TrueNAS CORE System Update: Apply Pending Update vs Install Manual Update File

In System / Update, what is the real/true difference between:
Apply Pending Update
and
Install Manual Update File
?


The documentation is not entirely clear to me.

The difference is that the former installs the update the system is already aware of (which it tells you about, above those buttons), and is only available if the system is aware of an update in the selected train; and the latter allows you to upload an update file which can be to any version you want. As of now, the latter is the only way to update to 13.3.

1 Like