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DSM 7.4: What’s New for Synology NAS?
At Computex 2026, Synology unveiled several new announcements, including DSM 7.4, the upcoming version of its NAS operating system. What are the main new features in this release? Here’s what we know.
As we’ll see later in this article, DSM 7.4 is built around three priorities: artificial intelligence, sovereignty, and security. I say that because Synology aims to position itself as an intelligent data management platform with local AI, independent from the Cloud.
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DSM Agent: a native AI agent
The first major new feature is called DSM Agent. This is a native agent built into DSM that can perform tasks based on your natural language requests. Synology refers to the orchestration of complete agentic workflows.
For the AI agent to work with your data, DSM 7.4 creates a private, local knowledge base from system logs, metrics, and existing data.
"Built-in guardrails and governance controls give IT teams full visibility into how AI workflows access and use organizational data.", says Synology’s press release.
You may be wondering: how will the AI agent have enough hardware resources? For now, Synology has not mentioned the technical requirements needed or which models are compatible with which feature. However, it does refer to Synology-branded GPU rack servers and dedicated AI appliances. The goal: rely on local AI without dependence on the Cloud.
AI in Synology Office
Artificial intelligence will also be present in Synology Office, the office suite available on DSM. It provides access to online document creation and file sharing via Synology Drive. This AI assistant will be able to guide you, especially within Drive.
Thanks to Drive AI Search and the use of local models, as well as a local database, this tool will greatly improve keyword search. In other words, it will be possible to perform semantic searches in natural language and the AI will be able to return relevant results. To do this, it will combine optical character recognition (OCR) and visual data analysis.
In addition, Synology Office will be enhanced with ChatPlus and Meet to allow teams to communicate using local tools. Here again, AI will improve the experience around these two solutions: "Both integrate AI-assisted transcription and translation, helping teams work more efficiently while keeping all data entirely on-premises and under organizational control.", Synology explains.
A new tool called Cluster Manager
Synology is also announcing the arrival of a new management console called Cluster Manager. It is designed to allow large-scale deployments to be administered from a single console. This new feature will also tie into Active Insight to provide better environment oversight and make it easier to deploy a new system.
Still on the storage side, Synology is introducing a feature called "Storage Efficiency" in its Storage Manager. It makes it possible to apply data deduplication and compression simultaneously on volumes equipped with mechanical hard drives (HDDs). A configuration should be offered directly for each shared folder.
RBAC role management in DSM
DSM 7.4 will bring a very interesting new feature for access control and access management: RBAC. For those unfamiliar with it, this is a role-based access management approach. Each role has specific permissions, and each user assigned a role inherits the associated access rights. This makes it easier to apply the principle of least privilege across a system.
Finally, DSM 7.4 introduces a redesigned Log Center where administrators will be able to find operational logs and application logs in one place. According to Synology, it will also be possible to export this data to observability platforms.
When will DSM 7.4 be available?
The schedule is now known: Synology will officially launch DSM 7.4 on June 16, 2026. This update will be available for download and gradually rolled out to compatible NAS devices. This release will also mark a break: all NAS models older than the 21 series will be incompatible with this new version.
Finally, here are some other updates about the Synology ecosystem:
- Video surveillance - Surveillance365 (Cloud version) brings VSaaS features that integrate seamlessly with on-premises Surveillance Station,
- ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 becomes compatible with AWS EC2, Azure VM, Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, and Google Workspace. A new appliance called DP5200 also expands the lineup.
