 FreeNAS 11.2 U6 is out and we've been loading systems with it and they're happy and running fine So this is our main server right here that actually I edit and push all these videos to it's been updated to the latest version I updated it. Well first thing this morning really early and just now getting around to doing a video here this afternoon But there's been a not a lot of changes But a few one of the first ones that caught my eye was this whole iconic hybrid cloud medium management That's now native built into FreeNAS and this is a tool that I actually it wasn't aware of until they really sit in a FreeNAS But it looks pretty cool. This is a paid service nothing for you But it's a big discover collaborate Iconica is a safe place for all your creative work You can store and share files collaborate on projects and create your most iconic work ever Like I said, I haven't done a lot to even I don't know what the pricing is yet I'm just I don't think they have it listed. They have all their plans But not all the details related to them, but still looks pretty cool I do a lot of media management with here if like I said FreeNAS is where I store all my videos So this is a clear up-and-coming promising thing One of the other things I caught my eye was Tavis Ormandy from Google's project zero found a mummer memory corruption double free vulnerability in a certificate verification API that was updated and This is a little bit interesting because I didn't know Tavis was poking at the free BSD authentication System the GNU TLS that was updated to three point six eight and because this is a BSD GNU TLS and FreeNAS is built on BSD. So it's not specifically aimed at FreeNAS But obviously it is a service that it relies on So very cool That they updated this and fixed it ISO school is also Tavis I've done a few videos and mentioned him is wonderful researcher quite brilliant over at the Google project zero Now they also added a clarification replacing this to grow a pool And here's the page on this so replacing this to grow a pool The recommended method for expanding the size of his EFS pool is to pre-play the number of Discs in a vdev and stripe the additional vdes from pools from additional capacities needed But adding vdes is not an option if there's not enough unused Disports and with the short of this I won't read all of it and I'll leave a link the quote of course When you're looking at FreeNAS and people ask well Can I just add more drives kind of willy-nilly and it'll just magically do it And the ZFS is an incredibly powerful file system incredibly resilient file system is why I like it But that also means there are certain Limitations that come with all that redundancy that they built in and one of them is when you build a pool It's that size when you build that many vdevs in it. It's that size So it's you have to assemble it differently or there is an edge case that I've not done a video on before but this But this clarification is about let's say I have four two terabyte drives And I want to replace those with four eight terabyte drives Well, I can replace them but replacing one of them doesn't give me that extra storage you have to replace all of them So you go through replace a disc wait till it re-silvers replace a disc wait till re-silvers repeat this for each Drive in that particular pool Once you've done that once the final drive has been replaced it will grow to that larger size You'll have more storage. So there is a way you can do that. So if you are planning a replacement It's a slow and more arduous way to replace it because you have to wait for each drive to rebuild But that is a way to grow the pool and they have some clarifications on exactly how that process works when you're doing it So there's some risk involved obviously that's why they still recommend backing it all up And to me if you're gonna recommend backing it all up, which I do anyways But obviously if it's off-site backups versus if you can back it up locally that much more awesome You back it all up locally replace the drives copy it all back to the other drives And it's actually gonna be probably a faster process to do but of course You know your experience may be different than mine or your hardware availability and what you have to work with Maybe different than what I have to work with so I understand but this clarification is in here now a couple edge cases As an edge case if you install another instance of an already installed plug-in that in in that installation fails the cleanup from the Failure will also delete the data set for the first installation Now I don't really have many use cases I can come up with where I want to install the same plug-in multiple times But if you have that use case and you have to be careful if you're doing that and there's a failure because it could delete the Other plug-in you can obviously help mitigate this by using snapshots or as they say Do the plug-in from the command line and that's the way to solve it as well So that's in there the mega cloud service currently broken So that's not gonna be fixed until version 11.3 kind of related Is the Amazon cloud drive now? This is not the same as Amazon S3 bucket storage, but the Amazon cloud drive and there's an entire Crazy forum post that's really really long going on about was it 360 posts here of Amazon and why they got rid of it. It's a long-running problem apparently And like I said, this is the cloud drive by Amazon. They've decided to deprecate or remove our clone support for cloud drive You still can do this with their S3 bucket so you can still connect it to Amazon I just want to make sure as a clarification that but other than that. I don't see any reason not to load it There's lots of minor a rata details Like I said, I'll leave a link to this so you can read through everything for some of the Clarifications fixed grammatical errors and all those little details that matter quite a bit, but I thought it was so pretty cool Because they also fix oh one last thing is they did fix some weird notices and I don't think I've seen this But there were problems with the way net data would send alerts and apparently they fine-tuned that a little bit better So if you were getting a bunch of random net data alerts, they did some fine-tuning to kind of solve that problem But that's it. I'll leave a link so you can download this but I don't see any reason why not to upgrade it So so far so good. Everything's working. I will comment I didn't have any other like the jails that I do have which right now on this free nest server. There's only a single jail I just run actively on there Sync thing which worked fine the UI feels really responsive and all the things are working in terms of like the menus the temperatures the drive temps are showing no issues there when we were Looking at the drive statuses, but I still don't use and maybe in a future I will do some testing with the beehive virtual machine summer I still have any virtual machines in here But there's nothing in ira that says or you should have any problems if you have virtual machines Alright and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel Hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out our contact page and Let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums that Lawrence systems calm Or we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time