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Synology : Nouvelle version beta du firmware Synology 4.3

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Nouvelle beta 4.3, disponible sur le site de Synology pour nos NAS, avec son lot d’améliorations et de nouvelles fonctionnalités. A signaler :

  • Support de la norme ODX
  • Support de NFS 4
  • La possibilité de réinitialiser les mots de passe de ses utilisateurs  par e-mail
  • 3G/4G USB Dongle Support
  • Apache has been upgraded to 2.2.24.
  • PHP has been upgraded to 5.3.24.
  • Ainsi que tous un lot d’améliorations sur les packages

Rien de vraiment révolutionnaire mais on peut déjà faire tellement de choses avec nos Synos

Toutes les nouvelles fonctionnalités de la beta 4.3 (en anglais) :

  1. Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Support
    • Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) introduces an efficient way to move data between a data source and destination by offloading the I/O burden to your storage device, thus saving network bandwidth, computation power on the host, and improving performance at same time.
    • The data source and destination can be on the same LUN, two different LUNs hosted on the same Synology NAS, or two LUNs on two different Synology NAS.
    • If the data source and destination are located on LUNs located on the same volume, cloning will be processed by Synology Advanced LUN technology which saves up to 99.9% of the storage space consumption and accelerates cloning at the same time. To leverage Synology Advanced LUN technology for cloning on ODX, you are suggested to format the NTFS volume with 8K cluster size.
    • To use ODX, the computer initiating the data transfer must be running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 and the type of iSCSI LUN has to be file-based iSCSI LUN with Synology Advanced LUN technology option enabled.
    • Available on DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS712+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS710+ only.
  2. SSD TRIM Support
    • SSD TRIM improves the read and write performance of volumes created on SSDs, increasing efficiency as well as extending the lifetime of your SSDs. See the list below for verified SSD with TRIM support.
    • You may customize a schedule to choose when the system will perform TRIM.
    • SSD TRIM is not available when an SHA cluster exists.
    • TRIM cannot be enabled on iSCSI LUN.
    • Available on DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS712+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS710+ only. TRIM cannot be enabled on RAID 0 or RAID 10 volumes on RS10613xs+.
  3. SSD Cache
    • SSD cache is now supported on more models:DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS3611xs.
    • SSDs installed in any HDD slots can be mounted as cache to accelerate the performance of multiple volumes or LUNs.
  4. Trust Domain Support in Active Directory
    • Users and groups belonging to trusted domains can be assigned privileges to access files or run applications after your DiskStation joins a Windows domain.
    • You can specify how often the DiskStation automatically updates the domain user/group list.
  5. Broader LDAP Client Support
    • Your DiskStation can now join an LDAP domain hosted by IBM Domino LDAP Server 8.5.
    • If you use a different LDAP server with different attributes for account names and group names, there are now options to specify or customize how user and group information is mapped to LDAP attributes.
  6. NFS
    • NFS v4 support has been added, including pseudo file system and a stateful protocol.
    • NFS v3 and v4 now support IPv6.
    • NFS v3 and v4 security have been enhanced with Kerberos protocol, introducing three levels of security service: authentication, integrity (prevents tampering with NFS payload), and privacy (protects the content of NFS traffic from eavesdropping). Available on DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS712+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS710+, DS213j only.
    • If Kerberos security flavor is implemented, you can map the NFS client to a local user, a domain user or a LDAP user.
    • Additional NFS settings have been added for NFS v3 and NFS v4, such as default read and write packet size, or allow clients to access NFS servers with insecure, non-privileged ports.
  7. Speed Limit Scheduler
    • Bandwidth speed limits can now be configured according to a schedule, so speed limits will take effect at specific times only.
    • Varying speed limits can be customized for each user and group, allowing you to implement different limits at different times.
  8. Task Scheduler
    • When creating tasks to automatically empty recycle bins, you can now define a retention policy to control what files are permanently deleted according to time, size, or file types.
  9. Self-service Password Recovery
    • System admins can allow DSM local users (and LDAP users on Synology Directory Server) to conveniently reset passwords via email.
  10. HFS+ Support
    • HFS External drives are supported in DSM 4.3.
    • Read/Write is supported on DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS712+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS710+. Read only is supported on other models, and the maximum size is 2TB.
    • HFS+ journal is not supported.
  11. File Station
    • You can now create links to share folders with non-DSM users.
    • Users allowed to create sharing links can now be specified.
    • The size of thumbnails can be changed.
    • You can drag-n-drop files or folder to your desktop to download them easily. Supports Google Chrome browser only.
    • Enhanced the compatibility of mounting a share located on a Mac OS 10.7 (or later) via SMB file service. Supported on DS2413+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+, DS1813+, DS1513+, DS712+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS3611xs, RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, DS2411+, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, DS1511+, DS411, DS411+II, DS411+, DS1010+, RS810+, RS810RP+, DS710+ only.
  12. Advance Options for Windows File Service (SMB)
    • The following advance options for Windows File Service (SMB) have been added: DirSort VFS module; Veto files (hide files according to specified criteria); symbolic links and wide links; MSDFS VFS module (allowing symbolic links to point to files or folders located on another server); save debug logs; and clear SMB cache files.
  13. Package Center
    • A default volume on which packages being installed can be specified, simplifying package installation.
  14. Disk Usage Report
    • You can easily remove duplicated files in the disk usage report.
  15. 3G/4G USB Dongle Support
    • A 3G/4G USB dongle can be plugged into your NAS, allowing it to connect to a mobile network. On DS213air or DiskStations with Wi-Fi dongle, you can share your 3G/4G Internet access with tablets and laptops wirelessly.
    • See thelist below for supported 3G/4G USB dongles.
  16. Wi-Fi Hotspot Enhancements
    • Time-based Parental Control: Allows you to control when each client device connected to the DiskStation’s local network can access the Internet. The feature are available on DS213air only.
    • UPnP Internet Gateway: Enable UPnP service to allow your DiskStation to become a UPnP Internet Gateway device, so that devices that are connected to the local network of the DiskStation can configure port forwarding settings with UPnP. For DS213air or other drives with USB Wi-Fi adapter plugged only.
    • PPPoE Relay: Allows devices that are connected to the DiskStation to connect to the Internet via PPPoE connection. For DS213air or other devices with USB Wi-Fi adapters only.
  17. File System Check (FSCK) utility has been added.
  18. Built-in VPN client now supports L2TP over IPSec connection.
  19. FTP
    • ASCII support: Allows the DiskStation to properly transfer ASCII formatted plain text files via FTP.
  20. Misc.
    • Apache has been upgraded to 2.2.24.
    • PHP has been upgraded to 5.3.24.
    • Additional Security options to enhance the system’s protection against cross-site request forgery attacks.

What’s New for Packages

  1. Synology High Availability
    • Volume sizes can now be edited while a cluster exists.
    • VLAN is now supported for the data connection by specifying the VLAN ID on each network port of the active and passive servers.
    • A management wizard has been introduced, providing an interactive user interface for cluster maintenance.
    • Link Aggregation can now be used on the data connection, providing failover and load balancing capabilities. Link Aggregation can also be used on heartbeat connection, but provides failover only.
    • When the data connection is down, failover process will be triggered.
    • New features above requires DSM 4.3.
  2. Photo Station 6
    • Refreshed design to provide a cleaner look and quicker navigation.
    • Photo Wall, new view mode, displays photos, videos, or albums in their original image ratio, collaging them without extra blank space.
    • Different detail views include 16:9, 4:3 and 1:1.
    • Added an ‘About Me’ page for you to introduce yourself and deliver information to visitors.
    • You can now switch to Timeline view mode in every album.
    • Supports custom categories for you to categorize and display your albums more precisely.
    • Browse, upload, and management privileges for each album can be assigned according to users as well as groups.
    • Supports LDAP and AD account users (Personal Photo Station does not support this feature).
    • Aviary online photo editor is now supported, allowing you to edit photos more easily.
    • Advanced search options have been added to search for items that were uploaded or commented on recently.
    • Search results now display all album levels.
    • Displays keyword suggestions when entering location tags.
  3. Video Station
    • Added support for DTV standards — DVB-S and DVB-S2 (DSM 4.3 required and encrypted channels are not supported). See the list below for supported DVB-S sticks.
    • You can now assign privileges to non-admin users for AirPlay/UPnP and DTV controlling features.
    • DTV channels can be switched directly in Video Station Player.
    • You can now record DTV videos without EPG, and just simply choose the channel and time slot you would like to record.
    • Libraries can be created and managed to categorize videos that do not belong to default categories — Movie, TV show, and Home video.
    • Privileges can be assigned to non-admin users to browse custom libraries.
    • Privileges can be assigned to non-admin users for streaming videos to Airplay and DLNA renderers.
    • Supports subtitles in ASS/SSA formats.
  4. Audio Station
    • Supports gapless playback in USB mode.
  5. Download Station
    • Supports Xunlei Lixian (迅雷離線) and Xunlei Kuai (迅雷快傳).
    • Online TV videos can be downloaded with FLVCD (碩鼠) web-downloader.
  6. Directory Server
    • Google Apps Single Sign-On support: Directory Server can become an identity provider for your Google Apps domain, allowing users to log into Google Apps services (such as Gmail or Google Calendar) using their accounts and passwords stored on Directory Server.
  7. Cloud Station
    • Selective Sync feature has been introduced in Cloud Station clients, allowing you to sync only specific subfolders or files, according to filename, file type, and file size.
    • Syncing performance when uploading large-size files from your Cloud Station client to DiskStation has improved by 30%.
    • Historical file versions will save differential data to reduce storage consumption.
    • Syncing status is now available, so you can monitor the sync progress of all Cloud Station clients.
    • Trust Domain accounts are supported to use Cloud Station service.
    • Cloud Station client on Linux is now available.
  8. Mail Server
    • The Auto BCC feature allows you to automatically send a BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) of certain messages to a specific address.
    • Added support to adjust the spam threshold value for the spam filter, as well as enable auto learning or auto white list.
    • ClamAV (Antivirus Essential) is now supported to scan all incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. It is available on DiskStations with 512MB or more RAM.
    • The black and white List feature allows you to reject, discard, or allow certain messages based on various criteria, such as the sender, domain, or connection from certain IP address.
    • The queue page allows you to view and manage the status of mail in the queue.
    • Ports for SMTP and SMTPS can now be customized.
  9. VPN Server
    • VPN client and VPN Server now support L2TP over IPSec connection.
  10. WordPress
    • Upgraded to version 3.5.1.
  11. OpenERP
    • Upgraded to version 7.0.
  12. Media Server
    • Updated to be compatible with DSM 4.3.
  13. Python
    • Updated to support OpenERP 7.0.
  14. AntiVirus by McAfee
    • Updated to be compatible with DSM 4.3.
  15. AntiVirus Essential
    • Updated to be compatible with DSM 4.3.
  16. Git (requires DSM 4.3)
    • Git is an open source distributed version control system, which provides an effective way to maintain large projects.
    • This is the initial release for the package.
  17. PHP Pear (requires DSM 4.3)
    • PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a structured library of open-source code for PHP users.
    • This is the initial release for the package.
  18. DOKUWiki
    • DokuWiki is a simple-to-use, lightweight open source Wiki application that can work without a database.
    • This is the initial release for the package.
  19. Podcast Generator
    • Podcast Generator is a simple set of PHP scripts which allows you to create and publish audio and video podcasts in a few steps.
    • This is the initial release for the package.

What’s New for Desktop Utilities

  1. Cloud Station
    • Linux Cloud Station client is now available and has been verified on Ubuntu and Fedora.
    • Windows & Mac clients are introduced with Selective Sync feature, allowing you to sync only specific subfolders or files, according to filename, file type, and file size.

What’s New in Mobile Apps (Coming Soon)

  1. DS audio for iPhone/iPad
    • New theme and sliding menus.
    • Displays the album covers when browsing.
    • Complete playlist management, allowing you to create, edit and delete playlists.
    • “By Composer” now added to browse your library.
    • Full screen player for iPad version.
  2. DS photo+ for iPhone/iPad
    • New interface with sliding menus.
    • Browse any Smart albums, Tags, as well as Categories you have created in Photo Station.
    • Displays sub-album names in thumbnail mode.
  3. DS photo+ for Android and Google TV
    • Virtual albums support: Smart albums, Tags and Categories can be browsed.
  4. DS audio for Android
    • Offline playback allows you to download music to your device.
    • Displays the album covers when browsing.
    • Complete playlist management, allowing you to create, edit and delete playlists.
    • “By Composer” has been now added to browse your library.
  5. DS cam for Android
    • Updated theme and Android 4.0 UI design style.
    • Supports better streaming quality for cameras with H. 264 output
    • Select cameras to customize Multi live views (by camera group or by DiskStation)
    • Enable / disable IP cameras.
    • View key camera information.
    • Digital zoom in / out on PT cameras.
    • Support for audio streams.
  6. DS cloud for Android
    • Allows you to select a specific folder on the Android device to sync data.
  7. DS file for Windows Phone
    • DS file for Windows Phone allows you to browse and manage files stored on your DiskStation, as well as upload photos from the Camera roll directly to the DiskStation.
    • You can create sharing file links, protecting them with a password and an expiration date, compressing and extracting files on your DiskStation, or adding folders you access most often to your “Favourites” list.
    • You have to upgrade your DiskStation to DSM 4.3 to run this app.
  8. DS video for ROKU
    • DS video lets you access Video Station on your Synology NAS server, to watch videos, record digital TV programs, or simply stream them live. Categorize your videos with either default or custom libraries and create your own video collection lists for quick access.
    • You have to upgrade Video Station to 1.2 beta to have all features of DS video.

Hardware Compatibility Notes

Synology has validated the compatibility of the following hardware devices on DiskStation.

  1. Mobile Broadband USB dongles
    • Huawei E392u-92
    • Huawei E398u-1
  2. DVB-S sticks
    • Tevii DVB-S2 USB Box
    • Hauppauge! WinTV-NOVA-T USB Stick – DVB-T Digital freeview TV tuner stick
    • PCTV DVB-S2 Stick 460e – DVB-S2-HDTV-Empfänger – Hi-Speed USB (only supports S-channel)
    • TechniSat SkyStar USB HD – DVB-S HDTV-Empfänger – Hi-Speed USB (only supports S-channel)
    • TechnoTrend S2-3650 CI (does not support DiSEqC)
  3. SSD with TRIM Support
    • Type 1 SSD: These drives support the TRIM feature under these RAID configurations: Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10.
      • Crucial CT128M4SSD2
      • Intel SSDSC2CT180A3 (SSD 330)
      • Intel SSDSC2CW480A3 (SSD 520)
      • Kingston SNVP325-S2/64GB
      • Kingston SVP200S3/120G
      • SanDisk SDSSDX-480G-G25
      • Samsung MZ-7PC512B/WW
      • OCZ VTX3MI-25SAT3-240G
      • OCZ VTX4-25SAT3-512G
    • Type 2 SSD: These drives support the TRIM feature under these RAID configurations: Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10.
      • Intel SSDSA2CW160G3 (SSD 320)
      • Intel SSDSA2BW600G3 (SSD 320)
      • Intel SSDSA2BZ300G3 (SSD 710)
      • Intel SSDSC2BA400G3 (DC S3700)
      • Intel SSDSC2BA100G3ES (DC S3700)
      • Kingston SE100S37/100G

Known Issues

  1. Data that was backed up using Backup and Restore in DSM 3.2 cannot be restored using DSM 4.3.