 FreeNAS 11.2 U3 March 28th, 2018 became available. I went ahead and updated my system on, I think the day after it came out is when I had time to do it. And this is the system we're using. I've got VMs, not running on it, but it's VMs running using this as the storage device via NFS, the install went fine. None of those problems that were experienced with the previous update where there were some jails that didn't start. And I covered that in the last video. So no real issues. This went really, really smooth. Matter of fact, better than smooth. And I say that because if we look here at my FreeNAS box, I've got menus and I didn't have these before. These were kind of random. I never did figure this out. And this is a mystery to me and the mystery is gone. It's not a bug fix. It's just something that they did in the updates. Apparently fix this. So my system is running. It's healthy. I had no problems with the pool. I said no problems with the jail. But this seems, but you said on the list and we'll scroll down here. There is a ton of small, minor bug fixes. Like a lot of bug fixes. So this is a pretty cool that they just, it's an update that more about quashing bugs and it is about adding features. Because we know adding features sometimes introduces new issues. This was more about quashing those bugs. So let's jump around and look at some of the features that they added. Mention correction, ZVB path. Too far down I started here. Add support for NVMe device as a feature. And all these are move string, move string, move string. Sounds like they're streamlining how they put together the text file. We can click on these. I'm assuming it's just moving where some of it's stored. And I'm not gonna read through every single one of these but you can read some of the details. C ticket to solve issues with excess spaces, have column places for tooltips. Lots of minor changes but they're important ones. Because we want a GUI that is not full of extra dead space. That's technically how UI flows is really important. And they did clean up the UI and also the jails got a cool spiffing UI icon. So that was definitely, that's a novel that has done that. They also added a few things like an auto start and stop column to a slider for the virtual machine so you can just tell them to auto turn on. For me because I have a boot password I always leave all these to off anyways. So none of my jails or if I haven't done much testing with the VMs but I always by default leave them off so I don't have to go through and restart them because when you reboot my free NAS machines I have passwords on them to unlock the volumes as a security measure. So they're not only encrypted, they're encrypted plus password. I've talked about this before but this helps for security. I'm never worried if I have to take a drive out. I know all the data is encrypted and requires a password or somewhere where to try to physically take my free NAS machine they would not be able to boot it up either. Back to the features. So there's a lot of other ones. I don't think any of them really looked dramatic, display DCP prefix for DCP IO Caves in a jail. Nothing really major here. There is add support for nested ZFS data sets via shadow copy model and improve jail shell icons in new UI. But overall like I said I load this a couple of days ago. Let me see what the uptime is right now on here. Two days because I restarted again the other day making another adjustment. It restarts fine, the jail start fine, no issues like I said before. So I kind of insignificant in terms of release in terms of you didn't get a pile of new features but they did put more fit and polish on the system and the bug list is huge, just all the little things. Like I said it's not like there were major flaws in there but there were problems as I mentioned before. A little quirky things that you had to deal with that no they can be annoying even if there's work arounds for them. So it's still stable. Grant it's only been a couple of days so you may want to wait longer to see if I have any more issues and I will report them or tweet about them if I did. But overall FreeNAS with the new system despite some UI little things has been even since it was in beta very production ready stable in terms of the back end of it for running. So far this particular machine I have not ever bothered setting up ISCSI I've been just using it for NFS shares for the VMs and let me see how much data I have in my pool right now. So quite a bit available only about a terabyte used on this here so it's not an absolute ton of data in here but not insignificant is where I start all my videos. We have a handful of random things for our stress relief folder that we created and then all the VMs I've got 282 gigs of VMs running actively on here including one of them that runs Windows which we know is a lot of our demos that thrash this hard drive quite a bit when we're doing things in Windows with Zen server this is the back end storage for our Zen server the Zen server pool. But overall I'm welcome to see that these menus don't pause it seems a little bit snappier that could be just me maybe it's just because I rebooted it it does feel a little bit faster that's not subjective at all that's just me playing with it but all my menus are back on boot and that made me happy because this was a mystery that only this particular machine my other two demo machines that I have in my other lab area never have this problem only this particular machine was having a problem displaying these and I know it wasn't a common problem I didn't see many people doing it and because I didn't have an error I didn't have anything to go off of but it seems have gone away even after I rebooted it every time the menus on this page come back and work perfectly fine so good news is FreeNAS 11.2 U3 no issues no gotchas with the jail like we had last time so I'm happy and I'll get away at it hoping to get some more videos rocked out on doing jails and I want to do some playing with the virtual machines on it it's been on my to-do list I like the way they're really adding to this and doing some updates to the jail system that's on here I'm looking forward to seeing it because I think it has a great future and I love the fact that it's all got built in ZFS one system nice stack all in the BSD world which is a pretty rock solid system to build things on alright thanks thanks for watching if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content hit that subscribe button in the bell icon and maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post if you want to hire us for a project that you've seen or discussed in this video head over to launchsystems.com where we offer both business IT services and consulting services and are excited to help you with whatever project you want to throw at us also if you want to carry on the discussion further head over to forums.lorencsystems.com where we can keep the conversation going and if you want to help the channel out in other ways we offer affiliate links below which offer discounts for you and a small cut for us that does help fund this channel and once again thanks again for watching this video and see you next time