This release includes important bug fixes and security updates. All users are strongly encouraged to read the release notes and upgrade.

 

This announce post is perfect for quick questions or comments, but if you suspect there will be back and forth for your specific issue, please start a new topic under General Support. Be sure to include your diagnostics.zip.

 

Upgrade steps for this release

1. As always, prior to upgrading, create a backup of your USB flash device:  "Main/Flash/Flash Device Settings" - click "Flash Backup".

2. Read the release notes.

3. Update all of your plugins. This is critical for the Connect, NVIDIA and Realtek plugins in particular.
4. If the system is currently running 6.12.0 - 6.12.6, we're going to suggest that you stop the array at this point. If it gets stuck on "Retry unmounting shares", open a web terminal and type:

   umount /var/lib/docker

   The array should now stop successfully

5. If you have a recent release or Unraid Connect installed
   1. Open the dropdown in the top-right of the Unraid webgui and click Check for Update. More details in this blog post
6. If you are on an earlier version
   1. Go to Tools -> Update OS and switch to the "Stable" branch if needed. If the update doesn't show, click "Check for Updates"
7. Wait for the update to download and install
8. If you have any plugins that install 3rd party drivers (NVIDIA, Realtek, etc), wait for the notification that the new version of the driver has been downloaded. 
9. Reboot

 

This announce post is perfect for quick questions or comments, but if you suspect there will be back and forth for your specific issue, please start a new topic under General Support. Be sure to include your diagnostics.zip.

Running with no problems so far. Thanks for the update.

Does this version have all the same NFS fixes as 7.0?

Yes.

Has anyone else noticed WoL taking a lot longer with 6.12.15?

 

6.12.14 normally takes my system about 55 seconds for the shares to become available.     I upgraded to 6.12.15 yesterday and this morning when I woke my server, it responded to pings in under a minute, but took over 2 minutes for the web UI and shares to be accessible.   (This was the first WoL after the upgrade and I have done zero troubleshooting, so I don't think this deserves it's own thread yet.)

I'm trying to upgrade to 6.12.15 and I don't have that available on the Stable branch.  How can I upgrade to x.x.15 instead of 7.0.0?

 

1 minute ago, Blairwin said:

I'm trying to upgrade to 6.12.15 and I don't have that available on the Stable branch.  How can I upgrade to x.x.15 instead of 7.0.0?

What version are you on? Looks like you did not update for a long time and thus don't have the new update mechanism yet.

10 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

What version are you on? Looks like you did not update for a long time and thus don't have the new update mechanism yet.

I'm on 6.12.2.  If I switch to the Next branch I have 6.12.10 available but I wasn't sure if switching branches would cause problems that I'd like to avoid.

Edited January 23, 20251 yr by Blairwin

Read release notes

https://docs.unraid.net/category/release-notes/

 

Make sure you get a flash backup first.

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/download_list/

 

Replace all bz* files on flash with those from the zip

2 hours ago, Blairwin said:

I'm trying to upgrade to 6.12.15 and I don't have that available on the Stable branch.  How can I upgrade to x.x.15 instead of 7.0.0?

 

Looks like you need to read release notes, confirm with checkbox, then update button will unlock.

I have the same question. I don't want to upgrade to 7.0.0, just 6.12.15. I'm on 6.11.5 now

You'll probably have to do a manual upgrade as your current version is so old it won't know about the separate branches yet.

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/upgrade-instructions/#manual-upgrade-or-downgrade

Edited February 19, 20251 yr by Kilrah