Disks, pools, object stores and the restore you can actually perform.
borgmatic 2.2.0 adds a beta tarballs data source that streams a tar file into Borg as individual files, so VM exports deduplicate instead of sitting in the archive as one packed blob. The release also fixes a hang that hit database dumps with heavy output, file-descriptor exhaustion when dumping hundreds of databases, and a regression that cost ZFS, LVM and Btrfs hooks their Borg cache hits.
Nextcloud announced Nextcloud Spreadsheet on 26 October, a collaborative spreadsheet editor that runs inside Nextcloud and sits alongside Nextcloud Write and Nextcloud Present in Nextcloud Office. It opens and saves XLSX and ODS, does real-time co-editing, comments, autosave and version history, and is described by Nextcloud as open source, though no licence or repository appears in the announcement.
Garage v2.5.0, published 24 October, is the S3 store this desk named when MinIO archived its repository. It ships three upgrade notes that matter more than its feature list: no downgrading an upgraded node, bucket lifecycle endpoints restricted to owner-permission keys as a deliberate security change, and a new public_endpoint setting to add to garage.toml.
Unraid OS 7.2.9 is a targeted security patch for the 7.2 branch: PHP 8.4.27 covering ten CVEs including the PHP2Shell pair, a CA bundle that addresses the eMudhra compromise, and an API update whose bundled Node 22.23.4 resolves the certificate issue. Unraid still points 7.2 users at 7.3.4 for the newer kernel.
A backup job that exits zero is a copy job until you restore something from it. The checks worth scheduling, the drill that finds the real failures, and the recovery kit people forget.
The release formerly tested as TrueNAS 26 ships its first release candidate on OpenZFS 2.4 and kernel 6.18: TrueSearch, WebShare, Fusion Pools 2.0, stateful SMB failover, and an early S3 interface.
354,415 drives, 1,498 failures and a quarterly AFR of 1.73%, the highest in a while, with the report naming its own reasons. Three Seagate models went the quarter without a failure, and the 20TB-and-up cohort keeps posting the best numbers.
A NAS OS from a single developer that installs Debian 12 on any 64-bit PC and runs everything from a browser: Btrfs or ZFS pools, 31 curated apps plus a converted community catalog, KVM virtual machines, cameras, versioned backups and a WireGuard VPN. Two months old, 252 versions deep, and an outside audit already reshaped 2.0.
The first stable of the 4.25 series makes AES the default key set on modern domains, fixing CVE-2026-20833, and offers SMB3 persistent handles with an unusually direct cost list.
A native Proxmox storage backend turns VM disk requests into zvols on the array, delivers OpenZFS snapshots over iSCSI or NVMe/TCP, and ships now as an Early Adopters release, Community Edition first.
The new stable treats the data folder's permissions as a hard requirement: exact permissions or it will not run, with three documented ways out for the setups that cannot comply.
Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer is out as Server 35.0.0, with a Euro-Office desktop client, team workspaces, a redesigned Photos app and one-time passwords for shares, while Hub 25 Autumn goes end of life.
