Since no critical errors were reported during the RC phase, it is now time to release the final version (8.0.1) of OMV8 (Synchrony). Due to technical reasons, only AMD64 and ARM64 architectures will be supported from this version onwards. Since this circumstance had been known for some time, many features planned for OMV8 were already implemented in OMV7 so that the discontinued architectures could also benefit from them. That’s why the list of new features in OMV8 is quite concise. Nevertheless, switching to Debian 13 offers newer software, bug fixes, and improvements.

The CHANGELOG will list all improvements in this version alongside the following:

• Upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie).
• Replace cpufrequtils with linux-cpupower.
• Improve several user and group related RPCs. Developers should note that the RPCs UserMgmt::enumerateSystemUsers, UserMgmt::enumerateUsers, UserMgmt::enumerateAllUsers and UserMgmt::getUserList now return only basic user information. Set the parameter detail to full to get more detailed user information. This API change was done to improve the RPC response times dramatically.
• Display updated modules in notification after configuration changes have been applied.
• Display old versions of upgradable packages on the update page.
• Use pool instead of server directive in chrony configuration by default. This can be customized via the OMV_CHRONY_SERVER_POOL_DIRECTIVE environment variable.
• Many other improvements.
• Issue #1737 and #1866: Add support for WPA3 (SAE) authentication for wireless connections.
• Issue #2066: Prevent scripts/tools from getting stuck when calling mail/sendmail if email notifications are disabled.
• Issue #1555: Add ability to SMB shares to limit the reported disk size for Time Machine.

You can download the ISO image for AMD64 based systems here. Please upgrade the system via omv-upgrade after the installation to get the latest package versions. Additionally to the ISO installation you can install OMV on a Debian 13 based system according to the documentation. OMV7 based systems can be upgraded via the omv-release-upgrade command line tool.

If you find any bugs, please report them here. Issues related to omv-extras.org plugins should be reported here.

Today the first release candidate (8.0-13) of OMV8 (Synchrony) has been released. Due to technical reasons, only AMD64 and ARM64 architectures will be supported from this version onwards. Since this circumstance had been known for some time, many features planned for OMV8 were already implemented in OMV7 so that the discontinued architectures could also benefit from them. That’s why the list of new features in OMV8 is quite concise. Nevertheless, switching to Debian 13 offers newer software, bug fixes, and improvements.

The CHANGELOG will list all improvements in this version alongside the following:

• Upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie).
• Replace cpufrequtils with linux-cpupower.
• Improve several user and group related RPCs. Developers should note that the RPCs UserMgmt::enumerateSystemUsers, UserMgmt::enumerateUsers, UserMgmt::enumerateAllUsers and UserMgmt::getUserList now return only basic user information. Set the parameter detail to full to get more detailed user information. This API change was done to improve the RPC response times dramatically.
• Display updated modules in notification after configuration changes have been applied.
• Display old versions of upgradable packages on the update page.
• Use pool instead of server directive in chrony configuration by default. This can be customized via the OMV_CHRONY_SERVER_POOL_DIRECTIVE environment variable.
• Many other improvements.
• Issue #1737 and #1866: Add support for WPA3 (SAE) authentication for wireless connections.
• Issue #2066: Prevent scripts/tools from getting stuck when calling mail/sendmail if email notifications are disabled.

You can download the ISO image for AMD64 based systems here. Please upgrade the system via omv-upgrade after the installation to get the latest package versions. Additionally to the ISO installation you can install OMV on a Debian 13 based system according to the documentation. OMV7 based systems can be upgraded via the omv-release-upgrade command line tool.

If you find any bugs, please report them here. Issues related to omv-extras.org plugins should be reported here.