Edge Update 2026.1 Released

Edge 2026.1 brings more of the technologies that power Cluster and Standalone deployments to Edge. This update introduces full storage redundancy, halves system memory overhead, and adds support for bare metal providers, while keeping the small footprint Edge is known for.

Full Storage Redundancy

Earlier Edge versions ran the operating system from separate boot media: a USB drive, SD card, or onboard storage that had to remain in the server. Even with a mirrored Storage Pool protecting your data, the boot media was a single point of failure.

Edge 2026.1 removes it. The operating system now lives on the Storage Pool alongside hypervisor metadata and virtual machine data. With the Mirror layout, a disk failure no longer takes anything down: the hypervisor keeps running on the surviving disk, operating system included.

Boot media is replaced by bootstrap media, an install-only image used to start a new installation. Once the hypervisor is registered and the Storage Pool is created, the bootstrap media is no longer needed.

See Hardware and Installing Gallium Edge for details.

Reduced Memory Overhead

System overhead has been reduced from 4 GB to 2 GB, freeing an additional 2 GB of memory for virtual machine workloads. This improvement comes from the shared foundation with the second-generation Hypervisor and requires no configuration changes.

Bare Metal Ready

More teams are moving workloads to bare metal providers like OVH and Latitude to get better value compute. These servers typically ship without a hardware RAID controller. Edge 2026.1 addresses this: software-based storage redundancy means hardware RAID is no longer required. The bootstrap image has also been optimized for imaging using the provider portal.

Availability

Edge 2026.1 is now the default for all new deployments. For existing deployments, the upgrade will roll out over the coming weeks. When your deployment is eligible, an update banner will appear in the Console. Once triggered, hypervisors move to the new storage architecture automatically, gaining full storage redundancy as part of the process.