6.10.0 Summary of New Features
As always, prior to updating, create a backup of your USB flash device: "Main/Flash/Flash Device Settings" - click "Flash Backup".
UPC and My Servers Plugin
The most visible new feature is located in the upper right of the webGUI header. We call this the User Profile Component, or UPC. The UPC allows a user to associate their server(s) and license key(s) with their Unraid Community forum account.
Starting with this release, it will be necessary for a new user to either sign-in with existing forum credentials or sign-up, creating a new account via the UPC in order to download a Trial key. All key purchases and upgrades are also handled exclusively via the UPC.
Signing-in provides these benefits:
No more reliance on email and having to copy/paste key file URLs in order to install a license key - keys are delivered and installed automatically to your server.
Notification of critical security-related updates. In the event a serious security vulnerability has been discovered and patched, we will send out a notification to all email addresses associated with registered servers.
Ability to install the My Servers plugin (see below).
Posting privilege in a new set of My Servers forum boards.
Once a license key has been provisioned, it is not necessary to remain signed-in, though there is no particular reason to sign-out. Exception: if you have installed the My Servers plugin, signed-in servers will maintain a websocket connection to a Lime Technology cloud server for the purpose of transmitting real-time status.
My Servers Plugin
My Servers is what we call our set of cloud-based or cloud-enabled services and features that integrate with your Unraid server(s). Once installed here are some of the features of My Servers:
My Servers Dashboard - when logged into the forum a new My Servers menu item appears. Clicking this brings up a Dashboard which displays a set of tiles representing each signed-in server. Here you can see real-time status such as whether the server is online or offline, storage utilization and other information. In addition, links are created to bring up a server webGUI, either locally on the LAN or remotely over the Internet (if Remote Access has been enabled).
flash backup - every registered server is provided with a private git repo initially populated with the contents of your USB flash boot device (except for certain files which contain private information such as passwords). Thereafter, configuration changes are automatically committed. Through the My Servers webApp it's possible to download a custom zip file that can be fed as input to the USB Flash Creator tool to move your configuration to a new USB flash device.
License key download - Again, through the My Servers webApp you can download your license key directly.
My Servers is an optional add-on, installed through Community Apps or via direct plugin URL. Detailed instructions can be found here.
Security Changes
It is now mandatory to define a root password. We also created a division in the Users page to distinguish root from other user names. The root UserEdit page includes a text box for pasting SSH authorized keys.
For new configurations, the flash share default export setting is No.
For all new user shares, the default export setting is No.
For new configurations, SMBv1 is disabled by default.
For new configurations, telnet, ssh, and ftp are disabled by default.
We removed certain strings from Diagnostics such as passwords found in the 'go' file.
Virtualization
Both libvirt and qemu have been updated. In addition qemu has been compiled with OpenGL support.
The built-in FireFox browser available in GUI-mode boot is built as an AppImage and located in the bzfirmware compressed file system image. This saves approximately 60MB of RAM.
The Wireguard plugin has been integrated into webGUI, that is, no need for the plugin. If you had the plugin installed previously, it will be uninstalled and moved to the "Plugins/Plugin File Install Errors" page. No action is needed unless you want to press the Delete button to remove it from that page. Your WireGuard tunnels and settings will be preserved.
Simplified installation of the Community Apps plugin. The webGUI automatically includes the Apps menu item, and if CA is not already installed, the page offers an Install button. No need to hunt for the plugin link.
Let's Encrypt SSL provisioning change. In previous releases code that provisions (allocates and downloads) a LE SSL certificate would first test if DNS Rebinding Protection was enforced on the user's LAN; and, if so, would not provision the certificate. Since there are other uses for a LE certificate we changed the code so that provision would always proceed. Next, we changed the logic behind the Auto selection of "Use SSL/TLS" setting on the Management Access page. Now it is only possible to select Auto if both a LE certificate has been provisioned and DNS Rebinding Protection is not enforced. This is a subtle change but permits certain My Servers features such as Remote Access.
Linux Kernel
Upgrade to Linux 5.13.8 kernel which includes so-called Sequoia vulnerability mitigation.
In-tree GPU drivers are now loaded by default if corresponding hardware is detected:
amdgpu
ast
i915
radeon
These drivers are required mostly for motherboard on-board graphics used in GUI boot mode. Loading of a driver can be prohibited by creating the appropriate file named after the driver:
echo "blacklist i915" > /boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf
Alternately, the device can be isolated from Linux entirely via the System Devices page. Note that in Unraid OS 6.9 releases the in-tree GPU drivers are blacklisted by default and to enabling loading a driver you need to create an empty "conf" file. After upgrading to Unraid OS 6.10 you may delete those files, or leave them as-is. This change was made to greatly improve the Desktop GUI experience for new users.
Added support for Intel GVT-g, which lets you split your Intel i915 iGPU into multiple virtual GPUs and pass them through to multiple VMs, using @ich777's Intel-GVT-g plugin.
Added support for gnif/vendor-reset. This simplifies @ich777's AMD Vendor Reset plugin which permits users to get their AMD video cards to reset properly.
Base Packages
Virtually the entire base package set has been updated.
Other improvements available in 6.10, which are maybe not so obvious to spot from the release notes and some of these improvements are internal and not really visible:
Event driven model to obtain server information and update the webGUI in real-time
The advantage of this model is its scalability. Multiple browsers can be opened simultaneously to the webGUI without much impact
In addition stale browser sessions won't create any CSRF errors anymore
People who keep their browser open 24/7 will find the webGUI stays responsive at all times
Docker labels
Docker labels are added to allow people using Docker compose to make use of icons and GUI access
Look at a Docker 'run' command output to see exactly what labels are used
Docker custom networks
A new setting for custom networks is available. Originally custom networks are created using the macvlan mode, and this mode is kept when upgrading to version 6.10
The new ipvlan mode is introduced to battle the crashes some people experience when using macvlan mode. If that is your case, change to ipvlan mode and test. Changing of mode does not require to reconfigure anything on Docker level, internally everything is being taken care off.
Docker bridge network (docker0)
docker0 now supports IPv6. This is implemented by assigning docker0 a private IPv6 subnet (fd17::/64), similar to what is done for IPv4 and use network translation to communicate with the outside world
Containers connected to the bridge network now have both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity (of course the system must have IPv6 configured in the network configuration)
In addition several enhancements are made in the IPv6 implementation to better deal with the use (or no-use) of IPv6
Plugins page
The plugins page now loads information in two steps. First the list of plugins is created and next the more time consuming plugin status field is retrieved in the background. The result is a faster loading plugins page, especially when you have a lot of plugins installed
Dashboard graphs
The dashboard has now two graphs available. The CPU graph is displayed by default, while the NETWORK graph is a new option under Interface (see the 'General Info' selection)
The CPU graph may be hidden as well in case it is not desired
Both graphs have a configurable time-line, which is by default 30 seconds and can be changed independently for each graph to see a longer or shorter history.
Graphs are updated in real-time and are useful to observe the behavior of the server under different circumstances
Other Changes
We switched to a better-maintained version of the WSD server component called wsdd2 in an effort to eliminate instances where the wsd daemon would start consuming 100% of a CPU core.
Fixed issue where you couldn't create a docker image on a share name that contains a space.
Fixed issue where 'mover' would not move to a pool name that contains a space.
Fixed issue in User Share file system where permissions were not being honored.
We increased the font size in Terminal.
Many other small bug fixes and improvements.
Credits
Special thanks to all our beta testers and especially:
@bonienl for his continued refinement and updating of the Dynamix webGUI.
@Squid for continued refinement of Community Apps and associated feed.
@dlandon for continued refinement of Unassigned Devices plugin and patience as we change things under the hood.
@ich777 for assistance and passing on knowledge of Linux kernel config changes to support third party drivers and other kernel-related functionality via plugins.
@SimonF for refinements to System Devices page and other webGUI improvements. We intend to merge your mover progress changes during this RC series.
Version 6.10.0-rc1 2021-08-07
Base distro:
aaa_base: version 15.0
aaa_glibc-solibs: version 2.33
aaa_libraries: version 15.0
acl: version 2.3.1
acpid: version 2.0.32
adwaita-icon-theme: version 40.1.1
apcupsd: version 3.14.14
appres: version 1.0.5
at: version 3.2.2
at-spi2-atk: version 2.38.0
at-spi2-core: version 2.40.3
atk: version 2.36.0
attr: version 2.5.1
avahi: version 0.8
bash: version 5.1.008
beep: version 1.3
bin: version 11.1
bind: version 9.16.19
bluez-firmware: version 1.2
bridge-utils: version 1.7.1
brotli: version 1.0.9
btrfs-progs: version 5.13.1
bzip2: version 1.0.8
ca-certificates: version 20210526
cairo: version 1.16.0
celt051: version 0.5.1.3
cifs-utils: version 6.13
coreutils: version 8.32
cpio: version 2.13
cpufrequtils: version 008
cracklib: version 2.9.7
cryptsetup: version 2.3.6
curl: version 7.78.0
cyrus-sasl: version 2.1.27
db48: version 4.8.30
dbus: version 1.12.20
dbus-glib: version 0.112
dcron: version 4.5
dejavu-fonts-ttf: version 2.37
devs: version 2.3.1
dhcpcd: version 8.1.9
diffutils: version 3.8
dmidecode: version 3.3
dnsmasq: version 2.85
docker: version 20.10.6
dosfstools: version 4.2
e2fsprogs: version 1.46.3
ebtables: version 2.0.11
editres: version 1.0.7
eject: version 2.1.5
elogind: version 246.10
elvis: version 2.2_0
encodings: version 1.0.5
etc: version 15.0
ethtool: version 5.13
eudev: version 3.2.10
file: version 5.40
findutils: version 4.8.0
flex: version 2.6.4
floppy: version 5.5
fluxbox: version 1.3.7
fontconfig: version 2.13.92
freeglut: version 3.2.1
freetype: version 2.11.0
fribidi: version 1.0.10
fuse3: version 3.10.4
gawk: version 5.1.0
gd: version 2.3.2
gdbm: version 1.20
gdk-pixbuf2: version 2.42.6
genpower: version 1.0.5
getty-ps: version 2.1.0b
git: version 2.32.0
glew: version 2.2.0
glib2: version 2.68.3
glibc: version 2.33
glibc-zoneinfo: version 2021a
glu: version 9.0.2
gmp: version 6.2.1
gnutls: version 3.6.16
gptfdisk: version 1.0.8
graphite2: version 1.3.14
grep: version 3.6
gtk+3: version 3.24.30
gzip: version 1.10
harfbuzz: version 2.8.2
haveged: version 1.9.14
hdparm: version 9.62
hicolor-icon-theme: version 0.17
hostname: version 3.23
htop: version 3.0.5
hwloc: version 2.2.0
icu4c: version 69.1
imlib2: version 1.7.1
inetd: version 1.79s
infozip: version 6.0
inih: version 53
inotify-tools: version 3.20.11.0
iproute2: version 5.13.0
iptables: version 1.8.7
iputils: version 20210722
irqbalance: version 1.7.0
jansson: version 2.13.1
jemalloc: version 5.2.1
jq: version 1.6
json-c: version 0.15_20200726
keyutils: version 1.6.3
kmod: version 29
krb5: version 1.19.2
lbzip2: version 2.5
less: version 590
libICE: version 1.0.10
libSM: version 1.2.3
libX11: version 1.7.2
libXau: version 1.0.9
libXaw: version 1.0.14
libXcomposite: version 0.4.5
libXcursor: version 1.2.0
libXdamage: version 1.1.5
libXdmcp: version 1.1.3
libXevie: version 1.0.3
libXext: version 1.3.4
libXfixes: version 6.0.0
libXfont: version 1.5.2
libXfont2: version 2.0.5
libXfontcache: version 1.0.5
libXft: version 2.3.4
libXi: version 1.7.10
libXinerama: version 1.1.4
libXmu: version 1.1.3
libXpm: version 3.5.13
libXrandr: version 1.5.2
libXrender: version 0.9.10
libXres: version 1.2.1
libXt: version 1.2.1
libXtst: version 1.2.3
libXxf86dga: version 1.1.5
libXxf86misc: version 1.0.4
libXxf86vm: version 1.1.4
libaio: version 0.3.112
libarchive: version 3.5.1
libcap-ng: version 0.8.2
libcgroup: version 0.41
libdaemon: version 0.14
libdmx: version 1.1.4
libdrm: version 2.4.107
libedit: version 20210714_3.1
libepoxy: version 1.5.8
libestr: version 0.1.9
libevdev: version 1.11.0
libevent: version 2.1.12
libfastjson: version 0.99.9
libffi: version 3.3
libfontenc: version 1.1.4
libgcrypt: version 1.9.3
libglvnd: version 1.3.3
libgpg-error: version 1.42
libgudev: version 236
libidn: version 1.38
libjpeg-turbo: version 2.1.0
liblogging: version 1.0.6
libmnl: version 1.0.4
libnetfilter_conntrack: version 1.0.8
libnfnetlink: version 1.0.1
libnftnl: version 1.2.0
libnl3: version 3.5.0
libpcap: version 1.10.1
libpciaccess: version 0.16
libpng: version 1.6.37
libpsl: version 0.21.1
libpthread-stubs: version 0.4
libseccomp: version 2.5.1
libssh: version 0.9.5
libssh2: version 1.9.0
libtasn1: version 4.17.0
libtiff: version 4.3.0
libtiff: version 4.3.0
libtirpc: version 1.3.2
libunistring: version 0.9.10
libunwind: version 1.5.0
libusb: version 1.0.24
libusb-compat: version 0.1.7
libuv: version 1.41.0
libvirt: version 7.3.0
libvirt-php: version 0.5.5
libwebp: version 1.2.0
libwebsockets: version 4.2.0
libx86: version 1.1
libxcb: version 1.14
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logrotate: version 3.18.1
lshw: version B.02.19.2
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lz4: version 1.9.3
lzip: version 1.22
lzo: version 2.10
mc: version 4.8.26
miniupnpc: version 2.1
mkfontscale: version 1.2.1
mpfr: version 4.1.0
mtdev: version 1.1.6
nano: version 5.8
ncompress: version 5.0
ncurses: version 6.2_20201219
net-tools: version 20181103_0eebece
nettle: version 3.7.3
network-scripts: version 15.0
nfs-utils: version 2.5.4
nghttp2: version 1.44.0
nginx: version 1.19.9
nss-mdns: version 0.14.1
ntfs-3g: version 2017.3.23
ntp: version 4.2.8p15
numactl: version 2.0.13
oniguruma: version 6.9.7
openssh: version 8.6p1
openssl: version 1.1.1k
openssl-solibs: version 1.1.1k
p11-kit: version 0.24.0
pam: version 1.5.1
pango: version 1.48.7
patch: version 2.7.6
pciutils: version 3.7.0
pcre: version 8.45
pcre2: version 10.37
php: version 7.4.18
pixman: version 0.40.0
pkgtools: version 15.0
procps-ng: version 3.3.17
pv: version 1.6.6
qemu: version 6.0.0
qrencode: version 4.1.1
reiserfsprogs: version 3.6.27
rpcbind: version 1.2.5
rsync: version 3.2.3
rsyslog: version 8.2102.0
sakura: version 3.5.0
samba: version 4.12.15
sdparm: version 1.12
sed: version 4.8
sessreg: version 1.1.2
setxkbmap: version 1.3.2
sg3_utils: version 1.46
shadow: version 4.8.1
shared-mime-info: version 2.1
slim: version 1.3.6
smartmontools: version 7.2
spice: version 0.15.0
sqlite: version 3.36.0
ssmtp: version 2.64
startup-notification: version 0.12
sudo: version 1.9.7p2
sysfsutils: version 2.1.0
sysvinit: version 2.99
sysvinit-scripts: version 15.0
talloc: version 2.3.2
tar: version 1.34
tcp_wrappers: version 7.6
tdb: version 1.4.5
telnet: version 0.17
tevent: version 0.11.0
traceroute: version 2.1.0
transset: version 1.0.2
tree: version 1.8.0
ttyd: version 20210507
usbredir: version 0.8.0
usbutils: version 013
utempter: version 1.2.0
util-linux: version 2.37.1
vbetool: version 1.2.2
vsftpd: version 3.0.5
vte3: version 0.50.2
wayland: version 1.19.0
wget: version 1.21.1
which: version 2.21
wireguard-tools: version 1.0.20210424
wsdd2: version 1.8.3.2
xauth: version 1.1
xcb-util: version 0.4.0
xclock: version 1.0.9
xdpyinfo: version 1.3.2
xdriinfo: version 1.0.6
xev: version 1.2.4
xf86-input-evdev: version 2.10.6
xf86-input-keyboard: version 1.9.0
xf86-input-mouse: version 1.9.3
xf86-input-synaptics: version 1.9.1
xf86-video-ast: version 1.1.5
xf86-video-mga: version 2.0.0
xf86-video-vesa: version 2.5.0
xfsprogs: version 5.12.0
xhost: version 1.0.8
xinit: version 1.4.1
xkbcomp: version 1.4.5
xkbevd: version 1.1.4
xkbutils: version 1.0.4
xkeyboard-config: version 2.33
xkill: version 1.0.5
xload: version 1.1.3
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xlsclients: version 1.1.4
xmessage: version 1.0.5
xmodmap: version 1.0.10
xorg-server: version 1.20.13
xprop: version 1.2.5
xrandr: version 1.5.1
xrdb: version 1.2.0
xrefresh: version 1.0.6
xset: version 1.2.4
xsetroot: version 1.1.2
xsm: version 1.0.4
xterm: version 368
xtrans: version 1.4.0
xwd: version 1.0.8
xwininfo: version 1.1.5
xwud: version 1.0.5
xxHash: version 0.8.0
xz: version 5.2.5
yajl: version 2.1.0
zlib: version 1.2.11
zstd: version 1.5.0
Linux kernel:
version 5.13.8 (CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-33910)
CONFIG_USB4: Unified support for USB4 and Thunderbolt
CONFIG_USB4_NET: Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables
CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT: Enable Intel GVT-g graphics virtualization host support
CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT_KVMGT: Enable KVM/VFIO support for Intel GVT-g
CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV: Mediated device driver framework
CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE: VFIO driver for Mediated devices
CONFIG_FTRACE: Tracers
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER: Kernel Function Tracer
CONFIG_KPROBES: Kprobes
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL: Kernel debugging
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL: Include all symbols in kallsyms
CONFIG_X86_X32: removed
md_unraid: version 2.9.18
Management:
emhttp new defaults:
- root password required
- newly created shares not exported by default
- predefined 'flash' share not exported by default
- ftp, ssh, telnet: disabled by default
- NetBIOS disabled by default
- WSD enabled (and using newer 'wsdd2' package)
- Enhanced macOS interoperability enabled
mover: fix bug not moving shares with embedded spaces
shfs: fix bug where permissions being ingored ('default_permissions' was missing in mount command)
webgui: support simultanious LAN SSL with self-signed cert and DNS-based SSL with Lets Encrypt cert
webgui: Suppress non-relevant IPv6 routes in routing table
webgui: Fixed smart temperature settings sometimes not possible
webgui: Add internal container reference
webgui: Diagnostics: Remove lines from go containing passwords etc
webgui: Better translation of docker container variables
webgui: Fix monitor false positives
webgui: Allow ruleset for local rules in rsyslog.conf
webgui: Include links in email and Discord agent notifications
webgui: Allow all notification agents to send links
webgui: Validate WebGUI ports before applying
webgui: Add vmxnet3 and e1000 into available NICs for VMs
webgui: Error checking etc on ports for syslog server
webgui: Check for flash offline / quick check on if it is corrupted
webgui: Only allow png files to be uploaded as user image
webgui: Diagnostics: Revamp anonymization
webgui: Add WireGuard GUI
webgui: Update DashStats.page
webgui: Bug fix in DashStats
webgui: Fix corruption check after a New Config is issued
webgui: Update alert text
webgui: Translation support (Unraid.net)
webgui: WireGuard: preset peer DNS server with "Remote tunneled access"
webgui: Plugins page loading improvements
webgui: Docker page loading improvements
webgui: Make WireGuard trademark visible on "full" page
webgui: Replace polling scripts with event driven Nchan interface
webgui: Improved format of stale and error plugin pages
webgui: Docker: Add crypto as a category
webgui: Dashboard: add CPU and NETWORK chart
webgui: Docker: compress too long author names
webgui: Convert notify polling to Nchan
webgui: Docker: process bash ANSI colors in web log display
webgui: dockerMan: remove HTML from descriptions
webgui: SSH authorized keys UI
webgui: Device_list replace .png icon with font icon
webgui: Compress too long share names in dropdown menus
webgui: Show management access and shares access groups for users
webgui: Added "User 'root'" reference on Management Access page
webgui: Show warning when javascript is disabled
webgui: Force creation of root password
webgui: Edit/Add Container: Fix browser console error
webgui: WireGuard: warn when directly connected with public IP
webgui: Fix network bonding display
webgui: Add tracking after system shutdown
webgui: Added notify when plugin fails to install
webgui: Add Apps link to install CA
webgui: Diagnostics: Add share summary
webgui: Suppress IPv6 anycast addresses in routing table
webgui: Diagnostics: Add share summary
webgui: Diagnostics: Include current plugin versions
webgui: Diagnostics: add DHCP log
webgui: Diagnostics fix plugin deprecated max version error
webgui: Docker: Support CA tag
webgui: Delete DockerRepositories.page
webgui: dockerMan Security: Remove HTML tags from Config elements
webgui: When viewing source, identify which .page file is responsible
webgui: System devices additions
webgui: Create syslog entry when user logs out
webgui: privatize host in diagnostics
webgui: Create favicon.ico
webgui: Update Credits.page