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The FreeNAS project was started in October 2005 by Olivier Cochard-Labbé who based it on the ] embedded firewall and ]. Volker Theile joined the project in July 2006 and became the project lead in April 2008. In September 2009, the development team concluded that the project, then at release .7, was due for a complete rewrite in order to accommodate modern features such as a ] architecture. Volker Theile decided that the project best be reimplemented using Debian ] and shifted his development efforts to the interim CoreNAS project and eventually ] where he continues as the project lead. Cochard-Labbé responded to community objections to "The Debian version of FreeNAS" and resumed activity in the project and oversaw its transfer to FreeNAS user ].<ref>{{cite web |
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In October 2005, Olivier Cochard-Labbé started the FreeNas project. He based it on the ] embedded firewall and ]. Volker Theile joined the project in July 2006 and became the project lead in April 2008. In September 2009, the project, then at release .7, was to accommodate modern features such as a ] architecture.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Volker Theile decided that the project using Debian ] and shifted his development efforts to the interim CoreNAS project and eventually ] where he continues as the project lead. Cochard-Labbé responded to community objections to "The Debian version of FreeNAS" and resumed activity in the project and oversaw its transfer to FreeNAS user ].<ref>{{cite web |
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In October 2015, ten years after the original FreeNAS release, FreeNAS 10 ALPHA was released, providing a preview of what would become FreeNAS Corral ] on March 15, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |
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FreeNAS 10 ALPHA was released, providing a preview of what would become FreeNAS Corral ] on March 15, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |
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}}</ref> FreeNAS Corral departs from FreeNAS by providing not only ] functionality but also ] functionality thanks to its integrated ] support. However, on April 12, 2017 iXsystems announced that FreeNAS Corral would instead be relegated to being a 'Technology Preview', citing issues such as "general instability, lack of feature parity with 9.10 (Jails, iSCSI, etc), and some users experiencing lower performance than expected"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/important-announcement-regarding-freenas-corral.53502/|title=Important announcement regarding FreeNAS Corral|work=FreeNAS Community|access-date=2017-04-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and the departure of the project lead. Instead, the decision was made to revert to the existing 9.10 code and bring Corral features to 9.10.3 and further. |
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}}</ref> FreeNAS Corral departs from FreeNAS by providing not only ] functionality but also ] functionality thanks to its integrated ] support. However, on April 12, 2017 iXsystems announced that FreeNAS Corral would instead be relegated to being a 'Technology Preview', citing issues such as "general instability, lack of feature parity with 9.10 (Jails, iSCSI, etc), and some users experiencing lower performance than expected" and the departure of the project lead. Instead, the decision was made to revert to the existing 9.10 code and bring Corral features to 9.10.3 and further. |
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In March 2020, iXsystems announced that the 12.0 release will merge the FreeNAS code base with that of their commercial TrueNAS offering. FreeNAS will become TrueNAS CORE while TrueNAS will be renamed TrueNAS Enterprise.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-05|title=FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying|url=https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/|access-date=2020-07-16|website=iXsystems, Inc. - Enterprise Storage & Servers|language=en-US}}</ref> This change was made official with the release of TrueNAS 12.0 on October 20, 2020.<ref name="12.0">{{cite web |title=TrueNAS 12.0-RELEASE|url=https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/truenas-12-0-release/}}</ref> |
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In March 2020, iXsystems announced that the 12.0 release will merge the FreeNAS code base with that of their commercial TrueNAS offering. FreeNAS will become TrueNAS CORE while TrueNAS will be renamed TrueNAS Enterprise.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-05|title=FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying|url=https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/|access-date=2020-07-16|website=iXsystems, Inc. - Enterprise Storage & Servers|language=en-US}}</ref> This change was made official with the release of TrueNAS 12.0 on October 20, 2020. |
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In October 2020, iXsystems announced a new product, TrueNAS SCALE would be developed. TrueNAS SCALE would still utilize ZFS, but be based on Debian Linux.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-29 |
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In October 2020, iXsystems announced a new product, TrueNAS SCALE would be developed. TrueNAS SCALE would still utilize ZFS, but be based on Debian Linux.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-29 |
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The 8.0 reimplementation of FreeNAS moved the project from a m0n0BSD/]/]-based architecture to one based on ]'s NanoBSD embedded build system, the ] programming language, the ] web application framework and the ] (]).<ref></ref> It also used the ] web server, but this was replaced with ] in FreeNAS 8.2. The terminated successor to 9.10.2, known as FreeNAS Corral, retained the ] web server and ZFS-based boot device of FreeNAS but replaces the Django/dōjō web application framework with an original one alongside the team at Montage Studios. FreeNAS 11 implemented a new interface using ]. |
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The 8.0 reimplementation of FreeNAS moved the project from a m0n0BSD/]/]-based architecture to one based on ]'s NanoBSD embedded build system, the ] programming language, the ] web application framework and the ] (]).<ref></ref> It also used the ] web server, but this was replaced with ] in FreeNAS 8.2. The terminated successor to 9.10.2, known as FreeNAS Corral, retained the ] web server and ZFS-based boot device of FreeNAS but replaces the Django/dōjō web application framework with an original one. FreeNAS 11 implemented a new interface using ]. |
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In October 2005, Olivier Cochard-Labbé started the FreeNas project. He based it on the m0n0wall embedded firewall and FreeBSD 6.0. Volker Theile joined the project in July 2006 and became the project lead in April 2008. In September 2009, the project, then at release .7, was to accommodate modern features such as a plug-in architecture. Volker Theile decided that the project using Debian Linux and shifted his development efforts to the interim CoreNAS project and eventually OpenMediaVault where he continues as the project lead. Cochard-Labbé responded to community objections to "The Debian version of FreeNAS" and resumed activity in the project and oversaw its transfer to FreeNAS user iXsystems. Developers Daisuke Aoyama and Michael Zoon continued developing FreeNAS 7 as the NAS4Free project. Meanwhile, iXsystems rewrote FreeNAS with a new architecture based on FreeBSD 8.1, releasing FreeNAS 8 Beta in November 2010. The plug-in architecture arrived with FreeNAS 8.2 and FreeNAS versioning was synchronized with FreeBSD for clarity. FreeNAS 8.3 introduced full-disk encryption and FreeBSD 9.1-based FreeNAS 9.1 brought an updated plug-in architecture that is compatible with the TrueOS Warden jail management framework. FreeNAS 9.1 was also the first version of FreeNAS to use the community-supported OpenZFS v5000 with Feature Flags. FreeNAS 9.2, based on FreeBSD 9.2 included performance improvements and introduced a REST API for remote system administration. FreeNAS 9.3, based on FreeBSD 9.3 introduced a ZFS-based boot device, an initial Setup Wizard and a high-performance in-kernel iSCSI server. FreeNAS 9.10, based on FreeBSD 10.3-RC3 brought an end to the FreeNAS/FreeBSD synchronized naming and introduced Graphite monitoring support and experimental support for the bhyve hypervisor.
FreeNAS 10 ALPHA was released, providing a preview of what would become FreeNAS Corral GA on March 15, 2017. FreeNAS Corral introduced a new graphical user interface, command-line interface, underlying middleware, container management system and virtual machine management system. FreeNAS Corral departs from FreeNAS by providing not only NAS functionality but also hyper-converged functionality thanks to its integrated virtual machine support. However, on April 12, 2017 iXsystems announced that FreeNAS Corral would instead be relegated to being a 'Technology Preview', citing issues such as "general instability, lack of feature parity with 9.10 (Jails, iSCSI, etc), and some users experiencing lower performance than expected" and the departure of the project lead. Instead, the decision was made to revert to the existing 9.10 code and bring Corral features to 9.10.3 and further.
In March 2020, iXsystems announced that the 12.0 release will merge the FreeNAS code base with that of their commercial TrueNAS offering. FreeNAS will become TrueNAS CORE while TrueNAS will be renamed TrueNAS Enterprise. This change was made official with the release of TrueNAS 12.0 on October 20, 2020.
In October 2020, iXsystems announced a new product, TrueNAS SCALE would be developed. TrueNAS SCALE would still utilize ZFS, but be based on Debian Linux.
In February 2022, iX announced that TrueNAS SCALE has reached General Availability quality for their 22.02 release.
In May 2022, iX announced that TrueNAS CORE, their FreeBSD-based version of TrueNAS, has reached General Availability and is suitable for large deployments.
