Unraid Augustish Digest: 7.2 Beta Drops, 20 Years of Unraid, Ibracorp and more!

August and September were massive months for Unraid! 

We celebrated our 20th Anniversary Birthday Bash with milestone events, community content, and big product updates. Here’s what went down:

🎉 20th Anniversary Highlights

• Our first-ever live 20th Anniversary event
• A special anniversary video from Spaceinvader One (Ed)
• The launch of the brand-new Unraid Merch Store

🖥️ Product Updates: Unraid OS 7.2 Betas

Unraid OS 7.2.0-beta.2 and beta.3 introduced some of the biggest updates yet:

• A responsive WebGUI for mobile and multi-screen setups
• A built-in Unraid API for automation and integrations
• ZFS RAIDZ pool expansion, letting you grow one disk at a time
• New filesystem support for Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, NTFS, and exFAT
• Single sign-on login with Google, Microsoft, and more

🎥 Community Content

Unraid creators also kept the momentum going:

• IBRACORP returned with Unraid Zero to Hero, a new server tour, and other tutorials
• Spaceinvader One and others shared guides on setup, backups, and advanced tips

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Unraid August Digest.
I'm your host, stephano Partida, and without any further
waiting, let's go ahead and talkabout all the things that went
down in August.
August was jam-packed withvideo content specifically

(00:23):
revolving around unraid's 20thyear anniversary.
There was a live event thatwent down that you can check out
on youtube in case you missedit.
That was pretty fun, and wealso got a pretty sweet video
made by space invader aka ed.
That is also pretty fun towatch as well, and it all has to
do with the 20th yearanniversary.
Be sure to check those out.
And speaking of also othervideos that came to us in August

(00:45):
, ibracorp is back.
He heard your cries on Redditand has started making videos
again due to the mass desire forhim to start creating content,
and he released some videos onespecifically about Unraid Zero
to Hero, which is a freshinstall and first setup, and
another that has to do with theUnraid server tour setup tips
and things of that nature Beinstall it in first setup, and
another that has to do with theUnraid server tour setup tips
and things of that nature.

(01:06):
Be sure to check us out ifyou're interested in that.
And there's a whole boatload ofother videos that have also
been released.
I'd highly recommend checkingout the Unraid August Digest
page if you're interested inthose specifically.
Unraid 7.2 Beta 2 was releasedin August, as well as Beta 3,
but we'll get to that a littlebit later.
With Beta 2, you can expectsome updates to the web UI.

(01:32):
It received an update thatallows it to be more modern and
responsive to various sizescreens and resolutions for
different types of devices.
There's a new Unraid API thatopens the door for application
integrations and automation.
The door for applicationintegrations and automation ZFS,
single VDEV, raid, z 1, 2, 3pools can now grow by one disk
at a time.
There is additional filesystems support for UXC 2, 3, 4,

(02:00):
ntfs and exFAT.
Also, there's a very coolfeature that will allow you to
log into your UnRAID serverusing an external OIDC provider.
So anyone that uses Microsoftor Google or whomever you can
now use that to log in yourUnraid server.
That's pretty cool.
As I mentioned, the beta 3 isactually available right now as
a time of filming, because thisvideo is really late, but that's
at this point, and the beta 3brings us many fixes to the
dashboard and web UI a newkernel that allows new features

(02:22):
and so much more.
There are some known issues withthe current beta and previous
betas, like the theme engine,dark theme and dynamics time and
date.
These plugins are not compatibleand will automatically be
uninstalled if you have theminstalled, always be sure to
upgrade your plugins beforeupdating to any of the betas,

(02:45):
because this will likely affectsome plugins, like the Unraid
Connect plugin especially, aswell as the NVIDIA drivers
plugins and all of their variousforms especially as well.
There may also be visual anddashboard web UI issues caused
by the new responsive capabilityof the web UI, so this might
affect any custom plugins andthat make modifications to the

(03:08):
UI.
Be sure to give those authorstime to update their plugins
that interface with your web UI.
So hopefully all of that getsresolved as these beta releases
come out.
So definitely want to be awareof all of that and keep that in
mind.
Lastly, don't forget to checkout the Unrated Merch Store so
you could pick up some sweetmerch like this.
Thank you all for watching.
Don't forget to like andsubscribe if you enjoy content

(03:30):
like this, and good night, thankyou.