TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 “Dragonfish” continues to mature with today’s release of the second major update. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2 is focused on security and stability, in preparation for widespread enterprise adoption.

In the last month, TrueNAS SCALE has reached over 130,000 users, slightly more than TrueNAS 13.0. Over 50,000 members of the TrueNAS Community have already upgraded to TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 and benefited from the new functionality introduced in the release version, and the performance tuning of the first major update. Thanks to their helpful and detailed feedback, we’re releasing 24.04.2 for our more mission-critical customers.

TrueNAS Enterprise users looking to upgrade their systems to 24.04.2 from an earlier version should contact iXsystems support to schedule a planned upgrade. TrueNAS 13.0 users will also have a choice of 13.3 later this year.

Added Features

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2 brings over 80 fixes and improvements, including:

• Linux kernel 6.6.32
• OpenZFS 2.2.4
• Reduction of writes to boot devices (we still recommend high-quality boot SSDs)
• Fix for CVE-2024-6387 (aka “regreSSHion”)
• Faster iSCSI failover times and fixes to ALUA bug
• Fixes for Intel ARC GPU transcoding support
• Fixes for Apple Time Machine users
• Improved dynamic ARC resizing under increased memory pressure

For a full list of the improvements in TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2, please see the release notes on the TrueNAS Documentation Hub.

Enterprise Ready

With the release of 24.04.2, TrueNAS SCALE will be rolling out to our users with Mission Critical use cases after a few weeks of validation. Check the TrueNAS Software Status page for further details on the best time to upgrade your TrueNAS installation.

Intel ARC GPU Support

Included with TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2 is hardware support for the line of Intel ARC graphics cards, bringing powerful video encoding and decoding capabilities with minimal additional power consumption.

Refinements and Quality-of-Life Improvements

In addition to improvements and updates to the pivotal services that make TrueNAS the safest place for your data, SCALE 24.04.2 improves the user interface by adding clearer tooltips, improves the readability and user-friendliness of informational and alert dialogs, and adds improved defaults for some popular command-line tools used by the more technical members of the community to fine-tune their TrueNAS installations.

“Electric Eel” is in Development

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 “Dragonfish” is the predecessor to 24.10 “Electric Eel,” which is in active development for a Q4 release. As previously outlined in the TrueNAS Community Forums, Electric Eel will change the Apps engine from Kubernetes to Docker and Docker Compose. All of the official TrueNAS Catalog Apps, including Community apps, will be switched seamlessly. Look forward to the first 24.10-BETA release and additional details about Apps migration in August.

Get TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2 Today

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04.2 is available today from the TrueNAS SCALE download page, and will be rolling out shortly as an optional update for users to download through the System Update menu in the TrueNAS web UI. Come join the over 50,000 Community members running the latest version of SCALE, and take your storage to the next level.

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