FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
- ID
- 19745
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 30 Aug 2026, 9:31 AM
- Fetched
- 01 Sep 2026, 5:53 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://freecore.org/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 01 Sep 2026, 5:59 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersdatabase_learners
What happened
FreeCORE is an independently maintained continuation of TrueNAS CORE, built on FreeBSD and OpenZFS, after the original TrueNAS CORE lineage ended at 13.3. The current stable release is 15.0-U1, and existing TrueNAS CORE 13.3 systems can upgrade in place via a simple enrollment script. Source code is hosted on Codeberg with a GitHub mirror.
Why it matters
If you run TrueNAS CORE 13.3 in production or homelabs, you now have a migration path beyond end-of-life via in-place upgrade to FreeCORE 15.0 — evaluate whether to adopt this community fork or move to TrueNAS SCALE/another platform before 13.3 stops receiving security patches.
Discussion angle
Is a community fork of a storage OS viable long-term for production, and how does FreeCORE compare to migrating to TrueNAS SCALE or vanilla FreeBSD+ZFS for builders who need reliable network storage?