Kernel 6.2 in truenas scale

[Matt K]

Hello all,

First I wanted to say that i am loving truenas scale so far. Dockers have been a big improvement in reliability and maintanability of plugins over what jails provided.

Like many of us out there I use my server to host plex and am very excited about Intel's A350 for hardware transcoding support. Unfortunately the Arc series graphics is only included in kernel 6.2 and above.

Is there any chance we can get a more recent kernel for this? Unfortunately 6.1 is billed as the LTS kernel and I have a feeling will be what the latest Debian ships with... but OpenZFS did just release 2.1.8 with kernel 6.2 support so 6.2 should be possible.

Thanks in advance
Matt

 

[LarsR]

the next big version called cobia will likely ship whit some kind of 6.x version, but that is like 6 or 8 months away

 

[Matt K]

I can wait for cobia but if it doesn't include 6.2, since 6.1 is the LTS kernel, I fear it will be years before we get updated beyond 6.2. The current release is using 5.15 for example, you know what I mean?

 

[MisterE2002]

I do not know the release policy. But maybe you can create a ticket here: https://github.com/truenas/linux/issues

That said, i can understand (and prefer) if they use a stable LTS version. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.