Netgear heeft een nieuwe versie uitgebracht van ReadyNAS Raidiator, de software die op diverse nas-apparaten van dat bedrijf draait. Het gaat om de ReadyNAS 1500, 2100, 3100, 3200, 4200, Ultra 2/Plus, Ultra 4/Plus, Ultra 6/Plus, Pro 2, Pro 4, Pro 6, Pro Business Edition, Pro Pioneer Edition, NVX en NVX Pioneer Edition. Bijwerken kan door in Frontview naar de System > Update > Remote tab te navigeren of de nieuwe image eerst zelf te downloaden. Deze release bevat onder andere ondersteuning voor VMware ESXi 5. Verder kan de e-mail die wordt verzonden nu bij problemen aangeven met welke disk het fout gaat en levert de cifs-service betere prestaties met bepaalde apparaten. Het volledige changelog ziet er als volgt uit:
New features and enhancementsBug fixes
- Updated iSCSI service to work with VMware ESXi 5.
- HTTP service configuration changes to be NESSUS scanner compliant.
- Added alert subject to SNMP trap messages to help identify disk#.
- Updated NTP service for more accurate clock syncs.
- Allow passwords with ‘$$’ in them.
- Enhanced CIFS service to provide better performance to some devices.
- Updated ReadyDLNA to latest version (1.0.24).
Limitations
- Fixed issue where volume maintenance was performed weekly regardless of interval setting.
- Updated AFP service to resolve misc bugs.
- iSCSI work-around for Novell NetWare 6.5 clients that don’t follow spec.
- Fix Route tab on Ultra systems not functioning.
- Fix iSCSI UI issue on non-English clients.
- Fix issue where layer2+3 teaming settings could be lost.
- Fix possible system hang during upgrade from pre-4.2.16 releases to latest.
- Once you upgrade to this release, you cannot downgrade back to 4.2.15 or prior releases.
- IE 6 no longer supported. Please update to IE 7 or 8.
- Volume expansion will not work beyond 16 TB. To support 16 TB or greater, you’ll have to factory default with that capacity in place.
- Snapshot resizing is disabled in the release. We will re-enable this feature in a future update.