OpenMediaVault 0.5 (Sardaukar) released

Today i am proud to release OMV 0.5 (Sardaukar) after a long time of development. The following changes and new features have been implemented:

  • Complete refactoring of the backend. The main processing unit/engine has been relocated into a forking daemon process.
  • IPv6 support.
  • Upgrade WebGUI to Sencha ExtJS 4.2.x.
  • Configuration changes are not applied immediatelly, instead the user must press the green button in the upper right corner (beside the language combobox) to do this.
  • Add new panel in the ‘System – Network’ section to configure Zeroconf/Service Discovery.
  • Add option to enable AIO support for SMB/CIFS. AIO is enabled by default.
  • Do not execute a filesystem check during boot on USB devices.
  • Mantis 0000472: Add ability to configure notifications.
  • Mantis 0000634: Provide a way to see changelogs of available package upgrades before installing.
  • Mantis 0000661: Rsync server on OpenMediaVault does not send user/group info.
  • Add ability to enable/disable scheduled S.M.A.R.T. tests.
  • Add ability to initiate a S.M.A.R.T. test via WebGUI.
  • Display a information dialog after the RAID has been created.
  • Set swappiness to 30 by default.
  • Improve collectd IO issue.
  • Many other improvements …

The API documentation for OMV 0.5 is available here.

The ISO images can be downloaded here.

You can upgrade existing systems via CLI. Please note that this is only possible if you have installed the following plugins below, other (3d party) plugins may not be migrated to 0.5 until now and will corrupt your installation.

  • openmediavault-clamav
  • openmediavault-forkeddaapd
  • openmediavault-iscsitarget
  • openmediavault-ldap
  • openmediavault-lvm2
  • openmediavault-netatalk
  • openmediavault-nut
  • openmediavault-route
  • openmediavault-usbbackup

To upgrade a 0.4 (Fedaykin) system to 0.5 (Sardaukar) you have to ensure your system is using 0.4.36 or greater. If not, use the WebGUI update management or the following CLI command:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

After that you can upgrade your system to 0.5 using the following command:

omv-release-upgrade

Thank you to all translators helping to translate the WebGUI into several languages. Further thanks goes to all forum moderators for their help on answering questions from the community.

New update available

The following changes has been done:

openmediavault 0.4.36

  • Mantis 0000795: LDAP User error.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI. Please reload the WebGUI to let the changes installed by the update take effect.

New update available

The following changes has been done:

openmediavault 0.4.34

  • Improve WebGUI user validation.
  • Display an information dialog after the RAID has been created.
  • Backup configuration before release upgrade.
  • Cleanup local package archive before release upgrade.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI. Please reload the WebGUI to let the changes installed by the update take effect.

New update available

The following changes has been done:

openmediavault 0.4.33

  • Various improvements and bugfixes.
  • Disable ‘Action done’ messages send by Monit.
  • Improve OMVSystem::getRootPartition() method.
  • Mantis 0000784: System fails to boot without ineraction when harddisc has been removed.

Please update your system via ‘System > Update Manager’ in the OpenMediaVault WebGUI. Please reload the WebGUI to let the changes installed by the update take effect.

Security advice

All users who have installed their system via ISO images should recreate the SSH key for system user ‘root’. To do this please execute the following command as ‘root’ in the CLI:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -N ''

Please see Mantis #0000782 for more information.