
Current releases:
current napp-it free: v.18.12 (free for commercial and noncommercial use)
v.19.12 home edition is free for noncommercial home use without Pro extensions
current napp-it Pro: 21.01 (Pro/Support Edition)
newest napp-it dev: 21.dev (bloody)
Included Pro features are activated by a Pro key on any version. Versions 20.x require always a Pro key.
A free license allows only updates to the next free edition. Updates (bugfix or new features ex 19.x) between require a pro license.
Napp-it Pro users (with a regular Pro key required, no evalkey)
please update to newest Pro with support for bugfixes.
Some features are only available in a Pro software release, does not matter the key.
Machine id licenses
From v.18 napp-it Pro uses machine id keys that are host independent.
On a barebone setup the id is based on the first physical nic (machine id ends with m90) to allow a re-install.
To swap a license online, goto http://napp-it.org/extensions/swap en.html
On problems:
Check if there is a newer Pro version (newer day).
Reload this edition then
or try the newest dev edition, the development line with newest features. This edition may be unstable
About napp-it release numbers
The release numbers of napp-it based on year and month followed by a..z for smaller bugfixes
minor updates of Illumos/ OmniOS every few weeks and a major update every few months
The release number consist of year.month with a
free release, updated from time to time. Only napp-it Pro can update to newest bugfix releases.
pro or support release, all professional users are suggested to use the most recent release with newest fixes
developer or nightly release, ongoing development, unstable
Users with a valid key (no evalkey):
You can update/downgrade between last 5 releases without a reboot
Please update to newest Pro edition in Menu About >> Update
Changelog
napp-it 21.dev
04 Mar 2021
Replication:: increase timeout on job monitoring to avoid unwanted job interruptions on slow systems, less RAM
or with many snaps or filesystems, improved behaviour with replications started at once from same source
14 Jan 2021
Replication: modified keep and hold processing
napp-it 20.01b5
Improved behaviour when starting many replications
Replication: bug in keep months on year change fixed
Replication: max of years,months,days,,numbers in keep
Replication: hours > current day
Replication: check hold number (ex10s) or days (ex 20)
napp-it 20.dev
31 Dec
Push encoding
Replication: keep n month/year respected
Replication: complex send/receive options ex: -o a=1
Replication: SMB reshare Solaris
16 Dec
Error in release detection of OmniOS 151036f (Tty.c error)
08 Oct
S3 user/group manmagement
18 Aug
Report Alert, avoid double disk entries in message
12 Aug
Support for OmniOS 151035+ and Solaris 11.6 with Perl 5.26
Smart report working when installed via pkg
07 Aug
Smartmontools raw error 197 number not shown in menu Disks > Smart
Fix a problem with more than 3 minio sessions or multiple replications not started via at now but queued
Jobs overview allows selection of jobs idle_manual and idle_active
18. Jun
Solaris 11.4 with subscription and Perl 5.26 is supported
napp-it 20.06a Pro
20.06a4
Error in release detection of OmniOS 151036f (Tty.c error)
20.06a3
Support for OmniOS 151035+ and Solaris 11.6 with Perl 5.26
Smart report working when installed via pkg
15. Jun
automount enc filesystems on reboot: do not reshare with name=off
27. May
autosnap: Delzero rechecks used prior any delete to avoid delete of snaps that have changes size during job processing
23. May
Buld get (improve performance of menu ZFS filesystems, thanks Chris)
13. May
Create encrypted filesystem with local keysource: fix problem with doubled menu field
06. May
Pool > Benchmark: Encryption as a testparameter
Smartmontools: Prefer smartmontools from /opt folder (ex installed from OmniOS extra repository)
Support for miniDLNA streaming server (OmniOS)
02. May
fix: Could not select encryption on Filesystem > Create
20. Apr
work on SMB sharing of nested encrypted filesystems on OmniOS
24b. Mar
Timemachine support via SMB (Illumos, see Services > Bonjour)
minio options: clear settings, save keys to a dedicated folder (set in about > settings)
24. Mar
fix; minio: Allows more than 4 sessions, allow nice
fix a problem with random messages about a locked /tmp/err.log
fix a bug with replicate and keep=days
18. Mar
fix; minIO sharing shows the share disable menu on first creatuon of an S3 share
17. Mar
minIO (Amazon S3 sharing) as a filesystem property
19. Feb (thanks Chris)
bugfix with autojobs and every-2|3
increased timeout for push
17. Feb
minor bugfix in unlock
napp-it 20.01a3/4 Pro
fix: Could not select encryption on Filesystem > Create
fix; SMB sharing of nested encrypted filesystems
napp-it 20.01a2 Pro
fix a bug with replicate and keep=days
napp-it 20.01a1 Pro (first release)
OmniOS/ OpenIndiana:
File/webbased ZFS encryption with a keyserver + HA option, keysplitting, automount on boot, lock/unlock via SMB
support for special vdevs (attention: special vdevs need same ashift than pool vdevs!!)
force ashift during creation of a vdev
SSD trim
protection against accidentially adding a basic vdev to a pool
Smart predictions for possible future problems, more..
napp-it 19.12 noncommercial homeuse
basic features of napp-it Pro
not allowed for commercial use or outside homeuse
19.12 b14
Error in release detection of OmniOS 151036f (Tty.c error)
19.12b13
napp-it supports a manually compiled smatmontools or installed via pkg repo
19.12b12
Support for OmniOS 151035+ and Solaris 11.6 with Perl 5.26
Smart report working when installed via pkg
6.mar 2019
compile Smartmontools 7.0 (smartmontools 6.6 remains available with installer nappit-smart6.6)
11/12. Dec
Disks > Smart: Summarize important SMART values for a ok vs problem status
Menu Pools, Disks and Map: Show Smart status overview
20. Nov
remote replication: increased timeout to avoid a false asumed failed replication
resulting in a wrongly destroy of newest replication snap on the source system
11. Nov
Filesystem lock/unlock: service refresh optional
05 Nov
problem with Pro key deactivated fixed
Linux (ProxMox) as replication target
18. Oct
Create pool from/ add basic vdev (regular or special) requires extra confirmation
Set default ashift for pool create or extend to 12 (4k disks)
Allow/try vdev remove (shrink pool) only when all vdevs in a pool have same ashift
see https://www.illumos.org/issues/11840
12.Okt
fix a problem with Cluster failover in a dual control setup,
special and dedup vdevs, trim as a pool property (manual trim via other job)
fix a problem with old keys after an update
Special vdevs: set special small blocksize per ZFS
Add Pools: add single/basic disk
14.Aug
fix a problem with random wrongly detected pro keys
08. Aug
backup job/ user restore problem
01. Aug
restore user settings / manual failover in a cluster fails when pool/zraid-1 is not mounted
27. Jul
autosnap: respects delzero setting in all combinations of keep and hold but preserve newest used=o snap
fix a problem with autojobs and replication on napp-it Pro after an update
17 Jul
replication: an optional pre and post shellscript ./jobs/id.pre and id.post is processed prior and after a replication
replication: additional send and receive options ex '-w' to raw send a locked encrypted filesystem
remove expired keys
support of ZFS encryption in OmniOS bloody
27.Jun
initial support for ZFS encryption based on key prompt (newest OI after a pkg update)
in menu "ZFS Filesystems"
26.Jun
local replication: ignore upper/lowercase hostname
scrub job: do not log an error when a pool is not mounted
napp-it 19.06 Pro
19.06h
Fix a bug with Pool > add
19.06f/g
fix a problem with random wrongly detected pro keys
19.06e
backup job/ user restore problem
19.06d
fix a problem with autojobs and replication on napp-it Pro after an update
19.06c
auto-remove expired keys
option to downgrade to napp-it free or renew
13. Jun
Support for OmniOS bloody 151031
new menu Disks > NVMe (Illumos only)
Disk listing: show NVMe disks with Product name and blkdev
Avoid removed state on some configs
Solaris: Show abe and guest property in ZFS filesystems,
debug mode for scrub job disabled (pool not mounted)
Select multiple jobs to modify state or properties
Pool import of PoE files working
Appliance Group accelerator
31.may
DE menu set shows korrect umlauts
28.may 2016
Cluster supports HA iSCSI failover (beside NFS and SMB)
Cluster agent: sync/restore user and Comstar to/from HA pool zraid-1
Comstar save/ restore all settings without reboot (Cluster aware)
Cluster control functionality can be activated on a backup server
Appliance group add: allows to add a Cluster (allows replication from a HA ip)
Solaris 11.4: beadm destroy -s problem fixed
napp-it switched to utf-8 char sets in Browser
napp-it 19.01 Pro
19.01d
auto-remove expired keys
21.mar. 2019
supports OmniOS >=151029, Fix Solaris problem with menu snaps
06.mar.2019
Jobs > Backup. check if pool for backup is mounted (cluster save)
User > Restore: deselect key for restore
Solaris 11.4: Job > Replicate works with current BE as source
Solaris 11.4: Skip rpool/VARSHARE in ZFS overview
06.feb.2019
Solaris 11.4: Comstar > Target > Edit
Comstar: Chap authentication ex for Windows. Menu Comstar > Targets allows to enter initiators for chap authentication
Solaris 11.4: list snapshots gives an error about not supported property clone
21.jan.2019
Linux: Build appliance groups and start replications on Linux
Disk Location: support newer HBAs
Disk Map: Edit maps manually
Solaris: select or disable sas3ircu
napp-it 19.01 (pro)
19.01d Encrypted pools on files supports current OmniOS
19.01c1 supports OmniOS >=151029, Fix Solaris problem with menu snaps
19.01c menu Comstar > Target > Initiator
19.01b menu ZFS filesystems shows properties after a modify immediatly
19.01a avoid an auto-mount of HA pools zraid-n
napp-it 18.12 free
18.12 w7 Error in detection of OmniOS 151036f (Tty.c error)
18.12 w6 support for OmniOS 151035+ and Solaris with Perl 5.26
18.12w3 fix a problem with random wrongly detected pro keys
18.12w2 get smartvalues in menu Disk > Smartinfo > get smartvalues
and show result for one hour as a table in menu Disk > Smartinfo
18.12w fix a problem with autojobs and replication
18.12v auto-remove expired Pro keys
18.12u fixes a bug in the IB SRP menu
18.12t Support for OmniOS 151031+
18.12s Encrypted pools on files supports current OmniOS
18.12r supports OmniOS >=151029, Fix Solaris problem with menu snaps
18.12q2 menu Comstar > Target > Initiator
18.12q1 avoid an auto-mount of HA pools zraid-n
18.12q
final, new features and bugfixes beside critical ones go to 19.01
18.12p5
Disk Location/ Disk map shows wrong controller numbers with LSI 12G HBAs.
This happens when the default LSI tool for 12G HBAs sas3ircu crashes on some newer systems
The fix is to select another or disable sas3ircu (and sas2ircu for 6G HBAs) in menu Disk > Location.
About > Update allows to activate last version (prior last update)
Care about an error message about a failed chown command after login
18.12p4
zraid-1/backup_appliance is created during Pool > Import (in case you import a current pool as zraid-1)
18.12p3
jobs: every [month,day,hour,min]/n1;n2 ex every/2;3 means every but 2 or 3 in month, day, hour or min
18.12p2
Cluster:auto failover
18.12p
Cluster: manual failover only
cluster acceleration
fix a javascript problem (Firefox only)
18.12o
smart acceleration
acceleration works for 30 min after opening a menu
18.02n
sas acceleration (Disk > Location)
18.02m
Fix with gateway settings on OmniOS 151028
Cluster: service enabled with auto=manual allows user sync with manual failover
18.12l
Comstar > Initiator > manual detection
Menu Pool > Expand (add vdev): Can only add same vdev type, option to allow all vdevs
Support partitions (disk add, remove, replace) even when partition support is not enabled
18.12k
Cluster: active mode with auto failover after a head outage
18.12j
Cluster: active mode with auto user failover
Cluster: works with iSCSI Luns (network z-raid)
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/z-raid.pdf
18.12i
Solaris 1.14 network settings, netmask and gateway problen
Disks > Disk Location > Pools with slotinfo (advanced zpool status)
Cluster: active/active auto mode working
18.12h
Menü Service > SSH with defaults for Open-SSH in OmniOS 151028
(SSH may not work on 151o28 after an update from earlier versions with Sun SSH)
18.12g (Nov 17)
napp-it Pro requires machine ID keys, swap key at https://www.napp-it.org/extensions/swap en.html
Z-Raid Apliance-Cluster, beta 2
manual failover of HA Cluster for NFS and SMB with local users or AD working
Snap mass-delete: delete empty snaps only
18.12dev e/f (Nov)
Beta1 of Z-Raid vCluster (manual Failover working),
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/z-raid.pdf
Problem with replication and keep hour (on november only)
18.12d (Nov 5,2018)
Show correct pool in a Push alert (thanks Chris)
Z-Raid v.2 (virtual Cluster in a Box on ESXi), work in progress
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/z-raid.pdf
18.12b (Oct 11, 2018)
18.12c (Okt 23,2018)
This is a community enhancement from Chris Fraire:
To honor this, PoeF management will be a function of napp-it Free
Secure PoeF folder as 0755 and pool(info|options).txt as 0644.
Allow setting up and using a napp-it PKCS keystore for PoeF keys, with backward compatibility for PoeFs that use pool-specific keys.
Add form to enable changing the PW of the napp-it PKCS keystore.
Add form to enable extending a PKCS-keystore PoeF with additional vdevs.
When creating or extending a PoeF and using 2GB files, limit vdev size so that larger pools will be composed, if necessary, of multiple vdevs. This increases redundancy at the cost of space. Previously, the redundancy would be only two 2GB files regardless of pool size. Now for large pools it will be (effectively) two 2GB files of parity for every ten 2GB files of data.
Update en documentation of pools_encrypt*.txt
Continue to default to AES-256 but allow choosing AES-128 for speed.
Offer 12GB and 40GB pools, which size evenly with raidz2-2GB compared to 10GB and 50GB.
Allocate all files before any lofiadm-add. If allocation or lofiadm-add fails, then remove entire, new $pool directory.
Explicitly Expect /dev/lofi/xxx names from lofiadm output.
Use MB for 10% sizing now that 12GB is an option (because "1.2G" is not allowed as an argument).
Extract poeflib.pl to share logic among action.pl scripts.
Move vdev-sizing into poeflib function, poef_calc_vdevs.
Add pkcslib.
napp-it 18.09 (Pro)
Sep 14
Feature: napp-it menus for snapshot hold, hold with defer_destroy and snapshot release
Sep 11
OmniOS 151027+ supported
Aug 09
AiO on ESXi 6.7, smartmontools crashes when processing ESXi vdisks,we skip them now
Jun 18
Solaris 11.4: menu Services > SMM:: allows enabling SMB1 client and/or SMB2 client
Jun 11
Job timetable allows every/n1;n2 (every but) in min, hour, day
autosnap: problem with delzero fixed
napp-it 18.06 (Pro)
Nov 21
Menü Service > SSH with defaults for Open-SSH in OmniOS 151028
(SSH may not work on 151o28 after an update from earlier versions with Sun SSH)
Nov 09
Problem with replication and keep hour (on november only)
OmniOS 151028 supported (permission problem fixed, update napp-it prior an OmniOS update)
Sep 11
OmniOS 151027+ supported
Aug 09
AiO on ESXi 6.7, smartmontools crashes when processing ESXi vdisks,we skip them now
May 30
Disk initialize: add option to zpool labelclear
Iperf3 server: add option to setup/update iperf3
May 01
Job > Create replication job, syntax error
Apr 30
Solaris 11.4, aclinherit property value of passthrough-mode-preserve
OmniOS/OI: Pool create: option to disable all features for compatibility with former OS releases, default aclmode/aclinherit=passthrough
Apr 28
vdev removal supported on OI Hipster 2018.04 and OmniOS (without raid-Z support)
Apr 23
Replication extension: add remote zfs send option for raw send
Replication extension: add pv_limit send option to limit bandwidth of a remote zfs send via pv ex via pv -L 300k
Apr 18
Solaris 11.4b2, vdev remove (all vdev types, requires ZFS Pools v.44)
Solaris 11.4, support for mpt_sas driver (LSI sas2) and lsc (LSI sas3)
Solaris 11.4 Disk Location and Diskmap
Solaris and OmniOS/OI: improved Disk Location and Disk Map, support for multiple HBA, Disk detection via ses and dd
This is not compatible with former maps, you must recreate maps
Apr 11
Support for vdev removal (new ZFS feature) in menu Pools > Shrink Pool (OmniOS 151025+)
Support for poolwide checkpoints (new ZFS feature) in menu Snaps > Checkpoint (OmniOS 151025+) and Pool > Import
Apr 09
Disk Detection: adds ATTO HBAs (ATTO, a media specialist now supports Illumos)
Disk Map: correct detection of HBA even if disks on different LSI mptsas HBAs shows the same c-number ex c0t500..
Disk Map: add dd disk detection
Disk Location: dd detection for all disks
these improvements on Solaris: soon
Apr 02
Support for OmniOS ce 151025+
Mar 22
Secure id in auto page refresh
Mar 19
Push alert shows only poolname, state and errors
Mar 10
Fix a start problem of Service > Bonjour
Mar 09
NFS sharing on Solaris. On first sharing name is set wrongly and permission set problems s (Thanks Martin)
Mar 08
ZFS Encryption (currently only Solaris 11) respects key inheritance with nested encrypted filesystems (Thanks Martin)
Service > Iperf includes iperf3 server
System > Eth > Iperf client use iperf3
napp-it 18.03 (Pro)
Apr 02
Support for OmniOS ce 151025+
Mar 10
Fix a start problem of Service > Bonjour
Mar 02
wget installer creates a user guest (SMB guest access)
Menu Pool shows correct available capacity (used+free-fres)
Feb 28
Problem with local recursive replication fixed
Feb 27
modified zilstat.ksh to work with newer OmniOS 151024 (not working on Solaris 11.4),
https://www.illumos.org/issues/8585
Feb 22
Bonjour: advertise SMB (Pro)
Create replication Job, timetable missing
Feb 21
napp-it Pro menu User > Restore settings: submit missing, restore SMB pw, delete idmappings
Feb 15
Auto-Lock allows multiple lock/unlock events per day
Menu pools, edit atime
Menu Problem with System > Setting
Feb 14
Auto-Lock, a Pro feature for auto-lock/unlock encrypted filesystems based on rules and timetables
Feb 09
User-Lock, a Pro feature for-lock/unlock via SMB share
ESXi snaps: Option to delete only those ESXi snaps created by napp-it
Feb 06
User-Lock, a Pro feature to lock/unlock encrypted filesystems without access to Storage-Management
via watched folders on an SMB share with ACL restriction (Pro feature)
Feb 02
Solaris 11.4 beta supported (not fully tested or adopted)
Jan 22
Autosnap fix: delzero not working
Jan 11
Disk replace: do not offer rpool boot mirror slices like c2t1d0s0 for a replace
Disk Map: green led for disks that are not a pool member and yellow for disks with slices/partitions
Allow remove of rpool mirror with an id like c2t1d0so, add bootmirror via Disks > Bootmirror
Jan 10
Appliance Group Overview shows OS and subrelease of members
Realtime monitor accepts disk id like c3d1
Jan 03
Add/remove disks from an n-way mirror or slog vdev
napp-it 18.01d (free)
18.01f
Menü Service > SSH with defaults for Open-SSH in OmniOS 151028
(SSH may not work on 151o28 after an update from earlier versions with Sun SSH)
18.01e, Nov 11
OmniOS 151028 supported (permission problem fixed, update napp-it prior an OmniOS update)
Problem with bloody
OmniOS 151027+, newest beta, error sudo: PAM account manager error: Permission denied
Try at consoole:
userdel napp-it
useradd -s /bin/false napp-it
passwd napp-it
rm /tmp/err.log
/etc/init.d/napp-it restart
18.01d
OmniOS 151027+ supported
18.01c
remove logging of sudo commands at console for a Linux setup in /etc/sudooers
18.01b
AiO on ESXi 6.7, smartmontools crashes when processing ESXi vdisks,we skip them now
Apr 02
Support for OmniOS ce 151025+
Mar 04
evaluate problem of ACL extension in 18.01 free
Feb 22
Bonjour: advertise SMB (Pro)
Create replication Job, timetable missing
Feb 21
napp-it Pro menu User > Restore settings: submit missing, restore SMB pw, delete idmappings
Jan 22
Solaris 11.4 beta supported (not fully tested or adopted)
Jan 03
License message about machine id
Dec 28
Replication: keep hour respects localisation with month ex [Dec, Dez, dec]
napp-it 17.12/18.01
Dez 26
machine id detection error
Linux: fix a problem when running on Proxmox
Dez 20/21
Replication Extension: keep/hold problem
Dez 11
ACL extension, license error
Dez 08
machine id as license reference
backup-job: includes Comstar settings
new benchmark set in Pool > benchmark
usernames allow @
Nov 16
snap-jobs: option to disable recursive snaps
pool report status adds procuct, sn and iostat errors
pool report error alerts on harderrors >= 100
Nov.15
nicstat update to v 1.95
napp-it Pro: new feature Jobs > Reports (Alertd and stats for Pool, Cap, Jobs, License Reminder, Smartcheck)
Reports can be extended by private reports
Nov. 6
Menu Disks > Disk Location > patch sas3ircu (current P15 sas3ircu)
see https://www.illumos.org/issues/6784
Okt. 16
Simple Sync/async/ sequ benchmark in menu Pools > Benchmark
Sep 27
Appliance map with new color blueline and the option to create private maps
Sep 02
LX zones, refresh zone list
Aug 19
Appliance Tuning: final custom cli commands and scripts in tuning sets
Aug 14
Appliance-Tuning: Save tuning sets
Disk - Map: supports colors/brands ex SM 90 Bay Petabyte Jbod (3v bordeaux, 6 x 15) or HGST 60 Bay (3v silver, 5 x 12)
Aug 02
Snaps - mass delete, fix a problem with min/maxage of snap
July 21
menu Extensuions: shorttermlog/ longtermlog bug fixed
July 10
problem with redirection to /dev/null fixed
Z-Raid beta with 2 servers. only for testings