zVault is available again for download

[hardworkingnewbie]

zVault, the fork of TrueNAS Core, had its first official release at February 25th this year.

The initial release was unavailable short after release due to a copyright infringement notice from iXsystems. The project had to replace a big number of proprietary files and replace/rewrite them.

As they state it: "We naively believed iXsystems' claim over many years that TrueNAS CORE was open source. That was our mistake and iXsystems was within their rights as copyright holders of those proprietary closed-source files and methods to request their removal from zVault.io."

Now it is available again for download here: https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/releases/tag/zVault-13.3-MASTER-202505042329-ca844f8808

Some press coverage about zVault:

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

: Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off

www.theregister.com

Also Vermaden made a great writeup about some issues of TrueNAS Scale: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024...nas-scale/#truenas-core-dead-long-live-zvault

 

[vermaden]

The initial release was unavailable short after release due to a copyright infringement notice from iXsystems.

I was fast enough to get it :]

% ls -l ~/vm/iso/*zVault*.iso
.rw-r--r-- vermaden vermaden 944 MB 2025/02/25  /home/vermaden/vm/iso/bsd_zVault-13.3-MASTER-202502240515-8d9f8c8cc2.iso
.rw-r--r-- vermaden vermaden 944 MB 2025/05/10  /home/vermaden/vm/iso/bsd_zVault-13.3-MASTER-202505042329-ca844f8808.iso

As they state it: "We naively believed iXsystems' claim over many years that TrueNAS CORE was open source. That was our mistake and iXsystems was within their rights as copyright holders of those proprietary closed-source files and methods to request their removal from zVault.io."

Yep - sad news.

Also Vermaden made a great writeup about some issues of TrueNAS Scale: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024...nas-scale/#truenas-core-dead-long-live-zvault

Thanks - I also added another (3rd) update recently:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versus-truenas-scale/#truenas-drama