Hey all,

In the last 48 hours FreeNAS™ was downloaded ~43,000 times. That is like 890 downloads an hour, every hour. With stats like that it is no wonder how we've gotten so much feedback from the community!

According to "the cloud" the community needs UPnP, iTunes, DAAP, RSYNC, and Bit Torrent support before they can use FreeNAS™ 8. This is on our Roadmap for 8.1...

An Overview on FreeNAS™ 8

The release of FreeNAS™ 8 includes major architectural optimizations, a django-driven user interface, and ZFS - lending us some useful features like thin provisioning, periodic snapshots, LDAP and Active Directory authorization along with the most popular platform sharing protocols.

FreeNAS™ 8 retains enterprise-class services while eliminating some "Home User" functionality such as iTunes/DAAP, Bit Torrent, and UPnP. These features will make it back as third-party plugins at a later date.

You may have noticed changes to FreeNAS.org :)