Sylve Tip ("Nightly")

This tip release is automatically built and generated on every commit to master that passes tests.

Warning

This is a nightly build, not a tagged release. We recommend using tagged releases when they're available.
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Please visit our documentation website on instructions on how to use Sylve.

v0.2.3

Sylve v0.2.3 is a follow-up release focused on VM storage improvements, especially introducing 9p filesystem support, along with fixes to networking switches (bridges) consistency, Samba share backend validation, and general UI polish.

Highlights

• Added 9p filesystem support for VMs, including UI integration and boot handling.
• Improved network configuration consistency and validation for jails.
• Fixed Samba share uniqueness issues for paths.
• General UI fixes, test coverage improvements, and internal refactoring.

Full Changelog

VM / Storage

• Added support for 9p filesystem (virtio-9p) for VMs.
• Removed boot order handling for 9p devices.
• Refactored storage-related UI components for better structure.
• Added some tests for VM storage (libvirt layer).

Networking

• Improved network configuration consistency for standard switches.
• Hardened jail network validation and handling.
• Fixed related test cases for network validation.

Samba

• Fixed issue where Samba shares would use the same path for all shares

UI/UX & Internal

• Fixed UI inconsistencies in storage editing flows.
• General cleanup and internal refactoring across VM/storage components.
• Updated npm lockfile.

v0.2.2

Sylve v0.2.2 is a minor release focused on hot fixes, Wake-on-LAN improvements, and reducing frontend bundle size, along with fixes to reboot handling and general polish across the interface and docs.

Highlights

• Wake-on-LAN support for jails with a refactored, queue-based implementation.
• Reduced frontend bundle size for the production build.
• Improved initial reboot flow with automatic hard refresh.
• General i18n updates and documentation improvements.

Full Changelog

Wake-on-LAN (WoL)

• Added WoL support for jails.
• Refactored WoL implementation to use built-in queue subsystem.
• Added tests for WoL functionality.

UI/UX

• Removed Swagger assets from production bundle to reduce build size.
• Fixed reboot state detection during initialization.
• Added automatic hard refresh after node reboot.
• Fixed Sonner notification issues.
• Resolved duplicate Throbber mount in root layout.

Internationalization

• Updated some i18n strings and translations.

Documentation

• Updated one-line installer command.
• Fixed landing page issues (including hero buttons).
• General documentation and landing page polish.

v0.2.1

Sylve v0.2.1 is a minor release focusing on stability, validation, and day-to-day usability improvements across VM, jail, networking, and build workflows, along with better error handling and configuration flexibility.

Highlights

• Rename support for VMs and jails.
• Improved VM and jail creation flows with stronger validation, clearer errors, and better handling of stale artifacts.
• Fixes for VM disk handling (including cloud-init disk flashing and disk path resolution).
• Networking fixes and improvements, including better IPv6/SLAAC behavior and network (object) rename handling.
• Authentication improvements with configurable PAM support.
• Build and CI improvements, including cross-build support and updated toolchains.

Full Changelog

VM & Jail

• Added rename support for VMs and jails (backend + UI).
• Improved Jail/VM creation prechecks and validation logic.
• Better detection and cleanup of stale VM datasets/artifacts.
• Fixed cloud-init disk flashing issues.
• Refactored disk path resolution for ISO/IMG/RAW handling.
• Improved UI error messages for VM and jail creation flows.
• Enhanced jail data deletion with force handling.

Networking

• Fixed network rename issues for jails.
• Improved IPv6 handling with updated SLAAC behavior and sysctl configuration.

Authentication & Config

• Made PAM authentication toggleable via configuration.
• Extended installer/bootstrap configuration to include auth settings.

UI/UX & Docs

• Improved error messaging across VM/jail workflows.
• Minor accessibility and UI improvements.
• Added HTTPS requirement notes for terminal/console usage.
• Documentation fixes and updates.

Build, CI & Tooling

• Introduced cross-build workflow and scripts.
• Updated Go toolchain (1.26.x) and added sysroot(s) for cross-builds.
• Updated CI workflows and dependencies (Node.js, GitHub Actions).

Misc

• Dependency updates and general cleanup.
• Internal asset/vendor handling improvements (Zelta integration fixes).
• Localization updates.

v0.2.0

Sylve v0.2.0 improves reliability and day-to-day usability with a new telemetry backend, better clustering behavior, VM/jail workflow upgrades, and broad UI polish.

Highlights

• VM + Jail templating support and improved lifecycle flows.
• New telemetry database and migrations for CPU, RAM, swap, network interface statistics, and audit data.
• Cluster reliability improvements, including version mismatch guard on join.
• Console attachment support and VM logging improvements.
• Networking/storage updates (dynamic DHCP lease deletion, improved ZFS and downloader/uploader flows).

Migration Note

If you previously used a custom RAFT port (clustering), migrate by re-bootstrapping RAFT:

1. Ensure 8180 (RAFT Port), 8183 (Cluster SSH), and 8184 (Intra-cluster HTTPS API) are open between nodes.
2. Stop Sylve on all nodes.
3. On the follower nodes, reset the cluster state (Reset Cluster button in the Datacenter -> Cluster page), then after all followers are gone, reset the leader node as well.
4. Create a new cluster

8183 and 8184 were already fixed; 8180 is now standardized and no longer configurable, this was done to prevent misconfiguration and improve user experience.

Full Changelog

Cluster & Control Plane

• Standardized fixed cluster communication ports.
• Added join-time cluster version compatibility checks.
• Improved startup/init gating and cluster health behavior.
• Added migration logic for legacy cluster port metadata.

Telemetry & Database

• Introduced dedicated telemetry storage.
• Migrated key metrics and audit paths to telemetry DB.
• Removed legacy devd_events storage flow.
• Expanded migration and DB-routing test coverage.

VM & Jail

• Added VM/Jail template workflows (backend + UI).
• Added VM log initialization and lifecycle fixes.
• Improved Linux jail networking/static IP handling and resolv.conf support.

Networking, Storage & Utilities

• Added dynamic DHCP lease deletion.
• Improved ZFS dataset/snapshot/volume UX and behavior (snapshotting is now available for datasets and volumes pages).
• Added an upload button to downloader.
• Improved storage validation/default handling.

UI/UX

• Major stability and polish updates across VM/Jail pages and cluster UX.
• Better refresh/cache behavior to reduce stale or flashing states.
• Localization and internal formatting consistency improvements.

Ops & Packaging

• Added installer flow and release/version helper scripts.
  • You can use fetch -o- https://sh.sylve.io | sh to install Sylve on FreeBSD now!
• Improved CLI flag handling (-h, -v) and startup behavior.
• Added data path tiering support (SYLVE_DATA_PATH, FreeBSD defaults).

v0.1.1

Sylve v0.1.1 is a small maintenance update following the initial public release. This release focuses on bug fixes and dependency security updates.

Changelog

• VM Networking: Fixed a database transaction leak during VM MAC address cleanup (if there were no switches attached).
• Updated flatted to v3.4.1 to address CVE-2026-32141 (Developer dependency, code not shipped to clients)

Documentation

For setup and usage guides, visit sylve.io.

v0.1.0 - Initial Public Release

Sylve v0.1.0 is the first tagged release of Sylve, a lightweight, management platform for FreeBSD.

Highlights

• Bhyve virtual machine management
• FreeBSD jail management
• ZFS-first storage workflows
• Modern web interface
• Clustering support
• Integrated networking tooling
• Zelta backup integration

Documentation

For setup and usage guides, visit sylve.io.