June 26, 2026 - Onboarding redesign, live storage progress, and app preconfiguration improvements
Here is a summary of changes shipped since our last update.
Onboarding
- New welcome page for first-time users with clear paths to build a USB boot stick, detect an existing server, or get help
- Returning users see a compact chooser tailored to their situation
- Improved responsive text and button sizing on smaller screens
Storage
- Pool scrubbing, resilvering, and expansion now display live progress in both the storage overview and individual pool detail panels
- VM-backing zvols are now correctly associated with their storage locations
- Folder encryption passwords now require a minimum of 8 characters
Apps
- Preconfiguration installation questions now support password input fields, enabling apps that require local account creation during setup
- Reworked app lifecycle hook steps UI for clearer appearance and status tracking
Notifications & Alerts
- Suppressed email alerts for high-volume OS-level notifications like "Too many open files"
- Prevented TrueNAS alert email failures when the server connection is temporarily unavailable
- Prevented shutdown tasks from being falsely marked as stale
- Ensured deterministic event ordering for same-second timestamps
Reliability
- Prevented false
restart_failedstatus for local backend tasks - Fixed system reboot and shutdown error handling
- Fixed null mountpoint guard in storage preferences
- Removed AVX CPU instruction set from being incorrectly marked as required, restoring support for older CPUs
- Suppressed terminal bell noise from child process output
UI
- Fixed details pane content overflow with scrollable areas and a mobile drawer scroll divider
NOTE: All of these updates are applied automatically to your Command Deck. You may need to clear your cache. Help with clearing your cache is available here.