 So FreeNAS has reached 11.2 RC1 or release candidate one and boy they have quashed a 173 bugs and added 12 features. So lots of bugs here are pretty cool. Lots of lists, everything from typos to boot environment list dates, there's a lot of little stuff, but these are all those details that you expect by time it comes into release candidate. So it's looking really nice. Some of them were you didn't know what it was doing when it would be the best way to describe it. So it would not have proper UI updates to know like a progress bar and stuff like that. So they fixed all kinds of little stuff and really brought this along. A couple of feature updates, added EMMC flash storage, revise updates page, added ID storage pages, added ability to specify jail root. Really cool. Updated IO plugins. This is the big one we're going to talk about here. Add infinite scroll to entity table, move string from task type section to into help text files. Add clone ACL CLIT. That's kind of neat. So you're going to clone the ACLs from the command line. When you're doing some larger scale stuff, command line sometimes becomes easier than GUI to do stuff like that. So nice they added that. Add ability show mounts while jail is running. That was a bug I think I talked about before is it just wouldn't show them and you had to stop the jail. And now you don't. So that's really cool. So interface wise, it looks much the same, but more polished put on it. So I've said this before, I really like it. Some people as much as I am used to the old one, I've seen a lot of people say, I still like the old interface. I'm like, I kind of like this better. I mean, it's pretty neat. I like the fact that I can just click on hard drives. I can see status of things. It tells me it's healthy. I can jump right into reports. I don't know why this isn't hyperlinked, but at least the reports are right to the storage pools. But easy enough, they're on the side here. Go to pools and away you go. Now something cool and maybe I missed this in the last one, but one, they've added a nice consistency to the UI. I've seen this in different sections where you can control and customize the tabs that show up here for each one. But this is what's kind of neat. I don't know when this got added, but you can do individual for self-encrypting hard drives if they have that support. You can put the individual self-encrypting drive passwords for each drive in here. And I thought that's kind of neat. So it can add an extra layer. So instead of just relying on the OS encryption, you can also encrypt the drives and then use the OS encryption too. So now you've really, really got things encrypted. So you can't have too heavy of a tin full of hat. You can double encrypt everything if you want. So that's kind of nice. Most of the other stuff, it's very much the same, but more polished added to it so far as what I've seen. Now let's jump over to the plugins because that's weird. There are some changes. People have asked me, well, what about own cloud? What about next cloud? How are those working? They're gone. There is no next cloud. Nope. Own cloud. That's missing too. Not here. So I'm guessing with IO cage and the updates to that, they just changed a few things, including removing them because I was told by people that it were broken. I had not tried them with the previous version. They were in here, but didn't work properly. I was told. But apparently they are still not working properly because now they're removed. So I'm assuming this list and the updates to the plugins is a list of these are the plugins that currently work. So those are the ones that are available in here. I didn't try each one of the plugins. I did try Plex. Plex seems to be working perfectly fine. No issues there. The reports are looking a little bit nicer. So once again, it's all these little polishing updates because it's in release candidate now. So I'm assuming other than finding more little bugs here and there that for the most part, this is interface release stable enough to say this is what it's going to look like. This is probably how the final product is going to go. And I really like how it works. I like the way you can just jump into the shell here. It seems very snappy compared to the last time. So I think some of the under the hood stuff they did just made this work a lot better. And overall, it's we're still just sitting on my test bench, but we're actually looking at probably building a second free NAS for the office. And when we build out this free NAS, we're probably going to load even though it's release candidates, we're just building a backup free NAS to replicate everything for us. We're probably going to run this on it. And so far, I really haven't had any problems with it. Never done anything super extensive, mostly just dumping data and playing with the cloud backup. And I didn't try it since I took the new one yet, but I'm sure it still works. That was kind of cool that it does the encrypted cloud backup. That's a feature I'm really excited about. And I've said that before with the other reviews, but hey, that's really cool. Having it pre encrypt all the cloud backups so you can easily take your free NAS. And without having to buy some third party software, you know, connect to somewhere like back plays who has really reasonably priced on their bucket storage, tied to a black place account and sync all your free NAS off site to that. That's really nice. That's a nice feature on there. I did try something else because someone had mentioned that the authorized assets was broken in ice fuzzy. If you wanted to have encrypted ice fuzzy initiators, that seems to be perfectly fine. Now that was in the bug list of things they fixed. So now you can add a password to your ice fuzzy without a problem. You can put it in here. I think a group ID was zero and it doesn't fail anymore with the password. It was a weird problem what it was doing. So I couldn't put that in here. So now it works and I can click save and it will do it. Actually, I got to put a password long enough. Those of you don't know and that may be I'm going to be doing some new videos soon. But for ice fuzzy, your password must be between 12 and 16 characters, not 11 and not 17 ice because he has some very specific requirements for that. I'm going to do a separate video once this comes out or maybe not. This isn't release candidate. I'm going to start doing some new free NAS videos because I assume this is how it's going to look in the end. And maybe if I find some bugs, I will be reporting them as well. But so far, everything seems to work perfectly fine. I didn't try this, but I know in the bug list was some features for when you have to replace encrypted drives. Once again, I'll be doing some new videos coming up soon on all the processes. There are same videos I did with the previous version of free NAS, but I'll be doing them because of the new UI. And I think they've made things a little bit more intuitive with this. So they're going to be a little bit easier to do. But that's it. Go ahead and download it if you're interested. Obviously, be careful, back it up because this is still release candidate. It's still in a beta phase, but we're out of the regular beta into that release candidate. So this is just the fine tuning. So pretty soon, it's on a roadmap. They're going to have the release candidate, and we'll go here. And so far, what I've seen with this, I don't think I have any problems switching over my production system to this once it comes into full release because nothing about it has struck me as anything I don't like. I do like as well for those who don't know. So as much as I like the reporting, it still has in far as I know this is all staying in, of course. And the system overview with net data is still built in. So they're keeping that up to date, which is awesome, because as much as I like the reporting that they have added and they made it look really nice, it's still not net data. Net data is just really extensive, which is why they integrated in here. But overall, definitely happy with it. And I'm a big freelance fan, as you know. So look for updated videos coming soon of all the new features in here as I make tutorials and how to set up sharing in here and everything else. And I probably will do a new getting started video based on this version. I may wait till release candidate two. So I know it's as stable as possible or wait till it fully comes out. Alright, thanks. Leave questions, comments below. you're interested in notifications. Hopefully they send them as we've learned with you two. 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