OpenNAS
Roadmap

Current features and future plans

See what is available, what is planned next and which ideas are still being considered.

Shipped

Available now

Shipped and in the product today.

  • Web desktop, windows, launcher, notifications, dark mode
  • Mobile layout, full-screen apps and an app switcher on a phone
  • File Station, previewer, ZIP, recycle bin, share links, drag & drop
  • Storage, S.M.A.R.T. health, disk init and free-space claiming
  • Software RAID 0/1/5/6/10 with rebuild and spare management
  • ZFS pools: mirror and RAIDZ1/2/3, snapshots, rollback, scrub, quotas
  • Shared folders with per-user and per-group permissions
  • SMB, NFS and AFP, with per-share quotas and per-network NFS rules
  • Time Machine targets and a per-share recycle bin
  • Container Manager, Docker + Compose, private registries
  • Virtual Machines, KVM/QEMU with in-browser noVNC console
  • VM snapshots, virtual networks and USB device passthrough
  • Package Center, one-click Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Pi-hole...
  • App framework + SDK with ed25519 signing and permission prompts
  • Binary and large-file support for apps, with upload progress
  • Per-user app allow-lists and automatic sign-in for wall displays
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn), TOTP two-factor and OIDC single sign-on
  • OpenNAS as an OIDC provider for your other apps
  • Automatic TLS certificates (ACME), dynamic DNS, firewall
  • Auto-banning repeat offenders and a decoy trap for scanners
  • Encrypted secrets at rest and encrypted config backups
  • Signed self-update with automatic rollback
  • Scheduled scrubs, TRIM, SMART tests and config backups
  • Audit log, global search, English + German, and the `opennas` CLI
Next

Coming next

Actively planned for upcoming releases.

  • App Store & publishing, push apps to a community catalog
  • Translate the remaining interface text
  • CEPH integration
  • PCIe and GPU passthrough for VMs, once proven on real hardware
  • LDAP directory integration
  • FTP / FTPS / SFTP file protocols
  • Container resource limits and an exec-into-container terminal
  • arm64 and Raspberry Pi images
  • RAIDZ expansion support
Exploring

Exploring

Ideas under consideration. Feedback is welcome.

  • Sentinel, a camera and NVR app, through Package Center
  • SIP / telephony, also as an installable app
  • quickemu as an alternate VM backend
  • Per-user quotas, where the file protocols allow it
  • Automated dependency and security scanning in CI

Plans may change, and release dates are not set. To suggest a feature or discuss priorities, open an issue on GitHub.

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