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. 

 

[jonp]

https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2026-04-02.html

[Anthem]

2 hours ago, jonp said:

https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2026-04-02.html

Well that was quick lol. Went from end of month to now! What happened that it didn’t need to be delayed anymore? No complaints here of course. Great job. 

[jonp]

6 hours ago, Anthem said:

Well that was quick lol. Went from end of month to now! What happened that it didn’t need to be delayed anymore? No complaints here of course. Great job. 

I did say BY end of April ;-).  Truth is we have been pretty much right there aside from a few issues, but the big one was the availability of HexOS Local. But we decided yesterday that we can still call this 1.0 and roll out Local to everyone over time. The local project has to be rolled out more slowly as we have SSL cert issuance limits right now. 

[ShayneB]

I bought my license the day it became available but I've been waiting on this release to install. My server has just been sitting in the rack waiting. Excited to finally try it out, hopefully the download becomes available soon.

[Parachaye]

8 hours ago, jonp said:

I did say BY end of April ;-).  Truth is we have been pretty much right there aside from a few issues, but the big one was the availability of HexOS Local. But we decided yesterday that we can still call this 1.0 and roll out Local to everyone over time. The local project has to be rolled out more slowly as we have SSL cert issuance limits right now. 

Well that was unexpected! I think that's absolutely fair enough if it's launched but onboarding is phased. 

Very keen to see more curated apps come up now! That's magic of hexos I'm hoping for finally coming to fruition. 

[squijello]

I was a bit late to the party and only recently picked up a couple of licenses. Out of curiosity, is there an ETA for the 1.0 rollout for those of us who onboarded more recently?

[jonp]

All we can say at this point is we are slowing rolling out local to new users. Over 400 so far have been migrated.

[Todd Miller]

Hey, I have a couple questions.  After watching the latest LTT video about needing a NAS, did you ask for a little publicity now that you are in the 1.0 neighborhood?  I have NO problem if you did but i'm not sure they really did the product a favor.  Yes the setup overall show the simplicity but the SMB issue is pretty common and pretty troubling.  Plouffe did say it was a Microsoft issue but most people don't have many people willing to bail you out.  And Microsoft security setting are not something you screw with if you don't have real experience.  You probably could have done without that "I get the key.  So I didn't pay for it.' comment as well.  Oh well, any publicity is good publicity right?  The video was a little weird to watch sine it must have been filmed a few months ago.

So now that you have reached this point is the price going up?  That would put you right up there with the lifetime Unraid price.  You have been warning folks all along it would happen so we can't ack surprised.  

[jonp]

We have no editorial input or control over the LTT videos. We don't pay for sponsorship or anything like that either. The fact that it came out this weekend was pure happenschance. 

We are looking into the SMB issue and will see what we can do from our side to address. Tbh, what we have planned for the rest of the year is going to have an even bigger impact than the 1.0 release in my mind. 

With respect to price, an announcement about our scheduling pricing changes will be coming soon. 

[Todd Miller]

Hey, you can't leave a cliffhanger like!  Don't friends normally share bigger impacts with one another?  😁