† Changes in the 8.3 branch versus 8.0.x
- Notable features in FreeNAS® 8.3.0 include:
- supports AFP, CIFS, FTP, NFS, SSH (including SFTP), and TFTP as file sharing mechanisms
- supports exporting file or device extents via iSCSI
- supports Active Directory or LDAP for user authentication
- supports UFS2 based volumes, including gmirror, gstripe, and graid3
- supports ZFS, enabling many features not available in UFS2 such as quotas, snapshots,
- compression, replication, and datasets for sharing subsets of volumes
- upgrade procedure saves the current operating system to an inactive partition, allowing for an easy reversal of an undesirable upgrade
- system notifications are automatically mailed to the root user account
- Django-driven graphical user interface available through a web browser
- secure replication, automatic ZFS snapshots, scheduling of ZFS scrubs, and cron management are all configurable through the graphical interface
- support for menu localization and keyboard layouts
- multiple IPs can be specified per iSCSI portal
- ssh daemon logs to /var/log/auth.log
- SMART monitoring and UPS management in GUI
- USB 3.0 support
- support for Windows ACLs and UNIX file system permissions
- periodic ZFS snapshots are visible in Windows as shadow copies
- includes tmux, a BSD-licensed utility similar to GNU screen
- includes dmidecode which can provide very useful hardware diagnostic information
