It’s plainly EOL after 13.3 from iX’s announced plans.
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A community maintained what? A GUI?
Yes I couldn’t get it working on Vanilla FreeBSD.
Does it do zfs replication from the GUI?
“Basically”
To avoid misunderstanding.
TrueNAS 13.0 is still being maintained for its original use case. 13.0-U6.2 was recently released. CVEs are still being fixed. Most Enterprise users are using this and are very happy with it. Very few use jails.
TrueNAS 13.0 users have 3 upgrade paths:
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TrueNAS 13.3 with FreeBSD 13.3 jails compatibility. This is in BETA.2 testing and will be RC.1 in September. We’d like more testers. It is being maintained for bug fixes and CVEs. It does have updates OpenZFS and SMB stacks.
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TrueNAS 24.04 with linux sandboxes. This is a solid release. We have many sandbox users, but its not as mature as Jails and requires a manual transition. Apps are easy to use and will migrate to 24.10
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TrueNAS 24.10 with Docker Compose for Apps. This is only a nightly, but will BETA in August. This makes it easier to migrate Apps and provides more networking options.
So, you get to decide what’s “cool”… FreeBSD jails, Sandboxes or Docker Compose. They are all TrueNAS and share the same data sharing and management services.
As one of our old-time contributors said:
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Bhyve is useful as part of a scale migration. It’s the only way to have a smooth app migration.
Migrate your jails/plugins into a Bhyve vm. I would use docker-compose for that.
Migrate to scale.
Your Bhyve vm will migrate to KVM almost trivially. Just reconfigure networking.
Then migrate your services at leisure to sandboxes or apps etc. or not.
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Thank you for clarifying !
Ahahah nope I do not decide anything because I do not work at ix 
I am just an long time Freenas user who is concerned about the future of Core…
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CORE doesn’t have any future after 13.3 releases. Oh, sure, there may (or may not) be a point release now and then to address critical security issues, but unless iX changes course, that’s going to be the last release of CORE.
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First of all, upgrade to TrueNAS 13.0 … its much better than FreeNAS was. 
The future of CORE is a function of how well TrueNAS 13.3 does. TrueNAS 13.0 was the most popular TrueNAS release. TrueNAS 13.3 is better, but needs more testing.
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Adding a link here to my post likely best made here as a “test report”.
I do run Truenas indeed, using the term Freenas was just a way to show you how long I am onboard + to be nostalgic ./
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Hi!
Could you point some dev at this issue, please? Is “triage team” waiting for me to upload a debug file? I don’t think this is necessary or even helpful.
https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-130278
Thanks!
Patrick
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That one doesn’t appear to have been manually checked after the initial auto-request for a debug. I’ve flagged it ready for further review.
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Bug fix seems to have been accepted… appreciate some serious testing when nightly is available.
Any ETA?
Likely tomorrow… barring extreme events.
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I updated to 13.3-BETA2 from 13.0-U6.2 3 days ago, and everything has been a breeze:
- SMB shares work
- Updated my pool version/feature flags
- My bhyve Debian VM with Pi-hole is up and running (with the known VNC issue)
- I could upgrade all my jails from FreeBSD 13.1/13.2 to 13.3 and they all have been running fine (before and after the jail release upgrade):
- OpenVPN server
- Paperless-ngx
- Photoprism
- Plex
- (Prowl|Rad|Son)arr
- Syncthing
- Transmission
The only issue I had when upgrading is that I do static DNS leases via MAC address on my router, and the NIC on my Pi-hole VM had its MAC address changed from 00:A0:98:0E:46:10 to 00:A0:98:49:8C:77 after the upgrade, so I couldn’t access it for a while until I noticed the MAC change and reverted it.
Besides that, all seems solid. Thanks for the last hurrah!
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I know … it’s completely theoretical, but … i wouldn’t post MAC addresses to public forums. YMMV.
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