Patches shipped: v1.6.710 → v1.6.713
Posted by Chris
These SparkBox updates are now available: v1.6.713 — Hardware transcoding starts on more servers, and a warning before a mount disappears - Hardware transcoding now starts on servers whose graphics card reports one group for both of its devices. Jellyfin, Tdarr and ErsatzTV previously refused to start with GPU transcoding turned on, and the only sign was the app failing to come up. - If you added a folder to a container outside SparkBox — in Portainer, for example — SparkBox now tells you before an update that the folder is about to be dropped, and hands you the exact lines to keep it permanently. v1.6.712 — Version 3: a new workspace for SparkBox Free and Legend - Meet the Version 3 interface: a clean workspace for SparkBox Free and a distinct Legend home with an app dock, Tom AI panel, atmosphere choices and saved layouts. - Choose your dashboard from the sidebar: Version 3, Version 1 (Classic), or Version 2 (Original Legend) for supporters. Your apps, data and existing dashboard choice stay in place. - V3 uses the existing app, container, update, backup, security and account controls. Its Vault opens and manages entries directly in the new interface. - The home screen distinguishes app availability from system status. Disk warnings and unavailable metrics stay visible instead of being presented as a healthy server. - Daylight and Nightfall themes, responsive layouts, and separate saved widget preferences for V3. v1.6.711 — Actual Budget, Open WebUI and n8n stop restarting on their own; Home layout holes closed - Actual Budget: if only half of its HTTPS certificate was ever written — an interrupted first install, a partial restore — nothing repaired it, and the app exited on the missing half and restarted forever. sparkbox up now checks both halves before starting it and regenerates them if either is missing or empty. A working certificate is left alone, so you are not asked to accept a new one for no reason. - Open WebUI: its first start downloads and sets up its embedding model, and only answers as healthy once that is done. On a slower box that took longer than it was given, so it was declared unhealthy and restarted — throwing away the partial download and beginning the same wait again. It now gets the time it needs; a fast box is still ready as soon as it answers. - n8n: it was only claiming about half of the memory its app is allowed, which was enough for ordinary use but not for the database upgrade that runs after a version change — so it could run out of memory part-way through while memory was still free. It now asks for what it needs up front. - Home (customised layouts): cards no longer leave a hole beside or under themselves. A card that had once grown tall kept that height forever, so a short launcher next to a tall system column left up to 700px of empty wallpaper, a hidden My Ship card still held its rows, and a section header could end up under its own cards. Rows now match the tallest card, hidden cards give their rows back, sections stay in order, and the settled layout is saved so the page does not jump on the next load. - Classic dashboard: one set of corner radii (8 / 12 / 16px) across buttons, cards and panels instead of nineteen different ones; light mode keeps the wallpaper readable; links are styled everywhere; the low-disk banner stays visible while you scroll. - Privacy & Terms (website): the AI providers behind Tom AI and support are named, the two add-ons that renew are stated with how to cancel, the sub-processor list and Ultimate-app data notes are published, and stored Tom AI transcripts are redacted the same way the live chat is. v1.6.710 — App refresh: 18 app(s) updated to their latest tested versions - Refreshed 18 app(s) to their latest stable versions, all in one update — each was installed and tested end-to-end by the nightly auto-bump rehearsal before this shipped. Run sudo sparkbox update. - Updated: changedetection.io 0.55.8 → 0.60.7, chaptarr 0.9.936 → 0.9.958, crafty-4 4.10.8 → 4.11.0, duplicati 2.3.0 → 2.4.0, flaresolverr v3.5.0 → v3.5.2, freshrss 1.29.1 → 1.30.0, ghost 6.57.1-alpine → 6.64.0-alpine, homarr v1.71.0 → v1.77.1, homepage v2.2.0 → v2.4.0, mealie v3.25.1 → v3.27.0, navidrome 0.63.2 → 0.64.0, nextcloud 31.0.9 → 32.0.6, prowlarr 2.5.2 → 2.6.5, radarr 6.3.0 → 6.4.4, sabnzbd 4.4.1 → 5.1.3, server 2.9.1 → 3.1.1, shelfarr 2026.08.31.1 → 2026.09.10.1, sonarr 4.0.19 → 4.0.20. Update from the SparkBox dashboard, or run sudo sparkbox upgrade on your SparkBox host. If a problem remains after updating, submit a private support ticket or reply here. Include your SparkBox version and what you see; leave passwords and licence keys out.