First of all, the usual disclaimer: this is still the same no-fluff monthly roundup. Real updates, tested where possible, written for people running Synology, UGREEN, Asustor and plain Docker on home NAS boxes. Portainer has officially announced that version 3.0 is on the way. It will be a bigger architectural step, more Kubernetes-oriented, with new … Read more about Self-Hosted NAS News – September 2026
On September 17, 2026, the Portainer team released the first maintenance update to the current Long Term Support line, moving from 2.45.0 LTS to 2.45.1 LTS. This is a classic LTS patch release: focused on security hardening, dependency updates, and small stability improvements rather than big new features. For anyone running Portainer on a Synology … Read more about Synology: Portainer Docker Version 2.45.1
On September 17, 2026, WordPress 7.1.1 was released to the public. This version is available for âdownloadâ from wordpress.org and not in the Synology Package Center. So, if you want to download and install WordPress 7.1.1 on your Synology NAS, you have to follow my step by step guide on how to manually update a new version … Read more about Synology & UGREEN NAS WordPress 7.1.1 Released
Degoog is a modern, self-hosted search engine aggregator that lets you search multiple engines at once and view all results in a single clean, unified interface. It acts as your personal meta-search engine, forwarding queries to your chosen providers, combining the results, and delivering them without tracking or ads for full privacy. What sets it … Read more about How to Install Degoog on Your Asustor NAS
AFFiNE is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting, and creating all together. Form your knowledge console at your wish. Open-source, privacy-first, and always free. AFFiNE is an alternative to Notion and Miro. It’s a workspace with fully merged docs, whiteboards and databases. In this step by step guide I will show you how … Read more about How to Install Affine on Your UGREEN NAS
JellyGlance is a modern, self-hosted dashboard for Jellyfin media servers that unifies live sessions, user statistics, recently added media, libraries, download queues, release calendars, webhooks, backups, request management, and integrations with tools like the Arr suite, Seerr apps, and download clients into one clean, customizable command center. In this step by step guide I will … Read more about How to Install JellyGlance on Your Synology NAS