Netgear Realeases ReadyNAS OS 6.7.1

Less than a month after releasing the latest major upgrade to ReadyNAS OS (read the review here), Netgear has released ReadyNAS OS 6.7.1.

Here are the release notes provided by Netgear.

New Features:

• Expanded FlexRAID configurable options.
• Support for single disk expansion.
• Support for RAID 50 and 60.
• Support for Global Host Spare.
• SAS Expansion support for the RR3312 and RR4312.
• Google Drive Support.
• Amazon AWS Support.

Improvements:

• Visual Volume Configuration.
• Updated to the latest Dropbox.
• iSCSI Thin LUN capacity monitoring.
• ReadyNAS Apps expand support to third-party repos within the app.
• ReadyNAS Apps now show more info in the installation progress.
• Updated Linux Kernel from 4.1 to 4.4.
• Support for newer hardware.

Bug Fixes:

• Updated AV config to prevent reporting false positives.
• ADS environment performance.
• ReadyDR support for longer snapshot names.
• Security fix for command injection during the setup of backup jobs || Various security fixes to backup jobs.
• Some Amazon Cloud Drive sync fixes.
• Middleware NML call security fix.
• ReadyCLOUD VPN stability fix.
• Hourly snapshots are taken when disk spin down is enabled.
• Various MTP backup fixes.
• Removed the c_, m_, b_, and r_ username and share name limitations.
• Prevent portocol port conflicts.
• Switching network from DHCP to static will retain DNS.

Here are the Download Links for your particular models.

arm (RN102 / RN104 / RN202 / RN204 / RN212 / RN214 / RN2120)
x86_64 (RN312 / RN314 / RN316 / RN422 / RN424 / RN516 / RN524X / RN526X / RN528X /  RN626X / RN628X / RN716X / RN3130 / RN3138 / RN3220 / RN4220 / RR3312 / RR4312X / RR4312S / RR4360X / RR4360S)

If you need help updating your firmware, you can review the Netgear Knowledgebase article here.

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