To my knowledge 13.0 has been around a while for both Enterprise and the community and although it’s not currently under active development it appears there are still a significant amount of people using it especially in Enterprise so will likely still be supported (security updates etc) for the next two to three years I’d guess. 13.3 is a completely different kettle of fish and I don’t believe was ever deployed in TrueNAS Enterprise and I believe its uptake in the community is very limited hence I can’t see much if any support for that going forward.
If you’re currently running 13.0 and only need the classic storage features then I’d say you’re in no rush to move just yet. Obviously SCALE/TrueNAS Community appears to be the future so it’s not a bad idea to start becoming familiar with that in preparation for a potential migration in the future.
It’s amazing how, when iX actively discourages users from upgrading in every possible way, relatively few users will upgrade. And when, due to the situation they created, few users upgrade, they use that as their justification for killing it off.
interested in hyperconvergency, but my nas has to function as a nas first and foremost…
tried scale… superior interface in terms of ease of use, but just doesn’t seem to hold a candle to core in terms of performance… also, i had a couple of very minor issues and others seem to have more major issues with it.
zvault is definitely on the radar, just waiting for it to mature a bit and let the devs iron out more of the bugs.
i don’t run jails. i’d like to go to 13.3 just for other improvements but if ix isn’t going to be patching it any longer and only 13 will be getting fixes, i’ll stick with 13.