News

No new updates does not mean development has been stopped. Since the release of OMV various issues came up which have to be improved in the next time. One of the important ones are:

• Improve user homes implementation.
• Modify/simplify shared folder permission handling.
• Split WebGUI and RPC processing into different parts. A daemon process will handle the RPC request and communicates via socket with the WebGUI.
• Use an embedded XML database instead of a plain XML file for configuration. Currently Sedna or Oracle DBXML are my favorites. Why using a XML database and not SQLite or something else? Because OMV is already using a XML file for its configuration and the complete backend is using XPath/XQuery when generating the configuration files. Using a XML database will not need to change the backend, too. Why using an embedded database? Because the current plain file does not support transaction handling (most important problem right at the moment) and all the features a database has. When starting OMV long time ago i did not think about that this will become a problem (due FreeNAS has no probs with a plain file for years), but things change.

openmediavault 0.2.5.6

• Make sure a rsync cron job is not executed while it is still running.
• Mantis 0000272: Allow handleResponse in OMVDownloadRpcServer to accept a content type
• Mantis 0000287: After upgrade to 0.2.5.5, system graph are not refreshed anymore

openmediavault-transmissionbt 0.2.7.3

• To much to list all those new features here. Thanks to Marcel Beck to contribute this.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI.

Note, if you update from openmediavault < 0.2.5.5 please deinstall the netatalk and forkeddaapd plugins via WebGUI before upgrading core package to the latest version to prevent installation errors.

openmediavault 0.2.5.5

• Improve monitoring feature.
• Mantis 0000044: Request confirmation to delete shared folder content.
• Mantis 0000269: hdparm – change config from “/dev/xxx” to “/dev/disk/by-id”. The same applies to smartd.conf.
• Mantis 0000272: Allow handleResponse in OMVDownloadRpcServer to accept a content-type
• Mantis 0000275: RPC call to System::noop sometimes throws exception
• Mantis 0000276: Configure monit load average based on detected CPU’s
• Mantis 0000281: When editing NFS share which was set with read-write, the menu drops back to read-only
• Mantis 0000283: Min UID/GID

openmediavault-forkeddaapd 0.2.1

• Improve monitoring feature.

openmediavault-netatalk 0.2.3

• Improve monitoring feature.

Please deinstall the netatalk and forkeddaapd plugins via WebGUI before upgrading core package to 0.2.5.5 to prevent installation errors.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI.

The following changes has been done:

• Add ability to enable/disable Cron/RSync jobs.
• Disable purging man pages in Dpkg Post-Invoke by default. This can be enabled via environment variable OMV_DPKG_POSTINVOKE_PURGE_MAN.
• Mantis 0000263: Configuration backup file naming scheme
• Mantis 0000266: Unable to login after changing admin password
• Mantis 0000267: Set system overview as default start page

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI. Please reload the WebGUI to let the changes installed by the update take effect.

The following changes has been done:

• Add ability to add hot spares to a RAID device via WebGUI.
• Modify regular expression to validate usernames.
• Change Avahi (Zeroconf) listening port for SMB service from 139 to 445.
• Improve implementation of log file handling. Output the last 100000 lines. Limitation can be modified via OMV_MAX_LOGFILE_LINES environment variable.
• Mantis 0000005: PHP crashes when sorting bigger syslog files
• Mantis 0000084: Unable to replace faulted drive in RAID5 array via GUI
• Mantis 0000249: FTP MasqueradeAddress does not accept FQDN
• Mantis 0000260: Using simple quote on comment give error
• Mantis 0000261: Display physical memory usage based on unbuffered/uncached used/free values.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI. Please reload the WebGUI to let the changes installed by the update take effect.