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Author:     hayzamjs <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2025-12-30 18:45:33 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]>
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+=== Sylve -- A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
+
+Links: +
+link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[] +
+link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[CI] URL: link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[] +
+link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[Discord] URL: link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[]
+
+Contact: Hayzam Sherif <[email protected]>
+
+Sylve is a modern, unified system management platform for FreeBSD, inspired by Proxmox.
+It provides an integrated web interface for managing virtual machines (via Bhyve), Jails, ZFS storage, networking, and firewalling.
+
+The backend is implemented in Go, while the frontend is built with SvelteKit, Tailwind CSS, and ShadCN UI components.
+
+The project emphasizes a minimal system footprint.
+By default, it only requires the following packages:
+
+- package:sysutils/smartmontools[]
+- package:sysutils/tmux[]
+
+Optional runtime dependencies, required only when their respective features are used, include:
+
+- package:devel/libvirt[] for virtualization
+- package:devel/qemu[devel/qemu-tools] for disk image management
+- package:net/samba419[] for SMB file sharing
+- package:sysutils/swtpm[] for TPM emulation support
+- package:idns/dnsmasq[] for DHCP and DNS services
+
+==== Q4 Progress Highlights
+
+===== Storage
+
+* ZFS Management: we now use link:https://github.com/alchemillahq/gzfs[GitHub - gzfs] that is a go wrapper around zfs/zpool/zdb CLI to provide full support for creating and managing ZFS pools and datasets.
+  This has improved performance and reliability compared to our previous implementation.
+
+* VM and Jail storage management: During the initialization user can pick the pool(s) where VM (disks/zvols) and Jail (datasets) will be created, and all the disk/dataset creation will be done under the hood automatically.
+
+===== Jails
+
+* Support for Linux Jails using the FreeBSD Linuxulator has been added.
+  Users can create, manage, and monitor Linux Jails via the web interface.
+  It is still considered experimental but we have tested extensively with Rocky Linux and Alpine.
+
+* A bunch of improvements to jails has been added where in people can now supply a lot more options when creating/editing/viewing thick jails.
+
+===== Virtual Machines
+
+* Cloud-Init Support: Sylve now supports Cloud-Init for automated VM provisioning.
+  Users can provide Cloud-Init configuration during VM creation/editing.
+
+* Serial Console: A web-based serial console for VMs has been implemented, allowing users to access the VM console directly from the Sylve UI.
+
+===== Networking
+
+* DHCP Server: A web UI around package:dns/dnsmasq[] has been added, we allow creation of Ranges, Reservations, and Options.
+
+===== Utilities
+
+The downloader now supports automatic extraction of various archive formats including .tar.gz, .zip, .xz, and .bz2 and also supports automatic conversion of disk images to raw format.
+
+===== General
+
+Sylve now requires FreeBSD 15.0 or later, as we now depend on features like Jail metadata, and ZFS v2.4.0+ which includes JSON output for many commands that we rely on.
+
+We also have made numerous improvements to the UI/UX, performance optimizations, and bug fixes across the platform, some of them include:
+
+* Improved graphing with the link:https://echarts.apache.org[ECharts] library for better performance and interactivity.
+* Enhanced accessibility features to ensure compliance with WCAG standards.
+* Internationalization (i18n) support with the help of link:https://wuchale.dev/[Wuchale], starting with Hindi (hi) translations for the UI.
+* Backend optimizations for faster data retrieval and reduced load times.
+* Removed several frontend dependencies (notably tanstack), opting for lighter alternatives to reduce overall bundle size and improve load times.
+
+==== Roadmap Update
+
+Some clustering work is still ongoing.
+Once completed, we will release full project documentation and begin packaging Sylve for easy installation via pkg.
+
+We are also developing a new, tightly integrated backup system within the Sylve monorepo, enabling simple backup and restore of VMs, jails, and configurations.