TrueNAS Software Status - Fangtooth & Goldeye
Fangtooth (25.04) is maturing, and Goldeye (25.10) is about to emerge. It is a good time for both new and experienced users to review the status and the TrueNAS process.
TrueNAS software releases are done with a six-month cadence. This balance is right for our internal engineering process, business, customers, and community. New features and platforms can be regularly released. The quality of one release is high before the next release starts BETA.
After 6 months of deployments, this process is working for Fangtooth, and it’s now time for Goldeye to start its BETA—many thanks for the awesome work done by the TrueNAS Engineering team.
Fangtooth status
Fangtooth 25.04 has matured, and the quality is now very good. TrueNAS 25.04.2.1 is a very solid release with growing adoption and very few bug reports. Fangtooth is achieving its mission of unifying the TrueNAS community and is now by far the most widely used TrueNAS version. Indeed, the top 2 versions of TrueNAS are now both Fangtooth versions, with TrueNAS 25.04.2.1 taking the top spot because of its virtualization fixes.
Fangtooth is now recommended on the Software Status page for General use. With some additional fixes, it will soon become recommended for Conservative Enterprise systems and Community users. Any issues discovered are reported in the Release Notes category. Some issues will be fixed in Fangtooth, and others will be included in Goldeye.
Most Fangtooth users should be having a trouble-free experience at this stage. Whether you have no problems or some problems, we appreciate reviews and summaries of your use cases in Forum posts.
Goldeye BETA
Goldeye highlights have been described previously. With the BETA announcement, more details will be available, and documentation will catch up as well.
Goldeye BETA will start this week after 6-12 months of development work. Many “Developers” have been using the available Nightly images. TrueNAS has been running the ALPHA version internally. The BETA version will be recommended to “Testers” — users comfortable finding, reporting, and assisting with bug resolution.
A big thanks to all Community users contributing to this process for Fangtooth and Goldeye. These contributions help TrueNAS software get to a quality state much earlier.
After this early phase, the software status page may later recommend the BETA version to early adopters. Until widespread testing occurs, there is limited visibility on hardware incompatibilities that may have been introduced by kernel, drivers, and other changes.
Subsequent RC.1, Release, and Update versions will bring GoldEye to a similar status as Fangtooth. This is a repeating six-month cycle.
Halfmoon Begins
Now that Goldeye has its features completed, the TrueNAS Engineering team is now working on the next release, Halfmoon. The activity never stops. Developers are welcome to join and contribute.
