Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community Editions

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(Alternative title: “One Fish to Rule Them All, And In The Darkness Bite Them”?)

The upcoming TrueNAS 25.04 “Fangtooth” - in nightly testing now for developers, and aiming to land in BETA in February - will be the first version of TrueNAS to be officially branded with the “Community Edition” moniker.

With Incus/LXC containers, Fangtooth will provide an officially-supported jail-like experience for running custom workloads outside of Docker, as well as a school of new features including Fast Dedup, iSCSI block cloning support, versioned API support for tighter third-party integration, and many more. Check out the blog post to learn more about what’s coming soon.

New deployments today are encouraged to start on SCALE 24.10 - but we anticipate the Fangtooth release version to be available in April of 2025.

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I think its obvious who is the Dark Lord here :smiley:
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>me trying to explain what all the servers are in my office

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I mean, maybe a bit evil, but trying to have fun with it right? Just a normal working guy :joy:

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Let's hope I will be tempted to join the fishes!

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"Apps with Configurable IP addresses: Apps in Electric Eel use TrueNAS’s host IP address. Fangtooth enables IP alias addresses to be created and assigned to one or more Apps." :partying_face:

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says the Senior Vice-President of Marketing?

Anyway, this is a beauty!

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Time to grab a current copy and play with it.

Thanks!

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Coming from elsewhere it is plain to see the advantages of having a team of great developers.

Thanks everyone!

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fangtooth

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There’s been some discussions around how to migrate from GELI encryption.

GELI encryption stopped with TrueNAS 12.0 in 2020. Old pools were still operable, but new pools could not be created. New pools use ZFS encryption which is faster and more powerful. You can replicate encrypted data without exposing it. You can also lock datasets.

There is advice on new and old forums for migrating back from GELI.

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That’s a whole lot of words to say, “we’re finally killing off CORE.”

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Whoa there, nerd. :nerd_face: Don’t get all geeky and technical on us.

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No, that would be a criminal act.

We are retiring CORE and replacing it with a younger model. CORE users get to decide their own transition schedule.

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The word “unifies” could be interpreted as an official statement that TN Core will be EOL when Fangtooth lands. At least that is how I read the announcement.

We can indeed decide to keep using Core beyond that date but would then be on our own.

It looks like 2025 will be the year of Linux migrations both on W10 clients and TN Core servers.

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Will QAT be enabled for encryption acceleration?

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The expectation is that CORE development is winding down and that the natural upgrade from 13.x will be 25.04.

We still have many customers running 13.x and are being attentive to security issues and other Sev 1 bugs.

CORE 13.x deployments can continue and these forums still provide configuration and troubleshooting advice, but new features or minor bugfixes are unlikely to be available,

Enterprise 13.x support will continue for duration of contracts, but we’d expect many customers will upgrade to Fangtooth and beyond.

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I’m not biting.

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Wuuuut? That’s a new way to phrase it (Linux migrations), cause I’ve been hearing about “The year of the Linux desktop” for like the last decade with no end in sight!!!

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Oh, the mythical “Year of the Linux distro” is a FAR older moniker than “raidz expansion”. I think I heard it already during the previous millenium :laughing:
And I stand by my prediction for the date:

Which is why I expect that the “year of the Linux desktop” will come long after the last remaining proton in the Universe had disintegrated.

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