Release of openmediavault 5 (Usul)
30. March 2020 by volker
After a long development phase i am happy to announce the release of openmediavault 5 (Usul).
A big thank you goes to all translators, forum moderators and bug reporters for their contributions and support.
The main features at a glance:
Using Debian 10 (Buster).
Use SaltStack to deploy configuration settings. Using ‘omv-salt stage run all’ will deploy the whole system according to the configuration database.
The omv-salt CLI command superseds omv-mkconf. Note, the command will not only create the configuration files, it will also take care about to start/stop/restart the services.
The omv-initsystem command has been replaced by ‘omv-confdbadm populate’. This command discovers the current system settings and synchronizes them into the database.
Add Time Machine support to SMB/CIFS shares.
Use systemd-logind to handle power button action.
Use systemd to reboot/shutdown/standby the system.
Use chrony instead of ntpd.
Use systemd to configure the network.
Use periodic filesystem trim instead of online.
Add storage backend for Areca RAID controllers.
Disable the ‘/sharedfolder/’ feature by default on new installations because it makes too much problems. It can be enabled by setting the environment variable to ‘OMV_SHAREDFOLDERS_DIR_ENABLED=”YES”‘. Finally run the command ‘omv-salt stage run prepare’ to apply the modified default values and ‘omv-salt deploy run systemd’ to create the unit files.
Fix ‘Subject Alternative Name missing’ error in self signed SSL certificates.
Add right-to-left (RTL) support.
Remember size and position of windows.
Display ‘Updates available’ status in dashboard widget.
Display reboot notification.
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The whole changelog for openmediavault 5 can be viewed here -
https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/blob/5.x/deb/openmediavault/debian/changelog