Unraid Turns 20 – Big Updates, Big Savings, and the Unraid 7.2 beta

This month , we’re celebrating 20 years of Unraid OS with new features, major community events, and a limited-time sale. From the launch of Unraid 7.2.0-beta.1 to our biggest giveaway ever, there’s a lot to unpack.

In this episode:
– The 20th Anniversary Sale: 20% off licenses, upgrades, and all merch
– How to enter the Show Us Your Server competition
– What’s new in Unraid 7.2.0-beta.1, including the mobile app, API, and Home Assistant integration
– A look at the new ESP32-powered Unraid Monitor
– Community highlights and forum threads you shouldn’t miss

Links & Show Notes:
– Merch Store → https://merch.unraid.net
– Live Event RSVP → https://unraid.net/blog/20-days-of-unraid
– Show Us Your Server → https://unraid.net/blog/show-us-your-server
– Unraid 7.2.0-beta.1 Release → https://unraid.net/blog/unraid-7-2-0-beta.1

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Unraid July Digest.
I'm your host, stephano Portita, and I have some good news for
you.
Unraid OS turns 20 years oldand with this huge milestone
comes a sale, a giveaway, abrand new merch store, as well

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as a very special live eventthat you'll definitely want to
be a part of.
The new merch store is live,where you can find some sweet
apparel bags, drinkware and somuch more, and a part of the
20-year Unraid celebration.
All items are 20% off for theentire month of August.
Also, if you don't see anythingthat you particularly like on
there, don't forget to reach outto Unraid and let them know

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what you would like to see, ormaybe even some graphic designs
that you would like to see aswell.
Starting August 7th throughAugust 26th, you can get 20% off
on Starter and Unleashedlicenses.
You can also get 20% off on allupgrades to Unleashed.
As I mentioned before, therewill be a giveaway as a part of
the celebration where you canwin a starter, unleashed or even

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Lifetime license.
You can get a link station andone.
There will be one hour of paidsupport that will be free as a
part of this giveaway and, ofcourse, there will also be some
free merchandise that you canalso win.
I previously mentioned thegiveaway, and there are three
ways to participate in thisgiveaway.
One is by RSVPing into the liveevent on Saturday, august 30th,

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as well as purchase anythingduring the 20-day sale or even
entering the show us your servercompetition, where there will
be five different categories.
The first of the fivecategories is the Terabyte Titan
, the second is the Tiny Titan,three is the Millowatt Mizer,
the fourth category is forsystems that fulfill the legacy

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legends, and the fifth and finalcategory will be for completely
unhinged builds and setups.
The submission deadline isSunday, august 17th of 2025.
And you may, of course, entermultiple servers, but only one
per form submission.
You must choose one categoryper server.
Winners will be contacted viaemail and revealed during the

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livestream on August 30th.
If you are interested inentering the competition, be
sure to check out the linksbelow to make sure that you know
all of the details on the bestway to enter in the show off
your server competition.
Unraid 7.2.0, beta 1 is here,where you can get early access
to the fully responsive web UIapplications that take advantage

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of the open source API ZFS,raid, z expansion, expanded file
system support, single sign-onlogins for the web UI.
The beta 1 brings so many newfeatures to Unraid OS and while
there are many to talk about,perhaps the most interesting is
the API.
So with that we get access to anew application, the Unraid

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mobile app.
This is an open source mobileapp for Unraid, built with
Flutter, and it's powered by theUnraid mobile app.
This is an open source mobileapp for Unraid, built with
Flutter, and it is powered bythe Unraid API.
You can get access to basicdocker controls, virtual
machines and view your systeminformation.
You can view your shares andarray status, added UPS
monitoring and there's going tobe ongoing work to improve
docker integration.
The Unraid app is alreadyavailable for download for iOS

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and Android.
The Unraid app is alreadyavailable for download for iOS
and Android.
Another Unraid integration isHome Assistant that will allow
you to monitor and control yourUnraid server directly from Home
Assistant.
This integration will allow youto track your system metrics
like CPU RAM and disk usage,manage your VMs, docker
containers, monitor the UPSstatus and receive real-time
alerts.
Another fancy integration willbe the Unraid ESP Monitor by

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JNX26, which is a compact,always-on dashboard powered by
ESP32, and this will be designedto provide real-time monitoring
of your Unraid server.
Some of the key features youcan expect from this are
displays of key system metricslike CPU load, memory, disk
usage, disk space, dockercontainer status, vm activity.

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There's a JSON API generated bya user script on your Unran
server.
There's Wi-Fi enabled thatfetches live data, displays it
on a clean, easy to read UI Overthe air, firmware updates, usb
powered.
It's compact and designed forcontinuous operation and, of
course, it's fully open sourceand customizable to suit your

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environment.
That Unraid monitor alone to meseems like a pretty sweet tool
to have, and I can imagine thatsitting right in my server rack
in my own home lab environment.
Lastly, be sure to check outsome of the Unraid community
content, especially fromMaxVoltage, who upgraded his
Unraid hardware on a server.
Also, don't forget to head overto the forums to check out some

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of the featured forum threads.
If you enjoy content like this,be sure to like and subscribe.
And good night, thank you.