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@Dfds and @Poechi, 3827 is not on the stable release list, so that's a no go for me. In the search for a solution and upgrade for the security hole, I read a few threads and frankly, the process felt just too shaky for my taste, as I have 18 TB of live data that I'd like to keep. There's no way for me to follow the backup-your-data-first-suggestions as I don't have another 18 TB and about a weeks worth of time to backup to... @Trantor, sorry to hear about your paypal-mishap I for one do not really care about the 5.0 version at this early stage. We all know that Synology will have to release lots of small updates to root out bugs in the coming months. I'm a recovering version upgrade junkie! ..and have learned from other early adopter situations I agree with @sporti and would rather see another stable release from the the 4.3 strain as you already are working on Preferably a release that will update the 4.3.3810 without any fuss Keep up the good work @Trantor!! Well, all forums can't be as well structured as for instance xda-developers.com, but we all do this on our spare time and maybe the forum supermod can't find the hours as well? I'm looking forward to the next 4.3 release and in the meantime I would appreciate any tips on how to make sure that my 3810 doesn't get hacked... For now, I don't have any port settings to the machine from my router and maybe that's enough?? I do have Plex running...

Very good questions! I'd also like to get a bearing on this. Let me first begin with saying that this is not me complaining. It's just a pragmatic assessment of the situation... It's sad that there are so serious security holes in the 4.3 release (thanks to Synology). I'd really like to make full use of the system and not just handle local storage. This forum is lacking the usual pinned info posts as found on other communities and I'm sure that some of @sporti's questions can be found after hours of browsing the posts. We all know that forum search engines, if it's even any idea to call it that? leaves much to be desired. I wish that I could help with the forum but in this case I'm just a user that relies on the strength of this community for help. Linux is not my forte... I'd say that @Trantor's work is pure magic! After I found this forum, I bought an HP N54L and a full load of HD's and it works just beautifully! Besides from the security issue I would bet that @trantor does this on his limited free time and therefore we, the users of his great work cannot do much more than pray that he get's a little more time to release the 5.0 version a month from now? or even two, three months maybe? For me it is important that the release is reliable. This is the very typical scenario with open source and community software. We can't really make any demands as users and sometimes the author just looses interest when angry/dissatisfied users continue to hassle him etc. I have always thought that the simple solution is for the author to take donations. This will probably not enable him to magically produce more hours out of one day, but it will certainly motivate him, and the users that have donated have "a right" to put a little pressure on him I for one would GLADLY donate money to @trantor for his continued work, because of the simple fact that HIS work have saved me lots of money. I could of course have bought another synology made hardware, but their hardware is just MUCH too overpriced compared to the performance. @trantor! Please let us donate to you for your fine work! A rough release plan for the 5.0 version would help too Now, I'm not rich, but I'm not that guy that strongly believes that all software should be free, either. That is just (as history tells us) an impossible concept. If we all donated what we could, from 5 to 50+ USD I'm sure that @trantor would gain a new found encouragement and appreciation for his work! I cannot believe that any of us can't afford at least a quick paypal transfer! Right?!