Will 1.0 launch this month as expected?

[Anthem]

As the title said, I have been holding out since I purchased the key. Recently heard on the LTT podcast that 1.0 was launching at the end of March. Is that still the plan? I haven't seen an official blog update in a few months. 

Edited March 12 by Anthem

[Blair Young]

It has gone rather quiet. I thought I would see more general discussion or the odd update. Unless I've missed something the most recent update has been a revision to the blog introducing hex OS local originally published 25th Nov 2025 and updated 23rd Jan earlier this year.

I'm not complaining before anyone jumps on me. I've been happily running the beta since originally hearing about it on LTT and couldn't have built my NAS without it (not with my skillset at the time anyway). So far it's been running flawlessly, shares and apps have been a breeze to set up, and the minor jobs I've had to do myself such as setting up a VM in truenas for Homeassistant have been recognised and appear on the Hex OS dashboard.

I know it's possible I might have to start again from scratch but fingers crossed there is an update path that doesn't break everything.

I have on occasion had to re-adopt the server on the dashboard (probably my fault) but it's only happened a couple of times. To avoid wiping everything I just popped out my drives, re-adopted, shut down, popped the drives back in and everything came back when I restarted. If there isn't a simple update to 1.0 with any luck a similar workaround will prevent data loss.

 

[Anthem]

Guess not... 

[G-M0N3Y-2503]

Their track record shows that even the last day of the deadline is fair game, Though that's true to hear about delays too. 

[DieselGearHead]

With the newest deck update that happened today, I'm guessing the actual big update is coming soon since today's deck update referenced prepping it for the update. 🤷‍♂️

[Anthem]

They just posted in another thread. Saying it will be delayed until end or April. Blog post coming tomorrow (April 2nd)

[Parachaye]

Not a great look to be honest. And I say this as someone whose already paid and I'm using (even daily driving) Hexos. It's meeting my current needs for Jellyfin and rhe Arrs but only because I needed to go into the truenas interface and use AI help to get out setup. I need frigate and cameras in the next couple of weeks, want to setup VMs, want to host freshRSS etc. Currently not doing it because I want to see what 1.0 brings and was just a matter of a few days away...except now its a month away again. 

I get wanting to let em cook, but at some point just release already! The market is already quite different from when hexos was first announced. What was the point of emphasising in the last two (not one but two) blog posts that they're pushing back from end of 2025 to Q1 of 2026 if it's going to be delayed again. Literally from the last blog post: 

"And finally, mark your calendars: HexOS 1.0 is coming in Q1 2026."

Except don't mark your calendars because actually we'll just delay again? 

Again, I say this as a customer whose already paid (so it's not like I'm hoping for them to fail but likewise I do expect to receive the product as advertised and for when advertised when I already paid for it). 1.0 has really got to come out asap and actually have a sizeable scope, many more one-click apps and working out of the box, otherwise truenas on it's own or other solutions are better value.