| TrueNAS | |
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| Developer | iXsystems |
| Initial release | February 22, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-02-22) |
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| Operating system | Debian Linux |
| Platform | x86-64 |
| Type | Computer storage |
| License | GPL-3.0,Proprietary |
| Website | truenas |
| Repository | github |
| TrueNAS Legacy | |
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| Developer | iXsystems |
| Initial release | October 2005; 20 years ago (2005-10) |
| Final release | 13.3-U1.2 / April 29, 2025; 9 months ago (2025-04-29) |
| Operating system | FreeBSD |
| Platform | x86-64 (v9.2.1.9 was the last release that supported32-bit.[2]) |
| Type | Computer storage |
| License | BSD licenses,Proprietary |
| Website | truenas |
| Repository | github |
TrueNAS is a family of enterprisenetwork-attached storage (NAS) products developed byiXsystems Inc., dba TrueNAS. The products consist of TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Community Edition. TrueNAS Enterprise is a family of storage appliances, with fully integrated software and hardware, that is sold as a commercial product with enterprise support. TrueNAS Community Edition can be installed for free on commodityx86-64 computers. The operating systems include components released under a proprietary license,GPL andBSD licenses.
Built around theOpenZFS file system, TrueNAS provides a number of built-in file and block storage services as well as anOS-level virtualized app store (Linux containers andFreeBSD jails respectively) andvirtual machinehypervisor to host additional services.
The TrueNAS project originated as FreeNAS, created by Olivier Cochard-Labbé in October 2005, based on them0n0wall firewall andFreeBSD 6.0. Volker Theile joined the project in 2006 and later assumed its leadership.
In 2009 Theile concluded that FreeNAS required substantial rewrites to remain relevant. Considering the extent of the changes needed Theile proposed migrating the project toDebianLinux, however, Cochard-Labbé preferred FreeNAS to remain on FreeBSD, resulting in Theile agreeing to fork FreeNAS and ultimately creatingOpenMediaVault. FreeNAS would remain on FreeBSD with development taken over byiXsystems,[3][4] a company founded by originalBerkeley Software Design developers whose company supported the PC-BSD OS and sold a line of storage servers.[5]
FreeNAS 8.x was released in 2010 following a substantial rewrite of the front and back-end, and it integrated the OpenZFS file system. ixSystems also introduced the "TrueNAS" branding for their enterprise hardware appliances and proprietary OS based on FreeNAS, adding enterprise centric features such ashigh availability andFibre Channel support.[6]
In July 2020, iXsystems announced TrueNAS Scale, a "scale-out" Linux-based project based on TrueNAS Core.[6]
In 2021, iXsystems merged the commercial and free operating systems into a single codebase under the TrueNAS branding. The feature-limited free community edition was renamed TrueNAS Core, distinguishing it from TrueNAS Enterprise.[7]
In 2022, iXsystems released TrueNAS Scale, a Debian Linux port of the TrueNAS OS.[8] The "Scale" moniker was intended to be an homage to thescale-out storage capabilities of the Linux basedGluster File System andKubernetes based containerized app system. However, both Gluster and Kubernetes would be deprecated shortly thereafter.
At the end of 2023, citing higher adoption rates of the Linux-based TrueNAS Scale iXsystems announced that the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core would only receive maintenance/security updates going forward with no further feature development.[9]
In January of 2025, iXsystems announced that the Scale offering had reached full feature and performance parity with Core. As such, they announced that Scale would be renamed TrueNAS, available as the free "Community Edition" (CE) and the paid Enterprise edition, with all future development going into the Linux-based branch. The announcement recommended that all users of Scale and Core upgrade to the unified version 25.04 "Fangtooth" by the mid-late 2025.[10]
| User Type | TrueNAS Legacy | TrueNAS Enterprise (FreeBSD) | TrueNAS Enterprise (Linux) | TrueNAS Community Edition |
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| Developer | Community Edition | N/A | N/A | Goldeye Nightly |
| Tester | Community Edition | N/A | 25.04.2.1 | 25.04.2.1 |
| Early Adopter | Community Edition | N/A | 25.04.2.1 | 25.04.2.1 |
| General | 13.0-U6.8 | 13.0-U6.8 | 25.04.2.1 | 25.04.2.1 |
| Conservative | 13.0-U6.8 | 13.0-U6.8 | 24.10.2.2 | 24.10.2.2 |
| Mission Critical | Enterprise | 13.0-U6.8 | 24.10.2 | Enterprise |
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| Branch | Initial release | Latest Build | Released | FreeBSD version | Status | Notes / Changes |
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| 9.10 | 2016-03-23 | 9.10.2-U4 | 2017-05-25 | 10.3 STABLE | Previous Release | [12] |
| 10.0 ("Corral") | 2017-03-15 | N/A | Withdrawn: relegated to preview only | The "Corral" branch was cancelled on or around 23 April 2017, the developers citing as reasons that although it had been a major "ground up" rewrite of FreeNAS, too many issues had emerged within 2 weeks of release. Development reverted to the proven 9.10 branch of FreeNAS and the Corral branch was relegated to a "technology preview".[13][14] | ||
| 11.0[15] | 2017-06-14 | RELEASE | 2017-06-14 | 11 STABLE | Previous release | (Compared to 9.10 branch):[16][17]
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| 11.1 | 2017-12-13 | RELEASE | 2017-12-13 | 11 STABLE | Previous Release | Changes include the addition of cloud synchronization and preliminary Docker container support, as well as updates to the Angular-based administrative GUI and noticeable OpenZFS improvements for handling large files and multiple snapshots.[18][19] |
| 11.2 | 2018-07-09[20] | RELEASE | 2018-12-05 | 11.2 STABLE[21] | Previous Release | Highlights from release announcement:[22]
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| 11.3 | 2019-11-15[23] | RELEASE | 2020-01-28 | 11.3 STABLE[24] | Previous release | Highlights from release announcement:[24]
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| 12.0 | 2020-10-20 | 12.0-U8.1 | 2022-4-22 | 12.0-STABLE | Previous release | Highlights from release announcement.
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| 13.0 | 2022-5-10[25] | 13.0-U2 | 2022-8-30 | 13.0-U2 | Current release | Highlights from release announcement. |
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