ADM BetaProgram Release Notes

ADM Beta 5.0.0.BO72 ( 2025-02-26 )

System Requirements:

AS63, 64, 52, 53, 52, 53 Gen2, Drivestor, Drivestor Lite, Drivestor Pro, Drivestor Pro Gen2, Lockerstor, Lockerstor Gen2, Lockerstor Pro, Flashstor

Important Notes:

• ASUSTOR recommends to back up important data before updating ADM.
• Your NAS will restart to complete the update.
• After upgrading to ADM 5.0.0 Beta, it will no longer be possible to downgrade to a previous version.
• After upgrading to ADM 5.0.0 Beta, please be sure to upgrade NAS apps from App Central to reduce compatibility issues.
• AS31, AS32, AS40, AS61 and AS62 NAS series will no longer be receiving feature updates due to the recent termination of vendor support for drivers. ADM 4.3 will be the last major version for these models. Only security updates and critical bug fixes will be provided.

What's New:

• The all-new ADM Defender provides preset and customizable firewall profiles. Intelligent security protection can proactively prevent suspicious IP addresses from connecting to your NAS.
• Enabling SSH keys can improve the security of using SSH while also making it more convenient.
• Text Editor for editing and creating plain text files is now available on App Central.

Change log:

• Linux Kernel has been upgraded to version 6.6 LTS. Kernel 6.6 LTS introduces numerous security patches and fixes more potential security issues.
  • Available on: AS52, 53, 54, 63, 64, Lockerstor, Lockerstor Gen2, Lockerstor Pro, Flashstor.
• OpenSSL updates bring improved performance and compatibility.
• With the new version of Samba, SMB Multichannel is no longer experimental and brings new performance enhancements, additional security and is much more stable than ever before.
• The ADM toolbar can now be automatically hidden.
• ADM now defaults to the language of your browser.
• Revised regional options in ADM Settings and updated time zones.
• Storage Manager improves how storage is displayed in the overview page to provide more convenient and effective information.
• ADM Maintenance replaces and combines ADM Update, Factory Reset and Settings Backup.
• Web Center can now be set up to use different PHP versions for different apps.
• When removing a shared folder or unmounting an encrypted shared folder, you now need to enter the system administrator password for verification.
• Adjusted and categorized the ADM File Manager menu to improve the user experience.
• Settings Backup will now back up the settings of ADM Defender, Manual connect, Scheduling and Services.
• Backup & Restore is now changed to Backup Central.
• Users can now choose between different encryption algorithms when creating Let's Encrypt certificates.
• Domain Controller can now be configured while adding an Active Directory server in Access Control.
• When a UPS is in a low power state, a connected ASUSTOR NAS will now shut down properly.
• When thin provisioning is enabled, the maximum iSCSI LUN capacity that can be allocated is 1024 TB.
• ADM File Explorer bug fixes.
• Web Center bug fixes.
• Improved multilingual strings.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Limitations:

• Please click here to learn more about retired apps in ADM 5.0.
• RAID 0 Volumes created on ADM 5.0 devices employing Linux Kernel 6.6 cannot be read using the Xpanstor 4 or AS6004U on the Drivestor and Drivestor Pro series.
• LooksGood is currently not supported in ADM 5.0 Beta on Drivestor, Drivestor Lite, Drivestor Pro and Drivestor Pro Gen2, but will be added at later dates.