Download Rockstor 3.8-13

Rockstor is a CentOS-based Linux distribution, which can be used as a NAS or private cloud storage solution, among other things. It uses popular open source technologies such as the Btrfs file system and Docker to deploy applications in so-called software containers. Rockstor is free to use and updates can be received over a test or stable channel. Updates through the test channel are very frequent, often several times a week, but can sometimes contain bugs. Updates via the stable channel, which only subscribers have access to, are released every three to four weeks and have been extensively tested. Version 3.8-13 was released on Thursday and the release notes are as follows:

Announcing Rockstor 3.8-13

rockstor 3.8-13 is now available! We closed 23 issues of different magnitudes in this cycle. The two big ones include adding support for Network Teaming and Bonding, and advanced SMART management support. These features were requested and voted for, by many users which makes us especially happy to finally roll out.

There were several fixes and enhancements as well, following the established trend of our updates. All this is possible, thanks to a strong and growing community. We welcomed two new contributors to this cycle, @MFlyer and @ScarabMonkey. A total of five contributors collaborated to bring you this release. Also, as always, thanks to subscribers for supporting our effort. We are delighted to bring you this update.

The 3.8-13 ISO is downloadable from here for new users. After installation, please purchase Stable update subscription and take advantage of many benefits that come with it. Existing subscribers on the other hand, can update easily from the Web-UI.

3.8-13 release cycle was fun, and made substantial with high participation, both by regular and new community members. We are evolving and reinforcing our iterative development habit with every release, which means a lot of short term improvements and sustained long term work along with new features. We were able to react to bugs faster in this cycle thanks to active users who are quick to report and in some cases, document the fix or even open a pull request. I regret not getting to a couple of pull requests still pending review, which I am looking forward to next!

Here is the list of all issues resolved in this release

• Add Network Teaming and Bonding support. #560
• Support user supplied custom SMART parameters. #1079
• Redesign Services page. #796
• Advice user to use nmtui in case of install without network. #1268
• Allow Rock-on metadata update on failed installation. #1259
• Add optional SMTP authentication to email notification setup. #1228
• Handlebars template improvements in samba UI. #1176
• Add support to sort services by status in the UI. #1201
• Improve storage unmount logic. #1242
• Make adding storage to Rock-ons more intuitive. #1178
• Improve tool tip display. #1198
• Make favicon access secure. #1055
• Fix compression UI bug. #1245
• Improve Rock-on install state transition logic. #1216
• Mount by label consistently as first preference. #1181
• Fix Samba UI pagination. #1224
• Improve scheduled Snapshot management. #1227
• Add more frequency choices for scheduled tasks. #1226
• Automatically map /etc/localtime to Rock-ons. #809
• Fix dashboard by locking backend library versions. #1215
• Improve SMART self-test log parsing. #1207
• Improve SMART behavior on root drive. #1206
• Fix snapshot name prefix bug. #1186