I’m currently on 25.04.1, and am waiting for the 2.26.1 update for Audiobookshelf which was released on July 16th. Usually, the TrueNAS apps catalog posts the update within 24 hours, but the last few times I refreshed the repository, there was no updates to any of my apps. Are apps updates on hold until the release of 25.04.2?
It seems they’ve been paused for some reason. Looking at the Github repository that has the files for the apps there’s been no updates since “last week”.
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I believe right now there’s only one app maintainer and maybe he’s on vacation
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Almost makes me miss TrueCharts. Almost.
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Still waiting. Audiobookshelf is now up to 2.26.3, but the version on TrueNAS is still 2.26.0.
If you want to be up-to-date on your apps, do not rely on the catalog. 
Install Portainer from the catalog, or Dockge if YAML is your thing, and manage all your (other) applications yourself from there.
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Can someone from IX Systems please update us on this situation? Thank you
Fixed that for you. iX is going to give up on this like they have all the others, it’s just a matter of time.
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Or it’s just that its summer, sometimes us poor humans do take vacations… You might have to wait a couple of days. If some community members want to step up and help be part of the solution, they are welcome to DM me. I’m sure we’d love a few extra folks willing to spend hours on testing and approving app merges so everybody gets their “fix” right away 
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I prefer stable over rushed. They will be done when they are. 
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I understand. My concern is that I as well as other people have applications in TrueNAS intentionally exposed to the Internet so that they can be accessed remotely. Thankfully, there hasn’t been a urgentpatch to address a vulnerability.
It would have been helpful if there was a message stating that app updates are temporarily on hold. Having worked in a mission-critical SaaS environment, there were certain times of the year (like Thanksgiving and Christmas) where there was a change freeze and no changes were allowed without a VP approval. With the patch of 25.04.2 coming out next week, it was a natural assumption that the app freeze may have been related like what happened in 24.10 with the migration from Kubernetes to Docker. But, then again, I’m just a hobbyist who sees the apps are a nice bonus instead of something critical as in a enterprise.
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Don’t do that. Use a VPN for remote access. TrueNAS is not designed and not hardened for direct exposure to the outside jungle.
No, but many of the applications that have been rolled into “apps” are. Whether those apps are is a separate question.
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Funny thing is… two of the apps that I have installed on my TrueNAS server, namely Tailscale and Zerotier, provide VPN access to my network.
And, just to emphasize… my TrueNAS server is only accessible within my own network, and access is controlled by both a very complex password and two-factor authentication. One of the apps that I constantly use is Audiobookshelf which only supports http connection, and even the author recommends using a reverse proxy to access the app remotely. So, I have the Nginx Reserve Proxy set up to not only point abs.mydomainname.tld to 192.168.1.2:10223, but also allows me to have a LetsEncrypt certificate that is automatically renewed to provide a secure connection. Since I’m on a residential connection, I have DDNS Updater (another app) update the DNS record.
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It seems the catalog is training wheels. Training us to get comfortable with apps but eventually the wheels come off and we should manage them ourselves, back to the dockge and portainer drawing boards. @etorix said it, and I do agree. If you want to stay up to date and avoid future pitfalls, maintain your apps through tools.
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