I update regularly, but I also run my own poudriere at work and for my home jails which are on TN CORE the FreeBSD latest repos have not yet failed.
pkg tells you what it is planning to do when you invoke e.g. pkg upgrade and asks for explicit confirmation.
If I understood the discussion correctly, some upstream project changed without bumping the version number so the checksum failed and the package was not built. Stuff like this happens and is usually quickly resolved.
It is currently discussed how to deal with upstream repos that append changing additional information to the source. Bitbucket seems to be the main culprit, here.
Iād still rather have checksums in the package build process.
Hi team, I just put several dozen TrueNAS 13.0-U6.2 into production. How many years of security patches can I expect? 3 years? 5 years? Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks. And for users who donāt have enterprise support, can they still hope to leave 13.0-U6 in production for a while or do they absolutely have to migrate to SCALE?
Pretty much what Morgan said. We will push out Enterprise-needed fixes and CVEs patches, but not accepting bug tickets from community edition users. Community users will be highly encouraged to migrate to SCALE to on top of fixes and security issues that are community relevant.
(I seem unable to ask the question in jira, I guess because the ticket is closed? But itās āclosed without changesā, so I ask the question here.)
Its worth noting, that Iād have the same answer for SCALE 24.04. Supporting N releases is expensive and so we try to cut down the number of active release being supported and it is weighted heavily toward customers.
Our real support focus is TrueNASā¦ not any specific release. We then try to make sure upgrades from older releases to the newer release are straightforward.
Very nice! I was looking for something between old files on my NAS and found some screenshots of my PC-BSD systems. PC-BSD eased me into the BSD world!
Thanks Captain_Morgan for this feedback. I understand well but it is true that for us system administrators itās always something complicated because each migration is likely to cause side effects and requires more work when youāve a lot of servers. Iām a little afraid that with SCALE the upgrades will be more numerous than with CORE and therefore require more work. Do you know how many releases of SCALE will be supported?
Hi @MDVAurelien i get the feeling you and I are in a similar position so thought Iād offer my personal thoughts.
Iāve used FreeNAS seriously in business for almost 10 years and subsequently CORE and itās been nothing short of brilliant. Today I also share the concerns around SCALE and stability etc and also find myself having to make decisions around upgrades on existing kit and new kit arriving.
I may have read this wrong but my understanding is that iX want you to use SCALE and ideally asap however a good amount of their Enterprise customers are still running CORE (Iād guess more than 50%) and they will have support contracts for 1-2-3 or perhaps even 5 years and I donāt think iX will force them to upgrade during that contract period. So if you are happy with CORE as it is and happy to forgo new features for the next 3-5 years then Iād say you should be fine staying on CORE. However having said that letās face the fact iX has decided to make SCALE the future and if you decide to stay with TrueNAS you will need to embrace SCALE sooner or later.
100% agree with you. Yes I think the future today is SCALE but for the moment I donāt need new features, just stability. So I will study the different migration scenarios because I have about a hundred servers spread across France so not easy to manage. If iX supports at least 3 releases at the same time that would be good.
Yes course, juste TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2. I believe in TrueNAS, Iāve been translating (in French) the entire interface on Github for 6 years (CORE and SCALE). 235 commits (translation and small bug fixes)
Which iX stated will receive security updates in the near future, so you are covered for the time being; in 2 to 3 years SCALE will (hopefully) be stable enough to migrate.
