

The Community is invited to edit, contribute, or simply provide feedback. The new TrueNAS 13.0 documentation is based on the TrueNAS 12.0 docs, which were more modular and expandable. Hundreds of users have already reported a very normal software update experience from TrueNAS 12.0.

There is a TrueNAS 13.0 sub-forum on the Community forums for this accelerated process and Community feedback. Because the TrueNAS 13.0 changes are less complex, it is maturing faster than TrueNAS 12.0 or TrueNAS SCALE. TrueNAS 13.0 has progressed quickly to the RELEASE and UPDATE stages. TrueNAS 13.0 RELEASE is a Major Milestone Thanks to a major contribution from WD, TrueNAS 13.0 passed comprehensive large-scale testing on a TrueNAS M60-HA with over 1,200 drives as shown in the iX lab below. The update from TrueNAS 12.0-U8 will be straightforward and driven entirely from the webUI. All the jails and plugin capabilities are maintained along with the storage services built into TrueNAS 12.0. TrueNAS 13.0 is the highest performing TrueNAS version for single node and HA deployments. It also includes Enterprise-grade features such as High Availability (HA), Fibre Channel, Pro-active Support, and Key Management (KMIP). TrueNAS Enterprise is delivered as TrueNAS appliances to organizations that want a turnkey experience. Like TrueNAS 12.0, TrueNAS 13.0 is a single unified image that supports either TrueNAS CORE or TrueNAS Enterprise capabilities. Note: With the release of TrueNAS 13.0, the expectation was that we would inherit the FReeBSD NFS server improvements. This can increase single-client performance on high-speed networks by as much as 400%. NFS server: TrueNAS 13.0 includes NFS support for nconnect* This allows multiple TCP connections from a Linux client to operate in parallel and provides higher and more robust performance. Larger scale performance testing results will be released in the coming months. These will translate into more bandwidth on backup and archive systems. ISCSI target: TrueNAS 13.0 includes support for larger native I/O sizes and general performance improvements. Samba 4.15: The Samba 4.15 release has important security improvements and virtual file system improvements that ensure SMB support is secure and robust. System restart and failover times are reduced by more than 80% for larger systems, which reduces downtime and increases system availability. One iX contribution reduces the ZFS pool import times by making the process more parallel. OpenZFS 2.1 extends the improvements in reliability and performance even further. OpenZFS 2.1: OpenZFS 2.0 was a huge quality success in TrueNAS 12.0. The Plugins and jails can now run with version 13.0 compatibility and the significant performance improvements increase IOPS and bandwidth for larger NAS systems by up to 20%.

There are major improvements to cryptography, networking, drivers, and NUMA scheduling. The significant new components of TrueNAS 13.0 are:įreeBSD 13.1: FreeBSD 13.1 includes thousands of improvements and numerous iXsystems contributions. TrueNAS 13.0 retains all the TrueNAS 12.0 services and middleware while providing significant improvements in security, availability, quality, and performance. TrueNAS 13.0 reached its RELEASE milestone today and is the natural successor to TrueNAS 12.0-U8, which has been the most widely deployed and highest quality TrueNAS version ever.
