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Unraid Digest #080
Hey Unraiders,
June brought one of the most requested upgrades to Community Apps yet, two new open roles on the Unraid team, and our annual Summer Sale is live now! Here's everything you need to know. ⤵
What’s New?
Unraid Summer Sale= Now live!
We're running one of our biggest sales of the year and we wanted you to hear it first.
From now until July 19, here's what's on sale:
20% off Starter and Unleashed licenses | 30% off all upgrades to Unleashed | 50% off a second Starter and Unleashed license at checkout
We're Hiring
The Unraid team is growing, come work with us! Two new Unraid roles are open now — both remote.
 This role owns the internal systems and tooling that keep Lime Technology running efficiently. If you know how to build and automate operations at a software company, we want to hear from you |  Leading the team behind Unraid's support experience, from community-facing help to the paid support program. A role for someone who cares deeply about getting users unstuck. |
Know someone who'd be a great fit? Share the links. Applications are now open.
New Community Apps Portal
Community Applications is one of the most-used features on Unraid, and now it has a proper home outside the WebGUI.
The redesigned portal makes it easier to discover the full catalog, save apps to try later, and submit your own.
New: a Spotlight section with a monthly pick and embedded install video, plus a live Recently Added feed as the community publishes new containers and plugins.
Visit the portal here: |
Community Content
The First Server Built for Unraid: X15 Review & Unboxing
The X15 — the first product in the 45HomeLab >< Unraid Signature Series — has been shipping for a few weeks now, and the first real-world reviews are in. 15 bays, dual 10GbE, ECC memory, an Intel i7 with integrated GPU, and an Unraid Lifetime license included in the box. Built and tested in North America, quiet enough for a home office, and designed with non-proprietary parts you can upgrade or swap at any time. No researching compatibility. No weekends spent building. It arrives ready to run!
Finally Organize Your Homelab (Unraid + Homelab Hub Setup)
AlienTech42 walks through setting up Homelab Hub on Unraid — a self-hosted dashboard that gives you a single view across every service, container, and device running in your setup. If your homelab has grown to the point where you've lost track of what's running where, this is a practical fix.
The Startup Stories: Inside the 45Drives and Unraid Partnership
How does a partnership between two independent hardware and software companies actually come together? This episode of Startup Stories goes behind the scenes on the 45Drives >< Unraid collaboration, with the thinking behind the Signature Series and what building purpose-built Unraid hardware actually looks like from both sides.
The SIMPLEST Guide to Set Up Jellyfin WITH Hardware Acceleration on Unraid
Jellyfin is a free and open-source project for streaming your media to your devices. In this video I will be going through a simple set up of Jellyfin on Unraid and show you how to enable hardware accelaration to use your GPU for video transcoding.
Ed & Stefano Unleashed, June Episode
Ed and Stefano are back with another wide-ranging episode. This month: Anthropic faces new restrictions, Chrome's ad blocking changes and what that means for your self-hosted setup, and — most relevant to us — Claude SSH'ing directly into an Unraid server. If you've been curious about running AI agents against your homelab, this one's worth your time.
Homelab 101: Tailscale on Unraid
No port forwarding, no CGNAT headaches, no open ports. TechnicallyMarv walks through setting up Tailscale on Unraid from scratch — remote WebGUI access, subnet routing, and giving individual Docker containers like Plex their own secure remote access.
App of the Month: Apprise Plugin
Apprise brings 100+ notification services — Slack, Discord, Telegram, Pushover, and more — to Unraid as a native plugin. Get alerts for your array, containers, or anything else on your server, all from one place.
Merch of the Month
Built for summer. Just like your array, but with better airflow.
Featured Forum Threads
SUB/WAVE is now on Unraid: a radio station that DJs your own music
One shared stream, a local AI DJ picks the next track and talks between them: short intros, the time, the weather. Radio, not a playlist.
The official 7.3.1 release thread — 75 posts, 6k views. Security patches, storage and networking fixes, and community upgrade feedback all in one place.
[Plugin] Docker Network Manager
New community plugin that adds a Networks tab to the Unraid web UI. Manage Docker networks without touching the command line. Already in Community Apps.
"Home info on a floor plan" app (runs in Docker)
A community member built a self-hosted app that overlays live home data onto a floor plan — and it runs as a Docker container on Unraid. The comments are full of people wanting to try it.
Unraid support team are INCREDIBLE
A user took to Reddit just to share how good their support experience was. Always nice to see.
This is what everyone meant by internal boot, right?
First-time “internal boot” setup, documented with a photo. /s :-P
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Thanks very much for reading!
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