Openmediavault 7 Sandworm has already been released and these are its new features

Si you are looking for a NAS solution based on Linux or failing that it is simple, but powerful, let me say that Openmediavault is the solution that may be suitable for your needs and just a few days ago the launch of the new version of Openmediavault 7 with codename “Sandworm” and in this release the base of the system has been moved to Debian 12, the web interface has been improved, support improvements have been integrated, among other things.

OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a Linux-based network storage (NAS) solution providing a complete file management system and network services for home and small business environments offers basic services related to the organization of the storage operation, OpenMediaVault offers SSH/SFTP, FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP client, RSync, BitTorrent client, NFS and TFTP.

OpenMediaVault offers a web interface written in PHP and excels at loading data as needed using Ajax technology, which avoids reloading pages (in contrast to the FreeNAS web interface, which is written in Python using the Django framework). This web interface includes features for organizing data sharing and dividing privileges, including ACL support.

Main new features of Openmediavault 7 “Sandworm”

In this new version of Openmediavault 7 that is presented, as we mentioned at the beginning the system base has been updated to Debian 12, with which all the features and improvements of this edition of Debian are carried over. In addition to that, handling of updates and package notifications has been optimized with the implementation of the “unattended-upgrades” package.

Another change that stands out in Openmediavault 7 is in the Linux MD device management (software RAID)e has been moved to a separate pluginor, as well as that replaced the cron-apt package with unattended-upgrades and apticron. Additionally, the apt-listchanges package is used to send statistics about automatically installed updates via email.

Has been added support for ethernet network devices using aliases for permanent names of Ethernet interfaces ("enbX") specified through the Device Tree, as well as adding the ability to authenticate an RPC call using the X-OPENMEDIAVAULT-SESSIONID instead of a cookie, and expanding support for the creation of SSH keys, allowing you to choose between RSA and Ed25519 types.

Of the other changes that stand out of this new version:

• SMART information has been optimized to reduce query time and a dashboard widget has been added to display the temperatures of all physical disks, providing better visibility and monitoring of disk health.
• Reorganization of the quotas page in the file system for better resource management.
• Implemented a UI endpoint to trigger downloads via RPC.
• Improved hardware compatibility by replacing hdparm with smartctl.
• When creating SSH keys in the web interface, you can now choose to use the RSA and Ed25519 algorithms, while support for importing DSA keys to SSH has been discontinued. Support for SSH keys based on the ed25519-sk algorithm has also been added.
• The content of the storage, shared folders and ACL pages in the web interface has been reorganized for a better user experience and more intuitive navigation.
• Quota enforcement for file systems has been improved for more efficient and accurate management of storage resources.
• The call to the hdparm utility has been replaced with a call to smartctl, reflecting a technological update and improvement in storage device management.

Finally, if you are interested in being able to know more about it, you can consult the details in the following link

Download Openmediavault 7 “Sandworm”

For those who are interested in obtaining the OpenMediaVault installation images, they can do it from their official website. The link is this.