Dear CasaOS Community,

Dear CasaOS Community, we are thrilled to introduce an exciting development in our journey to provide innovative software solutions - ZimaOS, the PRO version OS product! We sincerely invite you to be a part of this significant milestone by joining our ZimaOS Beta Open Program.

What is ZimaOS?

While CasaOS continues to thrive as a community-driven platform, ZimaOS is designed to cater specifically to the needs of professional application scenarios. It combines the robustness of CasaOS with new features and capabilities tailored to the demands of some professional filed. ZimaOS is poised to empower PRO scenarios with enhanced tools for more networking, ease of use, lightweight AI and more. We will plan to release ZimaOS through the Zima family of hardware to meet people's needs for more professional scenarios to fully build the next generation of personal cloud solutions.

ZimaOS vs CasaOS Features Plan

ZimaOS Open for Testing! We Need Your Feedback !

To ensure that ZimaOS meets the highest standards of performance, security, and user-friendliness, we are opening ZimaOS for testing! As a very first user, you'll have the unique opportunity to be among the first to experience ZimaOS before its official release. Your valuable suggestions and feedback will directly shape our final product.

Step 1: Download ZimaOS on Github and Read the Testing Guide

Step 2: Enjoy your new journey!

Step 3: Any issues or comments are welcome. Feel free to post ZimaOS topic on IceWhale forum. Remeber to choose tag' zimaos open testing'.

Post Issue on forum (sample):

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Screenshots
If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Other feedbacks

ZimaOS Open testing is currently in an unstable version. Please download and use it with caution.

Join ZimaOS Open Test Partner Team！

If you have further interest of ZimaOS, we have Partner Plan that is recruiting 50 test specialists to explore the depthsof ZimaOS's beta features.

Yes we are recruiting 50 test specialists from our community! As a test specialist, you'll be among the first to experience beta functionality before general release. You'll also have more granular control and expanded permissions to thoroughly test all aspects of ZimaOS.

Please take a moment to fill out this form to express your interest. We will follow up with next steps via Discord or email after receiving your completed form. Let's get hands-on with ZimaOS early and directly influence the product through your findings. Your real-world testing and usage will help ensure ZimaOS delivers an outstanding experience in its final release.

CasaOS Continues to Thrive

We want to reassure our Casaos community that this new venture will not diminish our commitment to CasaOS itself. CasaOS remains a cornerstone of our mission, and we will continue to invest in its development. CasaOS is, and always will be, a community-driven software, and your contributions and support are what make it exceptional.

Join us on this exciting journey as we prepare to launch ZimaOS. Your participation in the testing project is not just an opportunity to try out new software, but a chance to help us build a product that will empower shape NEXT personal cloud solution.

Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to having you on board!
https://icewhale.community/t/welcome-to-the-zimaos-open-beta-program/295

Sincerely,

CasaOS Team

Hey Users！CasaOS v0.4.4 Alpha Released now!

CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system, Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple home cloud experience around Docker ecosystem. The people involved are CasaOS users. That means CasaOS will always need contributions from community members just like you!

In order to continue to uphold the open source spirit of CasaOS, we have redeveloped the entire app store and application management in the CasaOS v0.4.4 version, adopted a new app store based on Git repositories, and brought native Docker feature support based on the application format based on docker compose, which made it easier for developers to launch the process and customize the features of the app store, and encouraged more developers to participate in the construction of CasaOS.

New App Store Features for CasaOS v0.4.4

Upgrade the old API-based app store to the new app store based directly on the Git repository

• App submission process = Git PR process
• Git syncs to local, eliminating the need for network connection when loading the app store, and improving the stability of app store loading.
• Enabling the deployment of third-party app stores significantly improves the fulfillment of user-specific needs.

• Application format based on docker compose

  • Standardized the application import and export format in the store, significantly simplifying the developers to customize and launch applications.
  • From the old app store with single English to the new app store with multilingual support, benefiting CasaOS users around the world.
  • Brought the support of native Docker features, such as: access to GPU, multi-container applications, etc.

  • Existing community standards replace CasaOS’s own appfile format

    • Reduce the barrier of learning to launch applications in the app store
    • Can directly import original docker compose without modification （No need Icon and description)

CasaOS v0.4.4 New Features

Added

• App store fully upgraded

  • Store configuration synchronized to local
  • Opened third-party store interface
  • Added multilingual support
  • Added author type filter to app store
• Migrated from Docker-cli to Docker-compose completely
• Changed the synchronization method between front-end and back-end to socketIO, and used socketIO communication throughout the application lifecycle
• Added tips feature to the application

Fixed

• Changed several styles
• Fixed sorting and other issues
• Fixed the path confusion problem when downloading multiple files
• The check and update function no longer pulls the online version, making it faster
• The font of the log, console and other pages is adjusted to be consistent with the native console
• Merged the "exited App" panel to the application list

Removed

• Removed clone function
• Removed settings, update, and clone functions of docker-cli application
• Removed import and export functions of the docker-cli application

Use CasaOS v0.4.4 Alpha version now!

We warmly welcome CasaOS users to participate in the use of v0.4.4 alpha version and experience the possible new applications that will be launched every day. Alpha version experience method:

• Install CasaOS v0.4.4-alpha

  curl -fsSL https://get.casaos.io/v0.4.4-alpha | sudo bash

• Update to CasaOS v0.4.4-alpha from older version

  curl -fsSL https://get.casaos.io/update/v0.4.4-alpha | sudo bash

• Uninstall CasaOS v0.4.4-alpha

  casaos-uninstall

We are very happy that as of now, we have received two APP applications contributed by two developers - Memos and MineOS. Memos is a flash note APP that can help users think at any time and build their own knowledge system. MineOS is a Minecraft server management tool that allows users to easily host Java or Bedrock servers.

Here, CasaOS Team expresses deep gratitude to the two developers - CorrectRoad and Chàra! We look forward to seeing more developers publish their useful applications to CasaOS, and we also look forward to more CasaOS users proposing your application needs to the community.

How to Contribute to CasaOS Community?

• Add Apps to CasaOS App store
• Writing Documentation
• Performing Alpha Testing
• Helping with Translations

Happy New Year, CasaOS users!

While everyone is excited to kick off the new year, we want to disclose a hidden beta feature that was shipped in CasaOS since version 0.3.8, for advanced users who love to try new things.

This feature in CasaOS integrates with MergerFS, a union filesystem that allows you to combine multiple storage devices into a single virtual storage device. With this feature, you can easily access and manage the combined storage space of all your underlying devices through the /DATA directory.

Please note that this feature is currently in BETA and may still have some bugs or issues that need to be ironed out. There is also a risk of data loss and running apps resetting when using this feature, so please use caution and consider making a backup of your data before enabling it.

If you are ready to enable the feature, simply run the following commands after backing up your data and apps:

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install mergerfs
[ -z /var/lib/casaos/files ] && sudo mv /DATA /var/lib/casaos/files
sudo rm -rvf /DATA && sudo mkdir /DATA
echo "EnableMergerFS=True" | sudo tee -a /etc/casaos/local-storage.conf
sudo systemctl restart casaos-local-storage.service

Once enabled, you can access the feature in the Storage Manager from the CasaOS dashboard.

We would love to get as much feedback as possible from users who are interested in trying out this preview feature, before we officially making it generally available for all users. If you give it a try, please let us know how it goes and share any feedback or suggestions you have at https://discord.gg/Gx4BCEtHjx

Thank you for your continued support of CasaOS. We hope you enjoy this new feature and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.