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Welcome (again) to 6.9 release development! This release marks hopefully the last beta before moving to -rc phase. The reason we still mark beta is because we'd like to get wider testing of new multiple-pool feature, as well as perhaps sneak in a couple more refinements. With that in mind, the obligatory disclaimer: Important: Beta code is not fully tested and not feature-complete. We recommend running on test servers only! That said, here's what's new in this release... Multiple Pools This features permits you to define up to 35 named pools, of up to 30 storage devices/pool. The current "cache pool" is now simply a pool named "cache". Pools are created and managed via the Main page. Note: When you upgrade a server which has a cache pool defined, a backup of config/disk.cfg will be saved to config/disk.cfg.bak, and then cache device assignment settings are moved out of disk.cfg and into a new file, config/pools/cache.cfg. If later you revert back to a pre-6.9 Unraid OS release you will lose your cache device assignments and you will have to manually re-assign devices to cache. As long as you reassign the correct devices, data should remain intact. When you create a user share, or edit an existing user share, you can specify which pool should be associated with that share. The assigned pool functions identically to current cache pool operation. Something to be aware of: when a directory listing is obtained for a share, the unRAID array disk volumes and all pools which contain that share are merged in this order: pool assigned to share disk1 : disk28 all the other pools in strverscmp() order. As with the current "cache pool", a single-device pool may be formatted with either xfs, btrfs, or reiserfs. A multiple-device pool may only be formatted with btrfs. A future release will include support for multiple "unRAID array" pools. We are also considering zfs support. Something else to be aware of: Let's say you have a 2-device btrfs pool. This will be what btrfs calls "raid1" and what most people would understand to be "mirrored disks". Well this is mostly true in that the same data exists on both disks but not necessarily at the block-level. Now let's say you create another pool, and what you do is unassign one of the devices from the existing 2-device btrfs pool and assign it to this pool. Now you have x2 1-device btrfs pools. Upon array Start user might understandably assume there are now x2 pools with exactly the same data. However this is not the case. Instead, when Unraid OS sees that a btrfs device has been removed from an existing multi-device pool, upon array Start it will do a 'wipefs' on that device so that upon mount it will not be included in the old pool. This of course effectively deletes all the data on the moved device. Language Translation A huge amount of work and effort has been implemented by @bonienl to provide multiple-language support in the Unraid OS Management Utility, aka, webGUI. There are several language packs now available, and several more in the works. Thanks to @Squid, language packs are installed via the Community Applications plugin - look for a new category entitled Language. Note: Community Applications HAS to be up to date to install languages. Versions of CA prior to 2020.05.12 will not even load on this release. As of this writing, the current version of CA is 2020.06.13a. See also here. Each language pack exists in public Unraid organization github repos. Interested users are encouraged to clone and issue Pull Requests to correct translations errors. Language translations and PR merging is managed by @SpencerJ. Linux Kernel Upgraded to 5.7. Unfortunately, none of the out-of-tree drivers compile with this kernel. In particular, these drivers are omitted: Highpoint RocketRaid r750 Highpoint RocketRaid rr3740a Tehuti Networks tn40xx If you require one of these drivers, please create a Bug Report and we'll spend some time looking for alternatives. Better yet, pester the manufacturer of the controller and get them to update their drivers. Base Packages All updated to latest versions. In addition, Linux PAM has been integrated. This will permit us to install 2-factor authentication packages in a future release. Docker Updated to version 19.03.11 Also now possible to select different icons for multiple containers of the same type. This change necessitates a re-download of the icons for all your installed docker applications. A delay when initially loading either the dashboard or the docker tab while this happens is to be expected prior to the containers showing up. Virtualization libvirt updated to version 6.4.0 qemu updated to version 5.0.0 In addition, integrated changes to System Devices page by user @Skitals with modifications by user @ljm42. You can now select PCI devices to isolate from Linux upon boot simply by checking some boxes. This makes it easier to reserve those devices for assignment to VM's. Note: If you had the VFIO-PCI Config plugin installed, you should remove it as that functionality is now built-in to Unraid OS 6.9. Refer also @ljm42's excellent guide. In a future release we will include the NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers natively into Unraid OS. The primary use case is to facilitate accelerated transcoding in docker containers. For this we require Linux to detect and auto-install the appropriate driver. However, in order to reliably pass through an NVIDIA or AMD GPU to a VM, it's necessary to prevent Linux from auto-installing a GPU driver for those devices upon boot, which can be easily done now through System Devices page. Users passing GPU's to VM's are encouraged to set this up now. "unexpected GSO errors" If your system log is being flooded with errors such as: Jun 20 09:09:21 Tower kernel: tun: unexpected GSO type: 0x0, gso_size 31, hdr_len 66 You need to edit each VM and change the model type for the Ethernet bridge from "virtio" to "virtio-net". In most cases this can be accomplished simply by clicking Update in "Form View" on the VM Edit page. For other network configs it may be necessary to directly edit the xml. For example: <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio-net'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> Other AFP support has been removed. Numerous other Unraid OS and webGUI bug fixes and improvements. Version 6.9.0-beta22 2020-06-16 Caution! This is beta sofware, consider using on test servers only. Base distro: aaa_base: version 14.2 aaa_elflibs: version 15.0 build 23 acl: version 2.2.53 acpid: version 2.0.32 apcupsd: version 3.14.14 at: version 3.2.1 attr: version 2.4.48 avahi: version 0.8 bash: version 5.0.017 beep: version 1.3 bin: version 11.1 bluez-firmware: version 1.2 bridge-utils: version 1.6 brotli: version 1.0.7 btrfs-progs: version 5.6.1 bzip2: version 1.0.8 ca-certificates: version 20191130 build 1 celt051: version 0.5.1.3 cifs-utils: version 6.10 coreutils: version 8.32 cpio: version 2.13 cpufrequtils: version 008 cryptsetup: version 2.3.3 curl: version 7.70.0 cyrus-sasl: version 2.1.27 db48: version 4.8.30 dbus: version 1.12.18 dcron: version 4.5 devs: version 2.3.1 build 25 dhcpcd: version 8.1.9 diffutils: version 3.7 dmidecode: version 3.2 dnsmasq: version 2.81 docker: version 19.03.11 dosfstools: version 4.1 e2fsprogs: version 1.45.6 ebtables: version 2.0.11 eject: version 2.1.5 elvis: version 2.2_0 etc: version 15.0 ethtool: version 5.7 eudev: version 3.2.5 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libwebsockets: version 3.2.2 libx86: version 1.1 libxml2: version 2.9.10 libxslt: version 1.1.34 libzip: version 1.7.0 lm_sensors: version 3.6.0 logrotate: version 3.16.0 lshw: version B.02.17 lsof: version 4.93.2 lsscsi: version 0.31 lvm2: version 2.03.09 lz4: version 1.9.1 lzip: version 1.21 lzo: version 2.10 mc: version 4.8.24 miniupnpc: version 2.1 mpfr: version 4.0.2 nano: version 4.9.3 ncompress: version 4.2.4.6 ncurses: version 6.2 net-tools: version 20181103_0eebece nettle: version 3.6 network-scripts: version 15.0 build 9 nfs-utils: version 2.1.1 nghttp2: version 1.41.0 nginx: version 1.16.1 nodejs: version 13.12.0 nss-mdns: version 0.14.1 ntfs-3g: version 2017.3.23 ntp: version 4.2.8p14 numactl: version 2.0.11 oniguruma: version 6.9.1 openldap-client: version 2.4.49 openssh: version 8.3p1 openssl-solibs: version 1.1.1g openssl: version 1.1.1g p11-kit: version 0.23.20 patch: version 2.7.6 pciutils: version 3.7.0 pcre2: version 10.35 pcre: version 8.44 php: version 7.4.7 (CVE-2019-11048) pixman: version 0.40.0 pkgtools: version 15.0 build 33 pm-utils: version 1.4.1 procps-ng: version 3.3.16 pv: version 1.6.6 qemu: version 5.0.0 qrencode: version 4.0.2 reiserfsprogs: version 3.6.27 rpcbind: version 1.2.5 rsync: version 3.1.3 rsyslog: version 8.2002.0 samba: version 4.12.3 (CVE-2020-10700, CVE-2020-10704) sdparm: version 1.11 sed: version 4.8 sg3_utils: version 1.45 shadow: version 4.8.1 shared-mime-info: version 2.0 smartmontools: version 7.1 spice: version 0.14.1 sqlite: version 3.32.2 ssmtp: version 2.64 sudo: version 1.9.0 sysfsutils: version 2.1.0 sysvinit-scripts: version 2.1 build 31 sysvinit: version 2.96 talloc: version 2.3.1 tar: version 1.32 tcp_wrappers: version 7.6 tdb: version 1.4.3 telnet: version 0.17 tevent: version 0.10.2 traceroute: version 2.1.0 tree: version 1.8.0 ttyd: version 20200606 usbredir: version 0.7.1 usbutils: version 012 utempter: version 1.2.0 util-linux: version 2.35.2 vbetool: version 1.2.2 vsftpd: version 3.0.3 wget: version 1.20.3 which: version 2.21 wireguard-tools: version 1.0.20200513 wsdd: version 20180618 xfsprogs: version 5.6.0 xkeyboard-config: version 2.30 xorg-server: version 1.20.8 xterm: version 356 xz: version 5.2.5 yajl: version 2.1.0 zlib: version 1.2.11 zstd: version 1.4.5 Linux kernel: version 5.7.2 CONFIG_WIREGUARD: WireGuard secure network tunnel CONFIG_IP_SET: IP set support CONFIG_SENSORS_DRIVETEMP: Hard disk drives with temperature sensors enabled additional hwmon native drivers enabled additional hyperv drivers firmware added: BCM20702A1-0b05-180a.hcd out-of-tree driver status: igb: using in-tree version ixgbe: using in-tree version r8125: using in-tree version r750: (removed) rr3740a: (removed) tn40xx: (removed) Management: AFP support removed Multiple pool support added Multi-language support added avoid sending spinup/spindown to non-rotational devices get rid of 'system' plugin support (never used) integrate PAM integrate ljm42 vfio-pci script changes webgui: turn off username autocomplete in login form webgui: Added new display setting: show normalized or raw device identifiers webgui: Add 'Portuguese (pt)' key map option for libvirt webgui: Added "safe mode" one-shot safemode reboot option webgui: Tabbed case select window webgui: Updated case icons webgui: Show message when too many files for browsing webgui: Main page: hide Move button when user shares are not enabled webgui: VMs: change default network model to virtio-net webgui: Allow duplicate containers different icons webgui: Allow markdown within container descriptions webgui: Fix Banner Warnings Not Dismissing without reload of page webgui: Network: allow metric value of zero to set no default gateway webgui: Network: fix privacy extensions not set webgui: Network settings: show first DNSv6 server webgui: SysDevs overhaul with vfio-pci.cfg binding webgui: Icon buttons re-arrangement webgui: Add update dialog to docker context menu webgui: Update Feedback.php webgui: Use update image dialog for update entry in docker context menu webgui: Task Plugins: Providing Ability to define Display_Name

Welcome to 6.9 beta release development! This initial -beta1 release is exactly the same code set of 6.8.3 except that the Linux kernel has been updated to 5.5.8 (latest stable as of this date). We have only done basic testing on this release; normally we would not release 'beta' code but some users require the hardware support offered by the latest kernel along with security updates added into 6.8. Important: Beta code is not fully tested and not feature-complete. We recommend running on test servers only! Unfortunately none of our out-of-tree drivers will build with this kernel. Some were reverted back to in-tree version, some were omitted. We anticipate that by the time 6.9 enters 'rc' phase, we'll be on the 5.6 kernel and hopefully some of these out-of-tree drivers will be restored. We will be phasing in some new features, improvements, and changes to address certain bugs over the coming weeks - these will all be -beta releases. Don't be surprised if you see a jump in the beta number, some releases will be private. Version 6.9.0-beta1 2020-03-06 Linux kernel: version 5.5.8 igb: in-tree ixgbe: in-tree r8125: in-tree r750: (removed) rr3740a: (removed) tn40xx: (removed)