent of each other so you can do staggered updates and Have even more redundancy But just if you're running your home built free nas box and you got it saved on you know One little card or however you want to do it if you're doing like a little USB boot This is a really you keep a couple revisions. This is why even though I'm only using it's a 32 gig one in this setup and it's only using 1.6 They're not that big of updates so you can you keep a couple iterations of them on here If you want to roll back to the other ones you just go here and go activate and it says activate boot environment 11.1 s history sure Hit okay And when I reboot we're gonna be back at this version It's really that simple so as much as I know people like to worry about the updates Maybe causing or having a bug that wasn't previously there Switching back and forth between them not really a big deal It doesn't reboot automatically so you can choose this and then choose to reboot I had mentioned before at the last one You don't want too many here because you got to have enough room to load the next update But you at least want to keep one or two versions and obviously if you're loading one You're not automatically deleting the old version. So right there this would if I reboot now I'm gonna be back on 11 one day shoot three, but I'm actually gonna leave it at this one here hit okay and It puts me back on 11 when you for and reboot So it's not hard to roll back and this is part of the design of free NASA Doesn't just load an update that you go. Oh my gosh. I can't do anything about it I just have to do it these bugs as hard to roll it back or you have to reload the OS You don't have to you can just go through here and roll back the update if you need to because there's something in it Doesn't work for you And this was the solution you can read through the forums and here through the bug report people said roll back to you To problems there once they rebooted life was good. So It has a method of mitigating if there is a new bug. You're just unaware of and if not you can Just go and stay with the new version and wait for those bugs to be quashed out Here is a login to my production machine So this is our production machine. It's been running since 1253 when I hit the thing by accident and updated it So the uptime roughly about a day right now I haven't had any issues with the you for all of our shares are working all the things in our jails Haven't had any problems and we do have and this has been asked of me We have a couple things deprecated like clone deploy in our jails. It's set up and it works But there is it's no longer a supported plugin because the whole project's abandoned But it has passed and kept working through different versions of free NASA and no issues there all of our other Things work like ice-guzzy and all that so I haven't any problems with it so far granted It's only 24 hours, but we do use the full gamut of services on here We use all the snapshotting and everything else and there's been no errors at all We haven't had any I checked through the logs no bugs Nothing to report in terms of that all the services seem to be working fine and I'm using encrypted volumes like I said, I'm using the full gamut of systems on this and no real issues so That being said go ahead and get you for which is kind of a minor update to you three to fix that Samba bug and Have at it so and if it goes wrong for you You should always back up everything first and also after you load the update It seems to be working go here to system go to general and back up save the config again Because you're now have the latest version of the config file So always back up ahead of time always have your data backed up But you do have a method to go back So if you if something goes wrong and we actually jumped a version so if we go to here system boot We had the u4 is here We actually had a well we thought we were chasing our tails as well There's a couple different copies of u1 in here, but we jumped from u1 to u4 and It seemed to have no problems at all. We we had a weird problem that was completely caused by me I don't have much of a debrief on it because we don't know exactly how I did it But my friend helped me sort out But our system's working fine on the current u4 version and we didn't have any problems and we're running it in production So hopefully it was enlightening on The services are updating to that and how you can mitigate the problem if you find a bug in u4 Which I haven't found any so far But if something does come up you can just roll back to that version you had just before the latest update It's pretty easy not a big deal now This will cause some problems or heading for you if you go from a complete release version That could be different. That's a little bit bigger of an update if You don't want to run that in production. That's that's up to you That's something you should put more thought into before you switch But hopefully it's a little bit of lightning and show you how the system Works and you can get some updates done without too much risk in it And if you like to count in here like and subscribe if you got questions leave them below if you need help With the free NAS system reach out to us. This is Systems we service actually we do a lot of experimenting and that's how I end up with some of the weird situations that I Create myself, but for normal usage when you're not pushing the envelope of it We have no problem setting these things up. They work wonderful and we haven't deployed a lot of our clients. Thanks