After unifying their two offerings, CORE and SCALE, into a single one – TrueNAS Community Edition with the 25.04 “Fangtooth” release earlier this year, the developers behind this Linux-based enterprise-ready network-attached storage are hard at work on the upcoming TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye”, scheduled for release in October 2025.
The release is now available as nightly builds for testing purposes only (with beta releases expected in late August), providing a clear picture of what to expect in the upcoming final stable version.
One of the most notable changes is a brand-new installation process. Historically, installing TrueNAS meant creating a custom USB stick and manually configuring everything from the console. However, 25.10 Goldeye takes a different approach, offering a guided, web-based installer backed by a free cloud service.
This new setup approach simplifies deployment and helps configure SSL certificates, email alerts, and system reports without needing to sit in front of the hardware. Trials of this new cloud-driven installation process are expected to begin in September.
Software updates are also becoming smarter and more personalized. Goldeye integrates with the TrueNAS software status page, giving administrators the option to receive update alerts tailored to their system profiles.
Community update tracks include General, Early Adopter, and Developer, with each release accompanied by a summary and a link to full release notes, making upgrade decisions far less cumbersome.
On the performance front, TrueNAS 25.10 is built for the growing demand in AI and machine learning workloads. While 100GbE may be enough for some, it is quickly being outpaced by the bandwidth needs of GPU clusters.
To address this, Goldeye introduces support for Terabit Ethernet, leveraging 400GbE interfaces, NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA, and a new hardware generation with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5.
And last but not least, virtualization is another area seeing significant improvements. Building on the 24.10 “Electric Eel” virtualization stack introduced in 25.04 “Fangtooth,” Goldeye adds VM backup and migration capabilities, making it easier to move workloads between systems or recover them when needed.
For enterprise appliances, a major addition is high-availability failover for virtual machines. For example, a backup service can be deployed as a VM inside TrueNAS, tapping directly into ZFS features like snapshots and data reduction. Likewise, IoT platforms or edge applications can run locally with the benefit of HA failover and native storage performance.
Of course, TrueNAS still plays well with traditional virtualization environments. Whether you’re running VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Incus, or XCP-NG, Goldeye brings enhanced support for NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel, with NVMe-oF support now entering the mix.
For more information, see the announcement.
