Rockstor is a specialist CentOS-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) an
d private cloud storage solutions. It is based on popular open-source technologies, such as the Btrfs file system a
nd Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. In addition to standard NAS fea
tures like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snaps
hots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are also supported. Rockstor provides additional
applications, including ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN and Plex. These applications (called "Rock-ons") are powered
by a Docker-based application hosting framework. The Rockstor user interface, written in JavaScript, makes it simpl
e to manage the server from within a web browser.
Suman Chakravartula has announced the release of Rockstor 3.8.15, the latest stable version of the projects CentOS-based specialist distribution for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) deployments: "I am thrilled to announce the release of Rockstor 3.8.15. It has been a long release cycle and its our 30th release. We have entered a new phase of Rockstor community growth with steady patches from dedicated contributors. A total of 43 issues were closed, making this a substantial update. Several enhancements were made to the user interface, prominently to the dashboard. Id like to also highlight the big (design and implementation) refactoring of our backend disk management. Last but not least, numerous improvements and bug fixes were committed throughout the stack. List of issues we closed in this cycle: overhaul pagination, sort and search on UI using DataTables; revise internal use and format of device names; support customizing web-ui port; improvements to password recovery system....
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Rockstor is a specialist CentOS-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) an
d private cloud storage solutions. It is based on popular open-source technologies, such as the Btrfs file system a
nd Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. In addition to standard NAS fea
tures like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snaps
hots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are also supported. Rockstor provides additional
applications, including ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN and Plex. These applications (called "Rock-ons") are powered
by a Docker-based application hosting framework. The Rockstor user interface, written in JavaScript, makes it simpl
e to manage the server from within a web browser.
