Thanks to everyone who tested and provided feedback on the betas!

• Unraid 7.2.0-beta.2 was installed on nearly 4000 systems during the month it was the latest

• Unraid 7.2.0-beta.3 was installed on nearly 3000 systems in the last week and a half

Unraid 7.2.0-rc.1 is now available! See all the details in the release notes.

Note that some plugins may have visual issues in this release, please give plugin authors time to make adjustments. Plugin authors, please see this post describing how to update your plugins to make them responsive.

Upgrade instructions are available in the docs.

 

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 in the Prereleases board. Be sure to include your diagnostics.zip.

Details for our beta testers:

# fixes in -rc.1 mentioned in the release notes

- Fix: When stopping array, do not attempt 'umount' on array devices that are not mounted
- Improvement: Exclusive shares may be selected for NFS export
- Fix: Improvements to reading from/writing to SMB Security Settings
- Fix: Dashboard: More than 1TB of RAM was not reported correctly
- Fix: Prevent issues when clicking an external link from within a changelog
- Fix: PHP warnings importing WireGuard tunnels
- Improvement: Enhance Discord notification agent; enable/disable the agent to get the updates

# fixes in -rc.1 that are not in the release notes because they fix issues from previous betas

- Fix: File Manager: options hidden behind destination dropdown
- Fix: Dashboard Network Interface dropdown too wide
- Fix: Dashboard charts cutoff at zero
- Fix: Color of navigation indicator on some themes
- Fix: Dashboard: Tooltips not scrolling with the content
- Fix: Resolved issues with Listing Height Fixed
- Fix: Creating/deleting a share fails if exclusive shares are enabled
- Fix: NTFS3 drives mounted with utf8 character encoding
- Chore: Remove debugging information from publish.php
- Improvement: VMs page now tabbed

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 in the Prereleases board. Be sure to include your diagnostics.zip.

Thanks @ljm42 , FWIW, both of your posts above, very useful and factual info. The number of systems installed and general low level amount of issues brings high confidence in a good stable release. The summary of changes in the second post is a really useful time saver.

Also as others have noted, 7.2 seems to be looking like a good solid release. I still have my main prod server on 6.12.15. I'm confident enough with what's transpired so far in the beta's to try 7.2 on it once fully released.

Edited October 2, 2025Oct 2 by warpspeed

7.2 shaping up to be the most solid release in a long while in my opinion, not a jab at the previous releases of course, but it's good sign of another solid stable landing point for the few that have been hanging onto older versions for a little too long.

Updated from b3 to rc1 with no issues at all! Also, this was my 1st successful reboot! Normally my system hangs on the reboot and I have to manually power it off/on to get it past that but today it just rebooted so whatever changed there, thanks! 🙂

Nice changelog for us testers. Much appreciated!

Running fine. 17h uptime.

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by Niklas

No issues here so far. Works like 7.1.4.

I have skipped the Betas, the included changes are not used here, so I could not test anything.

Too fast ok from me :-(

I found a not serious, but annoying and irritating problem with 7.2 SMB implementation.

Where to report?

if here, read on. else move it to the correct forum pls:

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Using a mounted share with the windows explorer now gives a strange error message if you try to click "one directory level upwards".

Clicking it more than once (after quitting the messagebox before of course) gives success after the third or fourth try.

Clicking the "up" arrow,

always works instantly.

(of course there should not be any difference between "going up one level" and "going back one level")

A bit annoying and definately new to 7.2

(I know in windows server there is a GPO to allow "bypass directory transversals", maybe something alike is now in SAMBA or the default setting has changed somehow?)

This does NOT happen with "real" Windows Server (tested 2019 and 2022).

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by MAM59

51 minutes ago, MAM59 said:

Where to report?

if here, read on. else move it to the correct forum pls:

Over in here: https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/prereleases/

51 minutes ago, MAM59 said:

Using a mounted share with the windows explorer now gives a strange error message if you try to click "one directory level upwards".

I cannot duplicate, but for further testing and discussion, please create a bug report.

2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

I cannot duplicate, but for further testing and discussion, please create a bug report.

yeah, currently I cannot reproduce it too anymore... but it happened 2 times in the las 2 days already. I will keep an eye open and see if I can find the cause before I report a bug...

The thing is that it works again after some retries. Seems that the credentials are missing, but I don't know why.

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 in the Prereleases board. Be sure to include your diagnostics.zip.

Updated to all the beta’s and on rc 1 now, rock solid my side and no issues. Shaping up to be a great release

Upgraded from 7.1.4 and everything went mostly fine. Only two small issues noticed so far.

1) The Docker wait time values are truncated:

2) When the system first booted up I got several IPMI event alerts that fans had gone critical. This may be due to the IPMI plugin though?

Thanks guys, this looks good!

Edited October 4, 2025Oct 4 by craigr

7.2 beta3 upgraded to 7.2 rc1 without any issues, running perfectly. Thank you to the community developers for their efforts!

I bit the bullet and upgraded my 6.12.15 primary server to 7.2-rc1.

Generally it seems to have gone okay, but I did find a few points of note, some might not be actual issues, I'll open bug reports about the ones that are, but basically:

• Intel i915 driver had a sad in dmesg on boot... a trace about something

  • haven't yet figured out if that's an actual problem or not

  • Edit: Doesn't seem to be an actual problem, iGPU is happily hardware transcoding without issue

• There's some junky characters in some logs relating to the API in syslog

  • e.g. root: #033[95m[Nest] 12074 - #033[39m10/05/2025, 2:56:49 PM #033[95m DEBUG#033[39m #033[38;5;3m[ConfigFileHandler:api.json] #033[39mError: Config file does not exist at '/boot/config/plugins/dynamix.my.servers/configs/api.json'

• SNMP plugin decided to auto update without my interaction and then failed, only option seems to be to remove it and reinstall?

  • e.g. Starting snmpd: /usr/sbin/snmpd: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  • Edit: looks like the update didn't completely work, deleting and reinstalling from Apps has fixed it

• text "starting dockers" on docker page is a serif font instead of sans-serif

  • there's also some funky refreshing going on here that causes the autostart sliders against each docker to animate every few seconds till they all start

• dmesg kernel complaining about bad command (doesn't appear to be an actual problem)

  • Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/bzimage initrd=/bzroot nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off

  • Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/bzimage", will be passed to user space.

• commented out explanations on the drivers page from limetech/unraid are missing from the right far most field for kvm and mpt3sas... the actual options are still there, just not the comments explaining

That's all I've observed so far. Otherwise my server appears to be working okay... bearing in mind I've only had it booted for about one hour :)

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by warpspeed

Small feature request for the final release:

Move Docker template lines upwards and downwards on the GUI with Ctrl+Up/Down-Key and via drag-and-drop so you don't have to edit the xml file.

EDIT:

Also a feature, like a button, to "blame" CA Applications to be outdated and the maintainer gets informed. For example @SpaceInvaderOne 's PostgreSQL_Immich, which runs on pgvecto-rs and will be replaced by VectorChord . Users should be informed as well.

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by p0p

1 hour ago, p0p said:

Move Docker template lines upwards and downwards on the GUI with Ctrl+Up/Down-Key and via drag-and-drop so you don't have to edit the xml file.

Drag/drop's been there for a long time, click the padlock and that makes the sliders appear.

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by Kilrah

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

You've always been able to drag/drop, click the padlock and that makes the sliders appear.

I meant these lines :)

Eh, that's dealt with by the template maintainer who still wants to edit the XML anyway, and unlike the container order the order of those is meaningless, no point wasting time on that IMO.

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by Kilrah

1 hour ago, p0p said:

Small feature request for the final release:

Move Docker template lines upwards and downwards on the GUI with Ctrl+Up/Down-Key and via drag-and-drop so you don't have to edit the xml file.

EDIT:

Also a feature, like a button, to "blame" CA Applications to be outdated and the maintainer gets informed. For example @SpaceInvaderOne 's PostgreSQL_Immich, which runs on pgvecto-rs and will be replaced by VectorChord . Users should be informed as well.

7.2 is feature locked, during RC normally will only be bug fixes.

23 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Eh, that's dealt with by the template maintainer who sill has to edit the XML anyway, and the order of those is meaningless, no point wasting time on that IMO.

As an "advanced user" I'm often adding variables. I'd like to keep my variables sorted/clean and don't want to leave a mess where my future me has put in my last crippling brain cells where I've put them and how they are connected. ;)

2 minutes ago, SimonF said:

7.2 is feature locked, during RC normally will only be bug fixes.

Thanks for letting me know!

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by p0p

Good morning,

A few day ago I upgraded trom 7.1.4 to 7.2.0-rc1.

I'm running Unraid OS on a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro 6 with 8GB RAM and 4 x 6TB disks in a single ZFS storage pool. Main purpose of this NAS is being a backup of all my media (music, photos & video).

Knowing that the ReadyNAS Pro 6 is rather dated, it provides good-enough performance running 7.1.4. With 7.2.0-rc1 however, performance has degraded significantly leading to longer backup operations. I cannot provide a factual comparison, but I think a takes a good 3-4 times longer.

I have attached the diagnostics in the hope someone can help me find a solution. If the hardware requirements for 7.2.0 have increased, then I will probably have to downgrade to 7.1.4 and stay there.

Many thanks in advance...

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by UNRAIDyNAS

1 hour ago, UNRAIDyNAS said:

If the hardware requirements for 7.2.0 have increased, then I will probably have to downgrade to 7.1.4 and stay there.

There should' be any significant changes, since both the kernel and OpenZFS are similar and the same main release. Please downgrade to 7.1.4, confirm it's still significantly faster there, and if yes, create a new post with more details and stats of the operation you are doing.

24 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Please downgrade to 7.1.4, confirm it's still significantly faster there, and if yes, create a new post with more details and stats of the operation you are doing.

Many thanks JorgeB.

I copied my music library from a USB connected harddisk to the ReadyNAS under Windows 11 using the following command:

robocopy "M:\Music\My Lyrion Music Server" "\\192.168.1.8\Media\Music\My Lyrion Music Server" /E /PURGE

With 7.2.0-rc1 this takes 15:16 minutes where as the exact same operation on 7.1.4 takes 05:45 minutes, i.e. almost 3 times faster.

I attached a PDF with more details about the size of the music library as well as both the 7.1.4 and 7.2.0-rc1 diagnostics.

PS. In both copy operations, the source and target content where the same meaning that they were compared but 0 files got actually copied.

Thanks again.

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by UNRAIDyNAS