 Tom here from Orange Systems and TrueNAS 12 is here It feels like only a little while ago because it kind of only was a little while ago that we were talking about the Convergence of FreeNAS and TrueNAS into one codebase and that transition has essentially been completed now now Don't worry. You're not forced into upgrading here, but the future is TrueNAS core not FreeNAS So it's kind of a that conversions came with a name change. I still like the shark logo, but I'm gaining Familiarity with the other logo and I'm okay seeing it now I'll at least throw that out there before we dive into the details of the release and what it brings to the table here Let's first feel like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems comm If you like to hire short project, there's a hires button right at the top If you like to help keep this channel sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has There is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page. 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Well randomly so check back frequently and Finally our forums forums.laurancesystems.com is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video and other tech topics You've seen on this channel now back to our content TrueNAS 12.0 release IX system is pleased to announce the general availability of TrueNAS 12.0 release This is the first production version of the unified FreeNAS and TrueNAS release and is renamed to TrueNAS core and TrueNAS enterprise respectively Since this 12.0 release candidate and additional 30 final polishing bugs have been found and fixed So the full 12.0 release version is now complete now something about the way the release cycle is also linked to the reddit post where they're answering some Q&A over here That's still ongoing. This is just from the other day I waited a day to do the video for timing and the fact that I wanted to load some of my systems and see if I had any issues And so far I haven't well not completely Issue-free, but we'll cover that in just a second. I also want to bring up the release schedule So the quality cycles that things are going through are a little bit different with TrueNAS 12.0 And where you would have seen release On TrueNAS 12.0 would have been about the equivalent of FreeNAS 11.0 series on their U1 And what they're doing is in some ways they're doing a few more quality cycles before they release So what you see is release now if you would have been Following the way they did it prior in the FreeNAS you would have seen U1 because a lot of people wait till there's Update one release before they switch to a new major version of FreeNAS or TrueNAS But don't worry there's still ongoing support for the FreeNAS 11.0 for now 11.3 series for now, so you don't have to switch right away And if you're mission critical you maybe want to carefully do this now so far But so far is also only a couple days of uptime I have my systems updated at least a couple of them and before you're wondering why I'm blinding you with the light-colored theme This is the first issue I ran into where people were talking about the reports not working You know, I want to demonstrate that so I can go over here to reporting and And hey look reports, but what I've been noticing and I this was mentioned in that reddit post there Well one it sometimes takes a little bit of a long time to render I've seen it happen on the light theme like I'm actually really happy it did this right now But we'll go back or to the dashboard will reload the page and then it'll start working again for the report So actually we'll go back over here to the disc report And now they're gonna show up again Once in a while the reporting just seems to mess up But it seems to mess up really consistently when you're doing it in the other theme the dark themes It seems to work much better in the light theme, but it does occasionally seem to pause chrome I was able to get it to do it in firefox as well. So it's something with the bug on there So far, that's the only problem I've really run into and I updated these systems about let's see this one was done Only um One day as of 11 36 So I updated them like the evening it came out or maybe the next morning got the updates applied and they went really well I'm going to do a completely separate video for doing in place upgrades and talking about that And also I have this one right here same thing about a day ago. I updated it This is the true nas mini which everything else seems to be functioning other than the reports pausing And it's kind of a random problem and a couple people had mentioned Uh Whether or not the temperature was showing in here And I guess for some people it is some people it isn't I happen to be lucky with two of the systems that I've done so far that the temperature shows and I'll file bug reports when I have the Details of any system I have that doesn't show the disc temperatures or CPU temperatures or anything that's missing Because you don't get bugs fixed by yelling about them You get bugs fixed by going and filing tickets and that is being discussed of course in any of these forums And all the links are right here. I'll leave to that So so far, uh, it's been pretty great with the new system in terms of I'm happy to see it Finally not called release candidate because you know, you feel better if you're running something at least for me in production Um, because I use it for all my videos and some of the stuff we use here at office I like when it was not a release candidate because it feels a little bit better to say it's in production And as I stated based on the updated release cycle, it's you want now Let's briefly cover a few of the new features if you haven't been following along with the whole 12 update of what they are going to be offering in this version First thing I'm going to mention is zfs native crypto That's a pretty big enhancement because now you can do encryption based on the data set Now where I am a little confused and this is why I have to do a future video because I haven't really figured out this problem And why I have both of these chunasses pulled up is we're going to go over here to my storage And talk about that feature because I was told or at least someone in a forum I haven't verified this because I don't see the option. I don't see the option to upgrade my pool to the new version of pool This was an in place upgrade from the previous version of free nas So if we go here though and we add a data set What I'm missing is that option here even though I don't see an option to upgrade my pool It doesn't say that I can use encryption. But let's go over here. This was natively loaded With the free nas 12 when it was in beta and I brought it all the way through to release and we add a data set Inherit non encrypted options right here and in here I'm missing that ability to Do that and I don't know why It's not even in the advanced options here. So I'm a little bit confused as to Why or maybe I have to redo the encryption. Like I said, this is some of that in place upgrade stuff I'm going to research into a separate video on but that's a really cool feature One of the other things that's going to be really nice is fusion pools now to rebuild with the fusion pool I'm pretty sure once again We're going to have to rebuild the pool and especially because you're configuring them differently if you do these But this is a real enhanced feature I'm hoping iX systems is going to have some better Reporting on this at the future date, but I do they do have some links to it I know a couple of sites have done some testing on it Including level one text has a video about the way the metadata works with the fusion pool It's been interesting and it's a cool enhancement. It's also going to add more Challenges when people set these up because they're going to want to know what's the best and most optimized way to do this And it's one of those answers where it depends on your workloads But fusion pools do offer some really interesting ways of Adding caching and other options and metadata caching to the pool So it's definitely a welcome enhancement But don't worry you can just use it the standard normal way like a standard z pool with all the drives It's just an enhanced add-on but not something required to be used Performance improvements virtually every error platform has been updated includes some major performance improvements And this is just a lot of optimization went into the coding So there's not a major facelift in terms of the interface change It's more a facelift of you know, it's called true nas core rather than free nas But definitely the performance is there now that it's feature complete and fully not a release candidate But fully released i'm going to work on some performance videos myself with the equipment that I have And if I get real inspired i'll actually reload one of them and try to see if I can take the same hardware And compare what it performed without free nas 11.3 versus True nas 12 to see if there's that much of enhancement on there But I do like the overall feeling that I have and I know that's very Subjective and not objective that it feels nice and fast when we're setting things up And of course, you know the overall feelings I have about it has been really good because it's been even the release candidates Were really stable for me and I've been using them and didn't really have any issues But i'm not saying there's not any just the use cases. I have didn't have them The vpn support kind of neat it has vpn both client and service support. That's pretty cool For those of you that want to directly do it. I personally I still use my firewall for my vpn But it's also now needily built into the true nas system and the true nas cloud integration This has been on my list to test As I want to look at this and I have some customers really wanting to talk about how to manage their fleet because well They've got a fleet of these that are scattered across different locations and bring it all into one central command Is something that i'm interested in as well So I will be doing some future dives into that and then of course they have a long list of bug fixes of all the You know major changes that were done in this before it got fully released. So i'll leave a link to this You can use it for the reading. I'm excited that it's out I have not had problems doing any of the in-place upgrades that i've done just with a couple systems And including ones that I did 11 3 I still have more to do and then i'll work on that as part of doing a video breaking down some of those details And I want to figure out the right answers for problems people have said they've experienced with jails I know there's a couple comments and i'll leave that reddit post on there because there's a couple comments on the Fixes for the jail something about the networking just checking a box and unchecking it resetting it Also, I will note. Uh, I had a weird quirky issue when I first upgraded it wouldn't I don't know if it was a caching issue But by changing the theme back and forth from dark to light, uh, that problem went away where it just kept not displaying anything Might have been me might have been my browser I know switching the themes just made it magically work without rebooting any servers So I thought that was kind of neat but the reporting problem It's intermittent as you kind of notice and from my demo here, but overall I don't think it's too big of a deal It's something I'm sure it'll get worked out It seems to do it much less under the light theme than the dark theme But once I have a clear repeatable problem I will probably go over there follow follow a ticket or find out if someone's already Filed a ticket on that particular topic because that's how problems get fixed not by commenting on this youtube Telling me how what's wrong with it by contacting and following the ticketing process over at ag system So the developers know because tom knows about problems But the developers really are the ones that have to know all the problems and they will work to Solve those issues and get everything working right, but I'm excited about this release I'm excited about the progress of the true nas and the convergence of it and uh, yeah, that's all that's all I have to say I'll leave links all this. 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