 Tom here from Lawrence Systems and on February 22nd of 2023, TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1 was released and I updated four different systems to it so I could start testing. Now we are 24 hours later and actually one video later because I had done the TrueNAS Mini R and I edit my videos and all the files for all my editing are on a TrueNAS Scale system specifically a TrueNAS Mini system and I didn't have any problems. I didn't run into any bugs. I'm running virtualization on there and a few apps and everything seems to be working 24 hours later so I figured I'd do a video. Now there's a couple of bugs that are noted in the new version but I'm not able to reproduce them through my testing but nonetheless I'm gonna note that they exist and there are some tickets open for them. So let's first talk about the systems updated and then we'll get into the details and changes but this is a point really so the changes aren't dramatic in this version. It's just a lot of little bug fixing going on. Now the first system we get updated was my TrueNAS Mini right here that I'm doing the editing from. So this one's just a Intel Atom C3758 processor and it's one of the standard ones where we got the enclosure where we can see it. This is like an older one I reviewed but this is very similar to that TrueNAS Mini R and of course I did the TrueNAS Mini R with it up to date which has the same processor because I wanted to do the video on this with the latest version and I've been testing this for about a week technically using the new version of TrueNAS because TrueNAS and I existence when they sent this to me also sent me like the updated preview version of it but the update from the preview version to this version didn't yield any surprises or any breakage. Then we have a couple Ryzen systems. So this is the AMD Ryzen 3 2200. This is a system that doesn't have a lot of memory but a decent amount of storage in it because we just use it to duplicate all the data at the office that's critical so we just have one more copy that we can quickly get back and this is the test server that I had done all the benchmarking on and with the 22.12.1 point release I didn't see any performance changes noted nothing that would make me wanna rerun the benchmarks and go through and make a new video I don't feel that there's really a need for that but if there's something you do feel there's a need for let me know in the comments below on there but this one updated fine as well no issues with it that's generally how all these went the only problem I kind of had but this is self-inflicted and if you go over here to the boot settings I had some old boot environments left around in here and I didn't have enough storage and when the update was running it gave me an error about running low end storage but that's self-inflicted of me not doing clean up on these but that's something you may wanna consider is whether or not you have to clean some of the old environments that you don't need anymore and purge them out of here it's easy just checking a box and deleting them and you can see this is the current one there's the last one I probably don't even need this one anymore and you can just hit delete and confirm and you can delete them matter of fact we'll do that right now live and see if there's any errors that come up when I delete one of these old boot environments generally speaking this is a pretty easy process there we go it's deleted now I'm not a big user of NextCloud I test it and that's really all I do once in a while to make sure it still works because I know many of you want to know whether or not there's a problem with NextCloud when you update it because I know it's a good for home users that really wanna rely on it I just don't really feel comfortable using it in a business setting but I think it's a nice program and one of the things I wanted to make sure worked is still with the collaborate office so you can edit the documents all inside here and that seems to work perfectly fine with the update I will note they did change the name of it it used to be the collaborate office settings it's now called the NextCloud office settings when you're configuring it at some point in the future maybe I'll do a new video on how to get that set up but it does work I didn't have any breakage with the updates the same things are there nothing broke the updates went fine so I figured I'll throw that out there for those of you that are NextCloud users now this is a bug I was concerned about but it's also something I wasn't able to reproduce so I don't know all the different details that apparently are required to reproduce this bug but it's been acknowledged and they're looking into it so there is some pull requests for this it's only three hours ago that there's an update so I don't know that it's completely closed but it has been looked at and in review by the folks over at IX systems and what they're saying is you can't edit the replication tasks and maybe I just am overlooking something but here's a replication task that I set up new just for an example and maybe it's existing ones but I was able to edit the existing ones on my other server but let's just change something in here as it says you can't change them so we're gonna change the time at which it runs I got it running every 10 minutes it's changed to run every hour save and no problem I'd actually saved it before to have it run every hour and then change it back every 10 minutes and I did this a little while ago so now there's several tasks running and we can even try and run manually I'm not running into that particular error but it is noted that there apparently is a circumstance by which this may be a problem for you I'm not gonna go into every detail because it would just make this video really long for every little bug fix they have but hey, they do have a lot of little bug fixes in here but the ones that really stood out to me in terms of like things that are changed was well this one actually confused me at first until I understood what they were referring to which is labeled dump active web socket sessions what they mean is log out other admins not you have the ability to ensure and ask L use more than just root as an admin maybe you would like to dump those other admins out and that's a new ability they added in there but some of these features in here are not actually available to be done via the UI itself they're done either through API calls or through the command line so this isn't something like they added a button it says log out all other admins but something worth note that there's a change in there and the one I wanna talk about specifically is gonna be allow users to create and manage ACL presets and this is where there's always a lot of confusion because the UI elements are a little strange but let's walk through creating and then copying and using one of these ACL presets to get a share set up we have this folder SMB test and we're gonna go down here to permissions and edit and we can see that the owner is Tom, group Tom group built-in users, group built-in administrators and user media that we have in here and let's say we wanna save this as a preset pretty easy to do and we'll call it Tom's preset and we hit save and now we can apply that to another data set so let's go ahead and create a new share like first and we're gonna start it in the same place add a data set and we'll call it test two comments test two when you're creating a new data set and you want it to have ACL permissions make sure you choose a share type as SMB hit save now we're gonna click on this data set and roll down here to permissions and hit edit if you notice it just has standard permissions but when you hit edit brings you right into the ACL and we're gonna set this to Tom again and we're gonna use a preset so hit the preset here Tom preset continue and it also now added that user media that's one more accessory on there now what I ran into sometimes was you choose the preset we don't choose a user here it won't set these so that's why I did put the user up here but it seems to add the extras that were on there maybe I'm not completely understanding how it works but now I've allowed the user Tom and the user media full control in here apply permissions recursively I just do that out of habit and then we will go ahead and save the access control list it save it's going to apply those and now both Tom and admin would have access if we create a window share or SMB share for this particular data set now going back in here and if you wanted to get rid of that preset if we just click the save as a preset you'll actually see right here the ability to put the X and click on it and actually delete those other presets the ones that are built in still remain now that's all I have for the true NAS scale update but go ahead and read through that change log there's a lot of bug fixes for a point release there's a lot of work that's being done there's a lot of focus the team has in rapidly developing a product so I'm really excited watching it mature watching all the what was to me a really buggy system which is kind of expected when they first started to a much more mature system I'm also looking forward to the scale out features such as Gluster coming out of essentially experimental I know the features are baked in underlying they're going to use true command to manage it and I had a lot of people asking me for videos on it but I'm going to just wait until it's a little more stable because I don't like when my videos that I make for tutorials get dated quickly because they changed the way they do it and when something's an experimental that means there's a lot of experimenting going on and well UI elements may change and there's a lot of effort it goes into producing those tutorials and making sure they're exact and I don't want them to be outdated until something becomes more feature stable nonetheless leave your thoughts and comments down below of any of the other bugs that you ran into and of course if you ran into a bug make sure you're reporting it over in the true mass forms and engaging with the team there that's how they know how to fix it not just from complaining about it but I'm curious if there's some problem you ran into that maybe I didn't see or that replication error which I've linked to that particular bug report and maybe I just didn't read it well enough to try to exactly reproduce the problem but I'm happy I didn't have the problem because I have a lot of replication tasks going between all my different servers both core and scale and scale and core so that one mattered to me probably more than the others because I'm less worried about the apps other than sync thing is the one app that I do use across all the servers and that one worked fine but nonetheless love hearing from you I love hearing your thoughts and thanks.