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= ChangeLog =
[[Category:Support guide]]
The change log contains a detailed summary of the changes made for each new release of QuantaStor.  For information on how to upgrade your storage system please see the [[QuantaStor Upgrade Guide|Upgrade Guide]].
= Change Log Overview =
The change log contains a detailed summary of the changes made for each new release of QuantaStor.  Each change made to QuantaStor is tracked with an engineering ticket number in the form '''[QSTOR-NNNN]'''.  This information is provided so that if you're working with OSNexus support you can track the availability of a given product feature add, improvement, or maintenance fix to a specific release.  For information on how to upgrade your storage system please see the [[QuantaStor Upgrade Guide|Upgrade Guide]].


== Versioning System ==
== Versioning System ==
QuantaStor version numbers have four (4) parts to them. A major number (M), minor number (N), maintenance update number (U) and build number (B) of the form M.N.U.B such as 4.1.1.1050.  QuantaStor upgrades go directly from whatever version you are running to the latest version with no interim steps so for example if you are at v3.16 you will upgrade directly to the latest version which may be v4.1.
QuantaStor version numbers consist of four (4) parts. A major number (M), minor number (N), maintenance update number (U) and build number (B) of the form M.N.U.B such as 6.0.2.006.


==== Major Version Number ====
QuantaStor upgrades go directly from whatever version you are running to the latest version, with no interim steps so for example if you are at v6.0.1 you will upgrade directly to the latest version which may be v6.1.2
QuantaStor v4.x is the current Major release version.  


Upgrading from QuantaStor 3.x releases can be done inline with minimal downtime and a schedule work window to reboot for any new Kernel and driver updates.
== Product Update Types ==


Legacy upgrades from QuantaStor 2.x releases would require exporting any Storage Pools, reloading the OS with QuantaStor 4.x install media, and then importing the storage pools and performing a restore of the configuration database using the [[Storage System Recovery Manager Dialog]]
==== Major Updates (X.y.z) ====
If the first digit in the version number has changed this indicates a major product release such as QuantaStor v5 to QuantaStor v6. Major releases generally come with a new underlying Linux platform as the basis.  For example, the standard ISO install for QuantaStor v5 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 whereas QuantaStor v6 is based on Ubuntu 20.04.   Major product releases generally include new features and maintenance updates and are supported on multiple underlying Linux platforms.  For example, QuantaStor v6 is available as an upgrade on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 based systems as well as RHEL and RHEL derivative platforms.  Platform upgrades to move systems forward (eg 18.04 to 20.04) are made generally available in the first feature update release, such as QuantaStor 6.1.


==== Minor Version Number ====
==== Feature Updates (x.Y.z) ====
The minor version number increments with each minor product update release of QuantaStor which comes out every 2 - 4 months.  Releases typically include a combination of new features and some maintenance fixes.  Most releases can be applied without a reboot and zero downtime as they rarely include driver changes.  If a release does require a reboot we mark it specially with a large tag "REBOOT REQUIRED" so that you can find an appropriate maintenance window in which to apply the upgrade.  In general, reboots are only required when the qstortarget package has been upgraded.  So if you see that a new version of that package is available know that a reboot will be required to complete the upgrade.
If the second digit in the version number has changed this indicates a feature release such as 6.'''1''' going to 6.'''2'''.  Feature releases add new product features as well as a maintenance updates.  No additional licensing is required to access any new features that added but note that QuantaStor licenses do not include licenses for 3rd party products and services that may integrate with QuantaStor.


==== Maintenance Update ====
==== Maintenance Updates (x.y.Z) ====
If the release includes maintenance version number like 4.1.'''1''' or 4.1.'''2''' it represents a update to address one or more support tickets.  These updates generally do not contain new features, only fixes to address specific issues.  Maintenance releases generally ship once a month.
If the third digit of the version number has changed this such as 6.0.'''2''' or 6.0.'''3''' it represents a maintenance update to address one or more support tickets.  These updates generally do not contain new features, only fixes to address specific issues.  Maintenance releases generally ship every 4 to 8 weeks.  All maintenance "aka hot-fix" releases are provided against the current stable release so upgrading to the latest QuantaStor version is generally required to apply them.


==== Build Number ====
==== Build Number (x.y.z.BBB) ====
The build number can be largely ignored, it simply increments with each commit that is made to the source tree.
The build number and corresponding build reference hash can be largely ignored. The build number simply increments with each commit that is made to the source tree. The hash is provided to make it easier for OSNEXUS support and engineering to quickly confirm difference between your current running release and any more modern release.


== Boot Install Image and other downloads ==
== Boot Install Image and other downloads ==
=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
* The latest version of QuantaStor can be found on our [https://downloads.osnexus.com downloads page here].
* [[QuantaStor Installation via USB Thumb Drive|Bootable Flash Drive instructions.]]


The latest version of QuantaStor can be found on our [http://downloads.osnexus.com downloads page]
NOTE: Archived older versions of QuantaStor ISO install media and CLI tools can be found [https://downloads.osnexus.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/list.html here].


Older versions can be found [http://downloads.osnexus.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/list.html here]
= Recent Change Logs =


== v6.8.6.015  (September 14th 2026) ==


* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.6 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.6 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.6 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.6]].


== v4.5.1.003 (March 16th 2018) ==
=== Release Notes ===


=== [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
Click [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.5.1]].
* Fixed: disk health WARNING states detected through storcli2 or SMART now raise a Disk Health alert (email/SNMP) instead of only showing in the Physical Disks view. [ QSTOR-12144 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.5.1.003.iso osn_quantastor_v4.5.1.003.iso]
* Fixed: Scale-out Storage Cluster creation now works on routed fabrics where the selected member ports share no common subnet. [ QSTOR-12484 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.5.1.003.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.5.1.003.md5]


Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed: garbled or incomplete storcli output is now treated as unreliable instead of marking controllers and disks as missing. [ QSTOR-12118 ]


===Release Notes===
Network Shares
* Fixed: HA VIF SMB authentication in Kerberos-only Active Directory environments. [ QSTOR-11685 ]


Encrypted Storage Pool
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed the replication-schedule volume picker so it no longer hides eligible volumes whose owning node changed after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-11775 ]
* Fixed problem with backup job cancel not stopping the process. [ QSTOR-11877 ]


* Fixed an issue with starting Passphrase Protected Encrypted Storage after upgrading from 4.4.3 or earlier releases. [ QSTOR-4598 ]
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Fixed: network ports with iSCSI/NVMe-oF disabled are never exposed as allowed iSCSI portals, including after a service restart. [ QSTOR-12330 ]


Storage Pool Management
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed: the service no longer runs zpool status -v on the startup import path, so a pool with many data errors no longer blocks service startup. [ QSTOR-11654 ]
* Fixed: the QuantaStor service starts after multipathd so pools with many multipath devices no longer start degraded at boot. [ QSTOR-12108 ]
* Fixed: a degraded pool's missing or faulted devices now stay visible in the Storage Pool Devices view with their state instead of disappearing from the list. [ QSTOR-12109 ]


* Added a widget to the Pool Stats to indicate short hand Millisecond numbers from the raw Nanosecond numbers provided with 4.5.0. [ QSTOR-4597 ]
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: The Storage Pool Create Dialog was filtering out Hardware RAID unit based Physical disks that have the same serial# but different SCSI Device ID's. This corrects a regression introduced in 4.5.0. [ QSTOR-4600 ]
* Fixed: the el8 install no longer fails on the retired ipmiutil package. [ QSTOR-12257 ]
* Fixed: ISO images now carry the Ubuntu security updates for packages that reach the ISO only as dependencies. [ QSTOR-12259 ]
* Fixed: focal installs trust the current OSNEXUS repository signing key, so package upgrades from the public repository work. [ QSTOR-12274 ]
* Fixed: core-only upgrades now refresh the qstorkeyring package so repository trust updates reach every upgrade path. [ QSTOR-12280 ]
* Fixed: the install scripts trust only the current OSNEXUS repository signing keys instead of importing the published keyring wholesale. [ QSTOR-12293 ]


Web Manager
Web Manager
* Fixed: logging out of the web interface as a non-default administrator or non-admin user no longer logs a false authentication failure or raises spurious 'User Authentication Failed' alerts. [ QSTOR-11701 ]


* Added new column search filtering in a few of the Management grid views that deal with Large sets of items such as Volumes, Network Shares, Pools and Disks. [ QSTOR-4210 ]
== v6.8.5.018  (August 19th 2026) ==
* Expanded the size of the Ceph Cluster create dialog to show more nodes. [ QSTOR-4584 ]


Core Service and CLI
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.5 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.5 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.5 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.5]].


* Updated Windows CLI for QuantaStor [ QSTOR-4592 ]
=== Release Notes ===


== v4.5.0.148 (March 9th 2018) ==
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed: RGW auto-tiering rules now apply to tenant-scoped buckets; the tiering script is installed for every tenant instead of only the default one. [ QSTOR-12223 ]
* Added: auto-tiering rules can now be scoped to a tenant from the web interface and CLI - all tenants, buckets outside any tenant, or a named tenant. [ QSTOR-12225 ]
* Changed: named-tenant matching is now exact ('sc2' no longer also matches 'sc2_prod'); no rule created in the web interface could carry a named tenant before this change, so no existing configuration is affected. [ QSTOR-12225 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.5.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Enclosures and Controllers
Click [[QuantaStor 4.5.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.5.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.5.0]].
* Fixed: Supermicro SC846 and SC847 enclosures reporting vendor SMC now match their JBOD layout profile instead of logging a layout detection failure on every discovery cycle. [ QSTOR-11947 ]
* Fixed: disks could remain displayed under a 9600-series HBA after the attached storage was removed, because a successful-but-empty discovery result was treated as a command failure and the disk list was never refreshed. [ QSTOR-12036 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Network Shares
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.5.0.148.iso osn_quantastor_v4.5.0.148.iso]
* Fixed: Active Directory user and group lookups no longer fail intermittently where a domain controller address reverse-resolves to a name other than the controller own name. [ QSTOR-12214 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.5.0.148.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.5.0.148.md5]
* Added: a domain-join option that disables reverse DNS canonicalization and sends user and group lookups to every pinned domain controller. [ QSTOR-12214 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
* Fixed: an Active Directory user/group search now reports why it could not run, instead of always blaming a trusted-domain search filter. [ QSTOR-12216 ]


===Release Notes===
Service Core
* Fixed a qs_service crash under sustained DB connection pool exhaustion on large Ceph/S3 grids by serializing and capping overflow connection creation. [ QSTOR-11580 ]
* Fixed: a task that failed to resume after a service restart could block every other task from resuming. [ QSTOR-12218 ]
* Fixed: the task resume limit was not enforced for some task types, so a task that could never finish was retried on every service start. [ QSTOR-12218 ]


Kernel Update
Storage Pool Management
* Added capability to simulate Corvault configurations in order to test pool configurations for redundancy. [ QSTOR-11945 ]


* Updated Linux Kernel to 4.4.0-112
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: a storage system upgrade task could stop resuming after the second service restart, leaving a completed upgrade reported as stuck at 30%. [ QSTOR-12177 ]
* Fixed: leftover upgrade progress files were never purged, so a finished upgrade could keep reporting stale progress. [ QSTOR-12219 ]
* Fixed: 6.8.4 ISO and OVA images were missing qstortomcat, qstorrest, qstoraws and qstorbase, which left the web interface unavailable after an offline install. The images have been rebuilt. [ QSTOR-12237 ]
* Added: an ISO build now fails if a package it declares is absent, so an incomplete image cannot ship. [ QSTOR-12237 ]
== v6.8.4.038  (August 13th 2026) ==


Driver Updates
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.4]].


* Updated SCST FC and iSCSI target driver 3.3.0
=== Release Notes ===
* Updated i40e driver to 2.4.3
* Updated igb driver to 5.3.5.12
* Updated e1000e driver to 3.4.0.2
* Updated megaraid_sas driver to 07.704.04.00
* Updated aacraid driver to 1.2.1-55022
* Updated mlnx-ofed-kernel driver to 3.4
* Updated hpsa driver to 3.4.20
* Updated sfc driver to 4.12.1.1021
* Updated arcmsr driver to 1.30.0X.27-20170206
* Updated smartpqi driver to 1.1.2-125


Security:
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Kernel 4.4.0-112 includes fixes for the below Security items:
* Fixed an issue where the Ceph Cluster Coordinator role could become stuck on one node. The automatic fallback election methods (grid-primary, site-primary, mon-rank) were not taking effect, so when no designated coordinator was set, coordinatorship never moved (e.g. after changing the grid master). Automatic coordinator election now works correctly; explicitly designated coordinators were unaffected. [ QSTOR-12194 ]


<pre>
Dashboards and Analytics
Spectre - Variant 1 - Bounds Check Bypass - CVE-2017-5753
* Fixed the Ceph RGW dashboard on Ceph Tentacle so it correctly reports throughput/latency when transferring files to a bucket. [ QSTOR-11803 ]


Meltdown - Variant 3 - Rogue Data Cache Load - CVE-2017-5754
High Availability Failover
* Fixed the script to set the device reservation ability on WD Openflex Data24 [ QSTOR-12117 ]
* Fixed site cluster heartbeat rings so each ring keeps its own network address and member list. Previously the rings of a multi-ring site collapsed into a single entry with no subnet shown. [ QSTOR-12159 ]


Note: Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 is a firmware code issue and can only be addressed with updated microcode in a Motherboard BIOS or firmware update from the Processor manufacturer.
Network Shares
</pre>
* Adds an explicit domain controller to the GSSAPI ldapsearch for Active Directory user and group lookups, fixing intermittent failures on multi-controller domains. Domain joins also wait longer for a busy controller. [ QSTOR-11939 ]
* Added a cleanup-only mode to the Active Directory leave operation that reverts the local domain configuration without contacting the domain controller, for recovering from a failed or partial leave. [ QSTOR-12058 ]
* Fixed: SMB/DFS network share namespace referrals now advertise all of an appliance's reachable addresses rather than just one, so clients on any subnet can reach the share. [ QSTOR-12107 ]
* Fixed per-user share permissions so an existing entry with no recorded read/write/execute setting is treated as full access rather than no access. Modifying a share no longer rewrites ACLs when no permission actually changed. [ QSTOR-12113 ]
* Fixed Active Directory joins in SSSD-only mode against Windows Server 2025 domain controllers, which previously failed to set the machine account password. [ QSTOR-12141 ]
* Fixed placeholder values such as None, null or undefined sent by API clients being written into the Samba configuration, which stopped Samba loading the file and took SMB access down for every share on the node. [ QSTOR-12152 ]
* Fixed the Active Directory leave hanging when the PDC Emulator is offline. The leave now completes within a bounded timeout and reverts the local configuration. [ QSTOR-12161 ]


== v6.8.3.018  (August 6th 2026) ==


''' Note: Additional 4.5.0 release notes will be posted later in the week.'''
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.3]].


== v4.4.3.006 (February 1st 2018) ==
=== Release Notes ===


=== [[QuantaStor 4.4.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
Click [[QuantaStor 4.4.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.4.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.4.3]].
* Creating or removing a Ceph object storage class now commits the RGW period so it takes effect immediately. [ QSTOR-11938 ]
* A failed bucket enumeration is no longer treated as an empty list, which could silently drop bucket configuration. [ QSTOR-12130 ]
* Ceph object pool group creation now commits the RGW period, fixing persistent RGW realm/master-zone errors. [ QSTOR-12132 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Network Shares
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.3.006.iso osn_quantastor_v4.4.3.006.iso]
* Fixed Active Directory join failures on domains that use older Kerberos encryption methods. [ QSTOR-11646 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.3.006.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.4.3.006.md5]
* Changed: Active Directory joins now set 'restrict anonymous = 2' in smb.conf to block unauthenticated SID/RID enumeration. [ QSTOR-11834 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
* Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer fail when the computer-account OU contains a space. [ QSTOR-11895 ]
* Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer disable SASL signing in the system-wide ldap.conf. [ QSTOR-11926 ]
* Added a 'Skip DNS registration' option to the Active Directory join dialog, CLI and API for sites whose DNS is managed outside AD. [ QSTOR-12083 ]
* Fixed a custom autorid Domain Range Size being discarded during an Active Directory join. [ QSTOR-12089 ]
* The Active Directory KDC field now accepts a comma-separated list of domain controllers for Kerberos failover. [ QSTOR-12091 ]
* Active Directory joins in SSSD modes no longer force user/group enumeration, which could stall startup on large domains. [ QSTOR-12092 ]
* Fixed: Active Directory joins now send the machine-account password update to the PDC Emulator, fixing 'Message stream modified' failures. [ QSTOR-12136 ]
* Fixed: leaving an Active Directory domain now updates the web UI immediately instead of still showing the old domain. [ QSTOR-12153 ]
* Changed: the Active Directory join dialog now labels its two ID-range sections distinctly so it's clear which is being edited. [ QSTOR-12154 ]


===Release Notes===
Service Core
* Memory optimization for grid event handling. [ QSTOR-12112 ]


Remote Replication
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* The upgrade system now fetches and verifies the latest OSNEXUS package signing key before applying updates. [ QSTOR-9551 ]
* Fixed EL8 upgrades pinning a stale awscli/qstoraws package version from the RedHat repository. [ QSTOR-11991 ]
* In-place Ceph upgrades now install the shipped Ceph 20.2.2 release instead of an older pinned version. [ QSTOR-11998 ]
* Fixed a grafana-enterprise package upgrade failure that could leave dpkg in a held state during upgrades from 6.8.1. [ QSTOR-12075 ]
* Updated the Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade configuration to the shipped kernel and Ceph 20.2.2 versions. [ QSTOR-12077 ]


*Added Active Replica Checkpoint flag to Network shares and Storage Volumes that will temporarily disable Remote replication schedules or Replication tasks when active client access is enabled. This ensures that users who assign access to a Network Share or Storage Volume for a Replica Checkpoint or Checkpoint Snapshot at a particular time do not have the data set change due to an enabled replication schedule or manually triggered replication.
== v6.8.2.002  (July 24th 2026) ==


Active Directory
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.2]].


* Fixed: RFC2307 will now correctly always appear in the Active Directory Configuration dialog if the server selected is running the Precise platform with the optional Samba4 version installed.
=== Release Notes ===


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
Network Shares
 
* Fixed: AD groups could not be added to a Network Share ACL in Winbind+SSSD mode (group@DOMAIN form could not be resolved). [ QSTOR-12025 ]
* Fixed an error with the new SES SAS Hardware Enclosure discovery in QuantaStor deployed on precise platforms.
* Fixed a incorrect SMART alert on QuantaStor Deployments running on precise that would set disks with a warning status. This Issue does not occur on deployments running on the Trusty Platform.


Installer


* Fixed: Resolved a dependency issue with the install media that was preventing EFI/UEFI BIOS installs when internet access was not available.
== v6.8.1.007  (July 18th 2026) ==


== v4.4.2.004 (January 19th 2018) ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.1]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.4.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.4.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.4.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.4.2]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.2.004.iso osn_quantastor_v4.4.2.004.iso]
* Fixed: platform upgrades remove the obsolete linux-tools-common package that could trigger security alerts. [ QSTOR-10314 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.2.004.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.4.2.004.md5]
* Changed: qs-distupgrade output is timestamped and includes a pre-upgrade configuration report. [ QSTOR-11632 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
* Added: platform distribution upgrade (qs-distupgrade) from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. [ QSTOR-11651 ]
* Added: non-interactive flags for qs-distupgrade enabling fully unattended platform upgrades with automatic reboot. Use the qs-distupgrade --help to review the available usage options. [ QSTOR-11918 ]
* Fixed: platform distribution upgrades keep Ceph pinned at its current version. [ QSTOR-11955 ]
* Added: qs-distupgrade requires all Ceph nodes on the latest offered Ceph version (--skip-check-ceph-latest to override). [ QSTOR-11958 ]
* Fixed: coordinated Ceph upgrades restart all RGW daemons on hosts running multiple RGW services. [ QSTOR-11983 ]
* Fixed: a 6.8.0-only issue where service-driven package upgrades reported success without installing anything. [ QSTOR-11992 ]


===Release Notes===


High Availability VIF


* Fixed an issue where Gluster and Site Cluster VIFs could not be manually failed over with the 'Move HA Virtual Interface' option in the WebUI.
* Fixed an issue where a Gluster VIF would not automatically move to the next available active node in the event of a node failure.
Note: You will need to remove and recreate your Gluster VIF for this change to take effect.


Gluster


* Fixed: Gluster Peer Setup now performs attaches to a selected set of nodes.
* Fixed an issue with the qs-util resetids command for resetting the Gluster service unique ID.


Remote Replication
== v6.8.0.205  (July 8th 2026) ==


* Fixed: an issue with the Remote Replicated volume target _chkpnt where it would not appear in the WebUI. This was a regression introduced with the 4.4.1 release. This fix renames the _chkpnt to have the correct UUID so that remote replication will display all associated target child snapshots and continue as expected.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.8.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.8.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.8.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.0]].


SNMP
=== Release Notes ===


* Added new SnmpTrapType to SNMP alertEntry:
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
<pre> OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.39324.1.1.19.1.1.22
* Added alert webhook support for Google Chat. [ QSTOR-9793 ]
.iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.osnexus.quantastor.sysStats.alert.alertTable.alertEntry.alert-SnmpTrapType
* Allow users to have a subset of alert subscriptions. [ QSTOR-11683 ]
</pre>
* Updated SNMP MIB


Hardware Controllers and Enclosures
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Added an 'Enable Versioning' checkbox to the Create Bucket dialog (automatically enabled when object locking or governance/compliance is selected); versioning can also be enabled on existing buckets. [ QSTOR-10937 ]
* Added Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 support to the Jammy QuantaStor ISO and package mirror. [ QSTOR-11441 ]
* QuantaStor 6.8 ships Ceph 20.2.2 (Tentacle), which includes the upstream MDS fix (tracker #76031) for the SIGABRT/crash on client eviction caused by a null MDRequestRef under sustained metadata contention. [ QSTOR-11504 ]
* The Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 release resolves frequent radosgw (RGW) crashes related to Kafka bucket notifications. [ QSTOR-11687 ]
* Fix ceph bucket delete with large number of objects timing out. [ QSTOR-11728 ]
* Removed: the deprecated S3 bucket orphan-object cleanup feature; any existing scheduled task is disabled automatically on upgrade. [ QSTOR-11729 ]
* Fixed a regression where deleting multiple Ceph (RBD) volumes at once on a multi-node cluster would fail after the first volume. [ QSTOR-11756 ]
* Added support for major-version Ceph upgrades (through Tentacle 20.2.x) in the upgrade script. [ QSTOR-11762 ]
* Increase the timeout for "Add Node" to a ceph cluster [ QSTOR-11906 ]


* Fixed an issue with the disk warning alert where the count would report '0 of N' disks. This alert has been corrected with the correct number of disks. If you are seeing this alert after upgrading it means that a set number of Disks are in a warning state due to SMART Health or Over Temperature alert states. Further investigation of disk health states can then be performed under the Hardware Controller > Disks section of the QuantaStor management interface to determine any corrective hardware actions that need to be performed.
Dashboards and Analytics
* Added: a 'qs-statsdb resetpassword' command to rotate the InfluxDB stats password; telegraf is updated in lockstep so dashboards keep working. [ QSTOR-11170 ]
* Rebuilt bundled telegraf with its vendored rclone library updated to 1.74.3, clearing CVE-2026-41176 and CVE-2026-41179. [ QSTOR-11771 ]


Pass-thru Storage Volumes
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed issue with "disappearing" enclosures [ QSTOR-11676 ]
* Added support for the Supermicro SSG-222B-NE3X24R all-NVMe server, including hardware enclosure auto-detection, enclosure layout and diagram, and NVMe drive slot mapping in the QuantaStor web management interface. [ QSTOR-11712 ]


* Fixed a Management service crash that could occur with Pass-thru Storage Volumes presented via Fibre Channel.
High Availability Failover
* Add logging for manually run iofence commands [ QSTOR-11751 ]
* Fixed HA pool failover persisting a stale size=0 / isMounted=false when the pool's datasets were still mounting during fast-import; the last-known-good size and mount state are now preserved (and the corrected record wins via a bumped modified timestamp). [ QSTOR-11818 ]
* Fixed: Storage Pool HA io-fencing and failover now work over NVMe-TCP; target namespaces advertise persistent reservations. [ QSTOR-11850 ]


== v4.4.1.011 (December 19th 2017) ==
Kernel and Drivers
* Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated the Mellanox OFED driver installer for current Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) kernels, fixing driver installation failures on recent kernels. [ QSTOR-11709 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.4.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Multitenancy
* Added RBD namespace support, allowing multiple tenants to share a single Ceph block pool with isolated volumes. [ QSTOR-11650 ]


4.4.1 upgrade has been deprecated in favor of 4.4.2
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Add a fix for Samba access to Cloud Container shares. [ QSTOR-11763 ]
* Fixed: cloud containers are now accessible over SMB, not just NFS. [ QSTOR-11824 ]
* Updated the bundled AWS CLI to version 2.35.6. [ QSTOR-11827 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Network Interfaces
* Added DOCA OFED install script for jammy and upcoming noble platforms as an optional install for latest hardware. [ QSTOR-11069 ]
* Fixed the Network Interface Rename feature on systems upgraded from older releases where the 'ip' command resides in a different path. [ QSTOR-11614 ]
* Fixed: converting a local VIF to an HA VIF now preserves the original local interface if the conversion fails, so client connectivity isn't lost. [ QSTOR-11706 ]


4.4.1 iso has been deprecated in favor of 4.4.2
Network Shares
* Add the ability to specify per user or group permissions on Network Shares during create or modify [ QSTOR-10662 ]
* Fixed: intermittent 'NFS server not responding' stalls under load by raising the nfsd listen backlog from 64 to 4096. [ QSTOR-10872 ]
* Fixed: NFS client entries can now be added or removed on a share while a long-running replication or snapshot task is using it, instead of queuing. [ QSTOR-11571 ]
* Consolidated the Network Share create/modify dialog's Permission Settings into the File Masks tab — now a single 'File Masks & Permission Settings' tab containing Owner Permission Settings plus the Directory and File Create Permissions Masks. [ QSTOR-11625 ]
* Reduced excessive event logging (event spam) for network shares and related grid objects. [ QSTOR-11695 ]
* Fixed handling of CIFS share options so empty/null option values are no longer written to the Samba configuration. [ QSTOR-11731 ]
* Fixed an issue where an Active Directory group added to a share's permissions was not preserved, and excluded built-in/default AD groups from the group picker. [ QSTOR-11767 ]


===Release Notes===
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Copy source Network Share settings to the destination share after replication. [ QSTOR-5738 ]
* Add support for rollback of Storage Volumes and Network Shares for a replication schedule [ QSTOR-6227 ]
* Minor updates to the auto snapshot cleanup tasks for replication schedules. [ QSTOR-11622 ]
* Fix auto create of replication association after failover [ QSTOR-11700 ]
* Snapshot schedule now shows the state detail when schedule is disabled by user. [ QSTOR-11717 ]
* The Snapshot Schedule properties page now displays Retention Tags. [ QSTOR-11719 ]
* Changed: Auto-tier backup policies now display as 'Auto-Tier >> Outbound' instead of 'Move >> Outbound'. [ QSTOR-11764 ]
* Fixed the CLI replication-schedule rollback so volume and share names are accepted (not just IDs), and rolling back only volumes (or only shares) no longer also rolls back the other type. [ QSTOR-11814 ]


Backup Policies
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Added: a 'Select Initiator...' picker in the Add Host dialog to choose a discovered FC remote initiator WWPN instead of typing it. [ QSTOR-10741 ]
* Renamed the sys-list 'Firmware Version' column to 'SCSI Target Version' and corrected the value to show the actual SCST target-driver version (e.g. scst-3.10.0.qs01-...) instead of the literal 'scst-SCST'. [ QSTOR-11854 ]


* Updated: new Backup Policies have the Backup Concurrency set for Parallel Backup with 12 streams. Previously the default was Serialized Backups.
Security
* Added support for Okta multi-factor authentication. [ QSTOR-9399 ]
* Added Multi-Admin Approval support, allowing deletion of pools, buckets, shares, and volumes to require approval from a configurable number of administrators. [ QSTOR-11344 ]
* Fixed certificate update failures when using a certificate template, and ensured dependent services (such as HAProxy and RGW) are restarted after a certificate replacement. [ QSTOR-11678 ]
* Fixed an issue in the Security Manager dialog where it was showing the "password policy change" warning confirmation when no fields were changed. [ QSTOR-11708 ]
* InfluxDB (port 8086) now requires authentication and binds to localhost by default; remote access is opt-in via the tf_influxdb_remote_access.enable touchfile (authentication still enforced). [ QSTOR-11759 ]
* Added the Ubuntu security apt repositories to the default package sources and removed unused bundled components flagged by scanning (Chronograf, the LXD/core20/snapd snaps, the docker-scan plugin), clearing CVE-2024-41110, CVE-2026-34177/-34178/-34179, CVE-2020-14343, CVE-2025-68121, and CVE-2024-45337. [ QSTOR-11760 ]
* Rebuilt the bundled QuantaStor Go tools (qs_iofence, qs_pool_export_helper, qs_diskinfo) and s5cmd with a current Go toolchain, clearing CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-24790, CVE-2023-24540, and CVE-2023-24538. [ QSTOR-11761 ]
* Hardened the internal QuantaStor script service (scriptsvc): removed a command-injection vector in request handling and now enforce the service's authorization check on every call. Addresses ZDI-CAN-30036 [ QSTOR-11799 ]
* Made a number of usability and reliability improvements to the multi-admin delete-approval workflow. [ QSTOR-11804 ]


Ceph
Service Core
* Fix tag-set where custom key/value tags were not appearing for User objects. [ QSTOR-11528 ]
* Improved Ceph OSD daemon restart handling during upgrades and reduced database load on large-scale clusters. [ QSTOR-11675 ]
* Fixed an issue with QuantaStor management service memory usage when a grid node was offline. [ QSTOR-11693 ]
* Improved crash handling and diagnostic tracing for coordinated tasks, during operations such as adding a Ceph RADOS Gateway across multiple nodes. [ QSTOR-11702 ]
* Improved logging and error checking for QuantaStor configuration database backups, including capturing error output when a backup fails. [ QSTOR-11742 ]
* Expanded diagnostic log collection to capture additional network routing details (ip route output and static-route configuration). [ QSTOR-11748 ]
* Fixed the Sessions view showing stale SMB/NFS client sessions that lingered after a reboot; the share session monitor now forces a full re-sync on its first poll after startup so sessions left over from before the reboot are cleared. [ QSTOR-11757 ]
* Fixed a self-sustaining grid event flood triggered when creating CephFS/CIFS network shares at scale: nodes no longer re-cache remote-origin (sync-applied) events, and CIFS options are diff-merged to secondaries, eliminating the event resync cascade. [ QSTOR-11785 ]
* qs-sendlogs now writes a qs_logs.runtime.info file recording the options and variables used during log collection, and reliably scrubs sensitive data from the collected database. [ QSTOR-11897 ]


* Ceph packages updated to Jewel 10.2.10 for Quantastor Appliances running on Trusty.
Storage Pool Management
* Added status icons for Monitors OSDs and other important items to the Ceph Dashboard. This provides a quick at a glance health overview of the most important Ceph Scale-out Cluster items.
* Added automated ordered-disk-list pool creation for Seagate Corvault and WD Data24 systems, simplifying creation of fully redundant storage pools. [ QSTOR-11538 ]
* Added checks to ensure adding ceph nodes to existing clusters are all running the same version.
* Fixed software-encrypted pool creation so a disk block-size mismatch is detected before disks are encrypted, avoiding leftover encryption mappings. [ QSTOR-11599 ]
* Fixed the Health tooltip for the Ceph Cluster in the Ceph Dashboard to show brief and more useful information about the Ceph PG states.
* ZFS deduplication now uses the faster fast_dedup mode by default, improving sustained deduplication performance. [ QSTOR-11714 ]
* Fixed: A newly created Ceph Cluster will show a status of Initializing and transition to Normal once all the Monitors specified during cluster create are online.
* When a LUKS-encrypted disk member of a pool momentarily goes offline and the hot-spare swap-in completes, if the "bad" disk in question has in the meantime come back online, its iofence status, encryption status and its related properties in its respective disk object are cleared up, making the disk available for use again. [ QSTOR-11738 ]
* Fixed an issue with Ceph RBD Storage Volume to ensure that the corresponding iSCSI Target LUN size is also updated.
* Resolved a boot-time race where the OS-level zfs-import-cache.service could import ZFS pools before qs_service started. QuantaStor now imports pools with cachefile=none, masks the zfs-import-cache and zfs-import-scan services on install and upgrade, and clears the stale global ZFS cache file at boot, ensuring QuantaStor remains the sole coordinator of pool imports. [ QSTOR-11752 ]
* Fixed: Added additional validations to the Create Ceph Journal Dialog to limit the maximum partition size to 8.
* Add the ability to create a Storage Pool checkpoint for scale-up pools [ QSTOR-11784 ]
* Added a support-only, touchfile-gated pool-export triage call-out (qs_pool_export_triage.sh) that gathers diagnostics when a share or volume is still open during a storage pool export. Off by default (enabled via the tf_pool_export_triage.enable touchfile). [ QSTOR-11807 ]
* Resolved issue preventing HA failover functionality using SED drives. [ QSTOR-11832 ]


CLI
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added retry logic with a timeout to the Ceph upgrade script's daemon restarts so transient restart failures no longer abort the upgrade. [ QSTOR-10598 ]
* Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades leaving the HA cluster service (pcsd/pacemaker) inoperative due to a missing ruby-webrick dependency on Ruby 3.0+. The upgrade now installs ruby-webrick so HA failover keeps working. [ QSTOR-11841 ]
* Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades that could abort and roll back when Ubuntu's unattended-upgrades/apt-daily held the apt lock or needrestart blocked on a prompt. QuantaStor now disables automatic apt upgrades and runs the distribution upgrade non-interactively. [ QSTOR-11874 ]
* Fixed a Noble (24.04) upgrade failure where qs-upgrade aborted because the dpkg package version string could not be parsed. QuantaStor now compares Debian package versions using dpkg's native version ordering. [ QSTOR-11881 ]


* Updated Windows CLI available at https://www.osnexus.com/downloads/
Web Manager
* Fixed: Updated the qs share-list CLI output to show text for record size instead of block size.
* Minor fix to the "Copy to Clipboard" for task descriptions [ QSTOR-9574 ]
* Added a method field and a sortable timestamp column to the web interface Audit Log Analyzer. [ QSTOR-11191 ]
* Updated web interface translations across the major supported languages. [ QSTOR-11585 ]
* Added a 'Create Share' option to the share template menu to quickly create a share applying all of a template's settings. [ QSTOR-11595 ]
* Fixed the web interface to display all configured Ceph MDS daemons instead of limiting the list to five. [ QSTOR-11615 ]
* Add auto select convenience buttons to the Storage Volume multi-delete dialog. [ QSTOR-11707 ]


Disk Management


* Added filtering to Dialogs that list physical disk objects to filter out disks already in use in an active Pool Create, Grow, Add Spare or Add Cache device task.
== v6.7.6.001  (June 25th 2026) ==
* Added support for Persistent Memory devices to be used as Physical Disks.
* Fixed: Further optimization for the speed of Physical Disk Scan.
* Fixed: Parallelized Encryption disk format to improve creation time for Storage Pools in larger configurations.
* Fixed: Changed Dell MD3060e Enclosure to use SES standard for Enclosure discovery and management.
* Fixed: Corrected the task description for disk identify when setting to on and off instead of duration.


Fibre Channel
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.6 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.6 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.6 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.6]].


* Added: FC LUN ID's will now be allocated only on Host Assignment. Previously LUN ID's were allocated on Storage Volume Object creation. When this upgrade is installed, all unassigned Storage Volumes and Snapshots will release their LUN ID's back to the unassigned pool. All Volumes currently assigned to host will retain their existing LUN ID assignments.
=== Release Notes ===
* Added a checkbox to the Host/Volume assignment dialogs to release Unused LUN ID's back to the Unassigned pool. By Default Lun ID's are retained on the Storage Volume to allow for temporary unassignment/changing host assignments while keeping the already assigned LUN ID.
* Added: Storage Volumes that have no Host assignment will now show 'Unassigned' for the FC LUN Property in the WebUI.
* Fixed an issue with Storage Volume Resize setting a size not compatible with FC ALUA standby device initialization. All Size operations now round up to the nearest megabyte if size is provided in webUI slider or CLI --size by byte size.
* Fixed an issue with VAAI Primitive Support on FC ALUA configurations.
* Fixed: The LUN property for Storage Volumes now correctly shows 'FC LUN' in the WebUI to indicate that the LUN ID's are used to indicate the Fibre Channel LUN ID.


Storage Volumes
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed an issue where Resizing a Storage Volume would not be reflected to the FC or iSCSI target LUN object. This corrects a regression introduced in the 4.3.3 release.
* Fixed a service crash that could occur when creating a LUKS-encrypted storage pool on NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-11876 ]


Storage Pools
== v6.7.5.013  (May 21st 2026) ==
* Fixed an issue with the disk format when Adding spares to a ZFS Storage Pool.


Web Manager
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.5 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.5 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.5 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.5]].


* Added a New dashboard at the top of the Network Share section that quickly shows Network Share used space from Storage Pool used space.
=== Release Notes ===
* Added: The right-click context menu Delete option for Storage Volumes and Network Shares now opens the multi-delete dialog with the Share or volume pre-selected.
* Fixed an issue with Web browser support for IE and Firefox. This corrects a regression introduced in the 4.4.0 release.
* Fixed: the Multi-OSD Create Dialog has a larger section for the Journal selected list to always show 3 or more.
* Fixed: added some minor text clarification for the Storage Pool section of a system in the new Grid Dashboard.
* Fixed: Selected items now persists through searches and filters for the Create Storage, Pool, Format Physical Disk, Identify Hardware Disk and other dialogs.
* Fixed: Dialogs that select Physical Disks now have counts labeled "Total" , "Found" , "Selected" to help clarify the listed number of disks that were searched for and selected. Total now always represents the total number of available disks on the system.
* Fixed the spacing and default height for some of the Split sections of the Central Grid views to better support smaller screen resolutions.
* Fixed: Combined some of the split sections in the Ceph Cluster section of the webUI to ensure that all important items are visible.
* Fixed: Right clicking on an enclosure and choosing Modify Enclosure in the Enclosure View will now correctly bring up the specific enclosure you right-clicked on.


High Availability Failover
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Added alert triggers for disks with SMART medium errors. [ QSTOR-11652 ]


* Added additional corner case protection for HA failover in the event both nodes of an HA pair are rebooted or lose power at the same time.
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue where newly added cache/spare or disk device to a non-multipath configured HA pool could be marked as missing/unavailable after a failover.
* Adds new qs-cephfsutil for transparent movement of files between data pools via server-side copy [ QSTOR-11543 ]


Remote Replication
Kernel and Drivers
* Added RedHat Platform kernel 4.18.0-553.124.1.el8_10.x86_64 support via DKMS driver build [ QSTOR-11679 ]
* Updated SCST driver to 3.10.0.qs01.9273.1b48521 with a patch that allows for dkms builds/support on non-preferred 5.15.x kernels on jammy platforms. [ QSTOR-11672 ]


* Added Estimated Time and Estimated Transfer to Remote Replication Reports for Replication tasks in the Synchronizing state.
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed an issue with Create Remote Replica for Network Shares that prevented full replication when a custom name was specified.
* Minor fix while loading snapshots in the UI. [ QSTOR-11624 ]
* Fixed: Replication tasks for replicating Storage Volumes now show the storage Volume name instead of object ID.
* Fixed: Added a check to Network Share Snapshot delete to verify that the Snapshot is not in use by a Replication or Snapshot Schedule or being retained for a retention requirement on the destination. You can use the force flag during the deletion to force deletion of the snapshot if required.
* Fixed: The Replica Associations For Network Shares now correctly show text pertaining to 'Shares' in the Properties fields.
* Fixed an issue with the Interval settings slider in the Snapshot, Remote Replication and Backup Policy Schedule dialogs where the slider would not initialize at the shown value.
* Fixed an issue where the Remote Replica Associations would not appear in their central grid view.


Service Core
Service Core
* Fixes bug where partial upgraded node would be skip daemon restart phase at version check. [ QSTOR-11703 ]
* Fixed a rare race condition where adding a Ceph Object (RADOS) Gateway on a multi-node cluster could silently crash. [ QSTOR-11689 ]
* Added defensive exception handling and trace coverage around coordinated task execution. [ QSTOR-11689 ]


* Fixed an issue where some Network devices would be renamed on reboots. This was due to the devices not having a unique BiosDevName reported to the biosdevname Kernel mapping logic, we now read and numerate the devices based on the ifnames.
Storage Pool Management
* Updated MIB
* Fix allows for creation of TRIM maintenance schedules on pools with special vdevs. [ QSTOR-11663 ]


== v4.4.0.174 (November 13th 2017) ==
Web Manager
* Add graphs for replication task status details. [ QSTOR-11661 ] 
* Make improvements in the replication reporting area. [ QSTOR-11661 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.4.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
== v6.7.4.011  (April 30th 2026) ==
Click [[QuantaStor 4.4.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.4.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.4.0]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.0.174.iso osn_quantastor_v4.4.0.174.iso]
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.4]].
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.4.0.174.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.4.0.174.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
=== Release Notes ===


New Features
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Eliminated daily Ceph monitor outage on coordinator nodes caused by the mon-db backup process; the backup now uses a RocksDB compaction flush and hot-copy so the monitor service remains running throughout, and backup activity is now logged to qs_service.log. [ QSTOR-11655 ]


* Added New Grid Dashboard tab to the Web Manager that provides a quick at a glance overview of Resource, Cluster, and System Health and Status for nodes in a QuantaStor Grid.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed issue regarding hwController/hwEnclosure double discovery caused by the presence of certain Dell HBA cards that are visible to both the storcli and perccli CLI tools. [ QSTOR-11372 ]


* Added qs-distupgrade script to provide Distribution Upgrade support to migrate QuantaStor Appliances from 12.04 Precise to 14.04 Trusty. Note: For Upgrading HA Clusters or Scale-Out Configurations, Please contact OSNEXUS support for assistance.
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue with the allowed portals for iscsi and nvme being updated on network ports or having the settings retained on HA VIFs. [ QSTOR-11659 ]


Active Directory
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Improvements in the replication reports. [ QSTOR-11644 ]


* Fixed: User Access assignments will persist after Active Directory server configuration has been removed. Previously these settings would have been removed on leaving the Active Directory domain.
Service Core
* Fixed a rare case where response from Active Directory server is slow, the join domain task could fail.
* Updated task output for storage system modify to improve clarity [ QSTOR-11660 ]
* Coordinated Task (CCT) Reliability Improvements — Fixed an issue on large or heavily-loaded Ceph clusters where CCT broadcasts could silently hang until timeout. [ QSTOR-11648 ]


Remote Replication and Snapshots
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Updated kmod and libkmod2 packages for ubuntu jammy and focal platforms to disable algif_aead and address CVE-2026-31431 [ QSTOR-11670 ]


* Added Features to Snapshot Schedules Backup Policies to bring them in line with those already available with Remote Replication Schedules. This includes new Interval based Timers and Long Term Retention Tagging and Policies.
== v6.7.3.010  (April 17th 2026) ==
* Fixed a filtering item with Remote Replication and Snapshot schedules that could have limited the Volumes and Shares available for selection. Now only Volumes and Share on the destination pool for Remote Replication schedules is filtered out from the list of available replication sources.
* Fixed an issue where nodes would sometimes report being out of sync during a remote replication.
* Fixed: Increased the maximum retries and wait time for Remote Replication snapshot discovery to better support slower replication target systems.
* Fixed: Corrected an issue where the Schedule ownership was not being set on a Remote Replication Association if the same association was used for Manual Remote replication as well as via a Remote Replication Schedule.
* Fixed: The associated Replication Task will now fail as expected when a Replication processes between nodes is terminated due to network or system stability issue.
* Fixed: The Remote Replication Task now provides better logic for the Information used by the Remote Replication Reports to show the start-times, end-times and replication speeds.
* Fixed: Replica _chkpnt snapshots will now have their share parentId set correctly for their parent target _chkpnt of a remote replication.
* Fixed: the Remote Replication task status will correctly update with a failed status if the replication process is terminated due to a communication or stability problem on the source and/or replication target systems.
* Fixed: Create Remote Replica Volume Tasks will now correctly detect there is no common snapshot for delta's between the source and target and fail the task. Previously the task would stay at 0% and running status and never complete or fail.
* Fixed: Replication Network Share snapshots on the source system could sometimes not be correctly associated with the Replication Schedule that created them. This is now fixed.
* Fixed the descriptive and title text in the Snapshot Modify Dialog.


Ceph Scale-out Block and Object
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.3]].


* Added new 'Enter/Exit Ceph Maintenance Mode' Dialog to allow Administrators to set the Maintenance Mode state on a Ceph Cluster.
=== Release Notes ===
* Added 'qs ceph-osd-replace-journal' command to allow Administrators to replace a Journal device in an OSD live. Note; The ceph cluster must be in maintenance mode to allow this option and a restart of the OSD receiving the journal change will occur.
* Added 'qs enter-system-maintenance' and 'qs exit-system-maintenance' CLI commands. This is currently implemented only to set Ceph Scale-out Block and Object clusters into maintenance mode but will be expanded to support maintenance mode management of other QuantaStor Cluster/scale-out solutions.
* Fixed an issue where a Ceph Cluster Node that had RBD devices mapped via iSCSI could not be removed from the Ceph Cluster.
* Fixed: The Ceph Cluster Dashboard will now correctly display if you select a Journal Device that is not assigned to an OSD.
* Fixed: Selecting an object in a grid view in the Ceph Scale Out Block and Object section of the Web Manager will now select the parent object in the tree.


Storage Pool
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue where Site Clusters could not be deleted in cases where the site cluster was unhealthy. For example if the Network Interfaces or IP addresses on the interface change for the heartbeat rings. Or if the site cluster corosync/pacemaker service are stopped. [ QSTOR-11631 ]
* Fixed a corner case where Site cluster vifs could start on nodes outside of the site cluster. [ QSTOR-11630 ]


* Added a larger 4GB zfs_dirty_data_max setting for systems with 16GB of RAM or more. For systems with less than 16GB of RAM, the default 1GB cache setting will be used.
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed: Create Storage Pool Tasks on Encrypted disks now provides a more detailed Task description while at the Encrypt Disks stage.
* Fixed an issue with Volume _chkpnt Replications on N-Way A>B>C replications being incorrectly named. they B>C leg should have _chkpnt.1 as the target suffix for the replication. [ QSTOR-11477 ]
* Added a status column to 'qs pool-list' to show the Storage Pools reported Health Status.
* Added an alert recommending a change of sync policy to 'standard' If a ZIL configuration is removed from a ZFS Storage Pool that has had sync=always configured. This is to ensure an expected level of performance can be maintained after removal of the high IOPS ZIL Slog(Sync Log) SSDs. A policy of sync=standard is generally recommended for all ZFS configurations unless advised by OSNEXUS Support due to the needs of a specific use case and workload.
* Fixed an issue where a spare device could be rediscovered and added back in after removal from an XFS pool.
* Fixed: Alerts will correctly be triggered when the Storage Pool Used Capacity Thresholds are Exceeded.
* Fixed: XFS Storage Pools will correctly show the add/remove hotspare context menu in the Storage Pool section for adding dedicated hot spares to XFS Software RAIDed pools.
* Fixed: The Color Thresholds for Utilized % in the Storage Pool section of the Web Manager is now based off of the values defined in the Alert Manager Pool free space thresholds.
* Fixed an issue where the RAID levels drop down in the Storage Pool Create Dialog would not always update to reflect the specific options available for the ZFS or XFS filesystem type chosen. This also corrects an issue where the RAID levels listed would not always uopdate based on the number of physical disks in a selected system in the dialog.


Networking
Service Core
* Added further optimizations for Grid sync on large configs with many QuantaStor service objects. [ QSTOR-11628 ]


* Added an additional LACP bonding mode that enables support for Layer 3+4 xmit_hash_policy. The original LACP mode is still identified as lacp via the CLI and will show 'LACP Layer 2' in the Web Manager.
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed: SED disk Locked status is now propogated using grid logic for disks once a disk is used for Hardware encryption. Previously this required an HA group to also be on the pool. [ QSTOR-11611 ]
Fixed a corner case where SED Device Capabilities was showing as No for multipath disks plugged in twice to the same controller. [ QSTOR-11611 ]


Disk Management
== v6.7.2.003  (April 13th 2026) ==


* Added: The Format Physical Disk Dialog now provides the ability to select multiple disks. The Disks listed are from the detected available disks on a Storage System that are not associated with a Storage Pool.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Added: The Hardware Disk Column is now visible by default for all dialogs that interact with Physical disk Objects.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.2]].
* Added a Search field to the Physical Disk Tree View. The disks can be searched and filtered based on Disk logical Name and Serial Number.
* Added: Newly inserted Hardware disk devices will automatically trigger a Physical Disk Scan and be immediately ready for use.
* Fixed: increases fs.aio-max-nr value to 1048576 to support larger initial multipath configurations by default.
* Fixed: Added Paging to the central grid pan in the Physical Disk View Section of the WebUI.  
* Fixed: added further performance optimizations to the Physical Disk Section of the Web Manager.
* Fixed: Further Enhancements to the Format Disk functionality.
* Fixed: Text in the Physical Disk Grid view can be selected allowing for easier copy/paste of information.  
* Fixed: the SerialNo. Field is now visible by default in the Grid view.


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
=== Release Notes ===


* Added SMART health status in the Hardware Controllers and Enclosures section for disks connected to SAS HBA's.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added: The Hardware Disk Identify Dialog in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section of the Web Manager now supports selecting multiple Hardware Disks at the same time.
* Fixed an issue where some Enclosure objects would appear showing \[CBLERR\] when that status was incorrect. [ QSTOR-11135 ]
* Added: the Hardware Enclosure view in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section of the Web Manager now will display the pool the disk is associated with.
* Added: The Mark/Unmark Hotspare Dialog in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section of the WebUI Now presents a dialog capable of performing multiple selections at once.
* Fixed an issue where LSI 9400 series HBA's would not show disk temperatures or trigger overtemp alerts.
* Fixed: The Enclosure grid view in the center pane will now update as expected based on the selected Hardware Controller in the Tree view.
* Added support for newest HPE RAID controller management via ssacli 3.3.10.3.0
* Fixed: Changed the storcli discovery support for SAS HBA's to only be enabled for LSI/Broadcom Branded 9400 series controllers.
* Added further Search filtering criteria (Vendor, Product, Controller, Status) for the Hardware Disk Identify and Mark Hot Spare Dialogs.
* Added: Hardware Disk Identify Dialog is now available as a right click context menu item for controller, enclosure and other items in the tree view of the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section of the Web Manager.
* Added: Hardware Disk Identify now supports 'On' and 'Off' modes in addition to the existing Duration mode previously offered. Now you can set a Disk to Indicate it's location without having to race the clock.
* Fixed an exception where the Hardware Controller->Create Raid Unit, Software Controller->Remove Adapter, and Software Controller->Scan Targets dialogs would not open if there were no available controller objects to perform actions on.
* Fixed: added logic to handle a corner case where a failing or Hardware RAID controller in an errored state would return a status of 'Failed' via it's raid utilities but still provide valid parsing data on the state of Enclosures, Disks and RAID units behind the controller. Previously QuantaStor trusted the 'Failed' status code returned from the card and stopped discovery at that stage.


Network Shares
* Added a qs_global_namespace.conf file for users to provide a specific IP address to be offered for Microsoft DFS with the preferred_ip=x.x.x.x [ QSTOR-11627 ]
* Updated Jammy platform nfs-kernel-server and related nfs-utils packages to include junction support needed for NFS Referrals. [ QSTOR-11626 ]


Security
== v6.7.1.008  (April 10th 2026) ==


* Added support for NIST 800-53 R4 AC2(2) compliant 'emergency' and 'temporary' account types.  These new user types may be created via the user-add qs CLI command.*Additional NIST AU-12 Compliance
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
** QuantaStor v4.4 now outputs to the qs_audit.log file in CEE JSON reference profile conformant to RFC 4627.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.1]].
* Added: QuantaStor 4.4.0 now deploys SSL certificates on new installs with sha256 signed 2048-bit SSL Keys. It is recommended that you upgrade all older deployments to use the newer SSL certificates using the 'qs-util cacertusedefault' command from the CLI. If you have a deployment that needs to continue to use the older SSL Certificates, they are still available by running 'qs-util cacertuselegacy' All QuantaStor grid systems must be running the same type of signed keys for grid communication to function.
* Added: System Swap space is now automatically encrypted when an Encrypted Storage Pool is created or detected on a system after updating to the 4.4.0 release.


Web Manager
=== Release Notes ===


* Added: Tree View Search Filter now returns results where child objects matched.
Network Shares
* Added Further Localization enhancements to Dialog text.
* Fix an issue with snapshot cleanup by the replication schedule. [ QSTOR-11621 ]
* Fixed an issue with some dialogs containing lots of columns, where you could not always scroll fully to the right.
* Fixed: The Dialogs involving Physical Disk and Hardware Disk objects now show a disk total at the bottom of the dialog that reflects the number of disks found from the current search filter. If there is no search filter, it will show the total number of disks available in the system.
* Fixed an issue where the Utilized % Column in the grid view would not show 100% Utilized when a Pool was full.
* Fixed an issue where the Utilized % Column would not update as expected for Storage Volumes after a discovery cycle.
* Fixed: The Add Grid Management Virtual IP Dialog now has the correct help web page link specific to creating a Grid Management Virtual IP.
* Fixed: the right Click Context Menu for Gluster Volumes has been re-ordered to ensure a clearer order of possible operations.
* Fixed: Updated the Workflow Manager help links and images in the Documentation wiki.


Service Core
Security
* Upgrade the Cisco Duo library to 2.2.0 [ QSTOR-11592 ]


* Updated SNMP MIB
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: Changes to the Password and Security Policies no longer fail if a node does not yet have a active QuantaSor License.
* Disable and mask openzfs util zfs-shares.service which caused unexpected Share service restarts. [ QSTOR-11619 ]
* Fixed an issue where Task description text was not updating as intended for running tasks.
* Fixed an issue with qs-distupgrade from Focal to Jammy Platforms of systems that had been originally deployed with bionic and older platforms. [ QSTOR-11616 ]
* Fixed an issue where the sync policy setting on ZFS Network Shares was not being set if a user wanted something other than default inherited from the ZFS Storage Pools setting.
* Ensured the 6.8.0-90-generic kernel is deployed during Focal to Jammy Platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-11616 ]
* Fixed: Improved logging to qs_service.log for Active Directory join.
* Added ZFS Event Daemon(ZED) to rsyslog for event logging.
* Fixed an issue where the ZFS Event Daemon(ZED) was not starting on startup. ZED will now start and be kept alive by the normal QuantaStor keep alive scripts.


== v4.3.3.016 (September 12 2017) DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED ==
== v6.7.0.184  (April 8th 2026) ==


=== [[QuantaStor 4.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.3.3]].
Click [[QuantaStor 6.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.0]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== Release Notes ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.3.016.iso osn_quantastor_v4.3.3.016.iso]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.3.016.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.3.3.016.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Add a 'Skip log server ping pre-checks' checkbox to the Send Support Logs dialog. The server will skip ping checks during log upload when the checkbox is checked. [ QSTOR-11397 ]
* Fixed an issue with clearing parent interface status alerts in the Health Checker System report [ QSTOR-11058 ]
* Add ability to specify reason for log uploads [ QSTOR-10479 ]


Drivers
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* New SCST SCSI Target driver that allows iSCSI and FC ALUA luns to be presented from the same QuantaStor HA head nodes.
* Fixed a QuantaStor service crash for Ceph scale-out file storage share snapshot delete [ QSTOR-11570 ]
* Adds support for new load balancer modes and customization in the /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_loadbalancer.conf file. [ QSTOR-11502 ]
* Improved the method of tracking degraded object cleanup and reporting progress to the task objects. [ QSTOR-11292 ]
* Bug fixes in qs-s3util script when an invalid endpoint URL is provided. [ QSTOR-11292 ] 
* Improved object state reporting for OSDs. [ QSTOR-11292 ]
* Fixed an issue with unlocking NVMe SED media on boot for Ceph Scale-out Cluster OSDs [ QSTOR-11118 ]
* Enabled Ceph OSD block and journal discard support [ QSTOR-10672 ]


Cloud Containers
Dashboards and Analytics
* Added and Increased cache size for the stat cache used for S3FS based one-to-one Cloud Containers.
* Fixed an issue with influxdb install for qs\_upgrade\_redhat8.sh [ QSTOR-11562 ]
* Fixed a problem where using multi delete volume would leave the cloud backup of a volume behind in the cloud container's mount directory.


High Availability Failover
Disk Management
* Fixed: Added standby path ALUA Target Portal Group information to active node. This change accelerates path recovery for FC ALUA Storage Volumes.
* Added logic to make SED Locking status consistent between QuantaStor Scale-Up ZFS HA Storage Pools. Note: Pools must have an HA group and HA Vif and be activated. [ QSTOR-11515 ]
* Added support for FC ALUA for VMware clients.
* Added error counters for disks with available columns in the center grid view of the Physical Disks section. [ QSTOR-11308 ]
* Added HA Storage Pool support for disks and devices that provide unique device serial number identification via Vendor identification SCSI page 83
* Fixed an issue where encrypted disk devices may not be automatically opened on HA failover of a Encrypted Storage Pool without a passphrase.
* Fixed: Improved management around HA virtual interface location constraints.


Enclosures and Controllers
* Added Enclosure layout support for Supermicro SSG-542B-DE1CR90 [ QSTOR-11572 ]
* This feature allows servers equipped with the Xinnor XiRAID software [ QSTOR-11374 ]


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers:
*  Create a XiRAID raid unit, which appears as a QS HwUnit. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Added new Broadcom HBA discovery support for the new IT mode controller section in the storcli raid utility.  
* This HwUnit entity is surfaced in Quantastor as a physical disk drive. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Fixed: Updated sas3ircu utility that corrects a system crash when a system has a Broadcom 9400 series controller installed.
* The physical disks that are used to create the XiRaid unit are surfaced as HwDisks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Fixed an issue with RAID Unit creation on Areca Hardware RAID controllers.
* The creation includes a variable number of partitions on said physical disk.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Added support for latest HPE hpssacli 2.40.13.0
* These partitions are also surfaced as QS physical disks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Added: Disk Temperatures now supported on HPE Hardware RAID and SAS HBA controllers
* These partition-based physical disks can be used to create Ceph OSD objects. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
* Adds support for the SCSI Temperature field for disks on SAS HBA's.
* Updated Storcli64 version to 007.3603.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10911 ]
* Updated Broadcom storcli64 utility to version 007.0204.0000.0000 to support the latest LSI SAS HBA's and MegaRAID controllers.


High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with FC ALUA path status when HA groups are disabled and HA VIFs are not present. [ QSTOR-11598 ]


Network Shares
* Fix the QS CLI share-disable and share-enable to return the accurate value indicating if the share is active.
* Fixed an issue with changing the description field in a Network Share Modify for shares and subshares.
* Fixed: Share Quota support will now be greyed out in the WebUI dialogs for Network Shares created on Filesystems and Storage Pools that do not support quotas.
* Added: Raise SMB limits to allow upto 1Million open files.
* Fixed: Disabled ZFS only sync CLI flags in share-modify and share-create for non ZFS shares.


Kernel and Drivers
* Updated kernel 6.8.0-90-generic drivers include intel ixgbe driver version 6.3.4 [ QSTOR-11524 ]
* Updated Jammy Platform installer ISO image to 22.04.5 [ QSTOR-11380 ]
* Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic  [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5  [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10  [ QSTOR-10903 ]
* Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]


Remote Replication
Multitenancy
* Fixed an issue with share and volume associations to Remote Replication Schedule objects if a node is removed and re-added to the grid.
* Changed Object User Create dialog text to more accurately reflect that it refers to Object Users/Tenants, and not Multitenancy objects [ QSTOR-9803 ]
* All nodes involved with the replication schedule need to be updated in the same downtime / maintenance to prevent ownership problems.
* Resolved an issue with ownership of the Remote Replication Schedule object in a High Availability configuration.


Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue where MTU values were being written to the VLAN interface configuration files. [ QSTOR-11552 ]


Storage Volumes
Network Shares
* Added 1KB, 2KB and 4KB block size support to ZFS Storage Volumes.
* Added further checks to Network Share Delete to verify the underlying ZFS filesystem properties has a matching OSNEXUS QuantaStor share ID before removing. [ QSTOR-11525 ]
* Fixed: Added additional locking protection to Storage volume multi-delete for mixed cloud XFS and ZFS deployments to ensure all volumes are removed as expected.
* Auto populate the AD dialog with Organization Unit of specified on other systems in the grid [ QSTOR-11519 ]
* Add more options to filter shares in the delete dialog [ QSTOR-11499 ]


Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Adds a new '--snapshots-with-holds-only' option to qs share-list and volume-list to list snapshots with holds on them. [ QSTOR-11388 ]


SCSI Target:
SNMP
* Fixed: Optimized SCSI target to only launch processes for mapped LUNs.
* Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11602 ]
 


Security
Security
* Disables SSH port forwarding in the sshd service.  
* When updating a certificate via cert-update, the relevant service (e.g. HAProxy) is now 
* Configured nginx to correctly send the X-Frame-Options header.
automatically restarted to pick up the new certificate. Additionally, cert-update and 
 
cert-rescan now accept the storage system by name or UUID. [ QSTOR-11529 ]
 
* Updated WebUI to have System Use Notification dialog/message display before user login dialog. [ QSTOR-11174 ]
Web Manager
* Added Internationalization support to the Configuration manager Dialog.
* Fixed a problem where the login failure dialog was closing before the user could read it
 
 
Storage Pools
* Added support for more than one Zil SLOG mirror per pool, now with multiple mirrors the SLOG can provide higher performance by utilizing 4 or more SSD devices.
* Added enclosure awareness for DELL MD* devices to Storage Pool disk device RAID redundancy balancing.
* Fixed an issue with creating XFS Storage Pools on Multipath disk devices.
* Fixed an issue with removing a spare disk from a XFS Storage Pool md RAID configuration.
* Fixed: Greatly reduced the number of alerts triggered for a storage pool repair action when global spares are not configured.
* Fixed: qs-pool-create will now generate a unique pool name when no pool name provided.
* Fixed: Clearer error messages for invalid pool names when creating a pool.
 


Service Core
Service Core
* Added new --secure=1 option to the qs-logreport command.
* Strip any invalid XML characters from description fields causing WebUI to not load [ QSTOR-11566 ]
* Added Samba audit logging feature for logging client access of Network Shares. This new option is available under the advanced tab of the Network Share Create and Modify Dialogs.
* Cleaned up some repetitive log spam from the Blink Manager and the storcli hardware adappter [ QSTOR-11551 ]
* Removed telegraf statistic gathering for disk devices that are not being graphed.
* Fixed event spam and potential crash during Ceph daemon upgrade on large grids. [ QSTOR-11510 ]
* Fixes bug in site cluster maintenance mode logic. [ QSTOR-11489 ]
* Fixed an issue where the iSCSI/NVMe flag settings were not being retained for site cluster vifs after moving the vif to a new node. [ QSTOR-11464 ]
* Added support for LACP layer2+3 xmit\_hash\_policy [ QSTOR-11400 ]


== v4.3.2.025 (August 3rd 2017) DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED ==
Storage Pool Management
* Add more storage system tuning parameters [ QSTOR-11549 ]
* Added discard to LUKS options for NVMe model disks on ZFS Scale-Up Storage Pools with encryption. [ QSTOR-11501 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Upgrade Manager and Installer
Click [[QuantaStor 4.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.3.2]].
* Fixed a throw in the qstorservice package install if the radosgw-admin command is not available [ QSTOR-11579 ]
* Fixed the qs-upgrade for kernel upgrades to ensure recommended packages for qstortarget are installed if they were previously manually removed. [ QSTOR-11556 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Web Manager
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.2.025.iso osn_quantastor_v4.3.2.025.iso]
* When selecting Create Share from an existing selected share in the tree view, ensure the correct Storage Pool is selected in the Create Share dialog. [ QSTOR-11591 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.2.025.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.3.2.025.md5]
* Create a new share template system for users to reuse settings from existing network shares. [ QSTOR-11314 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


== v6.6.11.017 (March 5th 2026) ==


===Release Notes===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.11 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.11 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.11 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.11]].


Drivers
=== Release Notes ===


* Updated hpsa driver 3.4.18-105
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Updated mpt3sas driver 21.00.00.00
* Added a check to alert on SSL certificate expiration for the certificate manager managed certs. [ QSTOR-11462 ]
* Added arcmsr driver v1.30.0X.27-20170206


Ceph
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue with rekeying scale-out ceph OSD's on Seagate Corvault backend external storage systems [ QSTOR-11206 ]


* Fixed an issue where a failed ceph OSD could cause other OSD's on the same node to fail to start.
Disk Management
* Fixed: Added a check for Device Mapper based disk devices are blocked when creating Journal and OSD devices. These devices have a different dev partition path and will be supported in a future release.
* Fixed an issue with SED media when adding as a hot-spare / for repair of a failed storage pool disk. [ QSTOR-11531 ]
* Fixed: Optimized Ceph Journal device discovery for faster service startup.
* Fixed an issue where SSD Life Left status showing on multipath devices. [ QSTOR-11463 ]


Cloud Containers
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added Enclosure support from multiple Manufacturers such as Seagate, Gigabyte, Supermicro etc. [ QSTOR-11498 ]
* Fixed items related to the Intel 2u12 enclosure layout [ QSTOR-11286 ]
* Fixed Items related to the Supermicro 90-bay enclosure layout [ QSTOR-10932 ]


* Fixed: You can now remove Cloud Backups Schedules if there are no Cloud Containers present.
Network Shares
* Fix to allow creation of Network Shares with record size greater than 1M (1M, 2M, 4M, 8M). [ QSTOR-11535 ]


Disk Manager
Security
* Fixed a few items related to Grafana default security ports [ QSTOR-11526 ]
* Fix configuration file manager file paths for telegraf.qstor and influxdb.qstor. [ QSTOR-11526 ]
* Fixed some items related to software encrypted HA storage pools management of /etc/crypttab [ QSTOR-11416 ]


* Fixed: Trusty deployments will now support dm multipath disk configuration for SAS Disks when there is only a single path from one SAS cable physically connected.
Service Core
* Fixed: Added some improvements for multipath and disk discovery on service startup and disk rescans after multipath configuration changes. This change also helps ensure that if a disk or other hardware device is faulty or slow to respond that disk discovery continues on all other devices.
* Fixed some items related to QuantaStor Management Service database transactions [ QSTOR-11527 ]
* Fixed an issue with the physical disk and storage pool device identify logic where the Hardware Enclosure identify disk logic to blink the enclosures disk slot ID LED was not consistently used.
 
Hardware Controller Support


* Added Broadcom LSI 9400 series HBA controller support.
== v6.6.10.006 (February 23rd 2026) ==
* Added Hardware Enclosure and Controller management support for Areca Controllers in JBOD mode and RAID0/1+0/5/6 arrays.
* Added a Disk Temperature alert for disks that go above a specific centigrade value. The default for this threshold is 50C. This is currently supported on LSI MegaRAID and Areca RAID controllers, SAS HBA and other controller support will be available in a future release. The alert threshold can be customized with the addition of a 'disk_temp_alert_threshold=NN' definition under the [hw_controller] section in the /etc/quantastor.conf config file.
* Added a new Drive Temperature column to the Controller Disks tab grid view in the Hardware Enclosure and Controllers section of the Web Manager.
* Added additional Enclosure Layouts and Enclosure images for HPE, Dell and Supermicro enclosures.
* Added: Drives that go above the temperature threshold will now show a OVER-TEMP Status in the Controller Disks grid view.
* Updated MotionFX chassis enclosure images and details to reflect new Acromove branding.
* Added additional Enclosure Layouts and Enclosure images for HPE, Dell, HGST, and Supermicro enclosures.


High Availability Failover
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.10 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.10 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.10 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.10]].


* Added Site Cluster VIF to the Web Manager. Site Cluster VIF's can be used to create a Virtual interface specific to a specific site cluster. Recommended for cases such as Network Share Namespaces.
=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed: Added a check for HA Storage Pools to ensure that grow checks if the disk is available from both nodes before performing the pool grow.
* Fixed: Added a check for HA Storage Pools to ensure that selecting a new disk to be used as a cache device or spare checks if the disk is available from both nodes before performing the operation.
* Fixed: Added a check for HA Storage Pools when adding a Hotspare disk that the drives are available from both systems.
* Added the ability to failover Site Cluster VIF's to a specific node on the Site Cluster.
* Fixed an issue with deleting Site Cluster HA VIF's on precise platforms, this was a regression from improvements introduced in the 4.3.0 release.
* Fixed an issue where deleting an encrypted HA storage pool would leave encrypted devices open on the standby node.
* Fixed an issue with Storage Pool device verification on failover of HA Encrypted storage pools.
* Fixed an issue where the /etc/crypttab key entries were not cleaned up on the standby node after a HA Encrypted Storage Pool was deleted.


Remote Replication
Network Shares
* Fixed a service crash with Network share global Namespaces [ QSTOR-11518 ]
* Fixed an issue with AD join. [ QSTOR-11514 ]
* Fixed an issue with Seagate Corvault vpd83 parsing [ QSTOR-11518 ]


* Fixed and issue where a newly created storage system link would not have the reverse link persist after a reboot or management service restart
== v6.6.9.002 (February 13th 2026) ==
* Fixed: Storage System links that do not have a bandwidth limit will now correctly show the default limit of 100 MB/s when upgrading from a older release.


Web Manager
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.9 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.9 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.9 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.9]].


* Updated the Central Grid view of the Enclosure and Controllers section in the Web Manager to provide a more concise and easier to navigate display for enclosure layout and controller and enclosure selection.
=== Release Notes ===
* Updated the Central grid views in the Web Manager to provide a clearer layout that shows more information all at the same time.


* Added a Snapshots tab to the central grid view for Network Shares. This allows for a snapshot specific view and list for the selected network share.
Service Core
* Added support for AD groups in the Network Share User and Group Quota dialog.
* Fixed a QuantaStor management service crash when upgrading QuantaStor on Systems configured with Scale-Out storage. [ QSTOR-11509 ]
* Fixed a help documentation link for the Remove Heartbeat Cluster Dialog.
* Fixed an issue where the Dashboard in the Ceph Tab of the Web Manager could collapse to a hidden state unexpectedly.
* Fixed the Help Documentation for the FC Target port enable/Initiator Mode Enable dialogs.
* Fixed: The Multipath Configurator scan drop down list will have single entries for each unique multipath capable device found.
* Fixed: The Status field in the Controller Disks tab of the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section is now wider to encompass most common disk status states.
* Fixed: updated Execute Storage Pool Failover dialog to clarify the checkbox and it's effect for ensuring pool failover succeeds to the selected node in the event the original node fails to export the pool.


Storage Pool
== v6.6.8.004 (February 11th 2026) ==


* Fixed: Task progress for a storage pool delete when a disk scrub is selected will now correctly show the progress for the overall task, including the scrub portion. Previously, individual scrub operations were reporting their process progress percentage as an update to the overall task, this resulted in the overall task progress being incorrect at times.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.8 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue with Pool deletion where the pool delete would fail if there was unexpected data in the pool mount path.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.8 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.8 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.8]].


=== Release Notes ===


QS CLI
Service Core
 
* Fixed a QuantaStor management service crash for Network Interface discover logic [ QSTOR-11507 ]
"* Added new CLI support for adding and removing Network Share Quotas per user and group. Previously this was only available in the Network Share User and Group Quota Manager dialog.
* Fixed a service crash in Scale-out bucket discovery logic. [ QSTOR-11505 ]
qs share-group-quota-add
qs share-group-quota-remove
qs share-user-quota-add
qs share-user-quota-remove"
"* Added password token support for the .qs.cnf file in the root home directory on QuantaStor systems, this provides localhost authentication without needing to have the password in a authentication file for the root user.
Users can enable this by echoing the special token into the root users .qs.cnf file:
echo ""localhost,admin,[QSCLITKN]"" > /root/.qs.cnf
And then enabling token based authentication using the CLI command for the admin user shown below.
qs user-modify admin --cli-auth=yes --server=localhost,admin,PASSWORD
Note, if you have created a new Administrative role user, replace 'admin' with the name of your admin user."


== v4.3.1.007 (June 30th 2017) ==
== v6.6.7.017 (February 9th 2026) ==


=== [[QuantaStor 4.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.7 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.3.1]].
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.7 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.7 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.7]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== Release Notes ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.1.007.iso osn_quantastor_v4.3.1.007.iso]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.1.007.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.3.1.007.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Optimized grid communication paths and reduced database read frequency by improving internal object caching mechanisms. [ QSTOR-11473 ]
* Show compression ratio in the Scale-out Storage Pool grid. It is hidden by default. [ QSTOR-11130 ]


===Release Notes===
Disk Management
* Fixed an issue where a NVMe quick secure erase would be executed when formatting disks used for new storage pool creation [ QSTOR-11478 ]
* Fixed an issue where quick secure erase reformated the NVMe disk with a new namespace using a 512K sector size. [ QSTOR-11478 ]


Package updates
Enclosures and Controllers
* New nginx-light 1.12.0-1+trusty1 package for trusty deployments.
* Recertify Quantastor with the gen4 series of Western Digital Data24 [ QSTOR-11479 ]
* Fix up the config file defaults for NVMe software adapter when logging into a NVMe WD Data24. [ QSTOR-11470 ]


High Availability
Network Shares
* Fixed an issue where the encryption keys would sometimes not be copied to the secondary node of an HA Failover Group.
* Fix an issue with password shown in the service log during AD join [ QSTOR-11483 ]
 
* Add the ability to select multiple shares using the ctrl key in the share multi-delete dialog [ QSTOR-9181 ]
Security
* Changed the Password Policy Manager dialog to be the Security Manager Dialog.
* Added http to https redirect option to the Security Policy Manager Dialog
* Added option to disable http port 80 access to the Security Policy Manager Dialog
* Added logging of manual and automatic user logout from the QuantaStor Web Manager to the '/var/log/qs_audit.log' file
* Fixed an issue where the Password Policy changes could sometimes not be  applied to all nodes in the grid.
* Fixed a Security issue with bad password responses. Fixes items found related to CVE-2017-9978
* Fixed the Rest API response for when a method is unsupported. Fixes items found related to CVE-2017-9979


Web Manager
Web Manager
* Fixed: Right-click context menu's will now show the same list of menu options in the tree and grid view.
* Fixed a minor issue with file masks in modify Network Share [ QSTOR-11495 ]


== v4.3.0.335 (June 22nd 2017) ==
== v6.6.5.026 (January 16th 2026) ==


=== [[QuantaStor 4.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.5 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.3.0]].
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.5 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.5 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.5]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== Release Notes ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.0.335.iso osn_quantastor_v4.3.0.335.iso]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.3.0.335.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.3.0.335.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Adds alerts in the event a Corvault device is in a warning or missing state. [ QSTOR-11411 ]


===Release Notes===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fix an issue with creation of S3 user on a secondary zone. User will be created on the master zone. [ QSTOR-11438 ]
* Fixed an Issue with the Ceph initial PG calculations when creating ceph storage pools on HDD and SSD based OSDs. [ QSTOR-11437 ]
* Fix a minor issue with bucket sync when bucket originates on a secondary zone [ QSTOR-11435 ]
* Add granular options for object bucket rescan. [ QSTOR-11312 ]


Ceph Scale-out Block and Object
Enclosures and Controllers
* Updated Ceph Packages available:
* Reduced the frequency of Corvault device discovery for External Storage System Enclosures per Seagate Recommended values. [ QSTOR-11436 ]
- 10.2.7 Jewel for Trusty based installs
* Fix a row selection issue in the central pane on the External Media and Port grids. Show the 'Used By' column for External Volumes. [ QSTOR-11384 ]
- 0.94.10 Hammer for Precise based installs
* Fixed Ceph Scale-out Block startup discovery on grid nodes that are still part of a ceph cluster, when one of the ceph nodes in the grid is removed from the grid.


High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with the Storage Pool Health check on systems with high load. [ QSTOR-11454 ]
* Fixed an issue with HA storage Pools in a degraded warnign state. [ QSTOR-11451 ]
* Reduced scale-out Object logging for site cluster vifs to debug level. [ QSTOR-11448 ]


Cloud Containers
Network Shares
* New IBM Softlayer S3 Endpoints added to the default Cloud Providers configuration.
* Fixed an issue with joining AD domains using SSSD+Winbind [ QSTOR-7845 ]
* Fixed an issue where changes to the /etc/qs_cloud_providers.conf on the master node was not propagating to secondary nodes.
* Fixed an issue where the entry fields for Tag and End-Point in the Cloud Containers> Add Provider Location Dialog and CLI were swapped.
* Fixed a missing python-six dependency issue with the aws CLI tool.


SNMP
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11456 ]


Security
* Enabled HTTPS redirect mode in QuantaStor WebUI by default during new Installs and upgrades to version 6.6.5 and newer. [ QSTOR-11368 ]
* Added a custom script callout via a security-message-update for the Security manager System Usage Notification contents:  [ QSTOR-11222 ]
[https://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=QuantaStor\_Custom\_Scripting\_/\_Application\_Extensions\#/var/opt/osnexus/custom/security-message-update.sh](https://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=QuantaStor_Custom_Scripting_/_Application_Extensions#/var/opt/osnexus/custom/security-message-update.sh)


High Availability
Service Core
* Improved pool failover times when network interface connectivity between nodes is lost.
* Added minimum timeout value to Coordinated tasks [ QSTOR-11455 ]
* Fixed an issue where high-availability virtual network interfaces could try and start on a system that did not currently have the QuantaStor service running.
* Optimized Grid logic for Scale-out Object Bucket discovery on deployments with a large amount of ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-11433 ]
* Fixed issue where deleting high-availability virtual network interface could cause temporary outages on other high-availability virtual network interfaces.
* Fixed an issue with License Key activation verification [ QSTOR-11110 ]
* Fixed an issue where deleting a high-availability virtual network interface could cause an unnecessary failover to occur.
* Fixed an issue where failover would fail due to not finding the disks correctly on the secondary node.
* Fixed an issue with nginx web service starting during qstormanager package install.
* Fixed: HA Storage Pool Failover is now kernel panic aware to trigger a failover to the secondary node.
* Fixed: Deleting a HA VIF from the Network port list in the Storage System View now correctly cleans up the High Availability Failover Group HA VIF object.
* Fixed: A Site Cluster can now be deleted using the force flag if a Cluster node is Permanently offline and will not be returning.
 


== v6.6.4.001 (December 17th 2025) ==


Disk Management
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Added a Multipath Configuration Dialog to the Physical Disk section of the Web Manager, this allows for administrators to scan for SAS, FC, iSCSI and other multipath/multiport capable devices and add their white-listing rules to the multipath configuration. This functionality is also available via the new qs CLI 'disk-multipath-config-list, disk-multipath-config-scan, disk-multipath-config-add and disk-multipath-config-remove' commands.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.4]].
* Fixed an issue where the /dev/disk/by-id/ata-* devices would be removed under the device mapper path after a Storage Pool is deleted by a user. Previously, a udevadm-trigger command would be required to bring the ata-* device back.
* Fixed an issue with physical disk scan on multipath configurations that could cause the mutlipath devices to not appear in the QuantaStor WebUi and CLI once the scan completes.
* Fixed: the qs disk-scan command now has a force flag


=== Release Notes ===


Storage Pool
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue where old disk encryption keys would not be cleaned up after a storage pool is deleted.
* Fix an issue where the S3 Object User Create fails when the User is not a Tenant member. [ QSTOR-11432 ]
* Added earlier validation checks for Storage Pool Grow Operations for Encrypted Storage Pool configurations to ensure that the disks to be added are not encrypted before the RAID set size and resultant configuration is confirmed to be valid.
* Fixed an issue during storage pool create where user specified RAID set sizes would not be used.
* Fixed a few scenarios where creating a Storage Pool with XFS, Software RAID and Encryption could fail.
* Fixed an issue where a failed disk device was not automatically removed from a ZFS Storage Pool in Multipath configured environments.
* Fixed an issue that could occur when adding hot spares to ZFS Storage Pools in Multipath configured environments.
* Fixed an issue where a failed disk device was not automatically removed from a ZFS Storage Pool in Multipath configured environments.


Remote Replication and Snapshots
== v6.6.3.033 (December 16th 2025) ==
* Added a Remote Replication Report tab to the Remote Replication Schedules section of the Web Manager that shows the results of past replication tasks. Statistics in the report include: completion status, average throughput, the start and end time of the replication and many more. This is also available via the qs CLI with the 'qs replica-report-summary-list' and 'qs replica-report-entry-list' commands.
* Added new snapshot retention options to the Create Remote Replication Schedule Dialog to allow for Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Snapshots for Historical Storage Volume and Network Share snapshots.
* Added new snapshot tags for Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Snapshots that correspond with the retention policy picked for a particular Storage Volume or Network Share snapshot.
* Added Compression support to Storage System Links, this allows for improved performance over slow WAN links.
* Added: Remote Replication bandwidth throttling has been moved to the Storage System Link object. The qs link-create and link-modify commands and Web Manager Create Storage System Link and Modify Storage System Link Dialogs now allow for setting the bandwidth throttling.
* Added the ability to turn on Unencrypted support for Remote Replication Storage System Links. This uses mBuffer to provide a high performance unencrypted channel for Remote Replication between QuantaStor nodes.
* Added the ability to configure the Bandwidth Limiter in the Create and Modify Storage System Link Dialogs.
* Added more information to indicate replication schedule health/state and cause of failures due to any miss-configuration or networking communication error.
* Added: Snapshot Schedules can now be created for snapshots (allows Snapshot of Snapshot Scheduling)
* Fixed an issue where remote replication could fail for manually initiated replications.
* Fixed: Max Replicas in Replication Schedules are now referred to more correctly as Max Delta Points, this clarifies more precisely how many Intermittent and hourly scheduled replica snapshot points are retained between a source and target replication association.
* Fixed: The Remote Replication Offset interval for Hourly/Daily Replication in the Schedule Interval tab of the Create and Modify Replication Schedule dialogs now defaults to 0 minutes and can go to a max of 59.
* Fixed: ZFS snapshots will once more be correctly removed upon the deletion of a Network Share snapshot. This corrects a regression from the 4.2.2 release.
* Fixed: resolved an issue with updating the Timestamps for running remote replication tasks that could result in the remote replication link having incorrect progress information.


=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.3]].


=== Release Notes ===


Gluster Scale-out File
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Fixed an issue that could cause unexpected behavior with Gluster Peer and Volume objects showing correctly when Gluster is deployed n the same QuantaStor management grid as non Gluster nodes.
* Raise alerts when OSDs are down. [ QSTOR-11415 ]
* Fixed an issue that would prevent cleanup of Gluster Volumes in a configuration where the gluster bricks or underlying pools had been already removed.
* Fixed: Re-ordered the Ribbon bar icons in the Scale-out File Storage tab.


Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue with object user create under a tenant with multi-site is enabled for two zones. [ QSTOR-11427 ]
* Fix an issue with bucket sync policy create on the secondary zone bucket. [ QSTOR-11426 ]
* Allow selection of any object gateway when setting up ceph multi-site configuration. [ QSTOR-11409 ]


Network Share:
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added the ability to see SMB session information for Network Shares under the new Web Manager Network Share>SMB Sessions tab and the 'qs share-session-list' and 'qs share-get' CLI commands.
* Adds enclosure management support for Supermicro Server SSG-522B-ACR12L [ QSTOR-11422 ]
* Added the ability for users to create a snapshot of an existing Network Share snapshot (snapshot of a snapshot). This support is limited to custom named snapshots and not snapshots created by a schedule that has @GMT in the name.
* Change external volumes, media and volume grids from grouping to non-grouping for a minor performance improvement. Re-order Corvault columns in central grid (External Systems). Only show volumes for the currently selected Corvault. [ QSTOR-11370 ]
* Fixed an issue on Precise platforms with Network Share Snapshots for Windows SMB Shadow Copy and File Versioning support.
* Fixed an issue where removing NFS access from a Network Share would collapse the tree to the first level in the Network Share tree view. Now the tree will stay as expected when a NFS Access object is removed from the share.
* Fixed an issue in the Namespace Add/remove Network Shares Dialog where changing the namespace in the drop down would not always update the available selections.
* Fixed an issue with the search filtering in the Add/Remove Network Shares to/from Namespaces.
* Fixed an Issue with creating shares that have multiple '$' in the name.
* Fixed an issue with snapshot mount directory cleanup after a network share snapshot has been deleted. Note, this prevents the issue from occurring going forward, If users ran into this case previous to upgrading to the 4.3 release they may need to manually remove old @GMT snapshot mount directories from the network share _snaps directory.


Web Manager
High Availability Failover
* Added a new Password Policy dialog available under the Users and Groups tab in the Web Manager that allows Administrators to enforce password Requirements. This includes:
* Added a check to the site cluster to ensure that a user cannot set the final active node in a site cluster into standby. This is to prevent all nodes in a site cluster or HA pair from both being in standby and not serving any resources. [ QSTOR-11402 ]
- Minimum password character length
- Password expiration (in days).
- Number of allowed login attempts
- Minimum days to wait before password change is allowed.
- Number of unique passwords before reusing a password is allowed.
* Added: the Storage Volume Close Session dialog now shows a select-able list of the current sessions, clicking okay will close all the selected sessions on the SCSI Target.
* Added: Network Share and Storage Volume Multi-Delete from the web manager can be used to delete share/volume and its child snapshots (select Delete Child Snapshots).
* Added: The Network Shares and Storage Volumes Multi-Delete dialog now has the option to "Hide Snapshots", making it easier to select the parent share/volume to be deleted.
* Added Passthru Storage Volume support to the Web Manager, Passthru Volumes can be created by right clicking on a Physical Disk and choosing the 'Create Passthru Volume' option.
* Added new columns to the Create Storage Pool Dialog to show the Source System and Source Storage Volume to better allow customers to pick specific Passthru physical disks using QuantaStor appliances as backend storage for front end QuantaStor appliances.
* Fixed: General responsiveness and UX performance improvements for the Web Manager on larger scale configurations.
* Fixed: Provided a clearer message in the Create Pool dialog for when users do not provide matching passwords for the 'Encrypt Storage pool with Passphrase' fields.
* Fixed: the Dashboards will enforce the use of https for their rest calls when the Web Manager is using https.
* Updated the create and Modify Remote Replication Schedule Dialogs for a better workflow.
* Fixed a problem under the Remote Replication tab in the Web Manager that could lead to a slow unresponsive Web Interface.
* Fixed an issue where the Replication Targets tab under the Storage System Links could show as empty.
* Fixed an issue where a newly created Host Group to not show the selected hosts in that group. Previously, a browser refresh was required to show them once more.
* Fixed an issue with the Web Manager that would cause object status or task objects to not update or show as completed when a large number of events were received. Previously, a refresh of the Web Browser would have been required if this occurred.
* In the Migration Edition Workflow Manager, the View Network Shares has been replaced with View SMB Connections.
* Added a Task list counter to the Task list at the lower part of the Web Manager.
* Added Block Size column option to the Storage Volume grid view.
* Fixed: Removed the unsupported cloning options in the context menu for Network Share Alias or Subshare. Cloning should only occur at the Parent Share level.
* Fixed an issue in the Physical Disk view that could cause the Firefox and IE Web browsers to report an unresponsive script warning.
* Fixed a few areas in the Web Manager where large numbers of objects or events coming in could resulting in an unresponsive script warning for some Web Browsers.
* Fixed an issue in the Storage Volume tree view where scrolling down and selecting a volume could cause the tree view to 'jump' up to the top of the list.
* Fixed an issue with the tree view for Network shares that could sometimes show the NFS client access out of order with the associated network share snapshot.
* Fixed an issue with truncation of some of the options in the Create and Modify User dialogs.
* Fixed field, text, scroll and other alignment issues in various dialogs.
* Fixed miscellaneous spellings in various Dialogs.
* Fixed the Add user dialog descriptive text.
* Fixed: Added a check to the Storage Volume Advanced Settings CHAP Username/Password to ensure that both Username and Password are supplied before clicking on OK.
* Fixed: Corrected an issue under the Remote Replication Schedule View in the Web Manager where some items under the left hand tree view could not be selected if the same Network Share or Volume was also in under another schedule.
* Fixed: Re-ordered the Ribbon bar icons in the Scale-out Block and Object Storage tab.  
* Fixed: Re-ordered the Ribbon bar icons in the Storage System tab.
* Fixed: References for CIFS protocol in the Web Manager have been renamed or further clarified to SMB.
* Fixed: The CIFS Configuration Dialog has been renamed to Active Directory Configuration.
* Updated Web Manager splash to detail how to properly refresh the QuantaStor Web Manager on OS X.
* Improved Web Manager responsiveness and performance.


Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue where modifying the iscsi/nvme portal port settings on a VLAN or VIF interface would cause the parent interface to be restarted [ QSTOR-11406 ]
* Fixed an issue with importing LACP options in the /etc/network/interfaces file.  [ QSTOR-11396 ]
* Updated the LACP bond-xmit-hash-policy options to use the modern text option names instead of the legacy numerical values. [ QSTOR-11396 ]


Hardware RAID Support
Network Shares
* Creating a Hardware RAID unit under Hardware Enclosures and Controllers will now create the HwUnit object for display immediately with discovery of properties occurring in the background. This provides better User Interface feedback when creating a large number of Hardware RAID units.
* Added 'qs-util nfsrdma' command to enable nfs rdma support for systems that have NFS RDMA supported hardware and drivers. [ QSTOR-11309 ]
* Fixed: added a guard to the Hardware RAID Controller SSD Cache Unit delete to prevent removal of the SSD cache if it is actively in use with Any other Hardware RAID units on that same RAID Controller.
* Auto detect when the AD server goes down and raise an alert. [ QSTOR-11182 ]
* Fixed issues with SSSD AD Join [ QSTOR-11335 ]


 
SNMP
Installer and Packaging
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11428 ]
* Fixed an issue with the .iso install media that required internet access for a install to finish.
* Fixed a few items related to the SNMP agent stability. [ QSTOR-11405 ]
* Fixed: The Installer will now show eth* devices for UEFI BIOS installs
* Added logic to ensure new nodes joined to the grid get the snmp agent deployed on them with the same settings and snmp user. [ QSTOR-11393 ]
* Fixed a problem with the latest qstortarget package compatibility with the older 3.19.0-29-quantastor kernel.
 
 
Localization
* Updated Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Italian localizations for the QuantaStor Web Manager.


Security
Security
* Added: Users who are inactive for 30 minutes are automatically logged out of the Web Manager.
* Removed default nginx index.html and version reporting from nginx. [ QSTOR-11351 ]
* Added: Auto Logout clears all state information from the Web Browser.
* Added CJIS Section 5.5.4 Compliance:
- System Use Notification is available with System Usage Notification Message field under Password Policy Dialog.
* Added CJIS Section 5.5.5 Compliance:
- Session Lock is available with Auto Logout value under Password Policy Dialog.
* Added CJIS Section 5.4.1.1 Compliance.
CJIS Section 5.4.1.1 Events logging in the /var/log/qs_audit.log for:
- Successful and unsuccessful system log-on attempts.
- Successful and unsuccessful attempts to use access, create, write, delete or change permission on a user account or other system resource.
- Successful and unsuccessful attempts to change account passwords.
- Successful and unsuccessful actions by privileged accounts.
* Added CJIS Section 5.6.2.1.1 Compliance.
Note: CJIS default password requirements compliance can be enabled under the Password Policy dialog in the Users and Groups tab. In the dialog, select Suggested Defaults and change password complexity to strong.
Detailed CJIS Section 5.6.2.1.1 Compliance, Password Shall:
- Be a minimum length of eight (8) characters on all systems. (Compliant & Enforced)
- Not be a dictionary word or proper name. (Compliant & Enforced, since QS v4.1.1)
- Not be the same as the Userid. (Compliant & Enforced)
- Expire within a maximum of 90 calendar days. (Compliant & Enforced, since QS v4.1.1)
- Not be identical to the previous ten (10) passwords. (Compliant & Enforced, since QS v4.1.1)
- Not be transmitted in the clear outside the secure location. (Compliant & Enforced)
- Not be displayed when entered. (Compliant & Enforced)
- Erase cached information when a UI session in terminated


* Fixed: Users created with the Cloud Admin and Cloud User Role can now change their own passwords.
Service Core
* Updated Samba packages are available to address CVE-2017-7494, please upgrade your system using the qs-upgrade CLI command to install these packages and bring your system current with all other security and stability fixes available on the package repository. Note: for customers who installed the sernet-samba4 packages on the older precise platform using the samba4-install script, a workaround to address this security alert is detailed in the KB article here: [https://support.osnexus.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003148766-Security-bug-for-sernet-samba4-CVE-2017-7494 Sernet Samba4 CVE-2017-7494]
* Extended timeout values for coordinated task finishing stage throughout the service. This will help prevent grid communication errors that are caused in high latency environments. [ QSTOR-11421 ]
* Added Logic to terminate SMB sessions for users who have had their user access removed.
* Enhanced grid logic for High Latency multi-site deployments. [ QSTOR-11391 ]


Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added protections to ensure zfs pools are not imported incorrectly on a passive HA node during upgrade processes that update the grub configuration. [ QSTOR-11413 ]


Active Directory
Web Manager
* Added support for RFC2307 configuration to the Configure Active Directory Dialog in the Web Manager for Trusty platforms or Precise installs that have the optional sernet-samba4 packages installed.
* Add a tooltip to the Force checkbox on the Storage System Restart and Shutdown dialogs to clarify it's for immediate, unclean shutdowns. [ QSTOR-11381 ]
* Added Trusted Domain checkbox to the Configure Active Directory Dialog box for Trusty platforms or Precise installs that have the optional sernet-samba4 packages installed. This enables trusted domain support for the CIFS/SMB service
* Fixed: The Sernet Samba4 winbindd service will now be automatically started if it is detected that it is not running. This brings the Sernet samba service management inline with the standard Ubuntu Precise and Trusty Samba services.


== v6.6.2.003 (November 14th 2025) ==


CLI
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* qs CLI commands 'system-shutdown', 'system-restart' and 'system-upgrade' commands can accept a '--sys-list' argument with a comma delimmeted list of storage systems to perform Shutdown, restart or upgrade tasks on multiple gris nodes at once.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.2]].
* Fixed: 'qs set-tag' now allows the use of object UUIDs to set tags. Prior to this fix, only names were allowed to set tags.
* Fixed: replaced the Parent Share ID with the human readable the Parent Share Name to the 'qs share-list' command for snapshots.
* Added clarity to the help for qs commands such as 'pool-create', 'pool-grow' and others that have the "--disk-list" argument.
* Updated the Help text and error responses for qs pool-create.
* Fixed qs CLI cluster-ring-member-get command to provide better context with the --cluster-ring-member argument.
* Fixed: Changed CLI management of Network Ports to use Network Port instead of Target Port naming convention. Legacy commands (tp-list, tp-modify, tp-get) will continue to be supported but will point to the new Network port naming convention commands for CLI help output.
* Added: Network Shares and Storage Volumes can now be deleted from the qs CLI using the flag '--delete-child-snaps'. Adding this flag will delete all the child snapshots. If snapshots are used by schedules then the additional '--flags=force' option should be used.  


=== Release Notes ===


Core Service
Enclosures and Controllers
* Reduced the frequency of Corvault device discovery for External Storage System Enclosures per Seagate Recommended values. [ QSTOR-11367 ]


* Added a new QuantaStor Log collection tool with the below new features:
Security
- adds support for uploading via https.  
* Updated QuantaStor Tomcat version to 9.0.112 [ QSTOR-11376 ]
- the tool will fetch an updated json definitions file if available from the OSNEXUS update servers before gathering logging data. This allows up to date fetching of diagnostics when working with the OSNEXUS support team.
* Fix a regression in single sign on failing to login AD users. [ QSTOR-11375 ]
- The Send Log Report task will now show more detailed status on the log gather scripts progress.
* Enhanced Grid communication event batching that can help with large numbers of QuantaStor Grid object counts. [ QSTOR-11366 ]
* Fixed: Added validation to correct an issue where a Grid Node Object and associated child objects were unexpectedly removed from the Grid Master if the QuantaStor Grid Node came onto the network with a new Storage System ID but using the same IP. This corrects a scenario where a system reinstalled in place due to a Hardware issue could cause an unexpected grid or configuration change.
* Fixed an issue where DNS entries added in the Web Manager Storage System Modify Dialog were not being reflected in the /etc/resolv.conf nameserver settings file.
* Fixed an issue with the Web Manager Send Log Report task where the log would fail to upload but the task would return success. The task will now return as failed if the upload or gathering of the logs fails for any reason.
* Fixed an issue that was blocking https access when the 'qs-util disablehttp' tool was used to turn off http port 80.
* Updated SNMP MIB.
 
== v4.2.4.004 (May 3rd 2017) DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==


=== [[QuantaStor 4.2.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
== v6.6.1.013 (November 7th 2025) ==
Click [[QuantaStor 4.2.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.2.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.2.4]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.4.004.iso osn_quantastor_v4.2.4.004.iso]
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.1]].
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.4.004.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.2.4.004.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


=== Release Notes ===


===Release Notes===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Removed rgw gc optimizations that are no longer needed for modern ceph versions. [ QSTOR-10920 ]


ZFS Driver
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added some new warning icons for hardware controllers, hardware units and hardware disks. Fixed icon priority for status on hardware enclosures. [ QSTOR-11358 ]
* Fixed an issue with discovery of Hardware RAID Disks for LSI Hardware RAID controllers that use the storcli tool. [ QSTOR-11347 ]
* Fixed an issue with enclosure discovery for older LSI SAS HBA controllers that utilize sas3ircu [ QSTOR-11209 ]


* Adds new ZFS filesystem Driver 0.6.5.8-osn-4. This driver addresses an issue in the ZFS Kernel Driver that could rarely occur during a Kernel Memory allocation that could result in a Kernel Panic instead of a Warning message.
High Availability Failover
** Please review the ZFS v6.5.x changelogs for further detail [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5 v0.6.5]  [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.1 v0.6.5.1] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.2 v0.6.5.2] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.3 v0.6.5.3] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.4 v0.6.5.4] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.5 v0.6.5.5] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6 v0.6.5.6] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.7 v0.6.5.7] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8 v0.6.5.8] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-2 v0.6.5.8-osn-2] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-3 v0.6.5.8-osn-3] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-4 v0.6.5.8-osn-4]
* Fixed an issue with HA failover for storage pools that have multipath disks with -part1- in the device name. [ QSTOR-11373 ]


Security
* Fixed a possible SQL Injection during Login. [ QSTOR-11365 ]


Web Manager
Service Core
 
* Changes haproxy logrotate to be hourly by default. [ QSTOR-11349 ]
* Fixed an issue where the Web Manager may not refresh as expected on some grid events.
* Updated the QS PyClient Code in the github repo. [ QSTOR-11346 ]


== v4.2.3.007 (April 21st 2017) ==
== v6.6.0.362 (October 9th 2025) ==


=== [[QuantaStor 4.2.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.6.0 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.2.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.2.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.2.3]].
Click [[QuantaStor 6.6.0 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.6.0 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.0]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== Release Notes ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007.iso osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007.iso]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.3.007_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Block rename of object pool group. [ QSTOR-11336 ]
* Add a fix so auto-tier rules can be set on multiple ceph clusters [ QSTOR-11323 ]
* Fixes bug with OSD replace prepare context menu button when called from the enclosure view. [ QSTOR-11313 ]
* Fixed: added duplicate zone check for Object Group Create [ QSTOR-11266 ]
* Add indication on the journal group if it is encrypted. [ QSTOR-11261 ]
* Updated Ceph version on Focal and Jammy platforms to 18.2.7 [ QSTOR-11129 ]
* Generate proper caps for keyring when using additional pools in CephFS [ QSTOR-11106 ]
* Display S3 user information in the delete user dialog to distinguish between S3 user and local user. [ QSTOR-10723 ]
* New feature adds the ability to modify RGW settings. Added the ability to add and remove load balancers on each Ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-10623 ]
* Added support for Portal Groups for FC and iSCSI Targets [ QSTOR-10533 ]
* Add the ability to control synchronization for selected buckets in two objects storage clusters. [ QSTOR-10346 ]
* Add ability to specify multiple pools in a ceph file system. [ QSTOR-8674 ]


High Availability
Dashboards and Analytics
* Add a new bucket dashboard that reports Average Total Objects and Average Utilized Space. [ QSTOR-11259 ]


* Added checks on system startup of passive nodes to ensure encrypted devices are available for HA failover to reduce failover time.
Disk Management
* Fixed: Corrected a behavior where iofencing would sometimes not be released from a cache device that is removed from the Storage Pool. This would cause a device that was removed to still be locked to the old pool.
* Adds an NVMe quick format to the Physical Disk Format dialog using the secure erase options. [ QSTOR-10688 ]
* Fixed: Corrected an issue where some disks would not be included in the Storage Pool device list for iofencing for a storage pool during a failover. This would intermittently cause a failover to not succeed.
* Fixed an issue with the refresh of the site cluster view in the Web manager after a site cluster configuration is removed by a User.  


High Availability Fibre Channel Target
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed various items related to Linux Software RAID adapter support. [ QSTOR-11198 ]


* Fixed: Now uses Standby instead of transitioning mode during failover. This addresses the ALUA failover "flapping" issues which would cause the devices to not come back online without a reboot.
Multitenancy
* Fixed: Optimized the use of issue LIP to limit disturbance to FC fabrics.
* Scope the access of user accounts so that they can only manage users, buckets, keys and other resources related to the tenant in the resource group they're a member of [ QSTOR-11326 ]
* Fixed closed a small time window where Relative Target Portal group ID for FC ALUA devices was not set early in an HA Failover. This would cause issues where devices would not come back online without a reboot.  
* Allow CephFS shares to be added to a Resource Group. [ QSTOR-11007 ]


Network Shares
Network Shares
* Share rename needs a force flag as it may disconnect NFS clients. [ QSTOR-11337 ]
* Provides an optional backported version of samba via a 'qs_samba_jammy_optional.sh' install script that includes a version of samba required to address the ad rfc2307 changes Microsoft introduced in KB5062572. Note this samba version does not include sssd support and so will not be installed by default. It should only be used for those customers using ad rfc2307 mode. [ QSTOR-11319 ]


* Fixed: a Network Share Modify will now correctly apply the recordzsise change to Network Shares on ZFS Storage Pools.  
Security
* Adds the ability to add and remove SSL certificate templates. Using those templates you can update the certificates for HaProxy and Rados gateways configured for HTTPS. [ QSTOR-9016 ]


Storage Pools
Service Core
* Eliminates common errors in active directory join process, prepopulating dialog from previously joined systems [ QSTOR-11015 ]
* Added support for shutting down or restarting multiple systems at once [ QSTOR-10022 ]
* Added an optional force flag to Storage System Restart and Shutdown Dialogs to provide an option for immediate sysrq based shutdown of the system [ QSTOR-10022 ]


* Fixed: Encrypted disks are now opened using concurrency to better support large configurations (80-200 disks). This reduces failover and pool startup time time for Encrypted disks by ~30%.
SNMP
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11343 ]


== v4.2.2.045 (April 5th 2017) ==
Storage Volumes
* Allow rename of Scale Out block storage volumes [ QSTOR-11311 ]
* Fix an event issue where the Volumes count was not getting updated in the central Host grid view. [ QSTOR-11038 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.2.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Universal Containers
Click [[QuantaStor 4.2.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.2.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.2.2]].
* Add Universal Container support to the server and the Create Config dialog in the WUI. [ QSTOR-11194 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045.iso osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045.iso]
* verified that packages are being installed properly with the new iso filtering stuff [ QSTOR-11030 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.2.045_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Web Manager
* Minor fix to the modify Network Port dialog. [ QSTOR-11302 ]
* Added the ability to save a local copy of a report schedule. [ QSTOR-11217 ]
* Simplifies active directory join and leave process, allowing multiple systems to join or leave at once [ QSTOR-8771 ]


High Availability
== v6.5.12.005 (September 22nd 2025) ==


* Added a better Cluster site overview to the Cluster Resourcee Management section of the WebUI. Now when a site cluster is selected the central grid view will show all details regarding status for the Site Cluster nodes and services. Previously this information was available in separate tabs in the grid view and not always apparent.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.12 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Added: The Add Cluster Heartbeat ring Dialog now selects all nodes in the selectd Site Cluster by default reducing the number of clicks to create additional site cluster heartbeat rings.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.12 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.12 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.12]].
* Added the new Restart Site Cluster Services dialog and 'qs site-cluster-restart-services' CLI command that allows for Administrators to restart the heartbeat ring and site cluster service on a chosen node.
* Fixed an issue where a Site Cluster would remain in a Warning state after the heartbeat rings and nodes were brought back to a Healthy state. It will now report a Healthy state as expected.
* Fixed: Highly Available Storage Pools now add a protection lock on pool Import to ensure that they are not re-imported if they had previously failed to export on an automatic or manually initiated failover. Previously this check only occurred on pool export.


=== Release Notes ===


Network Shares
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed vendor/model defaulting, improved enclosure layout auto-selection in the Modify Storage System dialog (including correct child-layout selection to choose the primary NVMe drive group), and resolved an invalid enclosureLayoutId that prevented layout auto-detection. [ QSTOR-11263 ]


* Added a check to Network Share Delete to ensure that any Network Share Aliases/Subshares are removed before the parent Network Share can be removed.
Security
* Fixed: Network Share Aliases now report a share type of alias. As they are an alias of the parent Network Share, they will now report N/A or '0' for their Logical Used/Physical Used to avoid confusion.
* Fixed: disable gzip compresson on web and api ports by default. [ QSTOR-11210 ] 
* Fixed: The Network Share Logical Used and Physical Used reporting in the WebUI now matches the same precision with less rounding as the 'qs share-list' CLI output.
* Fixed: internal qs-statsd/qs_restd service port 5173 moved to localhost only as it should not be presented as an external port. [ QSTOR-11210 ] 
* Fixed: Changes to the NFS exports for deletion or disabling a Network Share object now use a safe reload method for updating the NFS exports table. The create Network Share and Create Network Share Snapshot functions have been using this reload function for sometime.
* Fixed: reduced syslog logging of qs-statsdb/qs_restd. [ QSTOR-11210 ] 
* Fixed an issue where subshare/aliases selected for removal in the MultiDelete Network Share Dialog would sometimes fail to be removed.
* Added: DROP rules to block ICMP timechecks [ QSTOR-11210 ] 
* Fixed an issue where a newly created local clone of a Network Share would inherit the mountpoint property of the source Network Share. Previously this could lead to the source Network Share being taken offline if the clone share is disabled or removed.
* Updated SSL Ciphers and TLS1.3 support for the web and API ports [ QSTOR-11210 ] 
* Fixed an issue where disabling or deleting a Network Share Alias could unmount the Parent Network Share.
* Fixed: Set pcsd api port 2224 to bind to localhost only by default [ QSTOR-11210 ]
* Fixed: Lazy Deleted Network Shares will now correctly be cleaned up on system boot or the next Storage Pool discovery cycle.


== v6.5.11.029 (August 28th 2025) ==


Storage Pools
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.11 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.11 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.11 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.11]].


* Added new 'Hardware' Column to the disk selection section of the Storage Pool Create Dialog that provides a way to sort and select the disks based on disk location.
=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed an issue where Growing A ZFS Storage Pool was not retaining enclosure level redundancy as expected.
* Fixed an issue where the Snapshot Physical used capacity would incorrectly appear in the other category in the Storage Pool Dashboard.
* Fixed an issue with pool import on disks with multipath devices.


Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Added support for SMTP servers that allow open relay with no username/password to the Alert Manager [ QSTOR-11167 ]


Storage Volumes
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue with multiple alerts occurring for long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]
* Fixed some corner case issues with long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]
* Added support for larger MDB devices upto 2100GB [ QSTOR-11274 ]
* Added support for encryption bypass on OSD create while still encrypting wal/db journal devices. [ QSTOR-11260 ]


* Updated the Storage Volume Group icon with a new icon that provides a clearer difference between Storage Volumes and Volume Groups in the Storage Volume tree view.
Disk Management
* Fixed an issue with running the disk read performance test benchmark on very fast modern media. [ QSTOR-11296 ]


Scale-out Block and Object (Ceph)
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed Enclosure and Controller discovery support for SAS3516 based SAS controllers [ QSTOR-11267 ]


* New icons used for Ceph RBD Storage Volumes.
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with creating a Ceph Scale-out Object Storage Pool Group.
* Fix an issue with VIF used for scale-out file usage after rebooting all nodes in the cluster. [ QSTOR-11265 ]
* Fixed an issue where OSD's could sometimes not start after reboot for Ceph cluster nodes on the Trusty Platform.


Web Manager
Network Interfaces
* Fixed: added gfortran-11 dependency to jammy repository required for LTS mellanox ofed install to succeed [ QSTOR-11285 ]
* Add QS cli command to hide disabled Network Ports [ QSTOR-10898 ]
* Fixed an issue where VLAN and VIF interfaces would not report their bond mode correctly if their parent interfaces was a bonded port. [ QSTOR-10754 ]


* New Workflow Manager with easy workflows for common initial setup tasks. This replaces the previous System Checklist.
Network Shares
* New Workflow Manager splash screen when logging into the Web Manager for Migration Edition. This new window present common initial tasks for the Migration Edition such opening/starting the encrypted pool, viewing the share mount commands, shutting down the storage appliance and other common tasks.
* Adds support for multiple HA VIF redirects and smart network filtering for NFSv4 referrals [ QSTOR-11278 ]
* Minor fix to skip NFS export commands for scale out shares. [ QSTOR-11275 ]


Quantastor CLI
* Provide a utility to create temporary log download links via qs-download-link [ QSTOR-11273 ]


CLI
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Fixed: Added logic to always default FC ports to target mode for supported FC target card models from QLogic. Ports can still be explicitly set to initiator mode if the user so chooses. [ QSTOR-10744 ]


* Added a validation check to ensure correct iQN formatting to the 'qs host-initiator-add' command.
Service Core
* Changed Link state column in the 'qs target-port-list' to show Link Up/Link Down instead of 'Normal'. Verbose output for the 'qs target-port-list' and 'qs target-port-get' commands show Link up/Link Down instead of 'Normal'. XML output will continue to report a enum of '0' or '1' as previously estabilished.
* Fixed: added the option to cancel the Physical Disk Identify task if the duration for the identify task is longer than the user wants. [ QSTOR-11258 ]
* Provide a download link for log collection in case logs cannot be uploaded from a Quantastor system [ QSTOR-11116 ]


Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: added proxy settings to the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy file [ QSTOR-11281 ]
* Fixed: added logic to the upgrade manager and qs-upgrade command to check for missing version pinning if qs-util aptnopin has been run on the system. The upgrade task will fail early if correct pinning is not in place advising running qs-util aptpin. [ QSTOR-11277 ]


Core Service
Web Manager
* Fixed: clarified text in create resource group for network share access of service containers [ QSTOR-11187 ]


* Fixed the dependencies for the qstorservice so that the samba-client package is suggested and not a hard dependency. This is required top allow the upcoming precise to trusty platform upgrade path.
== v6.5.10.013  (August 12th 2025) ==


== v4.2.1.018 (March 3rd 2017) DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.10 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.10 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.10 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.10]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.2.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.2.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.2.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.2.1]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018.iso osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018.iso]
* Fixed an issue where the access key and secret key were not updating in the UI in instances with multiple object storage users across multiple ceph clusters in the same grid. [ QSTOR-11254 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018.md5]
* Fixed an issue with the cephfs mounts if communication is lost with the active MDS and a new MDS is elected. [ QSTOR-10738 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.1.018_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fix an enclosure refresh issue via the event path where the underlying disk were not getting refreshed. [ QSTOR-11247 ]
* Fixed: Added additional checks for enclosure id on enclosures that fail to report correctly on older firmwares. [ QSTOR-11227 ]


Drivers
Service Core
* Fixed: replaced size with maxsize in the ceph, radosgw and haproxy logrotate definitions so that they rotate as expected on their daily rotations as well as when reaching the max size definition. [ QSTOR-11253 ]
* Fix an underlying dashboard issue where new diskio entries were not properly added to the telegraf.conf file on new deployments. [ QSTOR-11246 ]
* Fix: Optimize the restarting of influx and telegraf. [ QSTOR-11246 ]


* Adds new aacraid driver 1.2.1.53005src. This driver corrects an issue with Array units appearing with the correct /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-* device paths.
== v6.5.9.003 (August 5th 2025) ==
* Adds new ZFS filesystem Driver 0.6.5.8-osn-3. This driver addresses a latency issue with ZFS Block Storage Volumes (zvols) under some workload conditions.
** Please review the ZFS v6.5.x changelogs for further detail [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5 v0.6.5]  [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.1 v0.6.5.1] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.2 v0.6.5.2] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.3 v0.6.5.3] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.4 v0.6.5.4] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.5 v0.6.5.5] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6 v0.6.5.6] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.7 v0.6.5.7] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8 v0.6.5.8] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-2 v0.6.5.8-osn-2] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-3 v0.6.5.8-osn-3]


High Availability
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.9 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.9 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.9 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.9]].


* Fixed: During a Manual Storage Pool Failover operation, the failover will now continue if the original owner of the Pool is unresponsive or unable to export the pool. This is now equivalent to using the force flag in the Execute Storage Pool Failover Dialog, which is now checked by default.
=== Release Notes ===


Network Shares
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed an issue with slotmap updates when changing the slotmap in the enclosure and controllers section. [ QSTOR-11245 ]


* Added support for 256K, 512K and 1024K Record Sizes in Network Shares.
Service Core
* Fixed: New Network Share Namespaces are browseable and public by default.
* Fixed an issue where QuantaStor was restarting the influxdb service when it was not needed. [ QSTOR-11244 ]
* Fixed an issue with renaming Network Shares that contain special characters such as $.
* Fixed: separated the influxdb, telegrafd and QuantaStor stats_db service restart logic to allow more granular control. [ QSTOR-11244 ]
* Fixed: a check has been added to ensure a Network Share is not renamed when it is part of a existing namespace as this can lead to unexpected behavior. If you wish to rename a share, please remove it from the namespace configuration, rename it and add it back.
* Fixed an issue with the Modify NFS Client Access dialog under the The Network Share> NFS Client Access tab so that the Correct network Share is automatically selected and the rule to be modified can be selected from the drop down menu.


== v6.5.8.008 (July 31st 2025) ==


Remote Replication and Snapshots
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.8 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.8 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.8 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.8]].


* Fixed: Network Share Subshares and Aliases are now correctly filtered from selection as a remote replication or snapshot source.
=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed an issue with Replication of Shares that include a $ in the name.


Storage Pools
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed a small issue with the ceph osd reweight script progress trace. [ QSTOR-11234 ]


* Added: the 'qs pool-create' argument '--disk-list' now supports specifying [n] number of disks or [*] to use all available disks when creating the Storage Pool.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed: Updated Storage Pool Create, Modify, Grow and other Dialogs to be much more elastic.
* Add support for Supermicro ASG-2115S-NE332R system enclosure layouts [ QSTOR-11237 ]
* Fixed: Storage Pool Modify, Grow and other dialogs now include more useful details displayed regarding the pool RAID type, RAID set size and other properties.
* Fixed: Operations on Encrypted Storage Pools that require access to the Encryption key will now Fail with a clear error message prompting for the Pool to be opened with the Passphrase so that the operation can be performed.
* Fixed a few small items that would cause the Storage Pool Dashboard to not display when selecting a different Storage Pool.
* Fixed an issue where the wrong device path location was being used for ZFS Storage Pools when adding/removing cache devices and spares.


Network Shares
* Fixed: Disable security features options in Network Share Create/Modify dialogs when the share is from a Scale-out File Pool. [ QSTOR-11235 ]
* Fixed: Remove redundant "NFS Security Mode" on the share advanced tab. [ QSTOR-11235 ]
* Fixed an issue with clearing the manage gids setting on Jammy platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]
* Fixed an issue with setting specific nfs v3 or v4 server configurations on Focal platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]
* Fixed a conflict with the nfs mountd ports between scale-out and scale-up nfs modes. [ QSTOR-11212 ]
* Fixed detection of nfs scale-out mode when it is configured at the time of ceph scale-out filesystem creation. [ QSTOR-11212 ]


Storage Volumes
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added a check to disable the grub os prober by default to prevent adding of any block devices with OS data other than the installed QuantaStor OS disk to the grub boot loader. [ QSTOR-11199 ]


* Added support for 256K, 512K and 1024K Record Sizes in Storage Volumes.
== v6.5.7.004 (July 24th 2025) ==
* Adds new Storage Volume Dashboard in the Storage Volume section of the WebUI. The Storage Volume Dashboard provides a detailed view of the Logical and Physical Used capacity.
* Fixed: The Storage Volume Modify Advanced Settings Dialog now correctly shows the Block Size that was chosen when the Storage Volume was Created. Previously this information was only available via the Properties view.


Scale-Out File Storage (Gluster)
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.7 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.7 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.7 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.7]].


* Added a health check for the Selected Gluster Peers before a Gluster Volume Create, Modify or Grow operations can be executed.
=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed: Gluster Volumes now correctly with type gvol in 'qs share-list' output.
* Fixed: Gluster Volumes now include a Logical Used attribute to show the logically used capacity before mirroring or erasure coding.
* Fixed: Storage Pool type now shows N/A for Gluster Shares as there is no direct mapping to the underlying pool for this Share type.


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
Network Shares
* Fixed an issue with network share cifs/smb settings such as ignore system acls introduced in the 6.5.1 release. [ QSTOR-11224 ]
* Removed the API underscore to space conversion logic in cifs/smb settings introduced in 6.5.1. REST API's should use proper url encoding like %20 when sending strings that contain spaces via curl or other http calls. [ QSTOR-11224 ]


* Fixed an issue where Write Caching was shown as enabled for a RAID unit when the RAID controller BBU was failed or not present and the RAID controller was defaulting to Write Through mode.
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed an Issue where the default enclosure layout view was not being selected on newly added Enclosures.
* Fixed a path naming issue for the sedutil-cli binaries used for SED disk encryption. [ QSTOR-11221 ]
* Added Several small enhancements and fixes for the sedutil-cli tool usage and SED supported disk discovery [ QSTOR-11219 ]


Web Manager
== v6.5.6.052 (July 16th 2025) ==


* Fixed an issue in the WebUI where new items added to a tree view would not show up until a discovery cycle or Browser reload has occurred.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.6 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue where Virtual Interfaces could not be created from the WebUI if the gateway field was empty.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.6 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.6 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.6]].


Core Service
=== Release Notes ===


* Added: Enterprise License keys now support License Capacity Passthrough when using LUNs presented from QuantaStor Backend Storage Appliances.
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Updated API and CLI Documentation for the 4.1 and newer releases.
* Fix minor issue with Corvault log collection. [ QSTOR-11201 ]
* Fixed an issue where UEFI installs would incorrectly show the Base OS grub splash screen settings instead of those for QuantaStor.
* Added alerts to notify the user as they approach quota limits for S3C buckets [ QSTOR-11055 ]
* Fixed an issue that was preventing the hourly automatic management database backups from occurring in some scenarios.
* Fixed an issue with the IPMI Ip addresses showing up in the Health Check reports. [ QSTOR-10356 ]


== v4.2.0.375 (Feb 17th 2017) ==
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed radosgw logging logrotation not always occurring on fresh installs. [ QSTOR-11176 ]
* Fixed: radosgw logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]
* Fixed: haproxy logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]
* Improved logic for Ceph OSD Gentle Reweight. [ QSTOR-11163 ]
* Fixed an issue with the version check when upgrading the the scale-out ceph MDS, RGW and other daemons. [ QSTOR-11138 ]
* Fixed a few corner cases with ensuring successful Ceph upgrades. [ QSTOR-11138 ]
* Allow compression support for Ceph RBD pools. [ QSTOR-11131 ]
* Added Object User quota usage information to the Object User grid [ QSTOR-10722 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.2.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Dashboards and Analytics
Click [[QuantaStor 4.2.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.2.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.2.0]].
* Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboards (Early Access). [ QSTOR-11076 ]
* Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboard routes and toggle buttons. [ QSTOR-11076 ]
* Expand the trending time scale for Tenants and Owners to make use of longer retention policies (e.g. 'Last 30 Days'). [ QSTOR-11076 ]
* Fix InfluxDB trending continuous query settings in qs\_statsdb.sh. [ QSTOR-11076 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Disk Management
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375.iso osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375.iso]
* Add Multipath and HA support for SED Disks. [ QSTOR-11172 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375.md5]
* Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11065 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.2.0.375_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixes intermittent boot time OSD start issue with Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]
* Adds encryption bypass mode to avoid applying double (hardware plus software) encryption to Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]
* Added enclosure layout for Supermicro SYS-221H-TN24R systems. [ QSTOR-11154 ]


High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with Storage pool import of a previously exported pool that has iofencing on nvme disks. [ QSTOR-11173 ]


Network Shares
Network Shares
* Add new cyphers for active directory join. [ QSTOR-11183 ]
* Added sync flag by default to NFS mount for ceph object storage ganesha shares [ QSTOR-11181 ]
* Adjust minor Network Share quota alert levels. [ QSTOR-11171 ]
* Add larger record size upto 8M for Network Shares on ZFS Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-10118 ]
* Added support for hidden shares that end in a '$' as 'Browseable (admin-only) shares in the CIFS/SMB Options tab of the Network Share Create/Modify Dialogs. [ QSTOR-9222 ]


* Added support for the '$' Character in Network Share names to provide support for Windows Client to automatically hide these Network Shares from Browsing.
Service Core
* Added the advanced recordsize option for Network Shares created on ZFS Storage Pools.
* Optimize database reads for large clusters. [ QSTOR-11178 ]
* Added support to Network Shares for presenting a Secondary path (Alias) and/or Sub-folder via CIFS and NFS.
* Added qs-util dbdiff for use to compare osn.db database versions [ QSTOR-10566 ]
* Fixed: Network Share Snapshots inherit the parent shares Security and access list settings.
* Added https as the default preferred method for support log bundle upload. [ QSTOR-9875 ]


Cloud Containers
Universal Containers
* Added initial support for a universal container system [ QSTOR-11162 ]


* Added a new One-to-One Cloud Container that uses S3FS to provide a direct Object mapping for every file written to the Cloud Container Network Share.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added support for custom S3 endpoints.
* Added logic to fix the /boot/efi based on a efi partition label for Software RAID and EFI installs [ QSTOR-11140 ]
* Added new qs CLI commands to allow for management of Cloud Provider Locations, Cloud Providers, and Cloud Provider Credentials.
* Fixed an issue where the S3/Swift bucket at the Cloud Provider would not be removed during a cloud container delete.
* Fixed: Cloud Containers now report a Type of 'cloud' in their share list properties.
* QuantaStor now uses awscli for all internal S3 endpoint management.


Storage Volumes
Web Manager
* Revise the Object User Access Key Manager to include Storage URLs in the Copy to Clipboard action. [ QSTOR-11177 ]
* Improved fieldset placements for network share create/modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-11156 ]
* SED Pool management - Reorder SED columns in PD grid. Move to the right of the "Correlated Device" column. Revise the SED capability detection to check for non-enterprise. [ QSTOR-11146 ]


* Added additional Columns and Properties to the Storage Volume Section of the WebUI to better show the PhysicalUsed capacity(after compression) on disk, Logical Used capacity(what the client has allocated) and child Snapshot Physical used capacity.
== v6.5.5.039 (May 29th 2025) ==
* Added the qs volume-create-passthru command to allow for passthrough of Raw Storage devices such as NVMe disks as Storage Volumes.


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.5 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.5 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.5 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.5]].


* Added new Custom Chassis Tag for Hardware Disk Enclosures. This allows for custom names for the Disk Enclosures to match any real world location/naming scheme used in your orgination. If the same Custom Tag is used on multiple enclosures, QuantaStor will refer to them as the same enclosure., this is helpful for some Vendor enclusres that have a SAS Expander Backplane in the front and Back of their JBOD chassis that would normally appear as seperate enclosures.
=== Release Notes ===
* Added further enhancements to the Hardware unit to Physical disk correlation.
* Enhanced the iSCSI Software Adapter Create Dialog.
* Fixed: the iSCSI SW Adapter now logins to it's remote targets much faster.
* Fixed an issue that could prevent the Disk Locator light function from working on some Hardware Disk Enclosures.


Storage Pool and Disk Management
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixes bug in osd gentle reweight script that was bottlenecking performance. [ QSTOR-11123 ]
* Added logic to auto-clean up volume objects for non-QuantaStor managed ceph rbd's (rbd's created directly by the client using client rbd drivers/software). [ QSTOR-11112 ]
* Add warnings for the user if OSD or journal delete is being used on a device with duplicate PVs due to multi-pathing mapping. [ QSTOR-11099 ]
* Added 'qs-ceph' utility commands to modify compression options on Ceph pools. [ QSTOR-11096 ]
* Added compression ratio column in storage pools grid. [ QSTOR-11087 ]


* Added Hardware Disk Correlation in the Physical Disk view of the WebUI.
Enclosures and Controllers
* ZFS is now the default Storage pool type for 'qs pool-create' if a pool type is not specified.
* Added support for discovery of RMSP3JD160J controllers. [ QSTOR-11107 ]
* Fixed: ZFS Storage pools comprised of Physical Disks which are Hardware RAID units, will now show a Combined RAID level property of (HWRAID+ZFSRAID). For instance, if underlying Hardware RAID 6 is used alongside ZFS RAID 0 the Value would report as (RAID6+0) or if HW RAID10 with ZFS RAIDZ2(6) the result would be (RAID10+6).
* Add validation for both primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-11009 ]
* Fixed an issue that was preventing growing a Storage Pool if a Remote Replication was running for a Storage Volume/Network Share on that pool.
* Fixed an issue where the suggested RAID level for a chosen number of disks would be incorrect.
* Fixed an issue where multipath disks could sometimes appear as dm-name-mpathN device identifier instead of the always unique dm-UUID device identifier.
* Fixed an issue where the physical disk multipath flag was not inheriting to encrypted device objects. This would result in a warning flag appearing on the device in the WebUI and Cli properties.
* Fixed an issue where Storage Pools created without multipath device id's would not automatically import on boot up once multipathing is enabled for the disk devices and the system rebooted.


High Availability
High Availability Failover
* Fixed a very rare corner case where a Manual HA failover task could generate unexpected errors due to a background periodic storage pool scan. [ QSTOR-11111 ]
* Added the option to set a Site Cluster Member Node as Manual Standby.  [ QSTOR-11105 ]
* Fixed an issue where nodes could come out of standby status on a reboot too early before grid communication was established.  [ QSTOR-11105 ]
* Enhanced HA Failover times for Storage Volumes for Fibre Channel clients.  [ QSTOR-11105 ]
* Enhanced Fiber Channel High availability ALUA Changes to occur more quickly and to more quickly advertise failed paths to clients like VMware so that they can resume I/O to healthy available paths sooner. [ QSTOR-11105 ]
* Enhanced the logic used for High Availability Storage SCSI Target decoupling during a Storage Pool export. This can help greatly reduce the failover time for very Large configurations with thousands of volumes or volume snapshots. [ QSTOR-10969 ]


* Fixed an issue where ZFS Storage pool imports could take a much longer time than expected to import during an HA Pool Failover.
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes occur after a QuantaStor HA node is upgraded and a Storage Pool Failover occurs where the Network Share user and group access list information could be removed.
* Fixes bug that was blocking users from creating a static route with the same destination subnet across different systems. [ QSTOR-11125 ]
* Fixed: the FC-ALUA standby path devices will correctly appear on the passive node after a HA Storage Pool has been taken over by a node filling the active role. This fixes an issue introduced in the 4.1.5 release.
* Fixed a bug in static route validation logic and allow users to delete malformed static route entries. [ QSTOR-11115 ]
* Fixed an issue with HA failover that could sometimes occur if the designated grid port was not available. Now the HA nodes try communicating via the Heartbeat ring interfaces if the normal grid communication port is unavailable.


Disk Encryption / Security
Network Shares
* Allow rename of nested shares [ QSTOR-11046 ]
* Added logic to help persist and manage NFS options for NFS version and nfs --manage-gids flags [ QSTOR-11001 ]


* Added support for custom Encrypted Storage Pool key Passphrases. This allows for workflows where the Encrypted Storage Pool remains locked for access on bootup unless a Admin starts the storage Pool and enters the Passphrase. The Passphrase can be changed if needed from the Modify Storage Pool dialog advanced options.
REST API
* Fixed an issue that would cause the DoD shred option to fail on Storage Pool with Encrypted disks.
* Add an API to clear missing shares or volumes from the QS database. [ QSTOR-11117 ]
* Fixed: Encrypted Disk devices formatted using the Format Disk tool will now properly close out  the dm-enc-* device releasing the underlying physical disk device for use.
* Fixed: the 'qs-util crypttabrepair' utility will now try all available encryption keys instead of defaulting to the enc-scsi-*.key file that matches the enc-scsi-* device name.
* Various fixes for Encrypted Storage Pool management.


Web Manager
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Clarify concurrency options for backup policies. [ QSTOR-11004 ]


* Added a search bar to the tree view in various sections to allow for faster navigation.
Security
* Added New Dashboard to the Ceph Scale-out section in the WebUI that shows a more detailed picture of how the physical storage is being used.
* Added explicit modprobe disable and blacklist of ksmbd module to address any CVE-2025-37899 concerns. [ QSTOR-11134 ]
* Added New Dashboard to the Storage pool section in the WebUI that shows a more detailed picture of how the physical storage is being used.
* Added support for creating custom Cloud Provider and Cloud Provider Locations(endpoints) in the WebUI.


User Management
Service Core
* Enhanced the Core QuantaStor service management thread scaling. [ QSTOR-10767 ]
* Fixed a small memory leak with debug log tracing [ QSTOR-10689 ]


* QuantaStor now allows for custom UID/GID settings for Local QuantaStor users.
Storage Pool Management
* Added groups to Local user management in QuantaStor web interface. This includes managing the local POSIX group and GID.
* Updated sedutil-cli that supports a wider range of encrypted devices.  [ QSTOR-11088 ]
* Restores sedutil / Storage Pool encryption support for SED Ruby NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-11088 ]
* Removed restriction to satisfy the VDEV count of N+1 to create a RAIDZx(RAID50/60/etc) array on a ZFS scale-up Storage pool when passing in a Set Disk Size instead of using the 'auto' option. [ QSTOR-11086 ]


Remote Replication and Snapshots
== v6.5.4.016  (April 29th 2025) ==


* Fixed: Large and long running replication transfers in the same schedule with other pending replications could result in a serialization lock error causing the pending replication tasks to fail.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.4 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue where Manually triggering a Snapshot schedule could sometimes result in a silent failure.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.4 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.4 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.4]].


Ceph Scale-out Block and Object
=== Release Notes ===


* Fixed an issue with Ceph Journal device discovery on System Boot.
Dashboards and Analytics
* Fix issue where the dashboard of a newly created volume was not showing performance data after it had been assigned because of a pending Telegraf restart required. [ QSTOR-11077 ]
* Show CPU Temp and Power Usage in the System Dashboard (new Sensors button). [ QSTOR-11029 ]


Core Service
High Availability Failover
* Unblocked creating HA ViF if there is an HA irrelavant bond in active-backup mode and unblocked modifying an HA irrelavant bond. [ QSTOR-11073 ]
* Fixed an issue when modifying non-name fields of an HA group. [ QSTOR-11071 ]


* Throttled the Storage Pool Low Free Space Alerts which could sometimes occur at 10 minute intervals to every two months at the Warning level, monthly at Alert level and weekly at Critical level.
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue where the 'samba4-install' script could not connect to the update servers that contained the samba4 update packages.
* Fixed bugs in validation logic for static route create and delete. [ QSTOR-11056 ]
* It is now possible to use the samba4-install script on precise platforms to upgrade from Samba 3.x to Samba 4.x without needing to leave the AD domain to perform the upgrade.
* Added new 'qs grid-send-supportlogs' and improved Send Support Logs dialog to allow customers to easily send logs to the OSNEXUS support team from multiple nodes in the grid.
* Additional Grid performance and service improvements.


SNMP
Network Shares
* Ensure 'Browseable' is checked on SMB network shares when Browseable (Access Based) is checked. This ensures that authenticated clients who have pre-assigned browseable access can see the share offered by the QuantaStor but prevents non-authenticated users from seeing the share. [ QSTOR-11078 ]


* Updated SNMP MIB for 4.2
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Minor log file cleanup after backup job is finished. [ QSTOR-11044 ]
* Add the ability to rollback a read-write Storage Volume or Network Share snapshot to it's underlying snapshot. [ QSTOR-9820 ]


VSS
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed an issue with Storage Pool auto-start on reboot for software encrypted storage pools. [ QSTOR-11081 ]


* Updated VSS Provider.
== v6.5.3.021 (April 9th 2025) ==


== v4.1.6.896 (Feb 6th 2017) ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.3 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.3 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.3 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.3]].
=== Release Notes ===


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.6 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.6 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.6 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.6]].
* Improved timeout handling for QuantaStor coordinated task system. [ QSTOR-11022 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Disk Management
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896.iso osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896.iso]
* Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11032 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.6.896_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added Hardware Enclosure support for Dell PowerEdge R7615 [ QSTOR-11043 ]
* Added Hardware Enclosure support for Supermicro AS-1115CS-TNR [ QSTOR-11043 ]
* Optimized performance and fixed issues when rendering systems with attached CORVAULT external systems. [ QSTOR-11039 ]
* Optimize the rendering of enclosures. Fix drawer rendering issue where extra slots were appearing. [ QSTOR-11014 ]


Install Media
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue with static route netmask CIDR calculations. [ QSTOR-11048 ]


* Fixed an issue with the package update server list file that was preventing customers from performing future upgrades who installed from the 4.1.5 ISO media.
Network Shares
* Update Network Share Namespace on all nodes to reflect any modification to NFS access entries to share that is part of a Namespace. [ QSTOR-11042 ]
* Online newly promoted Network Share Snapshots. [ QSTOR-11021 ]
* Add post share create and modify script callouts. [ QSTOR-11016 ]
* Fixed mount paths for enabled snapshots of Network Share when Share is renamed. [ QSTOR-11012 ]
* Add the ability to prioritize NFS access rules in /etc/exports file. [ QSTOR-10552 ]


Web Server
SNMP
* Regen SNMP for 6.5.3 [ QSTOR-11054 ]


* Fixed an issue that caused the webUI to be unavailable on systems where the http port was disabled with the 'qs-util disablehttp' command. Note: disabling the http port 80 will block the dashboard view from other systems, this will be addressed in a future release.
Security
 
* Added docker http proxy override [ QSTOR-11040 ]
== v4.1.5.894 (Jan 18th 2017) ==
* Updated Tomcat version to 9.0.102.0 [ QSTOR-11013 ]
 
=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.5 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.5 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.5 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.5]].


===Release Notes===
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed various issues with the OVA vApp properties being set after VM image cloning. Added additional properties to the OVA by default. [ QSTOR-10508 ]


Network Shares
== v6.5.2.070 (March 27th 2025) ==


* Added descriptive text to Network Share Users Access tab Search field. Added example text to tooltip.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.2 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue that prevented wildcard searches for users.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.2 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.2 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.2]].
=== Release Notes ===


Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Added SED version of Micron 7300 drives to firmware check for Config Analyzer [ QSTOR-10933 ]


* Added support for Cisco branded SAS HBA's
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue where the Enclosure View could appear blank.
* Update AWS cli. [ QSTOR-10956 ]
* Various small fixes for the iSCSI Software Adapter login/logout dialogs.
* Extend Resource Groups to support adding S3 Tenant resource type.  [ QSTOR-10808 ]
* Fixed a rare issue where the first unit created on an LSI RAID Controller may not appear in the WebUI.
* Extended timeouts for logical volume allocation commands when creating Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-10930 ]
* Added more permissive check when running Ceph OSD replace prepare operation. (CLI only) [ QSTOR-10914 ]
* Add a qs-ceph command to allow switching between fuse and kernel mount for cephFS to allow user comparison of fuse versus the faster kernel option. [ QSTOR-10905 ]
* Adds additional Ceph coordinator election mode that maps to the site-cluster. [ QSTOR-10795 ]


Fibre Channel Target
Dashboards and Analytics
* Added Jammy platform support for the ceph prometheus install script [ QSTOR-10949 ]


* Fixed an issue where a LIP would sometimes not be issued on the target FC ports during add/remove Host access for Storage Volumes.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Strip whitespace characters from primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-10896 ]
* Add validation for External System Credentials during creation. [ QSTOR-10826 ]


High Availability Failover
High Availability Failover
* Fixed a bug with creation grid master (gm) Site Cluster vifs. [ QSTOR-10996 ]
* Implemented new naming schema for underlying Site Cluster HA Groups. [ QSTOR-10904 ]


* Added a faster failover check so that a secondary node can more quickly take ownership of the Storage Pool, Storage Volumes and Network Shares for instances where a active node is powered off or loses all network connectivity to it's network switch and standby nodes.
Network Interfaces
* Added for FC ALUA paths now report standby status instead of unavailable for the secondary standby node. This corrects an issue that would cause some clients to report dead/failed paths.
* Fixed an issue with deleting bonded interfaces leaving slave interfaces tagged as slaves. [ QSTOR-10931 ]
* Added for FC ALUA a check to issue a LIP after failover of the Storage Pool on the Standby node so that the standby paths are redicovered.
* Updates for mellanox ofed lossless networking support to work better with newer model cards. [ QSTOR-10779 ]
* Added for FC ALUA an issue LIP for when a secondary node comes online from a poweroff or reboot state and goes into standby status.
* Fixed an issue where some third party FC SAN arrays would not respond to a SCSI Persistant reservation request for full status including keys and reservations. qs-iofence now requests these items individually to support these FC array models.


Storage Pools
Network Shares
 
* Fixes bug where having 'gmt' or 'GMT' in the name of a network share would cause issues with NFS protocol. [ QSTOR-10982 ]
* Added checks in the Create Storage Pool Dialog to detect the number of available disks on a system and provide suggested RAID levels at the top of the RAID selection list. For Example, this will ensure RAID60 is listed before RAID6.  
* Fix the mount paths for read-write GMT snapshots. [ QSTOR-10938 ]
* Added checks in the Create Storage Pool Dialog to prefer for RAID+Striping Levels and remove Single RAID levels based on the number of drives in the system. This is to ensure best performance and capacity options are chosen during pool creation and discourage non-best practice extremely large single RAID Level, such as a twenty drive RAID5 for instance.
* Add mountaddr to the view mount instructions for Network Share. [ QSTOR-10923 ]
* Added: Default compression to lz4 on ZFS storage pool create, this applies to all editions.
* Add crossmnt option in the NFS exports for newly created shares. Also skip adding the default export for .zfs directory. [ QSTOR-10806 ]
* Added: When clicking on the Create Storage pool ribbon button, the first system selected is now a system that has available disks.
* Add the ability to clone a GMT snapshot and promote it.
* Fixed: When no free disks are available to create a disk, the options in the pool create dialog are now greyed out.
Add QS CLI to copy share permissions. [ QSTOR-10580 ]
* Fixed: enabled storage pool compression support for Community Edition licenses.


Core Service
REST API
* Handle empty lists from the curl calls to Quantastor APIs. [ QSTOR-10939 ]


* Added: the qs_checkservice will now log to the /var/log/qs_checkservice.log file for any warnings or errors instead of issuing a mail.
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed an issue where the new qs_restd service was not being monitored correctly by the qs_checkservice.
* Fixed up dead links which were created after running some types of auto-tier Backup Policies. [ QSTOR-10934 ]
* Fixed: Corrected an issue with Object name caching, this corrects an error that could sometimes occur after deleting and then recreating a snapshot, or storage pool with the same name.


SNMP
SNMP
 
* Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11019 ]
* There is a new SNMP MIB available with this release. You can use qs-util snmpmib to review.
* Fixed an issue where an SNMP Walk would return no objects.
* Fixed an issue where the snmpagent was unable to start on 12.04 precise platforms.


Security
Security
* Prevent MFA passcodes with leading 0 from being truncated. [ QSTOR-10852 ]


* Fixed: Addressed SSL concern CVE-2016-2183 (SWEET32) with updated qsciphers file to remove DES and 3DES ciphers.
Service Core
* Fixed: disabled tomcat web port 8443.
* Fixes an issue where role-creation would fail due to deprecated permission-definitions. [ QSTOR-10988 ]


== v4.1.4.884 (Dec 20th 2016) ==
Storage Pool Management
* Added support for the creation of mirror sets consisting of "quad-mirrors" (4-way mirror sets) for both the data device groups in the pool and also the "special" devices, such as "dedup" and "metadata offload" devices. [ QSTOR-10893 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Storage Volumes
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.4]].
* Add more detail for logical and physical space utilization for volumes. [ QSTOR-10981 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884.iso osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884.iso]
* Deprecates legacy package version pinning for the packages.osnexus.com mirror server that was causing issues with some ceph cluster upgrades [ QSTOR-10990 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884.md5]
* Added protections in qs\_distupgrade.sh for lvm snapshots that could cause issues with the platform upgrade. [ QSTOR-10970 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
* Resolved multiple items that were causing issues with installing QuantaStor on redhat based platforms when STIG enforcement policies were present. [ QSTOR-10958 ]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.4.884_precise.md5 md5]
Note: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install/upgrade script temporarily sets selinux to permissive mode and temporarily disables fapolicyd if it is enabled when the script is running and restores them to their original state when the script completes.


===Release Notes===
Web Manager
* Auto select S3 tenant for S3 User when user create is invoked from context menu on the S3 tenant. [ QSTOR-11010 ]
* Increase the width of grids to show the 'Correlated Device' column in the Add Log/Cache/Metadata Device to Pool dialog w/o the need for scrolling. [ QSTOR-10951 ]
* Add an option to upload logs with no truncation. [ QSTOR-10925 ]
* Add drawer support for the Corvault enclosure layout and rendering engine in the WUI. [ QSTOR-10796 ]


Installer
== v6.5.1.058 (February 12th 2025) ==


* The Trusty platform install media now includes and updated megaraid_sas driver to support the LSI Megaraid 3316 ROC.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.1 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.1 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.1 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.1]].
=== Release Notes ===


Storage Volumes
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* General improvements to OSD drive replacement process. Added additional LVM clean up logic. Fixed issues with device correlation for multipath devices and encrypted drives. [ QSTOR-10915 ]
* Allow deleting journals from the UI via Ceph journal delete dialog [ QSTOR-10890 ]


* Fixed an issue that could cause problems with XFS based Storage Volumes after reboot
Dashboards and Analytics
* Fixed an issue where ZFS Storage Volume snapshots and replicated snapshots could sometimes not become writable clones after a snapshot or replication operation.
* Add gridPreferredPort check to the WUI dashboard service (qsrestd) if set on a Storage System. [ QSTOR-10866 ]


Scale-out Block and Object (Ceph)
Disk Management
* Fixed: New systems and clean QuantaStor service configurations databases will initialize Multipath autoconfig support as enabled by default. [ QSTOR-10900 ]
* Increased timeouts and other optimizations for large multipath configurations.  [ QSTOR-10881 ]
* Added protections to prevent QuantaStor service from running multiple blkid instances if one is already running. [ QSTOR-10881 ]
* Unblocked adding disk as a scale-up pool spare with a larger block size. [ QSTOR-10876 ]


* Fixed a permissions issue for the ceph startup scripts.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed an issue where the OSD device may not be properly associated with it's Journal device in the QuantaStor management interface.
* Add Enclosure mapping support for HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10. [ QSTOR-10899 ]
* Various small Ceph implementation fixes.
* Fixed an issue with Hardware Disk Identify for Storage Pool Physical Disks where the controller was not properly selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10858 ]
* Fixed an issue with applying External System Profile A+B. [ QSTOR-10840 ]


Upgrade Support
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with automatically starting HA scale-up ZFS pools if both HA nodes are booted at the same time. [ QSTOR-10902 ]
* Added a a check to ensure the luks crypttab was upto date after encrypted ha pool failover. [ QSTOR-10901 ]
* Added VLAN interfaces to allowed interfaces for Site Cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-10871 ]
* Added better logic for smb/nfs service management for Scale-up HA configurations with shares on multiple storage pools in the same HA cluster.  [ QSTOR-10762 ]
* Fixed an issue with Resource Group Service configs starting on a node after the node had previously hosted the service. [ QSTOR-10762 ]
* Fixed: added a unique name check for HA group create/modify. [ QSTOR-10311 ]


* Enabled Upgrades for 4.1 series features and improvements based on the Precise Platform at IBM SoftLayer and other locations that use their own update repositories.
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Change Seagate Lyve Cloud endpoints [ QSTOR-10868 ]


== v4.1.3.878 (Dec 8th 2016) ==
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue with calling iptables commands when distupgrading from older distributions. [ QSTOR-10860 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Network Shares
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.3]].
* Minor fix to allow creation of GMT snapshots for volumes from the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10873 ]
* Fixed an issue with spaces in the curl command issued to Quantastor. [ QSTOR-10838 ]
* Fix issue where renaming a share that contained a nested share failed. [ QSTOR-10811 ]
* Allow setting Samba share as read-only using ZFS. The new support has been added to the Network Share create and modify dialogs on the Advanced settings tab. [ QSTOR-10755 ]
* Fixed an issue which created duplicate mounts for nested shares. [ QSTOR-10704 ]
* Exposed ZFS 'Case Sensitivity' option at share creation time. [ QSTOR-8869 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
REST API
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878.iso osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878.iso]
* Fixed the POST command in the REST API [ QSTOR-10844 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.3.878_precise.md5 md5]


===Release Notes===
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fix an issue with auto tiering in backup policies. [ QSTOR-10845 ]
* Refined the Backup Policy Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10843 ]
* Fixed an issue with Backup Policy tasks completing when the underlying file copy or move process process had returned. [ QSTOR-10839 ]
* Add alerting when replication fails. [ QSTOR-10799 ]


Web Server
SNMP
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10922 ]


* Fixed an issue that was preventing the new nginx web service from starting on system boot.
Service Core
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause performing a reboot or shutdown of the storage system via the QuantaStor UI to fail. [ QSTOR-10917 ]
* Fix an issue with database backups on the storage pools. [ QSTOR-10907 ]
* Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools when an underlying disk is read-only. [ QSTOR-10886 ]
* Fixed a disk discovery issue when discoverying a large number of disks. [ QSTOR-10875 ]
* Fixed QuantaStor service builds for Redhat based distros. [ QSTOR-10846 ]
* Added /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf_sendlogs_ping_check.disable touchfile to bypess the icmp ping check and allow sending logs from the UI/qs cli. [ QSTOR-10556 ]


Scale-out Block and Object (Ceph)
Storage Pool Management
* Fix an issue with pick a smaller hotspare disk getting picked for metadata offload if disk goes missing. [ QSTOR-10877 ]
* Add storage capacity properties for metadata offload VDEV [ QSTOR-10661 ]


* Fixed an issue where rebooting a Ceph node and then the Ceph Master node could result in Journal devices showing up as offline and owned by the Ceph master Node.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added a blacklist of the bnxt\_re driver to prevent issues for normal network operations for the bnxt_en driver loading on network controllers that have rdma support enabled in their firmware by default. [ QSTOR-10918 ]
* Added elbencho benchmarking tool to quantastor utilities. [ QSTOR-10892 ]
* Added support for Focal 20.04 to Jammy 22.04 Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-10547 ]
* Fix telegraf start failures at startup due to invalid config file errors. [ QSTOR-10353 ]


Core Service
Web Manager
* Fixed a minor truncation issue with trigger Backup Policy dialog [ QSTOR-10919 ]
* Add a Description column to the share and snapshot grid and default to hidden. [ QSTOR-10882 ]
* Minor fix to NTP server add dialog to prevent empty entries in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10870 ]
* Auto select first row in NTP and DNS settings dialogs. [ QSTOR-10867 ]
* Improve the host assign volume dialog. [ QSTOR-10862 ]


* Fixed: Lowered logging level on Metrics Dashboard InfluxDB
== v6.5.0.246 (January 9th 2025) ==
* Fixed: Lowered Logging Levels on nginx Web server
* Added Additional log files to qs-sendlogs log gathering scripts.


== v4.1.2.877 (Dec 6th 2016) DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.5.0 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.5.0 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.5.0 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.0]].
=== Release Notes ===


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.2]].
* Increased HA health checks on Systems with local HA Pools. [ QSTOR-10746 ]
* Fixed: sending logs from specific grid nodes will now send logs only from the selected nodes. [ QSTOR-10694 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877.iso osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877.iso]
* Fixes issue with access permissions for ceph client admin keyring file. [ QSTOR-10818 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877.md5]
* Fixed issues related to encrypted OSD replace operations. [ QSTOR-10786 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]
* Fixed an issue with wal journal device discovery and association with osds. [ QSTOR-10751 ]
Note: precise media is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.2.877_precise.md5 md5]
* Deprecated replica=2 as a creation option from Ceph Scale-out storage. Replica=2 did not provide enough redundancy for consistent normal storage operations in the event of an osd or storage system outage. [ QSTOR-10748 ]
* Added the force flag checkbox to the Create S3 Storage Class dialog. [ QSTOR-10734 ]
* Fixed bugs in Ceph upgrade stage completion and failure alerting. [ QSTOR-10730 ]
* Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10717 ]
* Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10716 ]
* Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10708 ]
* Improve ceph discovery. [ QSTOR-10675 ]
* Add metadata pool utilization for Ceph Object Pool Group and Ceph File System [ QSTOR-10650 ]
* Disabled OSD auto restart. auto restart can be activated using the touchfile '/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf\_ceph\_osd\_auto\_start.enable' [ QSTOR-10632 ]
* Ensure the Tenant and User grid's bucket count column is updated after the delete bucket operation via events. [ QSTOR-10610 ]
* Fixed a bug with Ceph OSD 'Last Rekey Date' field not being updated properly. [ QSTOR-10509 ]
* Updated default Ceph version to Reef 18.2.4 for new Focal and Jammy platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10415 ]


===Release Notes===
Dashboards and Analytics
* Add a new Ceph Member selection combo to the Ceph Pool dashboard. [ QSTOR-10798 ]
* Add Tenant and Owner usage dashboards to the Bucket menu area. [ QSTOR-10698 ]
* Add CPU Temp and Power Usage to the Grid Dashboard's System Tiles. [ QSTOR-10427 ]
* Change the grid CPU metric to use system\_usage which matches the metric used in the System dashboard. The overlapping text issue is no longer an issue as Highcharts has been replaced with Chart.js. [ QSTOR-10263 ]
* Add power usage and average CPU temp sparklines to the System Tile dashboards in the grid view. [ QSTOR-10013 ]
* Removed resource column from Health Checker/Config Analyzer. [ QSTOR-5515 ]


New Drivers
Disk Management


* Intel 40GBe Network Adapters i40e 1.5.25
* Removed the multipath autoconf touchfile support which fixes issues where disabling multipath autoconfig would not apply. [ QSTOR-10706 ]
Enclosures and Controllers
* Addes enclosure layour for Supermicro Server SYS-F629P3-RC1B FatTwin 4-Node 24+12 bay [ QSTOR-10853 ]
* Fixed an issue with disk discovery when a CORVAULT is attached. [ QSTOR-10664 ]
* Added the ability to blink empty slots on jbod hardware that supports that feature. This action is accomplished using sg\_ses commands. [ QSTOR-10618 ]
* Added functionality to treat enclosures accidentally unplugged as MISSING, so that when reconnected their user-set properties are not lost . [ QSTOR-10542 ]


High Availability
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with post failover storage pool update tasks being stuck in a running state for nodes where the HA storage pool was previously evicted from due to an automatically triggered failover event. [ QSTOR-10485 ]


* Added further Optimzations to speed up Pool Failover times around Storage Pool startup and discovery tasks.
Kernel and Drivers
* Updated ZFS driver version to 2.2.6 [ QSTOR-10647 ]
* Updated scst iSCSI/FC Target driver to 3.9.0 [ QSTOR-10534 ]


Storage Pools
Licensing
* Fixup old license keys to work with new format. [ QSTOR-10788 ]
* Added Express Edition Licenses [ QSTOR-10619 ]
* Show TB Utilized in the License grid and property view. [ QSTOR-8009 ]


* Added: ZFS Storage Pools now support NVMe SSD devices for ZIL and L2ARC in stand-alone appliance deployments.
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Fixed an issue where some multipath or encryption devices could not be used to grow a ZFS or XFS Storage Pool.
* Fix wrap and truncation issues in the Cloud Add Credential dialog for Spanish. [ QSTOR-10792 ]
* Fixed an issue where some multipath or encryption devices could not be used as a spare in a ZFS Storage Pool.


Scale-out Block and Object (Ceph)
Network Shares
* Retain include line position in smb.conf [ QSTOR-10800 ]
* Minor fix to retain the share description when creating a Network Share. [ QSTOR-10793 ]
* Enhance the network share CLI search to support paging (similar to buckets). [ QSTOR-10757 ]
* Fix minor share name and snapshot name validation. [ QSTOR-10520 ]
* Added additional share name validation to share modify cli and API calls. [ QSTOR-10519 ]
* Add SSSD support [ QSTOR-10445 ]
* Implemented ransomware detection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10391 ]


* Fixed a rare issue where multi-osd create would fail to create an OSD due to a failure in the XFS Pool creation step.
Quantastor CLI
* Various small Ceph management fixes.
* Fixed qs cli disk-list filters for ssd, and nvme disk types. [ QSTOR-10515 ]
* Fixed the filtering for qs cli disk-list --filter="\[unused\]" and --filter="\[used\]" commands [ QSTOR-10482 ]


Network Shares
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Remove SSH keys after replication links are deleted [ QSTOR-10782 ]
* Fix minor argument validation for replication schedule create and snapshot schedule create. [ QSTOR-10732 ]
* Added monitoring for file modify events to enable continuous data protection on modified files. [ QSTOR-10557 ]
* Added ability for Snapshot Schedules and Replication Schedules to absorb old snapshots. [ QSTOR-10524 ]
* Create local delta Snapshot on source when Replication Schedule is skipped. [ QSTOR-10357 ]
* Change the control in the 'Update Selections for Replication Schedule' dialog to be a dual chooser. [ QSTOR-10351 ]


* Adds vfs_unityed_media support for better Avid integration on CIFS/SMB Shares. This replaces the previous media_harmony plugin support.
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Added a remote Fibre Channel port list to the fc target port section of the UI and 'qs fc-remote-port-enum' CLI command. [ QSTOR-10541 ]
* Added the Fiber Channel Issue LIP dialog to the UI that can be used to issue a lip on a specific FC port. [ QSTOR-10226 ]


Snapshots and Remote Replication
SNMP
* Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10847 ]


* Added: Remote Replication on Trusty 14.04 Platform deployments can now be enabled to use AES-NI accelerated Ciphers for SSH tunneling between QuantaStor appliances with the 'qs-util aesni' command.
Security
* Added some enhancements to reduce the time it takes when performing large numbers of snapshots all at the same time.
* Fixed a bug in the 2FA login process. [ QSTOR-10841 ]
* Added some optimizations to better batch cleanup Storage Volume and Network Share Snapshots marked for deletion.
* Added support for a custom iptables include script under 
* Fixed The slider bar for the minute interval option in the Create and Modify Remote Replication schedules now correctly shows 15 minutes as the minimal available option when the slide is all the way to the left.
/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/iptables.qscustom [ QSTOR-10794 ]
* Updated tomcat package version to 9.0.96.0 [ QSTOR-10691 ]


Physical Disk Management
Service Core
* Fix a small memory leak [ QSTOR-10778 ]
* Revise the server S3 modify API to accept spaces for the Display Name property. [ QSTOR-10724 ]
* Fixed some issues with writing the Chrony conf file on platforms that have chrony installed (like Jammy) [ QSTOR-10293 ]


* Added new 'qs disk-format' command and Format Disk Dialog to the Physical Disk section of the Web Manager. This allows for the removal of any unwanted encryption or disk formatting prior to a disk being used in a Storage Pool.
Storage Pool Management
* Allow trim schedule to run nightly. [ QSTOR-10652 ]


Web Manager
Storage Volumes
* Allow minimum of <4MB for Storage Volume QoS Control limits. [ QSTOR-10765 ]
* Updated Storage Volume QoS controls to use cGroups v2 for modern linux kernels/platforms. [ QSTOR-10529 ]


* Added a new property to indicate the Distribution version to the Storage System Properties view.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: The Remove grid member dialog was missing the force flag option checkbox.
* Added logic to temporarily disable the upmap balancer during ceph upgrade. [ QSTOR-10702 ]
* Fixed an issue that would prvent the Dashboard from showing when logged into the Web manager via https or port 8080
* Fixed an issue where Storage System Upgrade tasks were showing 25% progress but transitioned to the 'Completed' stage. [ QSTOR-10673 ]
* Install sssd packages by default on focal and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10549 ]
* chrony is now the default time daemon for ubuntu 22.04 jammy and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10273 ]
* Added 22.04 Jammy as a new Platform for QuantaStor [ QSTOR-10225 ]


CLI
Web Manager
* Disable the 'Start Upgrade' button in the Upgrade dialog until the system update check is complete. [ QSTOR-10776 ]
* Show the Tag/Alt Name value along with the Controller name in the identify dialog if provided. [ QSTOR-10775 ]
* Decrease the replication detail chart update frequency. [ QSTOR-10753 ]
* Added email validation check for the Alert Manager dialog [ QSTOR-10590 ]
* Added Timezone configuration as a step in the getting started guide. [ QSTOR-10502 ]


* Added the '--flags=' option to the qs grid-remove command.
== v6.4.5.001 (November 1st 2024) ==


Cloud Containers
=== [[QuantaStor 6.4.5 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.5 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.5 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.5]].


* Added logic to remove the bucket from the cloud provider during Cloud Container Deletion. Note: Very large multi-terabye Buckets may need to be removed manually with swift/s3cmd commands.
=== Release Notes ===


Scale-Out File (Gluster)
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File  
* Fixed an error with Ceph Bucket Discovery tasks. [ QSTOR-10707 ]


* Fixed: Added a scaling timeout for Gluster Peer setup operations based on the number of Gluster Peers selected for the operation.
== v6.4.4.013 (October 25th 2024) ==


Core Service
=== [[QuantaStor 6.4.4 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.4 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.4 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.4]].


* Added further Optimzations to speed up service startup around Storage Pool startup and discovery tasks.
=== Release Notes ===


== v4.1.1.870 (Nov 29th 2016) ==
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Added a fix for Seagate Corvault based Ceph deployments to ensure ceph LVM layer is started on system boot. [ QSTOR-10686 ]
* Added qs-osd-compact script to assist with OSD compaction on a per system basis. [ QSTOR-10668 ]
* Fixed an issue with Ceph OSD Journal device discovery for encrypted Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10666 ]
* Extend timeouts for OSD restart stage of the Ceph upgrade task. [ QSTOR-10665 ]
* Fixes bug were OSDs lose journal device correlation after OSD reweight operation. [ QSTOR-10657 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Enclosures and Controllers
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.1]].
* Fixed an issue with enclosure and disk slot identity correlation information. [ QSTOR-10681 ]


===Release Notes===
High Availability Failover
* Disables the PCS daemon WebUI by default. [ QSTOR-10692 ]
* Adds a check for versions older than 6.4.3 to auto-disable the new health checks logic that is not compatible with older versions. [ QSTOR-10692 ]


Storage Pool Management
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh script now automatically removes legacy centos repos that are no longer needed for Redhat platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10676 ]


* Fixes a rare issue that could prevent Storage Pools on 12.04 Precise platforms from starting on System Boot.
== v6.4.3.021  (October 10th 2024) ==


== v4.1.0.868 (Nov 23rd 2016) ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.4.3 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.3 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.3 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.3]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.1.0]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868.iso osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868.iso]
* Fixed a incorrect encrypted ZFS pool check check in the Config Analyzer for encrypted Ceph clusters with encrypted OSDs. [ QSTOR-10643 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Optimized scale-out ceph bucket discovery for very large number of S3 buckets. [ QSTOR-10621 ]
* Ceph OSD create and delete operations will no longer fail due to services being masked. [ QSTOR-10617 ]
* Made some improvements to the Veeam SOSAPI update cycle. [ QSTOR-10616 ]
* Fixed an issue with creating Ceph Storage Classes of the same name on different Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10592 ]
* Default to http based checks from the haproxy load balancer to backend http radosgw instances. [ QSTOR-10559 ]


New Platform for new ISO deployments
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Add a rescan for cloud containers so that data is refreshed if uploaded from another S3 gateway. [ QSTOR-10627 ]


* 4.1 now uses Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty as the base platform by default.
Network Shares
* If you require a 4.1 install media based on the 3.x/4.x 12.04 Precise platform it is available [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868_precise.iso here] [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.1.0.868_precise.md5 md5]
* Fix an issue with trusted domain users not found in the Active Directory User search dialog. [ QSTOR-7353 ]


New Drivers
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Enabled Continuous Data Protection and Auto-tiering on Backup Policies using the SMB protocol. [ QSTOR-10601 ]


* Intel 40GBe Network Adapters i40e 1.5.16
Security
 
* Added http proxy support for Upgrades, Support Log submission and License Key Activation. [ QSTOR-10432 ]
Ceph Scale-out Block and Object


* New Ceph version 10.2 (Jewel) available with QuantaStor 14.04 Trusty based deployments.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added: Ceph Jewel now supports reporting RBD disk storage utilization statistics. This is reflected in the utilized property in QuantaStor for the Ceph based Storage Volumes for iSCSI and RB access.
* Fix triggering Ceph cluster upgrades when there are multiple scale-out storage Ceph clusters in the same QuantaStor Storage Grid. [ QSTOR-10612 ]
* Added: Pool Replica Count can now be modified via the web Manager. Added the ability to list custom pool create profiles in the Ceph Object Store create dialog. Added a Force scrub checkbox to the ceph osd multi-create dialog
* Fixed an issue with the Ganesha 5.9 libntirpc dependency. This change was shipped earlier with a respin of QuantaStor 6.4.3 to include the missing updated library in the update repo and in the ISO and OVA image. [ QSTOR-10576 ]
* Added a minimum hardware/virtual hardware check for Ceph cluster creation and adding ceph cluster members. Minimum requirements for a VM or server to demo or run minimal cluster member services is 2 CPU cores and 2GB of memory.
* Added new logic to better support creating a ceph cluster with a better suggested-placement-group count based on the osd count on minimal ceph configurations (3 nodes 3-6 OSD's)
* Added logic to ensure a minimum size of 1GB for Ceph Journal partitions during journal create and multi-osd create.
* Added better support for NVME devices when used as Ceph journal devices.
* Added new Ceph Erasure Coded pool profile management.
* Added Ceph object Storage Pools can now be created as Erasure coded in addition to different Replica counts.
* Fixed an issue where a target port would not correctly have it's firewall forwarding rules from port 80 to 7480 removed when it had S3/Swift Object gateway access disabled.
* Fixed an issue during OSD delete where the mount points under mtab were not updated to reflect the correct unmounted status.
* Fixed an issue where the Web Manager Ceph Dashboard would reflect stale capacity and information when a cluster capacity is reduced from a Ceph OSD remove event.
* Fixed: Ceph Cluster Members now group by Ceph Cluster when viewed in the central grid view in the Web Manager.


== v6.4.2.053  (September 19th 2024) ==


Gluster Scale-out File
=== [[QuantaStor 6.4.2 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.2 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.2 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.2]].


* Fixed: QuantaStor now provides a more accurate view of the current Gluster Volume and Brick status.
=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed an issue to ensure the Glusterfs client mount on QuantaStor used to provide NFS anf CFIS access is correctly mounted and not accidentally providing a mountpoint to the root filesystem.


Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Fixed tolerances for alerting on changes in PSU status and other IPMI sensors. [ QSTOR-10447 ]


High Availability Failover
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Adds total Object count to S3 tenant and user objects [ QSTOR-10606 ]
* Improved logic to ensure Scale-out Object Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules were applied correctly on all nodes after an update. [ QSTOR-10599 ]
* Unblocked file quotas for CephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-10584 ]


* Added: HA Failover tasks will now show more detailed status during failover tasks.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added improved iofencing tool that greatly improves SCSI-3 Persistent reservation verification and assignment during HA Failover tasks.
* Added Enclosure for Tyan Transport SX TS70-B8056. [ QSTOR-10597 ]
* Added discrete ARP Ping even to occur on HA Failover for each HA VIF configured on an HA Failover Group.
* Fixed an issue with enclosure support for Supermicro SSG-621E-ACR16L [ QSTOR-10563 ]
* Added: HA Failover groups will now automatically be activated when a HA VIF is first created on it.
* Added an HA Failover Policy based on the the link status of the ports in the machine.
* Added iSCSI SAN Configuration feature for simplifying the configuration of Tiered QuantaStor High Availability Failover based deployments. This feature allows for automatic iSCSI interconnect configuration of front-end QuantaStor appliances to back-end QuantaStor appliances providing iSCSI Storage Volumes.


NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Fix a regression with NFS and SMB access for cloud container shares. [ QSTOR-10588 ]


Network Shares
Network Shares
* Fixed an issue where the quota field was incorrectly disabled in the network share modify and create dialogs for nested shares on zfs storage pools. [ QSTOR-10602 ]
* Implemented ability to adjust Network Shares permission settings via a specified permissions mask. [ QSTOR-10147 ]


* New Network Share Namespaces feature that allows NFSv4 and CIFS clients to see all shares accessible in a configure namespace on QuantStor appliances and Network Shares added to that namespace.
Quantastor CLI
* Fixed: QuantaStor now uses the reload command instead of restart for the Samba CIFS/SMB service.
* Fix a minor regression with share name now showing in the output of "qs share-list" [ QSTOR-10587 ]
* Fixed an issue where Network Shares could reflect incorrect Utilized statistics until a discovery cycle occurs.
* Fixed an issue where a local users default group could appear in the AD group list.


Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Show more informative errors when a Backup Job fails. [ QSTOR-10575 ]
* Fixed an issue where multiple snapshots were wrongfully created. [ QSTOR-10564 ]
* Fix an issue with removing excess snapshots for a backup policy with cephFS shares. [ QSTOR-10560 ]
* Add maximum total snapshots for replication, snapshot and backup schedules. [ QSTOR-10539 ]
* Fixed an issue where GMT Snapshots were disappearing. [ QSTOR-10538 ]
* Fix an issue with resume replication not updating the replication reports. [ QSTOR-10536 ]
* Added auto-tier stubbing minimum file size threshold. [ QSTOR-10505 ]


Storage Pool Management
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Added support for setting specific LUN numbers on Storage volumes for Fibre Channel access. This is available in the Advanced tab of the Storage Volume Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10544 ]


* New security options available in Storage Pool Delete dialog allow for securely erasing the disks when the storage pool is decommissioned.
Service Core
* Added a new option to the Create Storage Pool Dialog that will clean the partition label and ensure a disk is available for use prior to creating a Storage Pool with it.
* Improved efficiency for Ceph Bucket discovery. New Default behavior is to skip collecting life cycle policy and object locking data on the bucket. Contact support to enable object locking discovery on buckets. [ QSTOR-10600 ]


Backup Policies
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added script to fix RGW configurations on clusters created on older versions of QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-10569 ]
* Added support for Ceph Reef 18.x upgrades. [ QSTOR-10493 ]


* Added: Backup Policies now support pushing data from a QuantaStor Network Share to a external CIFS/NFS share on a third party server/appliance.
Web Manager
* Fixed an issue that would allow users to delete a Backup job while it was running resulting in errors.
* Make the info fields, in the Snapshot Rollback Point fieldset of the Rollback Storage Volume dialog, read-only. [ QSTOR-10596 ]
* Fixed an issue where the Backup Job status would not update during single threaded rsync based transfers.
* Hide the timezone column in the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-10540 ]
* Fixed an issue where Timestamps for Created, Modified and Start Date are all updated to the 'current time' when qs CLI command 'backup-policy-modify ' is executed.
* Change S3 Bucket Search panel location from North to West of screen. [ QSTOR-10405 ]
* Fixed an issue that would still provide the option to cancel a already completed backup job.
* Backup Policy settings are now shared between nodes in a High Availability Failover Group.
* Fixed an issue that would cause backup policies to fail if the target share type was changed between CIFS/SMB or NFS.


Cloud Containers / Cloud Backup
== v6.4.1.011  (August 6th 2024) ==


* Fixed: Cloud Backup Schedules will now correctly trigger an immediate backup when manually triggered.
=== [[Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.1 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.1 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.1]].


=== Release Notes ===


Core Service
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed an issue with the Supermicro NVMe Enclosure mappings for the SBB-SSG-221E and SSG-641E [ QSTOR-10506 ]


* Added various performance improvements to the QuantaStor service and backend Database.
Network Interfaces
* Fixed: Reduced the number of grid events triggered by snapshot grid objects. This will improve Web Manager responsiveness and overall performance for deployments that have a large number of snapshots.
* Fixed: Infiniband Devices should now have the correct Make and Model displayed in the Network interface section. [ QSTOR-10448 ]
* Fixed a small timing issue on system startup with the iSCSI Target driver and service that would cause a false positive with the QuantaStor service startup requiring a manual service restart in some instances.
* Fixed a rare case where adding grid nodes with existing modified admin accounts could result in the new nodes admin account being retained and multiple 'admin' accounts appearing in the QuantaStor user list.
* Fixed: Various Pool startup and management service startup performance improvements.  


Network Shares
* Fixed an issue with updating the status of Backup Policy Jobs. [ QSTOR-10517 ]


QS CLI
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed: Shows the last 14 days in the replication schedule dashboard regardless of the replication schedule configuration. Fix an issue where not all series data was appearing despite being in a completed state. [ QSTOR-10528 ]
* Fixed an issue with duplicate Replication tasks. [ QSTOR-10526 ]
* Correct the max temporary snapshots retained for volumes in a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-10525 ]
* Add the ability to discover partially transferred chkpnts if replication is interrupted on the first transfer. [ QSTOR-10500 ]


* Changed: qs system-modify commands now require the storage system name or id be passed in for command execution.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added missing feature flags for the qs backup-policy-create CLI tool to bring it inline with the Backup Policy Create Dialog.
* Fixed: optimized dependency checker for qs-upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10531 ]
* Added shorthand flags for common QS commands '-u' for '--user',  '-s=' for  '--server=', '-h' for '--help' more information is available in the qs command help.
* Added a new --noheader option for qs commands to show the output for list commands without the column headers.
* Fixed: the qs tp-modify --port=ethX --port-type=disabled command now correctly removes the static or dhcp networking configuration from the port and sets the port state to disabled.
* Fixed up the output of the qs disk-list, volume-list, share-list, target-port-list, and pool-list commands so that they include the storage system name as an earlier column and the UUID as the latest column.
* Fixed an issue where the QuantaStor user credentials in %USERPROFILE%\.qs.cnf on Windows were not being read properly for us with the qs command line tool.


== v6.4.0.174  (July 18th 2024) ==


Hardware Enclosure and Controllers
=== [[Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.4.0 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.4.0 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.0]].


* Added support for HP HBA series controllers in Hardware Enclosures and Controllers Module.
=== Release Notes ===
* Added better SAS HBA Enclosure correlation between hardware controllers and nodes. Enclosures correlated this way will have the same unique id number.
* Added correlation for SAS Disk devices presented from SAS Hardware controllers in Physical Disk view. This makes it easier to dentify physical disk objects to their SAS disk counterpart in SAS HBA configurations.
* Added logic to check for network availability before performing an iSCSI Login on a iSCSI Software Adapter.
* Fixed: Improved Device Multipathing discovery logic for Physical Disk objects.
* Fixed some object properties that were not being shown correctly for HP Smart Array Controllers.
* Fixed: Improved Correlation between Physical Disk objects and Hardware Disk Objects for Adaptec controllers.


Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Fixed an issue with adding new ITSM webhook integrations. [ QSTOR-10480 ]
* Added support for Microsoft Teams to ITSM integrations. [ QSTOR-10458 ]
* Added the ability to easily extend ITSM integrations with new integration modules with qs_alerthandlers.conf file. [ QSTOR-10458 ]
* Include storage volumes in pool reports. [ QSTOR-10083 ]


Web Manager
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue where the wrong libntirpc library was installed for nfs-ganesha. [ QSTOR-10463 ]
* Added a Copy to Clipboard Button for a selected access key and changed the double click on access/secret key behavior to copy to clipboard for the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]
* Added a check to the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog to ensure only the selected key text is shown when the user clicks the 'Show Key Text' button on the dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]
* Added block for more than 2 S3 Gateway loadbalancer modes configured at the same time. [ QSTOR-10407 ]
* Added a new feature for data pool capacity based, overflow rules for ceph object storage. Added support for a force flag for the auto tiering rules, that will overwrite any client side storage class specifications. [ QSTOR-10379 ]
* Add reporting for object storage usage. Periodic reports can be generated as part of "Report Schedules" by enabling "Object Zone Usage Report". [ QSTOR-10355 ]
* Added object count for Ceph Buckets. [ QSTOR-10348 ]
* Updated the default access permissions for Ceph keyring files. [ QSTOR-10325 ]
* Updated ceph cluster scale-out OSD osd_op_queue setting to wpq by default. The setting will take effect for any new OSDs on creation. Existing OSDs will use the new setting on OSD service restart (system reboot, encrypted OSD re-keying or manual OSD service restart) [ QSTOR-10123 ]
* Improved an error message when creating a Site Vif with Block Storage use case. [ QSTOR-9984 ]
* Added ability to enable a size quota and a file number quota on cephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-7344 ]


* New Dashboard feature adds real time statistics for Storage System Memory, CPU, Load, and Networking statistics for a selected Storage System in the System Managment section. Additional statistic dashboards will be added in upcoming QuantaStor releases for other sections such as Storage Volumes and Storage Pools and many more.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added name search to the assign/unassign storage volume dialog.
* Fixed an issue where a disconnected JBOD could leave the enclosure object around on LSI HBAs. [ QSTOR-10503 ]
* Added Client Connectivity check IP addresses to columns in the grid for the HA Failover Group section of the Cluster Management tab in the WebUI.
* Fixed: a modify of enclosure or system layout to something other than default will also set the same layout on the corresponding system or enclosure(s) that are currently set to default. [ QSTOR-10496 ]
* Added new 'Source Volume Size' property to the Remote Replication Links for Storage Volumes.
* Fixed an issue with using the wrong LED control Utility for disk identification on Supermicro NVMe storage systems. [ QSTOR-10469 ]
* Change: Moved Host Groups to the hosts section and Volume Groups to the Volume section and removed their discrete sections from the left hand accordian tree view navigation.
* Added support for Supermicro SBB-SSG-221E-DN2R24R to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10460 ]
* Fixed: Performance improvements to initial Web Manager load times.
* Added Support for Supermicro SSG-641E-E1CR36L/H to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10429 ]
* Fixed: The options for switching between target and initiator only mode on a FC controller now more clearly show 'Enable FC Target Mode' and 'Enable FC Initator Mode'
* Prevent a missing disk from being blinked. [ QSTOR-10179 ]
* Fixed: Bonded ports can now be selected in the Create VLAN Interface Dialog.
* Changes Network Target Port disable/enable to offline/online more clearly indicate desired link status.
* Changed the property sidebar so that it is collapsed by default.
* Changed the Restart NFS and CIFS services Dialog to now auto select the current Storage System by default.


== v4.0.8.1194 (Nov 18th 2016) KERNEL AND DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue that could terminate the qs_pool_export script early on ha failover without final logging. [ QSTOR-10514 ]
* Fixed: added a check for HA VIFs to the network port offline dialog. This prevents a possible split cluster scenario. [ QSTOR-10414 ]
* Updated Task error messages to include the system where an error occurred for HA Storage pool failover tasks. [ QSTOR-10248 ]
* Added periodic HA failover group health checks for client and media connectivity. An alert will be raised If a health check fails that could indicate an issue with the future success of a High Availability failover from the primary to secondary node. [ QSTOR-9380 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.8 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Network Interfaces
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.8 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.8 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.8]].
* Prevent modifying parent port when static route is configured. [ QSTOR-10200 ]
* Fixed: removed iscsi and nvmeof portal configuration options on all grid vifs. client access should be configured through HA or Site cluster vifs only. [ QSTOR-9974 ]


===Release Notes===
Network Shares
* Fixed: NFS remove client access dialog and the qs share-client-remove CLI command now default to immediately terminate client connections for removed export rules, enhancing security. An option to retain client connections is available in the UI ("Retain Client Connections") and CLI (--retain-client-connection=true). [ QSTOR-10431 ]


Kernel and Drivers
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed an issue with Remote Replication reporting incorrect snapshot count. [ QSTOR-10476 ]
* Added a ZFS quantastor:scheduletype property to snapshots so that it is clearer what type of schedule created the snapshot. [ QSTOR-10421 ]
* Fix duplicate entries in replication dashboard. [ QSTOR-10385 ]
* Use raw mode for ZFS send and receive. Use on the wire compression if the source is not compressed. [ QSTOR-10153 ]


* Adds new 3.19.0-73 Linux kernel that includes updates and a security patch to address CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW)
SNMP
* Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10512 ]


* Adds new ZFS filesystem Driver 0.6.5.8-osn-2 please review the ZFS v6.5.x changelogs for further detail [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5 v0.6.5]  [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.1 v0.6.5.1] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.2 v0.6.5.2] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.3 v0.6.5.3] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.4 v0.6.5.4] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.5 v0.6.5.5] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6 v0.6.5.6] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.7 v0.6.5.7] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8 v0.6.5.8] [https://github.com/tuxoko/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8-osn-2 v0.6.5.8-osn-2]
Security
* Added feature to replace the OSD encryption keys for a given Ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-10283 ]
* Improved qs-util wrapper script so that user is prompted for secret passphrase. Passphrase will remain hidden. [ QSTOR-9982 ]


* Fixed an issue where some systems would not use the latest quantastor provided hardware drivers included with the qstortarget package.
Service Core
* Fix minor trace message for Maintenance schedules. [ QSTOR-10416 ]
* Added a check to the QuantaStor system startup to ensure that LUKS encrypted Physical disks devices provided to QuantaStor via the iSCSI Software adapter are opened after system boot. [ QSTOR-10257 ]


Core Service:
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added support for customizing OVF templates with passwords and license keys. [ QSTOR-10451 ]
* Fixed an issue with the archived centos ganesha mirrors in the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install and upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10446 ]


* Fixed Task list cleanup for remote replication and snapshot schedule tasks so that they are not immediately cleaned up on long running tasks.
Web Manager
* Fixed Task list cleanup so that they are cleared in the order of their timestamp, previously these were sorted and cleaned up by id.
* Fixed an issue where the User Web Customization rules were not being properly applied when the rules were defined in the Role create or modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10513 ]
* Fixed an issue where the log files for the core quantastor services would sometimes become truncated.
* Fixed the text highlight and other colors used in the UI to be consistent across elements. [ QSTOR-10470 ]
* Update: Replaced all instances of 'double click to reveal plain text' on password fields with an explicit eyeball reveal button to allow users to show plain text. [ QSTOR-10410 ]
* Updated web manager tomcat and Java runtime dependencies. [ QSTOR-9492 ]


Network Shares:
== v6.3.7.011  (June 18th 2024) ==


* The optional Samba 4 packages available via the samba4-install script are now hosted on the packages.osnexus.com mirror.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.7 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.7 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.7 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.7]].


== v4.0.7.1190 (Oct 28th 2016) ==
=== Release Notes ===


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.7 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.7 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.7 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.7]].
* Fixed an issue with creating Erasure Coded Ceph Object Storage Classes in the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10434 ]


===Release Notes===
Dashboards and Analytics
* Fixed the install-ceph-prometheus scripts to always have a default fallback install version if the latest version is not available. [ QSTOR-10441 ]
* Updated wiki documentation for the Prometheus and Grafana Integration guide to reflect changes from latest Grafana 11.0 release. [ QSTOR-10441 ]


Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed several items and updated logic for External System Corvault support. [ QSTOR-10235 ]


High Availability:
Kernel and Drivers
*  *  Fixed an issue with modern mellanox OFED installs using the mellanox-ofed-install.sh script and legacy ConnectX-3 Based Mellanox HBA's [ QSTOR-10295 ]


* Fixed: The FC ALUA state now remains in transitioning state while the Storage Pool and Storage Volumes are being moved between the nodes. This addresses a small window on some clients were a sync based write could have found the Storage Volume LUN in a unavailable state and not retry.
Network Shares
* Added logic to always bind mount the /export paths on Network Shares even if the share has no NFS access rules and is set to disabled and SMB/CIFS disabled. This includes Nested shares under Parent Network Shares. No noticeable increase in failover times was detected when testing on a Large HA config with many Network Shares including many Nested Shares and snapshots. [ QSTOR-10424 ]
* Fixed an issue with the Network Share snapshot count property. [ QSTOR-10329 ] 
* Re-enabled the Network Share Snapshot count column by default in the Network Share Grid View. [ QSTOR-10329 ]


Core Service:
Storage Volumes
* Fixed an issue where FC ALUA standby LUN devices for Storage Volumes would not appear as non-rotational(SSD) to clients when on an SSD or NVMe based Storage Pool. Note: a reboot is required to reload the SCST kernel driver stack on the system for the fix to take effect. [ QSTOR-10417 ]
* Fixed an issue with presenting pass-through Storage Volumes as non-rotational(SSD) to clients. [ QSTOR-10417 ]


* Fixed: Many base command execution performance improvements. This improves HA failover times, Storage Pool creation task times and many other operations.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed: Tasks are now cleaned up via the order of their timestamp instead of the previous ordering method.
* Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support latest Mellanox OFED 24.04-0.6.6.0 [ QSTOR-10438 ]
* Added a lts optional flag to the mellanox-ofed-install.sh for installing Mellanox OFED version 5.8-4.1.5.0. [ QSTOR-10438 ]


CIFS / SMB:
Web Manager
* Fix a minor ribbon bar alignment and spacing issue between elements by making a deferred force layout call during context switching. [ QSTOR-10413 ]
* Fixed an issue where some elements of the Ribbon Bar would not be visible or would somehow be under the visible section of the UI. [ QSTOR-10413 ]
* Removed the ZFS share encryption tab from the create and modify network share dialogs. The ZFS Share encryption feature is still available for share creation via the CLI but is not recommended for most users due to ZFS driver level issues. When the ZFS driver issues are resolved in a future ZFS release, the encryption tab will be re-enabled. [ QSTOR-10352 ]


* Fixed: Removed Sernet Samba Enterprise external repo from samba4-install script. Samba4 packages now come from OSNEXUS repository servers.
== v6.3.6.003 (June 4th 2024) ==


== v4.0.6.1187 (Oct 14th 2016) DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.6 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.6 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.6 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.6]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.6 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.6 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.6 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.6]].
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Added a check to enforce 'Enable target checkpoint recovery (unchecking will perform full replication)' setting on Remote Replication Schedules. This helps ensure that no additional _chkpnt is created for a share or volume if one already exists for the source and target replication association. [ QSTOR-10419 ]
* Fixed an issue with replication report showing synchronizing state forever. [ QSTOR-10419 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Security
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.6.1187.iso osn_quantastor_v4.0.6.1187.iso]
* Added qs-util wuicustomcerts command to allow creation of a /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/ssl/nginx_quantastor_ssl_custom.conf nginx override config so that users can customize certificate paths and ciphers from the QuantaStor defaults for the Web UI. [ QSTOR-9037 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.6.1187.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.0.6.1187.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
== v6.3.5.020 (May 23rd 2024) ==


Drivers
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.5 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.5 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.5 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.5]].


* Adds latest ZFS v.6.5.8 filesystem drivers and v.6.5.7 user mode tools, please review the ZFS v6.5.x changelogs for further detail [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5 v0.6.5]  [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.1 v0.6.5.1] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.2 v0.6.5.2] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.3 v0.6.5.3] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.4 v0.6.5.4] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.5 v0.6.5.5] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6 v0.6.5.6] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.7 v0.6.5.7] [https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.8 v0.6.5.8]
=== Release Notes ===


* Configures ZFS ARC Max at 50% of system memory as default to provide better default performance for mixed workloads. Please consult with a OSNEXUS Reseller or Sales Engineer in regards to advanced ARC tunings for task or use case specific workloads.
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Fixed an issue where s3 gateway create was creating load balancers with https->https mode when https->http mode was passed in. [ QSTOR-10399 ]
* Fixed some issues with discovery of the http/https mode for the S3 load balancer. [ QSTOR-10399 ]
* Further optimizations and fixes related to Grid communication and Ceph Scale-out Object discovery on Object Storage Pools with a large number of buckets. [ QSTOR-10380 ]
* Fixed an issue with adding and removing RGW instances on the same node via different IP addresses. [ QSTOR-10370 ]


High Availability Failover
* Added logic to limit number of open threads and open file handles needed to unmount shares for the HA storage pool failover process. This fixes an issue with deployments that have a large amount of shares, including nested shares and share snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]
* Added more coverage for the auto close open file handles logic during HA storage pool failover to help unmount shares under the nfs /exports path as well as nested shares/snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]


Backup Policies
Multitenancy
* Fixed some issues with Multitenancy Container discovery and database table updates. [ QSTOR-10363 ]


* Added the serialized backup option as the default Backup Concurrency option. Serialized backup provides the most economical form of backup and is less I/O intensive on the source and destination shares in comparison to the Parallelized backup options.
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue where the Backup job objects status and properties would not correctly update in the WebUI or on other nodes when a Backup job changes status.
* Added a exact match filter config file /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_portFilter.conf for interface names that allows users to blacklist interfaces they do not want QuantaStor to see and/or manage. [ QSTOR-9664 ]
* Fixed: Backup Jobs that fail will correctly show a Failed state instead of showing Initializing
* Fixed: Backup Jobs will raise an alert and transition to Failed status if the source share failed to mount or if the QuantaStor target/destination Network Share is disabled.
* Fixed: Backup Jobs will transition to a Failed state when using NFS and the source NFS share becomes inaccesible.
* Corrected syntax and argument help for qs backup-policy-modify command. You can correctly rename a policy via the CLI like you can via the WebUi with the 'qs backup-policy-modify --policy=POLICYNAMEorID --name=NEWNAME' command.


Network Shares
* Fixed an issue with the Network Share samba audit logging feature when upgrading from a legacy audit logging config. [ QSTOR-10390 ]


Ceph Scale-out Block
Quantastor CLI
* Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]


* Fixed an issue where mapped iSCSI LUNS on Ceph Scale-Out Block were not presented from all QuantaStor nodes in the Ceph Cluster.  
Security
* Adds support for controlling the sample period over which bad login attempts can trigger a short or permanent lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
* Adds support for controlling the duration of the short lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
* Fixes a security bug where good login attempts could mask bad login attempts by clearing the bad login attempt sample set for a given user. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
* Changes the special rules around bad login attempts for the 'admin' user, now allowing it to be locked. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
* Adds a touch file to unlock the 'admin' user account. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
* Adds a touch file to block the permanent locking of the 'admin' user account, which is similar to the current behavior. [ QSTOR-10374 ]


Storage Volumes
* Fixed an issue where iSCSI CHAP was not being correctly enabled in the iSCSI target on volumes when configured. [ QSTOR-10398 ]
* Fixed an issue with Fibre Channel Storage Volumes being presented after Storage System boot for Single QuantaStor node deployments (non-HA). [ QSTOR-10277 ]


Core Service and CLI
== v6.3.4.003 (May 14th 2024) ==


* Fixed an issue where the optional Samba 4 upgrade would not correctly report the service status as online in the QuantaStor system properties.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.4 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.4 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.4 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.4]].


=== Release Notes ===


Disk Device Multipathing
Web Manager
* Optimized WebUI login time for Large Scale-out Object deployments. [ QSTOR-10365 ]
* Fixed an issue where the WUI idle logout timer would be reached even when browsing inside of the WUI for various different sections. [ QSTOR-10361 ]


* Fixed an issue that could prevent a multipathed Hotspare disk being used to replace a failed disk in a ZFS Storage Pool.
== v6.3.3.033 (May 1st 2024) ==
* Fixed an disk mapping issue for Encrypted Multipathed devices to ensure that all disk paths receive SCSI3 reservations.
* Encrypted Multipathed devices will now appear in the WebUI and CLI as having all of their path associations.


=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.3]].


High Availability
=== Release Notes ===


* Fixed an issue where Storage Volumes on a FC ALUA deployment could sometimes not initialize properly on system boot or when first created and presented to a Host
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
 
* Added qs_rgw_iam_policy.sh script for generating S3api IAM compatible bucket policies. [ QSTOR-10336 ]
 
* Added FQDN specific string validation to the Modify Realm/Zone Group dialog. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
Licensing
* Fixed some items with the Modify Realm/Zone Group task. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
 
* Added a drop-down to the Create Storage Class Dialog with pre-defined S3 Storage Classes supported by most S3 CLI and S3 Library based clients. Users can still create a custom Storage class if they so choose and use their own custom S3 API implementation that supports Custom S3 Storage Classes. [ QSTOR-10232 ]
* Adds new license types for HA pairing and Support Renewal only Licenses.
* Fixed some issues with adding/removing S3 Gateways with Load Balancers. [ QSTOR-9848 ]
* Fixed an issue where two HA nodes with Multipathed disk devices were incorrectly reporting double the license capacity used.
* Fixed an issue where some SSD devices incorrectly counted towards licensed capacity.  
* Fixed an issue where hotspares in use repairing a ZFS Storage Pool could be incorrectly counted towards License capacity.


High Availability Failover
* Added a force flag to the Remove Site Cluster Virtual Interface dialog. [ QSTOR-8276 ]
* Added logic to auto re-apply iofencing to devices that are re-added to the system due to prior physical removal or power loss of the device/device enclosure. [ QSTOR-5475 ]
* Fixed an issue with enabling client connectivity on HA Groups and implemented more safe guards. [ QSTOR-3432 ]


Network Shares
Network Shares
* Add touch file to limit discovery of snapshots of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10334 ]
* Fixed: Network Share rename will correctly remount the /export/ NFS mount location to the new name. [ QSTOR-10318 ]
* Fix minor message during share disable with active SMB clients. [ QSTOR-10292 ]
* Share disable will close open file handles to the share when accessed via SMB. [ QSTOR-10291 ]
* Fixed an issue where Network sub-share alias shares would not start properly after Storage Pool HA Failover. [ QSTOR-10278 ]
* Fixed an issue where share alias advanced settings allowed modification after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-10276 ]


* Fixed: The Ownership Setting>Assigned Group will now correctly show the AD group name in addition to the Group ID (gid) in the Network Share Dialog.
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fix update selections for a replication schedule for cases where source is on a HA pool. [ QSTOR-10310 ]
* Fixed an issue with Windows Previous Versions on share-alias. [ QSTOR-10274 ]
* Added a check to ensure no duplicate share alias names are created on the same parent share. [ QSTOR-10274 ]


Security
* Fixed an issue where the Security Manager > Default Login Username field was not initializing to 'admin' for default installs and upgrades. [ QSTOR-10323 ]


Networking
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added logic to remove legacy google-compute-engine-oslogin and/or google-guest-agent on upgrade. These packages caused systems to not shutdown properly when installed. [ QSTOR-10340 ]
* Added a check to ensure the ledmon service is disabled by default. This is to ensure that there are no conflicts with the QuantaStor managed Disk Identify logic. [ QSTOR-10313 ]


* Disabled IPv6 address discovery for Network devices by default.
Web Manager
* Added paging support to S3 Bucket search [ QSTOR-10324 ]


== v6.3.2.025 (April 15th 2024) ==


SNMP
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.2]].


* updated MIB
=== Release Notes ===


== v4.0.5.1174 (August 17th 2016) ==
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Added search capability to the S3 Bucket section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10288 ]
* Added Rule Sorting and an explicit rule remove button to the Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules Dialog. [ QSTOR-10287 ]
* Added: You can now add the FQDN's for DNS names that you want the S3 Gateways to respond to via the Modify Realm/Zone Group Dialog. Note: you must add the FQDN's of the hosts or an FQDN alias e.g. s3.yourdomain.net (like used by DNS round robin) for the HAproxy load balancer to work properly. [ QSTOR-10285 ]
* Fixed issues with Ceph S3 Bucket discovery with a large amount of buckets. [ QSTOR-10261 ]
* Fixed some items related to Veeam SOSAPI integration based on testing in Veeam Certifcation scripts. [ QSTOR-10243 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.5 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Enclosures and Controllers
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.5 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.5 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.5]].
* Fixed an issue where Dell RAID Controllers were being discovered twice in due to new support for the controllers discovery in Broadcom storcli utilities. [ QSTOR-10244 ]


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
High Availability Failover
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.5.1174.iso osn_quantastor_v4.0.5.1174.iso]
* Fixed an issue where rebooting an active High Availability storage node would cause ZFS encrypted shares to go offline for any active pools on that node prior to automatic failover. [ QSTOR-10218 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.5.1174.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.0.5.1174.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
Network Interfaces
* Fixed an issue where legacy VLAN interfaces that had the RX/TX optimizations flag set would not allow modification of the interface for any other setting. [ QSTOR-10272 ]


High Availability
Not Set
* Added logic to prioritize high-speed data ports by default in the Ceph Cluster create and S3 gateway create dialogs. [ QSTOR-10266 ]
* Fixed usable space calculation on Object Pool Group when there are multiple Pools or Storage Classes using the same OSD's. [ QSTOR-10264 ]
* Fixed an issue with modifying a network share after after a custom veto files setting had been added to the samba cifs options. Now the veto files merge as a set with the default .qssnaps veto files used by the VSS GMT snapshots feature. [ QSTOR-10249 ]


* Corrected an issue with mapping of devices for iofencing. This affected devices that had dm Multipathing and/or LUKS Encryption.
Security
* Updated the OSNEXUS Security Notice service [https://services.osnexus.com/security/](https://services.osnexus.com/security/) for bionic and focal platform support. [ QSTOR-10269 ]


== v4.0.4.1173 (August 10th 2016) ==
Service Core
* Added support for replacing ntpd with chronyd in Ubuntu Focal platform based deployments. [ QSTOR-10239 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.4 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
== v6.3.1.009 (April 1st 2024) ==
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.4 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.4 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.4]].


===Release Notes===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.1]].


High Availability
=== Release Notes ===


* Added support for Fibre Channel ALUA High Availability.
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Fixed an issue where a pool running a scrub would report as degraded in the Config Analyzer health report. [ QSTOR-10258 ]


iSCSI/FC Target
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Added qs-rgw-moveobjects script to allow easier s3api copy-object of a buckets contents to a different storage class. [ QSTOR-10268 ]
* Changed haproxy load-balancer to use balance source mode by default. [ QSTOR-10260 ]
* Fixed an issue with the Storage Class Auto-Tiering rules where multipart uploads with Capacity Operators of greater than or greater and equal to the Capacity Threshold would not be uploaded to the correct storage class. [ QSTOR-10254 ]


* Added Legacy SCSI Target USN support for upgrades from QuantaStor 4.0.3 and older releases.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Changed qs-util seagate-ap-split mode command to use zone 5 [ QSTOR-10259 ]


Storage Pools
Web Manager
* Increased default max bucket count for S3 user to 100K.  [ QSTOR-10256 ]
* Added new Grid Preferred Port status column in the Network Port Grid. It's hidden by default.  [ QSTOR-10256 ]
* Fixed s3 gateway dialog height so it can show more nodes in the grid.  [ QSTOR-10256 ]
* Fixed s3 tenant create, if "Display Name" is not specified use the "Name" (display name is no longer mandatory in dialog). [ QSTOR-10256 ]


* Fixed: resolved an issue with creating XFS Storage Pools with LUKS Encryption enabled.
== v6.3.0.268  (March 20th 2024) ==


== v4.0.3.1169 (July 20th 2016) DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.0]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.3]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.3.1169.iso osn_quantastor_v4.0.3.1169.iso]
* Fixed an issue where md software raid os partitions where being reported in the config analyzer as offline storage pools. [ QSTOR-10168 ]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.3.1169.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.0.3.1169.md5]
* Fixed an issue where non-management ports were being flagged in the config analyzer for iSCSI acess being enabled. [ QSTOR-9891 ]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Blocked creating new OSDs when the OSD service is masked. [ QSTOR-10212 ]
* Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the S3 User's and Tenant tree. [ QSTOR-10156 ]
* Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the bucket tree. [ QSTOR-10150 ]
* Add support for multiple data pools for storage classes for Ceph Object Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-10137 ]
* Add auto tiering capability to ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-10125 ]
* Change the Ceph block storage pool to default to replica=3 for performance. [ QSTOR-10062 ]
* For CephFS, the min_size for the metadata pool should be 2. [ QSTOR-10015 ]
* Introduce safe disk replacement for Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-9937 ]
* Applied adjustments to Ceph Clusters for optimized scrubs on smaller and denser clusters. [ QSTOR-9900 ]
* Updated NFS Ganesha to 5.7 [ QSTOR-9821 ]
* Add support for Ceph Multi-site bucket replication. [ QSTOR-6570 ]


Active Directory
Disk Management
* Added support for ScaleFlux CSD 3000 SSDs that support builtin compression provisioning. [ QSTOR-10198 ]
* Fixed an issue with disk correlation by serial number on Broadcom/LSI 93XX series HBAs. [ QSTOR-10194 ]
* Show osd number in 'qs disk-list'. [ QSTOR-9717 ]


* Added Trusted Domain support for Customers who have installed Samba4. Users and Groups from Trusted Domains can now be added by searching in the Network Share User Access>AD User or AD Group section.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Removed getent as a dependency for Active Directory UID/GID lookups. UID and GIDs are now shown for users that have CIFS access assigned under the Network Share User access Tab.
* Add enclosure view for the ASUS 2u24 NVMe. [ QSTOR-10202 ]
* Fixed an issue where the idmap selection was not visible in the joining Active Directory domain section of the CIFS Configuration Dialog.  
* Fix controller selection issue in the 'Identify Hardware Controller Disk Device' dialog for when the selected object in the Physical Disk tree is a Physical Disk and not the Disk itself. [ QSTOR-10195 ]
* Fixed qs-util adcachegenall Active Directory caching used for very large (100,000+ user/groups). Generating the Active Directory cache is now much faster.
* Updated wddcs tool to 3.2.8.0 [ QSTOR-10166 ]
* Fixed: the idmap ranges for autorid mode were reduced as the values shipped with 4.0 were to high high, preventing uid/gid generation from the Active Directory sid.  
* Added to feature to create or delete multiple External System Volume configurations. [ QSTOR-10061 ]


Backup Policies
High Availability Failover
* Fixed an issue with the Create HA Failover Group Dialog when there are active FC sessions on volumes on the selected pool. [ QSTOR-10169 ]
* Changed NVMe reservations to use cptpl=2 when available so that iofencing is cleared on power on of a nvme drive. [ QSTOR-10124 ]


* Changes purge policy function for single thread mode to use rsync `--delete-after` instead of running pwalk after the transfer completes.
Licensing
* Added a lower CPU priority for Backup Policy tasks. Added a lower CPU priority for Remote Replication tasks.
* Added logic to auto-fetch new QuantaStor License Server ca certificates during online license activation. [ QSTOR-10174 ]
* Fixed an issue where the Daily Purge Policy would trigger at the end of the Backup Policy instead of only once a day.


Ceph Scale-out Block and Object
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Update rclone version. [ QSTOR-9512 ]


* Added updated ceph-install script for customers upgrading from 3.x releases who are interested in installing and testing the QuantaStor Ceph scale-out block and object features.
Network Interfaces
* Show static route parent port in the respective grid and delete dialog. [ QSTOR-10199 ]
* Fixed an issue with onlining/restarting offline VLAN interfaces.  [ QSTOR-10180 ]
* Fixed an issue with VLAN ontop of Bonded ports on VM deployed QuantaStor instances. [ QSTOR-10180 ]
* Improve the Network bond mode descriptions, in the 'Create Bonded Port' dialog, for those that require managed switches. [ QSTOR-9842 ]
* Added IP address place holder for DHCP interfaces that have no assigned IP address. [ QSTOR-9828 ]
* Fixed an issue with downing virtual interfaces when converting to HA virtual interface. [ QSTOR-9774 ]


Cloud Containers and Cloud Backup
Network Shares
* Minor Web UI fix to display share quota percent utilization. [ QSTOR-10121 ]
* Implemented a Real Time Auto Copy feature to enhance data protection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-9929 ]
* Updated Focal platform Samba to 4.18.6 backported from ubuntu upstream release. [ QSTOR-9924 ]
* Show parent shares in the 'qs share-list' command results. [ QSTOR-9702 ]


* Fixed an issue with creating a cloud backup without an Cloud Storage Container. This scenario will now properly error out and raise an alert indicating a Cloud Storage Container should be created.
Quantastor CLI
* Fixed an issue where the Cloud Container Repair task would not complete due to a short timeout value on the process.
* Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]
* Fixed: Restore from Cloud backup will now only list Storage Pools local to the QuantaStor system where the Cloud Container is mounted.


Hardware RAID Modules
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Add the ability to force create symbolic links for backup policy outbound-move to cloud containers without a delay of 24 hours. [ QSTOR-10136 ]
* Update Replication Report Summary object as failed if source system reboots right after schedule is triggered. [ QSTOR-10097 ]


* Added Cisco UCS C3260 enclosure layout support.
SNMP
* Added new qs hw-unit-auto-create CLI command that will take different inputs to be used as rules to setup Hardware RAID units automatically. More details are in the `qs help=hw-unit-auto-create` output.
* Regen SNMP MIB for 6.3 [ QSTOR-10228 ]
* Fixed an issue where dedicated RAID controller hot-spares would show as a warning state when they are perfectly healthy.
* Updated included Adaptec controller utilities for Adaptec Hardware Module support.


High Availability
Security
* Updated JQuery version used in the QuantaStor WebUI to 3.7.1 [ QSTOR-10064 ]
* Add Audit Log Viewing to the Storage System menus. [ QSTOR-10031 ]


* Added new HA failover feature to perform Client Connectivity testing. This feature is available in the Modify Storage Pool HA Failover Group Dialog and will ping a specified set of client IP Addresses and then execute a failover if a chosen policy for the failure is met.
Storage Pool Management
* Added improvements to HA Cluster Storage Pool failover speed for cases where the Node is failed due to a power loss or will not be able to communicate with the node that is taking ownership of the pool.
* Improved logic for replacing zpool UNAVAIL disks that are identified by their id instead of a device path as the disk is no longer present or visible to the OS. [ QSTOR-10129 ]
* Fixed an issue with SCSI-3 Reservations and registrations used by the HA Clustered ZFS Storage Pool feature. Any customers running the HA Clustered ZFS Storage Pool feature are advised to upgrade to 4.0.3 or newer.
* Fixed an issue with the HA heartbeat rings where a ring member would be in a offline/warning state.
* Fixed an issue where the heartbeat cluster service would start on a node that had no Cluster heartbeat rings configured.
* Fixed an issue that prevented the creation of HA Virtual Network Interfaces on top of VLAN tagged interfaces.
* Fixed an issue where VAAI SCSI target support could prevent a Storage pool export during HA Clustered Storage Pool Failover.
* Fixed a corner case with HA Storage Pool startup when both primary and secondary nodes are powered at the same time.
* Fixed an issue where objects related to an HA Cluster Storage pool would not be updated if the Grid Master node is unavailable and an HA Storage Pool failover occurs.
* Fixed, Alert messages related to heartbeat ring status changes now correctly identify the heartbeat ring as the source of the alert with a clearer message. Previously the alert would state the node was offline, which was incorrect.


Network Shares
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Automatically disable and mask uefi fwupd service on platforms that include it to prevent unplanned firmware updates. [ QSTOR-10205 ]
* Fixed: the low boot space warning for kernel upgrades now correctly appears in the Upgrade Manager task failure message.  [ QSTOR-10185 ]
* Fixed an issue where the scst/zfs userspace packages were not being pinned on security updates.  [ QSTOR-10185 ]
* Fixed an issue where qstortarget was incorrectly selected during security updates but fails due to existing pinning rules. qstortarget now correctly only gets selected for install on kernel/driver upgrades. [ QSTOR-10185 ]


* Added new Create and Modify Network Share Dialogs. CIFS User access, ACL Permissions and Share Owner settings are now on the User Access Tab. Advanced settings such as compression mode, ACL and xattr features have been moved to a new Advanced Tab.
Web Manager
* Added: the quota options in the Network Share Create and Modify Dialogs now allow for the exclusion of snapshot used capacity from the Quota.
* Minor fix to show NA for share-alias space columns. [ QSTOR-10227 ]
* Fixed: The Network Share User Access tab grid view in the WebUI now correctly sorts on username and supports sorting by User Access Mode.
* Login dialog shown after service restart is complete. [ QSTOR-10007 ]
* Fixed an issue that would prevent the modification of a Network Share name that included the - _ . Characters.
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a Netowrk Share creation to fail if 'nobody' and 'nogroup' were specified as the share owner and group.
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes occur where the Network Share Create or Modify dialog would generate an error regarding the share owner/group not being set when and AD user was selected.


Remote Replication
== v6.2.8.016  (March 5th 2024) ==


* Added Consistency groups for Remote Replication. Replication Schedules now quickly take the snapshots for all Volumes or Network Shares in the schedule at the same point in time and are transferred serially in a sequential manner for best performance.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue where a lock was not placed on a Network Share replication link, this could lead to Remote Replication Schedules containing only Network Shares running in parallel instead of serially.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.8]].
* Fixed conflict between VMware VAAI extended copy feature when there was remote replication for Storage Volumes.
* Fixed: QuantaStor will now do more to auto re-create a replica-assoc if it is missing or was removed and there is a good source/target match.
* Fixed: the Enable and Disable Remote Replication schedule dialogs now include more detail regarding the number of shares in the selected schedule.


Scale-out File
=== Release Notes ===


* Added support for disperse Gluster Volumes to span the disperse volume over an uneven number of systems that do not match the disperse configuratiobn. Previously for a 4D+1P configuration you would require 5 or 10 systems, now this configuration can be deployed on 5,6,7, or any number of nodes as long as the number of bricks are available to ensure the conditions for the Gluster disperse configuration are met.
Enclosures and Controllers
* Fixed: there was an issue where Gluster tasks would not succeed due to another gluster task or command transaction being in progress, this has been corrected with additional retry logic.
* Fixed Hardware Disk to Physical disk slot correlation issues. [ QSTOR-10135 ]
* Fixed an issue that would allow removal of a QuantaStor node from the grid while it was still in use serving Gluster Volume access and bricks. If you determine you do have a neew to perform a grid node removal while gluster configuration is present on that node, you can do so via the force flag.
* Improved Enclosure object guid uniqueness to better support more complex/multipath setups for hardware disk to physical disk mapping. [ QSTOR-10135 ]
* Fixed:  Removed disperse configuration options from the WebUI that Gluster does not natively support.
* Added Hardware Enclosure Serial\# property and logic to discover serial\# when available. [ QSTOR-10102 ]


SCSI Target
Multitenancy
* Updated Resilio container image to 3.8.1.2250 [ QSTOR-10162 ]
* Fix errors with Resilio container errors seen after upgrade. [ QSTOR-10099 ]


* Added: SCSI Target USN's now match the Storage Volume object unique ID's.
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause duplicate snapshot objects to appear for snapshot schedules with nested shares and recursive snapshot enabled. [ QSTOR-10159 ]
* Added a check to temporarily prevent adding ZFS dataset encrypted Network Shares to remote replication schedules until the Open ZFS issue \#12014 is resolved in an upcoming ZFS release. [ QSTOR-10145 ]
* Fixed an issue with using Windows Restore Previous Versions on remote Replica \_chkpnt Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10065 ]


Core Service and CLI
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Updated SCST driver to 3.8.0.9038-f134517-qs01 to support latest available linux kernels for Focal platform and Focal cloud platform kernels. [ QSTOR-10151 ]


* Added further detail to the ZFS Storage Pool Resilver property to show how much time the Storage Pool reports as remaining for a resilver.
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Added qs pool-preimport-scan command that can now be used to get a list of available pools for importing.
* Added Kernel Driver Support for QuantaStor installation on Ubuntu 20.04 images on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. [ QSTOR-10138 ]
* Added new 'timezone-list' and 'timezone-set' commands to the qs CLI, these commands allow for users to change the timezone of a QuantaStor system in the event the system is relocated or an incorrect timezone is chosen on system startup. More information is available via the 'qs help=timezone-list' and 'qs help=timezone-set'
* Removed auto import logic on QuantaStor service startup for Storage Pools that were not local or owned by the Storage System. This corrects a behavior where a storage pool would be imported incorrectly on systems where shared disk access is possible from multiple head nodes. Customers who wish to import foreign Storage Pools from other QuantaStor or for Open-ZFS based pools should continue to use the Pool Import Dialog.
* Fixed: qs import-pool command to allow importing of storage pools on a remote grid member.
* Fixed: qs pool-import now requires the foreign pool name to import a specific storage pool.
* Fixed an issue where the QuantaStor iSCSI Software Adapter (initiator) would sometimes not automatically login to configured targets on system reboot.
* Fixed an issue where the QuantaStor iSCSI Software Adapter (initiator) would not immediately scan for remote iSCSI targets on startup. In some cases this would cause a Storage Pool to be slow to import or not complete importing properly until the disks were rescanned and Storage Pool started manually.
* Fixed qs license-list command output now by default provides verbose license details.
* Fixed an issue at system startup that could lead to an alert regarding a problem for discovery of the iSCSI Target service running state.
* Fixed a conflict with latest SCST driver and Instant rollback from snapshot feature that would sometimes prevent snapshot rollback of Storage Volumes.
* Fixed an issue where deletion of a user created via the QuantaStor Management interfaces would not also remove the corresponding local linux user account.
* Fixed an issue that can sometimes occur where a Stop Storage Pool task would not correctly stop an XFS storage Pool.
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes occur where a Storage pool resilver would complete, but the failed disk would not be removed automatically.


Web Manager
== v6.2.7.002  (February 23rd 2024) ==


* Added updated Storage Pool Create dialog to provide better detail on when to choose XFS or ZFS storage Pool options.
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed: The Rollback Storage Volume dialog will now tell a user if there are no avaialble snapshot recovery points.
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.7]].
* Fixed: The grid view in the center of the Web manager for Volumes and Network Shares can now be correctly sorted based on any chosen column sorting.
* Added the Alert tab in the Web Manager will not show a count for the number of alerts.
* Fixed an issue where the Storage Pool % Utilized property was not updating as often as the grid view or other Utilized percentage information.
* Fixed an issue where the About box in the Web Manager would not correctly show the versioning information for the system you are accessing via the WebUI.
* Fixed an issue where the ribbon bar would not always appear in the Web Manager on smaller resolution screens.
* Fixed: Storage Volumes that have their % Reserved changed to 0 % from a higher % value will now correctly report as Thin Provisioned
* Fixed an issue where the Name field in the Resource Group -> Add/Remove Users dialog would sometimes not be populated.


Localization
=== Release Notes ===


* Fixed an issue where HTML formatting tags would be present in some Localizations.
Licensing


== v4.0.2.1139 (April 29th 2016) DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
* Updated license manager certificates for online license activation. [ QSTOR-10154 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
== v6.2.6.024  (February 8th 2024) ==
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.2]].


=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.2.1139.iso osn_quantastor_v4.0.2.1139.iso]
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.6]].
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.2.1139.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.0.2.1139.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
=== Release Notes ===


New Driver releases:
Enclosures and Controllers


* HP SmartArray RAID Controllers hpsa 3.4.10-0
* Added support for iofencing NVMe disks that do not support cdw11 [ QSTOR-10087 ]
* Mellanox Infiniband Adapters mlx4_ib 3.2-2.0.0
* Added an Alert for when a OS Software RAID1 mirror enters a degraded state. [ QSTOR-10080 ]
* Mellanox Converged Ethernet Adapters mlx4_en 3.2-2.0.0
* Added support LSI-3008C0 model controllers. [ QSTOR-9841 ]
* Added a check to hardware Enclosure Discovery to automatically filter out enclosures that do not have any drive slots. [ QSTOR-9716 ]


High Availability
High Availability Failover
* Added logic to ensure HA failover would succeed during manual failover if the iptables firewall was unresponsive.


Remote replication
* Fixed an issue with the I/O fencing tool where it was reporting not-supported on reservation capable nvme devices. [ QSTOR-10114 ]
* Added a timeout to qs-util rraterebalance
* Fixed conflict between VMware VAAI extended copy feature when there was remote replication for Storage Volumes.
* Changed default replication throttle rate  from 10MB/s to 30MB/s


Core Service
Network Interfaces
* Added Further grid communication optimizations.
* Fixed a bug that caused grid events to be sent for objects that didn't change.


Web Manager
* Updated static routes to use modern ip route syntax with the 'proto static' option.  [ QSTOR-10103 ]
* Fixed a compatibility issue with IE11 where user entered names in a textfield would not be accepted.
* Updated netplan conversion to by default create static routes using ip route to match the original netplan static route rules. [ QSTOR-10103 ]


iSCSI Target Driver
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed an issue where removing or adding a physical block device to the system would cause the iSCSI target driver to deadlock.


== v4.0.1.1128 (April 7th 2016) KERNEL AND DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
* Fixed: Activate HA Failover Group now works for Storage Pools in a degraded state missing a few devices. [ QSTOR-10100 ]
* Fixed: Create HA Failover Group now allows a force option if there are a small number of drives missing on the secondary node. Note that the operation will still be blocked if most/all of the drives are missing from the secondary node. [ QSTOR-10100 ]
* Added support for Zero Touch Maintenance Automatic Global Hot spare marking of Hardware RAID0 Passthrough units. [ QSTOR-9865 ]


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Storage Volumes
Click [[QuantaStor 4.0.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.0.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.0.1]].
 
=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
* ISO DVD image: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.1.1128.iso osn_quantastor_v4.0.1.1128.iso]
* MD5 Hash: [http://qstor-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/iso/osn_quantastor_v4.0.1.1128.md5 osn_quantastor_v4.0.1.1128.md5]
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|USB Bootable Flash Drive instructions]]


===Release Notes===
* Fixed: NVMe Target Storage volumes now persist their serial numbers correctly on reboot [ QSTOR-9992 ]
* Fixed: the NVMe Target now correctly re-exports the allowed portals on system boot. [ QSTOR-9992 ]


* Adds kernel upgrade to the Linux 3.19-0.58 kernel (latest stable LTS release) this kernel update addresses a potential stability issue introduced with the previous 3.19-0.51 LTS kernel included with QuantaStor v4.0.0. This issue does not effect data integrity in any way but could lead to an instability which would require a reboot.
Upgrade Manager and Installer


Scale-out Block and Object
* Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support the latest Focal platform 5.15.0-91-generic kernel. [ QSTOR-10117 ]
* Fixed: Ceph Cluster create now only allows Alpha-Numeric and underscore '_' characters in the cluster name. The 'qs ceph-cluster-create' CLI help has been updated to reflect this.
* Updated the GPG repo keys for QuantaStor RedHat / and Almalinux platform installs [ QSTOR-10107 ]
* Fixed: Corrected an issue that would cause the removal of Scale-out Ceph Storage Volume to fail.
* Fixed a incorrect error log when upgrading the Kernel and Drivers on the Ubuntu Focal platform. The upgrade would succeed when the error was seen, but it was unclear to the user without full log analysis. [ QSTOR-10106 ]
* Updated upgrade manager logic to ensure recommended dependency packages are always selected for install during core service and security upgrades. [ QSTOR-10101 ]
* Fixed an issue with the qs-distupgrade script where some QuantaStor core package changes were not being applied after a platform dist-upgrade from bionic to focal. [ QSTOR-10132 ]
* Added better logging of systemctl service enablement and restart during qstorservice package installs. [ QSTOR-10134 ]


Web Manager
== v6.2.5.032  (January 18th 2024) ==
* Fixed: The Cloud Container tab will now correctly appear on Community Edition keys that have the Cloud Backup feature enabled on the license key.


== v4.0.0.1123 (March 31st 2016) KERNEL AND DRIVER UPGRADES AVAILABLE REBOOT REQUIRED ==
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.5 Upgrade Instructions| Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.5 Upgrade Instructions| here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.5 Upgrade Instructions| upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.5]].


=== [[QuantaStor 4.0.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
=== Release Notes ===
QuantaStor 4.0.0 was superseded by the QuantaStor 4.0.1 release on April 7th 2016. Please click  Please click [[QuantaStor_Version_ChangeLog#v4.0.1.TBD_.28April_7th_2016.29_KERNEL_AND_DRIVER_UPGRADES_AVAILABLE_REBOOT_REQUIRED| here for the QuantaStor 4.0.1 release notes and upgrade instructions]].


===Release Notes===
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
* Adds kernel upgrade to the Linux 3.19-0.51 kernel (latest stable LTS release)
* Added ssh port 22 to network connectivity checker tests. [ QSTOR-10092 ]
* It is now even easier to Deploy QuantaStor via PXE/Kickstart solutions such as RedHat Kickstart or Cobbler.
* New Driver releases:
** Dell PERC and Avago/LSI MegaRAID controllers megaraid_sas 06.810.08.00
** Avago/LSI 12GB/s SAS HBA's mpt3sas 12.00.00.00
** HP SmartArray RAID Controllers hpsa 3.4.14
** HP Broadcom tg3 3.137k
** Adaptec RAID Controllers aacraid 1.2-1.41010
** Intel 40GBe Network Adapters i40e 1.4.25
** Intel 10GBe Network Adapters ixgbe 4.3.13
** Intel 1GBe Network Adapters igb 5.3.4.4
** Intel 1GBe Network Adapters e1000e 3.3.3
** SolarFlare Network Adapters sfc 4.7.0.1031
** Mellanox Infiniband Adapters mlnx4-en 3.2
** Qlogic FC Adapters(supports 16GB Qlogic Gen 5 26xx controllers) qla2x00tgt 3.1.0


* Scale-out Block and Object Storage (Ceph integration)
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
** Added new Scale-out Ceph Object Storage support
* Fix bug where ceph monitor daemon is disabled. [ QSTOR-10095 ]
*** A new Ceph Object Storage will have a default 'objadmin' user account with S3 and Swift access keys. This user is intended for diagnostics and resolution of ACL issues. This user can be disabled.
* Added script to setup Ceph multi-site replication. [ QSTOR-10075 ]
*** Added Ceph User access model for management of Secret and Access keys for Scale-out Object Storage  S3 and Swift access. Users can be enabled and disabled and can have different ACL access.
** Adds initial support to 'qs ceph-pool-create' CLI for custom crush maps and additional Ceph Storage Pools. Contact OSNEXUS support if you need assistance with creatign and deploying a custom crushmap.
** Added the Add and Remove Ceph Monitors dialogs to the Web Manager.
** Added a new Ceph Member status tab to the Web Manager
** Added support to remove a Ceph Monitor configuration in the Ceph Cluster from nodes that are offline or will be permanently unavailable.
** Added: Multi-OSD create now has the option to use available journal partitions on existing journal devices.
** Added Scale-out Block and Object Ceph clusters will now allow for 48-hours before initiating an auto-heal to rebalance data on the remaining OSD's. This is to help ensure a reblance does not occur if a node was taken offline due to a quickly corrected hardware component failure or temporary power failure.
** Added: You can now use the 'qs ceph-pool-modify' CLI command with the --max-replicas=X option to modify an existing Storage Pool replica count level and initiate a rebalance of the Placement Groups to the new level.
** Added enhancements to 'qs ceph-monitor-remove' command that allows for discovery of the ceph monitor to be removed with the use of the storage system name or storage system id.
**Added protections to the Modify network Dialog and 'qs tp-modify' CLI to warn about changing the network configuration for Network ports used with a Ceph Cluster. Please contact OSNEXUS support for assistance if you determine you need to change the configuration of your networking on a node.
** Added additional warning health status for the Ceph Cluster to reflect error or warning state of underlying Monitors or OSD's.
** Fixed 'ceph-install' command that can be run on older deployments to enable scale-out block now also installs all of the dependencies required for scale-out object.
** Fix for Scale-out Block Ceph Pools now correctly show their individual used capacities. Previously all Ceph Pools reported a combined used capacity.
** Fix for rare condition that could cause a QuantaStor node to halt during shutdown or reboot when a scale-out Storage Volume/RBD has active client access.
** Fix to ensure newly created Ceph pool appears with all properties in the Storage pool list in the Storage Management tab.
** Fixed an issue that can sometimes occur when removing a Ceph Monitor.
** Fixed an issue where the client and backend network settings provided during Ceph Cluster Creation were not correctly set.
** Fixes to 'qs ceph-cluster-*' CLI commands to clarify help messages and command arguments.
** Fixed: The Ceph Cluster status now shows a more accurate health status of Initializing when a Ceph Cluster is first created.
** Fixed an issue with Ceph Scale-out Block Storage Volumes where host access assignment events would be rebroadcast.
** Fixes and Various small updates for Ceph Cluster deployment and management


* Scale-out File Storage (Gluster integration)
Enclosures and Controllers
** Added: Removing a Gluster Brick now performs additional checks to ensure the action does not compromise data availabilty. Please contact OSNEXUS support for assistance with removing gluster bricks that are not allowed for removal via the qs CLI or Web Manager.
* Updated storcli version to 007.2705.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10072 ]
** Added: Gluster Peer Setup now allows for selection of specific peers in a grid for use in a Gluster configuration. This will allow for multiple Gluster peers configurations to be available on the same QuantaStor Management grid. Previously all grid nodes were included in the Gluster Peer setup.
* Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-10036 ]
** Added firewall to ensure access was allowed for Gluster version 3.4 and higher client access.
* Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-9825 ]


* High-Availability
Kernel and Drivers
** Added: Storage pools created with the one click Encryption feature are now supported as Shared Storage pools with the High Availability Storage Pool Cluster feature.
* Updated Linux Kernel to 5.15.0-91-generic for Focal platforms  [ QSTOR-10025 ]
** Added: When creating a HA Failover Group, selection of the second node is now scoped to the nodes available in the site cluster of the primary node.
* Linux Kernel 5.15.0-91-generic includes fixes for NFS v3 lockd that would cause file handles to be left open for NFSv3 clients when attempting to stop the nfs server before ZFS pool export during HA failover. [ QSTOR-10025 ]
* Updated ZFS to 2.1.14.qs25 for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]


* Encryption
Multitenancy
** Added: Storage pools can now be created with LUKS encryption enabled on the underlying disk devices. This automates the manual tasks that had previously only been available via the qs-util crypt* utility.
* Fix an issue with missing Service Configs. [ QSTOR-10079 ]
* Add the ability to sync nested shares when parent share is selected in Resilio. Optionally skip changing the share permissions when user is specified in the config file. [ QSTOR-10070 ]


* Storage Pool
Network Shares
** Added: The Import Storage Pool Dialog has been expanded to allow the selection of any detected Storage pools that are not already imported and managed by QuantaStor. This allows for the easy import of Storage Pools from other OpenZFS based storage solutions.
* Block rename of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10091 ]
** Added: Storage Pool Creation can now map Storage Pool RAID redundancy for RAIN/RBOD configurations across Backend SANS when LUNs presented from Legacy or Third Party SANs include a Serial, SCSIid or Enclosure ID. This helps ensure that there is no single point of failure for FC or iSCSI Luns presented to a QuantaStor Storage Controller from HP MSA, QuantaStor SDS, IBM N Series or other certified SAN solutions.
* Add the ability to enable and clone a GMT snapshot [ QSTOR-4145 ]
** Fixed a rare issue that could occur on some hardware deployments where a ZFS Storage pool would come online before the multipathing driver finished creating all of the device mapper devices.
** Fixed: Adding a Hotspare to a Storage Pool that is degraded now immediately begins the resilver/rebuild process.
** Fixed failed drives that showed as UNAVAIL with a numerical ID will now be properly removed from the pool once a hot spare resilver has completed to replace the disk.
** Fixed a rare case where a resilver/rebuild of a Storage Pool RAID would not start when there were available Global or Pool assigned Hot Spares.


* Network Shares
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
** Fixed: A Network Share created for CIFS/SMB with NFS disabled in the Network Share Create Dialog now has the active option available and will by default be created in an active state
* Fixed an issue where Remote Replication Schedules can fail if 2 source snapshots have the same created timestamp. [ QSTOR-10059 ]
* Fix a minor issue with File Age settings in the Backup Schedule Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10056 ]
* Properly transition a Replication task and Replication Report to the 'failed' status if the source system loses power during the Replication. [ QSTOR-10041 ]
* Add a warning if checkpoint is selected in create snapshot schedule. [ QSTOR-10038 ]


* Remote Replication
Storage Volumes
** Added logic to prevent accidental user initated CLI, API or Web manager deletion of replica snapshots that are required by replication schedules for successful delta replication.
* Fixed an issue with zfs storage volumes being correctly marked as missing if the underlying zfs zvol or snapshot is removed or unavailable. [ QSTOR-10086 ]
** Improved Storage System Link pre-check logic to ensure that remote replication pre-check of System Link exchanged SSH keys succeeds in the event of a temporary network problem or slow WAN link.
** Fixed an issue where replication to a _chkpnt replica that has a manually created or other block snapshot could fail silently.
** Fixed: Remote replication now verifies that replica Parent _chkpnt and all child snapshots have the correct createdBySchedule association and corrects if not present.


* Cloud NAS Gateway
Upgrade Manager and Installer
** Added further discovery logic for re-discovering existing Cloud Backups of Storage Volumes if a Cloud Container needs to be added to a QuantaStor for recovery.
* Added a --password option to the qs\_install.sh script to allow users to provide the QuantaStor admin user password as well as the same password for the default qadmin shell account. [ QSTOR-10085 ]
** Added the gsutil packages to the Installation ISO for Google Cloud Container support. These packages can now be installed via 'apt-get install python-gsutil' for existing deployments.
** Added The Web Manager now includes the ability to specify the Google Cloud Storage project name when creating a Cloud Container using Google Cloud Storage. Previously this had to be manually entered in a config file.
** Fixed: Cloud Backups will no longer be incorrectly listed in the Instant Rollback Snapshot dialog for a Storage Volume. Cloud Backups must be restored using the Restore Cloud Backup
** Fixed an issue that prevented the repair or removing and re-adding a Cloud Container that has experienced a lengthy network or loss of access to the Object Storage.
** Fix for error state after adding or creating a Cloud Container with Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3 .


* Backup Policies
Web Manager
** Added Web Manager now shows Backup Policy name and Finish date in Backup Job properties.
* Clear the replica summary graph when there are no report entries. [ QSTOR-10057 ]
** Fix for Backup Policy Job launcher for pwalk and rsync. Previously there could be a process that would not be properly closed and reported as 'defunct'.
* Fix enclosure graph rendering issue where a selected system with multiple valid controllers was not being render because of one underlying MD BOOT Controller. [ QSTOR-10055 ]
** Fix for inconsistent Backup policy Job detail in Web Manager
** Fixed an issue with creating a Backup Policy of a remote NAS share served by a Windows AD Server.
 
* Web Manager:
** Added: The Web Manager has a new modern theme and branding for the 4.0 QuantaStor release.
** Added: The Web Manager has a new Utilized% column in some views that has a Bar showing Utilized % for Storage pools, Storage Volumes, Ceph Storage pools and Ceph OSD's.
** Added: The Web Manager now has additional connection retry logic that will reduce the need to re-login if there was a temporary network issue between the web browser and the QuantaStor management services.
** Added support for renaming the hostname of a Host in the Web manager Host Modify Dialog and with the 'qs host-modify' CLI --hostname flag. Renaming a host will not affect client access as it is just a Human readable property for the Object.
** Added: There is a new tab in the Physical disk view that lists any Global Hot Spares configured for Physical Disk objects.
** Improved many dialogs with grid controls. The dialogs are now horizontally elastic making it possible to easily view more columns.
** Fixed an issue where the Web Manager could sometimes log the user out automatically if there was considerable UTC clock skew between the Browser and QuantaStor managemen service.
** Fixed: Dialogs that list @GMT Snapshots of Network Shares now include the parent replica or Network Share name to provide more clarity on the snapshot being slected for the operation.
** Fixed: Dialogs that previously referenced the IP address of a Target Port for configutation now also show the Physical port name.
** Fixed an issue to correctly remove a Host iqn child object object if the associated Host object was removed or no longer exists.
** Fixed an issue where properties fields could sometimes not be selected to allow copying of their contents.
** Fixed an issue where some objects on secondary nodes would not show the master node.
** Fixed an issue where the browser Locale setting would sometimes not be used to automatically select the correct Language Localization.
** Fixed an issue where the Web Manager was not showing the corresponding size in Decimal Bytes (Terabyte[TB], Gigabyte[GB],  etc.) alongside the Binary Byte (Tebibyte[TiB],Gibibyte[GiB], etc.) More information on the differences are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
** Fixed: The Disk type in the Hardware Controller Create Unit Dialog column to show SAS/SATA/etc. will now appear by default.
** Fixed an issue where a Resource Group would not be automatically selected in the drop down when using the Add/Remove Resource Users & User Groups dialog.
 
* iSCSI Target Driver
** Fixed an issue with the SCST SCSI Target driver where an iSCSI client that unexpectedly closed a connection due to client stability or network related issues could lead to a rare crash.


* Licensing
= Archived Change Logs =
** Added Migration edition license support.


* Core Service
== [[Change Log Archive 2023]] ==
** Added further Grid communication improvements.
** Added direct query of replication target storage volumes prior to starting replication or removing excess snapshots.
** Fixed: The SNMP-MIB file will now correctly reflect the release date code for the currently installed QuantaStor release.


* REST API Service
== [[Change Log Archive 2022]] ==
** Fixed a corner case where some url strings pased via a REST call were not decoded.


* Security
== [[Change Log Archive 2021]] ==
** Fixed: Addressed CVE-2015-4000 (Logjam) in the Web Server Package with increase of the default Modulus length to 2048-bit and removal of weak DHE Diffie-Hellman ciphers.
** Added: New QuantaStor users created via the Users and Groups section of the Web Manager or 'qs user-add' CLI command will now have the same User ID on all QuantaStor nodes. The new UID range is 100000000-199999999.
** Fixed: An unexpected web request to the Web Server will now correctly route to a 404 error page.
* Hardware Modules
** Added: The Adaptec CLI utility 'arcconf' has been updated to v1.7-21229
** Added Multi-Shelf SAS JBOD enclosure support, this includes enclosures such as the Dell MD1280.
** Added: Mark Disk as Good in the Web Manager and 'qs hw-disk-mark-good' CLI will now initialize/convert RAW and Passthrough devices on Adaptec Controllers for use with creating RAID units.
** Added: Raw Passthrough disks on Adaptec controllers will now be initialized on operations for Hardware Controller Create Unit in Web manager and 'qs hw-unit-create' CLI command
** Added: RAID units marked as a system device or marked with a boot flag in a RAID Controller configuration can now be deleted with the force flag.
** Added: An exception will now be raised if a Hardware RAID unit is selected for deletion that has an Active Storage Pool. This includes delete operations for the Hardware Controller Delete Unit dialog in the Web Manager or 'qs hw-unit-delete' CLI operation.
** Fixed: Adaptec RAID Controllers with Super Cap BBU's now correctly show health status
** Fixed an issue where some third party LSI based HBA controllers would not appear in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section of the Web Manager or for the 'qs hw-controller-list' CLI command.
** Fixed: Logical RAID units that have a Hardware SSD Cache unit assigned now correctly show the cache enabled icon and property.
** Fixed LSI/Avago controllers can miss-report a temperature anomaly/differential with some firmware releases, this is now filtered and treated as informational.


* CLI
== [[Change Log Archive 2020]] ==
** There is a new QuantaStor 4.0 qs CLI available for Windows at http://www.osnexus.com/downloads/
** Fixed: You can now list the associations between Snapshot Schedules and snapshots with the 'qs scha-list' command
** The 'qs license-get' command now returns the license of the local system the qs command is issued against by default if no other arguments are given.


* Logging
== [[Change Log Archive 2019]] ==
** 'qs-sendlogs' utility now collects additional scale-out block and scale-out object log details.


== [[Change Log Archive 2018]] ==


== [[Change Log Archive]] ==
== [[Change Log Archive|Change Log Archive pre-2018]] ==


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Latest revision as of 13:11, 14 September 2026

Change Log Overview

The change log contains a detailed summary of the changes made for each new release of QuantaStor. Each change made to QuantaStor is tracked with an engineering ticket number in the form [QSTOR-NNNN]. This information is provided so that if you're working with OSNexus support you can track the availability of a given product feature add, improvement, or maintenance fix to a specific release. For information on how to upgrade your storage system please see the Upgrade Guide.

Versioning System

QuantaStor version numbers consist of four (4) parts. A major number (M), minor number (N), maintenance update number (U) and build number (B) of the form M.N.U.B such as 6.0.2.006.

QuantaStor upgrades go directly from whatever version you are running to the latest version, with no interim steps so for example if you are at v6.0.1 you will upgrade directly to the latest version which may be v6.1.2

Product Update Types

Major Updates (X.y.z)

If the first digit in the version number has changed this indicates a major product release such as QuantaStor v5 to QuantaStor v6. Major releases generally come with a new underlying Linux platform as the basis. For example, the standard ISO install for QuantaStor v5 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 whereas QuantaStor v6 is based on Ubuntu 20.04. Major product releases generally include new features and maintenance updates and are supported on multiple underlying Linux platforms. For example, QuantaStor v6 is available as an upgrade on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 based systems as well as RHEL and RHEL derivative platforms. Platform upgrades to move systems forward (eg 18.04 to 20.04) are made generally available in the first feature update release, such as QuantaStor 6.1.

Feature Updates (x.Y.z)

If the second digit in the version number has changed this indicates a feature release such as 6.1 going to 6.2. Feature releases add new product features as well as a maintenance updates. No additional licensing is required to access any new features that added but note that QuantaStor licenses do not include licenses for 3rd party products and services that may integrate with QuantaStor.

Maintenance Updates (x.y.Z)

If the third digit of the version number has changed this such as 6.0.2 or 6.0.3 it represents a maintenance update to address one or more support tickets. These updates generally do not contain new features, only fixes to address specific issues. Maintenance releases generally ship every 4 to 8 weeks. All maintenance "aka hot-fix" releases are provided against the current stable release so upgrading to the latest QuantaStor version is generally required to apply them.

Build Number (x.y.z.BBB)

The build number and corresponding build reference hash can be largely ignored. The build number simply increments with each commit that is made to the source tree. The hash is provided to make it easier for OSNEXUS support and engineering to quickly confirm difference between your current running release and any more modern release.

Boot Install Image and other downloads

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

NOTE: Archived older versions of QuantaStor ISO install media and CLI tools can be found here.

Recent Change Logs

v6.8.6.015 (September 14th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.6.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed: disk health WARNING states detected through storcli2 or SMART now raise a Disk Health alert (email/SNMP) instead of only showing in the Physical Disks view. [ QSTOR-12144 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed: Scale-out Storage Cluster creation now works on routed fabrics where the selected member ports share no common subnet. [ QSTOR-12484 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed: garbled or incomplete storcli output is now treated as unreliable instead of marking controllers and disks as missing. [ QSTOR-12118 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: HA VIF SMB authentication in Kerberos-only Active Directory environments. [ QSTOR-11685 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed the replication-schedule volume picker so it no longer hides eligible volumes whose owning node changed after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-11775 ]
  • Fixed problem with backup job cancel not stopping the process. [ QSTOR-11877 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed: network ports with iSCSI/NVMe-oF disabled are never exposed as allowed iSCSI portals, including after a service restart. [ QSTOR-12330 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: the service no longer runs zpool status -v on the startup import path, so a pool with many data errors no longer blocks service startup. [ QSTOR-11654 ]
  • Fixed: the QuantaStor service starts after multipathd so pools with many multipath devices no longer start degraded at boot. [ QSTOR-12108 ]
  • Fixed: a degraded pool's missing or faulted devices now stay visible in the Storage Pool Devices view with their state instead of disappearing from the list. [ QSTOR-12109 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: the el8 install no longer fails on the retired ipmiutil package. [ QSTOR-12257 ]
  • Fixed: ISO images now carry the Ubuntu security updates for packages that reach the ISO only as dependencies. [ QSTOR-12259 ]
  • Fixed: focal installs trust the current OSNEXUS repository signing key, so package upgrades from the public repository work. [ QSTOR-12274 ]
  • Fixed: core-only upgrades now refresh the qstorkeyring package so repository trust updates reach every upgrade path. [ QSTOR-12280 ]
  • Fixed: the install scripts trust only the current OSNEXUS repository signing keys instead of importing the published keyring wholesale. [ QSTOR-12293 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed: logging out of the web interface as a non-default administrator or non-admin user no longer logs a false authentication failure or raises spurious 'User Authentication Failed' alerts. [ QSTOR-11701 ]

v6.8.5.018 (August 19th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed: RGW auto-tiering rules now apply to tenant-scoped buckets; the tiering script is installed for every tenant instead of only the default one. [ QSTOR-12223 ]
  • Added: auto-tiering rules can now be scoped to a tenant from the web interface and CLI - all tenants, buckets outside any tenant, or a named tenant. [ QSTOR-12225 ]
  • Changed: named-tenant matching is now exact ('sc2' no longer also matches 'sc2_prod'); no rule created in the web interface could carry a named tenant before this change, so no existing configuration is affected. [ QSTOR-12225 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed: Supermicro SC846 and SC847 enclosures reporting vendor SMC now match their JBOD layout profile instead of logging a layout detection failure on every discovery cycle. [ QSTOR-11947 ]
  • Fixed: disks could remain displayed under a 9600-series HBA after the attached storage was removed, because a successful-but-empty discovery result was treated as a command failure and the disk list was never refreshed. [ QSTOR-12036 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Active Directory user and group lookups no longer fail intermittently where a domain controller address reverse-resolves to a name other than the controller own name. [ QSTOR-12214 ]
  • Added: a domain-join option that disables reverse DNS canonicalization and sends user and group lookups to every pinned domain controller. [ QSTOR-12214 ]
  • Fixed: an Active Directory user/group search now reports why it could not run, instead of always blaming a trusted-domain search filter. [ QSTOR-12216 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed a qs_service crash under sustained DB connection pool exhaustion on large Ceph/S3 grids by serializing and capping overflow connection creation. [ QSTOR-11580 ]
  • Fixed: a task that failed to resume after a service restart could block every other task from resuming. [ QSTOR-12218 ]
  • Fixed: the task resume limit was not enforced for some task types, so a task that could never finish was retried on every service start. [ QSTOR-12218 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added capability to simulate Corvault configurations in order to test pool configurations for redundancy. [ QSTOR-11945 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: a storage system upgrade task could stop resuming after the second service restart, leaving a completed upgrade reported as stuck at 30%. [ QSTOR-12177 ]
  • Fixed: leftover upgrade progress files were never purged, so a finished upgrade could keep reporting stale progress. [ QSTOR-12219 ]
  • Fixed: 6.8.4 ISO and OVA images were missing qstortomcat, qstorrest, qstoraws and qstorbase, which left the web interface unavailable after an offline install. The images have been rebuilt. [ QSTOR-12237 ]
  • Added: an ISO build now fails if a package it declares is absent, so an incomplete image cannot ship. [ QSTOR-12237 ]

v6.8.4.038 (August 13th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue where the Ceph Cluster Coordinator role could become stuck on one node. The automatic fallback election methods (grid-primary, site-primary, mon-rank) were not taking effect, so when no designated coordinator was set, coordinatorship never moved (e.g. after changing the grid master). Automatic coordinator election now works correctly; explicitly designated coordinators were unaffected. [ QSTOR-12194 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed the Ceph RGW dashboard on Ceph Tentacle so it correctly reports throughput/latency when transferring files to a bucket. [ QSTOR-11803 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed the script to set the device reservation ability on WD Openflex Data24 [ QSTOR-12117 ]
  • Fixed site cluster heartbeat rings so each ring keeps its own network address and member list. Previously the rings of a multi-ring site collapsed into a single entry with no subnet shown. [ QSTOR-12159 ]

Network Shares

  • Adds an explicit domain controller to the GSSAPI ldapsearch for Active Directory user and group lookups, fixing intermittent failures on multi-controller domains. Domain joins also wait longer for a busy controller. [ QSTOR-11939 ]
  • Added a cleanup-only mode to the Active Directory leave operation that reverts the local domain configuration without contacting the domain controller, for recovering from a failed or partial leave. [ QSTOR-12058 ]
  • Fixed: SMB/DFS network share namespace referrals now advertise all of an appliance's reachable addresses rather than just one, so clients on any subnet can reach the share. [ QSTOR-12107 ]
  • Fixed per-user share permissions so an existing entry with no recorded read/write/execute setting is treated as full access rather than no access. Modifying a share no longer rewrites ACLs when no permission actually changed. [ QSTOR-12113 ]
  • Fixed Active Directory joins in SSSD-only mode against Windows Server 2025 domain controllers, which previously failed to set the machine account password. [ QSTOR-12141 ]
  • Fixed placeholder values such as None, null or undefined sent by API clients being written into the Samba configuration, which stopped Samba loading the file and took SMB access down for every share on the node. [ QSTOR-12152 ]
  • Fixed the Active Directory leave hanging when the PDC Emulator is offline. The leave now completes within a bounded timeout and reverts the local configuration. [ QSTOR-12161 ]

v6.8.3.018 (August 6th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Creating or removing a Ceph object storage class now commits the RGW period so it takes effect immediately. [ QSTOR-11938 ]
  • A failed bucket enumeration is no longer treated as an empty list, which could silently drop bucket configuration. [ QSTOR-12130 ]
  • Ceph object pool group creation now commits the RGW period, fixing persistent RGW realm/master-zone errors. [ QSTOR-12132 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed Active Directory join failures on domains that use older Kerberos encryption methods. [ QSTOR-11646 ]
  • Changed: Active Directory joins now set 'restrict anonymous = 2' in smb.conf to block unauthenticated SID/RID enumeration. [ QSTOR-11834 ]
  • Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer fail when the computer-account OU contains a space. [ QSTOR-11895 ]
  • Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer disable SASL signing in the system-wide ldap.conf. [ QSTOR-11926 ]
  • Added a 'Skip DNS registration' option to the Active Directory join dialog, CLI and API for sites whose DNS is managed outside AD. [ QSTOR-12083 ]
  • Fixed a custom autorid Domain Range Size being discarded during an Active Directory join. [ QSTOR-12089 ]
  • The Active Directory KDC field now accepts a comma-separated list of domain controllers for Kerberos failover. [ QSTOR-12091 ]
  • Active Directory joins in SSSD modes no longer force user/group enumeration, which could stall startup on large domains. [ QSTOR-12092 ]
  • Fixed: Active Directory joins now send the machine-account password update to the PDC Emulator, fixing 'Message stream modified' failures. [ QSTOR-12136 ]
  • Fixed: leaving an Active Directory domain now updates the web UI immediately instead of still showing the old domain. [ QSTOR-12153 ]
  • Changed: the Active Directory join dialog now labels its two ID-range sections distinctly so it's clear which is being edited. [ QSTOR-12154 ]

Service Core

  • Memory optimization for grid event handling. [ QSTOR-12112 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • The upgrade system now fetches and verifies the latest OSNEXUS package signing key before applying updates. [ QSTOR-9551 ]
  • Fixed EL8 upgrades pinning a stale awscli/qstoraws package version from the RedHat repository. [ QSTOR-11991 ]
  • In-place Ceph upgrades now install the shipped Ceph 20.2.2 release instead of an older pinned version. [ QSTOR-11998 ]
  • Fixed a grafana-enterprise package upgrade failure that could leave dpkg in a held state during upgrades from 6.8.1. [ QSTOR-12075 ]
  • Updated the Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade configuration to the shipped kernel and Ceph 20.2.2 versions. [ QSTOR-12077 ]

v6.8.2.002 (July 24th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.2.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed: AD groups could not be added to a Network Share ACL in Winbind+SSSD mode (group@DOMAIN form could not be resolved). [ QSTOR-12025 ]


v6.8.1.007 (July 18th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.1.

Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: platform upgrades remove the obsolete linux-tools-common package that could trigger security alerts. [ QSTOR-10314 ]
  • Changed: qs-distupgrade output is timestamped and includes a pre-upgrade configuration report. [ QSTOR-11632 ]
  • Added: platform distribution upgrade (qs-distupgrade) from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. [ QSTOR-11651 ]
  • Added: non-interactive flags for qs-distupgrade enabling fully unattended platform upgrades with automatic reboot. Use the qs-distupgrade --help to review the available usage options. [ QSTOR-11918 ]
  • Fixed: platform distribution upgrades keep Ceph pinned at its current version. [ QSTOR-11955 ]
  • Added: qs-distupgrade requires all Ceph nodes on the latest offered Ceph version (--skip-check-ceph-latest to override). [ QSTOR-11958 ]
  • Fixed: coordinated Ceph upgrades restart all RGW daemons on hosts running multiple RGW services. [ QSTOR-11983 ]
  • Fixed: a 6.8.0-only issue where service-driven package upgrades reported success without installing anything. [ QSTOR-11992 ]




v6.8.0.205 (July 8th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.8.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added alert webhook support for Google Chat. [ QSTOR-9793 ]
  • Allow users to have a subset of alert subscriptions. [ QSTOR-11683 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added an 'Enable Versioning' checkbox to the Create Bucket dialog (automatically enabled when object locking or governance/compliance is selected); versioning can also be enabled on existing buckets. [ QSTOR-10937 ]
  • Added Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 support to the Jammy QuantaStor ISO and package mirror. [ QSTOR-11441 ]
  • QuantaStor 6.8 ships Ceph 20.2.2 (Tentacle), which includes the upstream MDS fix (tracker #76031) for the SIGABRT/crash on client eviction caused by a null MDRequestRef under sustained metadata contention. [ QSTOR-11504 ]
  • The Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 release resolves frequent radosgw (RGW) crashes related to Kafka bucket notifications. [ QSTOR-11687 ]
  • Fix ceph bucket delete with large number of objects timing out. [ QSTOR-11728 ]
  • Removed: the deprecated S3 bucket orphan-object cleanup feature; any existing scheduled task is disabled automatically on upgrade. [ QSTOR-11729 ]
  • Fixed a regression where deleting multiple Ceph (RBD) volumes at once on a multi-node cluster would fail after the first volume. [ QSTOR-11756 ]
  • Added support for major-version Ceph upgrades (through Tentacle 20.2.x) in the upgrade script. [ QSTOR-11762 ]
  • Increase the timeout for "Add Node" to a ceph cluster [ QSTOR-11906 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added: a 'qs-statsdb resetpassword' command to rotate the InfluxDB stats password; telegraf is updated in lockstep so dashboards keep working. [ QSTOR-11170 ]
  • Rebuilt bundled telegraf with its vendored rclone library updated to 1.74.3, clearing CVE-2026-41176 and CVE-2026-41179. [ QSTOR-11771 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed issue with "disappearing" enclosures [ QSTOR-11676 ]
  • Added support for the Supermicro SSG-222B-NE3X24R all-NVMe server, including hardware enclosure auto-detection, enclosure layout and diagram, and NVMe drive slot mapping in the QuantaStor web management interface. [ QSTOR-11712 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Add logging for manually run iofence commands [ QSTOR-11751 ]
  • Fixed HA pool failover persisting a stale size=0 / isMounted=false when the pool's datasets were still mounting during fast-import; the last-known-good size and mount state are now preserved (and the corrected record wins via a bumped modified timestamp). [ QSTOR-11818 ]
  • Fixed: Storage Pool HA io-fencing and failover now work over NVMe-TCP; target namespaces advertise persistent reservations. [ QSTOR-11850 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated the Mellanox OFED driver installer for current Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) kernels, fixing driver installation failures on recent kernels. [ QSTOR-11709 ]

Multitenancy

  • Added RBD namespace support, allowing multiple tenants to share a single Ceph block pool with isolated volumes. [ QSTOR-11650 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Add a fix for Samba access to Cloud Container shares. [ QSTOR-11763 ]
  • Fixed: cloud containers are now accessible over SMB, not just NFS. [ QSTOR-11824 ]
  • Updated the bundled AWS CLI to version 2.35.6. [ QSTOR-11827 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added DOCA OFED install script for jammy and upcoming noble platforms as an optional install for latest hardware. [ QSTOR-11069 ]
  • Fixed the Network Interface Rename feature on systems upgraded from older releases where the 'ip' command resides in a different path. [ QSTOR-11614 ]
  • Fixed: converting a local VIF to an HA VIF now preserves the original local interface if the conversion fails, so client connectivity isn't lost. [ QSTOR-11706 ]

Network Shares

  • Add the ability to specify per user or group permissions on Network Shares during create or modify [ QSTOR-10662 ]
  • Fixed: intermittent 'NFS server not responding' stalls under load by raising the nfsd listen backlog from 64 to 4096. [ QSTOR-10872 ]
  • Fixed: NFS client entries can now be added or removed on a share while a long-running replication or snapshot task is using it, instead of queuing. [ QSTOR-11571 ]
  • Consolidated the Network Share create/modify dialog's Permission Settings into the File Masks tab — now a single 'File Masks & Permission Settings' tab containing Owner Permission Settings plus the Directory and File Create Permissions Masks. [ QSTOR-11625 ]
  • Reduced excessive event logging (event spam) for network shares and related grid objects. [ QSTOR-11695 ]
  • Fixed handling of CIFS share options so empty/null option values are no longer written to the Samba configuration. [ QSTOR-11731 ]
  • Fixed an issue where an Active Directory group added to a share's permissions was not preserved, and excluded built-in/default AD groups from the group picker. [ QSTOR-11767 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Copy source Network Share settings to the destination share after replication. [ QSTOR-5738 ]
  • Add support for rollback of Storage Volumes and Network Shares for a replication schedule [ QSTOR-6227 ]
  • Minor updates to the auto snapshot cleanup tasks for replication schedules. [ QSTOR-11622 ]
  • Fix auto create of replication association after failover [ QSTOR-11700 ]
  • Snapshot schedule now shows the state detail when schedule is disabled by user. [ QSTOR-11717 ]
  • The Snapshot Schedule properties page now displays Retention Tags. [ QSTOR-11719 ]
  • Changed: Auto-tier backup policies now display as 'Auto-Tier >> Outbound' instead of 'Move >> Outbound'. [ QSTOR-11764 ]
  • Fixed the CLI replication-schedule rollback so volume and share names are accepted (not just IDs), and rolling back only volumes (or only shares) no longer also rolls back the other type. [ QSTOR-11814 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added: a 'Select Initiator...' picker in the Add Host dialog to choose a discovered FC remote initiator WWPN instead of typing it. [ QSTOR-10741 ]
  • Renamed the sys-list 'Firmware Version' column to 'SCSI Target Version' and corrected the value to show the actual SCST target-driver version (e.g. scst-3.10.0.qs01-...) instead of the literal 'scst-SCST'. [ QSTOR-11854 ]

Security

  • Added support for Okta multi-factor authentication. [ QSTOR-9399 ]
  • Added Multi-Admin Approval support, allowing deletion of pools, buckets, shares, and volumes to require approval from a configurable number of administrators. [ QSTOR-11344 ]
  • Fixed certificate update failures when using a certificate template, and ensured dependent services (such as HAProxy and RGW) are restarted after a certificate replacement. [ QSTOR-11678 ]
  • Fixed an issue in the Security Manager dialog where it was showing the "password policy change" warning confirmation when no fields were changed. [ QSTOR-11708 ]
  • InfluxDB (port 8086) now requires authentication and binds to localhost by default; remote access is opt-in via the tf_influxdb_remote_access.enable touchfile (authentication still enforced). [ QSTOR-11759 ]
  • Added the Ubuntu security apt repositories to the default package sources and removed unused bundled components flagged by scanning (Chronograf, the LXD/core20/snapd snaps, the docker-scan plugin), clearing CVE-2024-41110, CVE-2026-34177/-34178/-34179, CVE-2020-14343, CVE-2025-68121, and CVE-2024-45337. [ QSTOR-11760 ]
  • Rebuilt the bundled QuantaStor Go tools (qs_iofence, qs_pool_export_helper, qs_diskinfo) and s5cmd with a current Go toolchain, clearing CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-24790, CVE-2023-24540, and CVE-2023-24538. [ QSTOR-11761 ]
  • Hardened the internal QuantaStor script service (scriptsvc): removed a command-injection vector in request handling and now enforce the service's authorization check on every call. Addresses ZDI-CAN-30036 [ QSTOR-11799 ]
  • Made a number of usability and reliability improvements to the multi-admin delete-approval workflow. [ QSTOR-11804 ]

Service Core

  • Fix tag-set where custom key/value tags were not appearing for User objects. [ QSTOR-11528 ]
  • Improved Ceph OSD daemon restart handling during upgrades and reduced database load on large-scale clusters. [ QSTOR-11675 ]
  • Fixed an issue with QuantaStor management service memory usage when a grid node was offline. [ QSTOR-11693 ]
  • Improved crash handling and diagnostic tracing for coordinated tasks, during operations such as adding a Ceph RADOS Gateway across multiple nodes. [ QSTOR-11702 ]
  • Improved logging and error checking for QuantaStor configuration database backups, including capturing error output when a backup fails. [ QSTOR-11742 ]
  • Expanded diagnostic log collection to capture additional network routing details (ip route output and static-route configuration). [ QSTOR-11748 ]
  • Fixed the Sessions view showing stale SMB/NFS client sessions that lingered after a reboot; the share session monitor now forces a full re-sync on its first poll after startup so sessions left over from before the reboot are cleared. [ QSTOR-11757 ]
  • Fixed a self-sustaining grid event flood triggered when creating CephFS/CIFS network shares at scale: nodes no longer re-cache remote-origin (sync-applied) events, and CIFS options are diff-merged to secondaries, eliminating the event resync cascade. [ QSTOR-11785 ]
  • qs-sendlogs now writes a qs_logs.runtime.info file recording the options and variables used during log collection, and reliably scrubs sensitive data from the collected database. [ QSTOR-11897 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added automated ordered-disk-list pool creation for Seagate Corvault and WD Data24 systems, simplifying creation of fully redundant storage pools. [ QSTOR-11538 ]
  • Fixed software-encrypted pool creation so a disk block-size mismatch is detected before disks are encrypted, avoiding leftover encryption mappings. [ QSTOR-11599 ]
  • ZFS deduplication now uses the faster fast_dedup mode by default, improving sustained deduplication performance. [ QSTOR-11714 ]
  • When a LUKS-encrypted disk member of a pool momentarily goes offline and the hot-spare swap-in completes, if the "bad" disk in question has in the meantime come back online, its iofence status, encryption status and its related properties in its respective disk object are cleared up, making the disk available for use again. [ QSTOR-11738 ]
  • Resolved a boot-time race where the OS-level zfs-import-cache.service could import ZFS pools before qs_service started. QuantaStor now imports pools with cachefile=none, masks the zfs-import-cache and zfs-import-scan services on install and upgrade, and clears the stale global ZFS cache file at boot, ensuring QuantaStor remains the sole coordinator of pool imports. [ QSTOR-11752 ]
  • Add the ability to create a Storage Pool checkpoint for scale-up pools [ QSTOR-11784 ]
  • Added a support-only, touchfile-gated pool-export triage call-out (qs_pool_export_triage.sh) that gathers diagnostics when a share or volume is still open during a storage pool export. Off by default (enabled via the tf_pool_export_triage.enable touchfile). [ QSTOR-11807 ]
  • Resolved issue preventing HA failover functionality using SED drives. [ QSTOR-11832 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added retry logic with a timeout to the Ceph upgrade script's daemon restarts so transient restart failures no longer abort the upgrade. [ QSTOR-10598 ]
  • Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades leaving the HA cluster service (pcsd/pacemaker) inoperative due to a missing ruby-webrick dependency on Ruby 3.0+. The upgrade now installs ruby-webrick so HA failover keeps working. [ QSTOR-11841 ]
  • Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades that could abort and roll back when Ubuntu's unattended-upgrades/apt-daily held the apt lock or needrestart blocked on a prompt. QuantaStor now disables automatic apt upgrades and runs the distribution upgrade non-interactively. [ QSTOR-11874 ]
  • Fixed a Noble (24.04) upgrade failure where qs-upgrade aborted because the dpkg package version string could not be parsed. QuantaStor now compares Debian package versions using dpkg's native version ordering. [ QSTOR-11881 ]

Web Manager

  • Minor fix to the "Copy to Clipboard" for task descriptions [ QSTOR-9574 ]
  • Added a method field and a sortable timestamp column to the web interface Audit Log Analyzer. [ QSTOR-11191 ]
  • Updated web interface translations across the major supported languages. [ QSTOR-11585 ]
  • Added a 'Create Share' option to the share template menu to quickly create a share applying all of a template's settings. [ QSTOR-11595 ]
  • Fixed the web interface to display all configured Ceph MDS daemons instead of limiting the list to five. [ QSTOR-11615 ]
  • Add auto select convenience buttons to the Storage Volume multi-delete dialog. [ QSTOR-11707 ]


v6.7.6.001 (June 25th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.6.

Release Notes

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a service crash that could occur when creating a LUKS-encrypted storage pool on NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-11876 ]

v6.7.5.013 (May 21st 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.5.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added alert triggers for disks with SMART medium errors. [ QSTOR-11652 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Adds new qs-cephfsutil for transparent movement of files between data pools via server-side copy [ QSTOR-11543 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Added RedHat Platform kernel 4.18.0-553.124.1.el8_10.x86_64 support via DKMS driver build [ QSTOR-11679 ]
  • Updated SCST driver to 3.10.0.qs01.9273.1b48521 with a patch that allows for dkms builds/support on non-preferred 5.15.x kernels on jammy platforms. [ QSTOR-11672 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Minor fix while loading snapshots in the UI. [ QSTOR-11624 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes bug where partial upgraded node would be skip daemon restart phase at version check. [ QSTOR-11703 ]
  • Fixed a rare race condition where adding a Ceph Object (RADOS) Gateway on a multi-node cluster could silently crash. [ QSTOR-11689 ]
  • Added defensive exception handling and trace coverage around coordinated task execution. [ QSTOR-11689 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fix allows for creation of TRIM maintenance schedules on pools with special vdevs. [ QSTOR-11663 ]

Web Manager

  • Add graphs for replication task status details. [ QSTOR-11661 ]
  • Make improvements in the replication reporting area. [ QSTOR-11661 ]

v6.7.4.011 (April 30th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Eliminated daily Ceph monitor outage on coordinator nodes caused by the mon-db backup process; the backup now uses a RocksDB compaction flush and hot-copy so the monitor service remains running throughout, and backup activity is now logged to qs_service.log. [ QSTOR-11655 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed issue regarding hwController/hwEnclosure double discovery caused by the presence of certain Dell HBA cards that are visible to both the storcli and perccli CLI tools. [ QSTOR-11372 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with the allowed portals for iscsi and nvme being updated on network ports or having the settings retained on HA VIFs. [ QSTOR-11659 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Improvements in the replication reports. [ QSTOR-11644 ]

Service Core

  • Updated task output for storage system modify to improve clarity [ QSTOR-11660 ]
  • Coordinated Task (CCT) Reliability Improvements — Fixed an issue on large or heavily-loaded Ceph clusters where CCT broadcasts could silently hang until timeout. [ QSTOR-11648 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated kmod and libkmod2 packages for ubuntu jammy and focal platforms to disable algif_aead and address CVE-2026-31431 [ QSTOR-11670 ]

v6.7.3.010 (April 17th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.3.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where Site Clusters could not be deleted in cases where the site cluster was unhealthy. For example if the Network Interfaces or IP addresses on the interface change for the heartbeat rings. Or if the site cluster corosync/pacemaker service are stopped. [ QSTOR-11631 ]
  • Fixed a corner case where Site cluster vifs could start on nodes outside of the site cluster. [ QSTOR-11630 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with Volume _chkpnt Replications on N-Way A>B>C replications being incorrectly named. they B>C leg should have _chkpnt.1 as the target suffix for the replication. [ QSTOR-11477 ]

Service Core

  • Added further optimizations for Grid sync on large configs with many QuantaStor service objects. [ QSTOR-11628 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: SED disk Locked status is now propogated using grid logic for disks once a disk is used for Hardware encryption. Previously this required an HA group to also be on the pool. [ QSTOR-11611 ]

Fixed a corner case where SED Device Capabilities was showing as No for multipath disks plugged in twice to the same controller. [ QSTOR-11611 ]

v6.7.2.003 (April 13th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.2.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where some Enclosure objects would appear showing \[CBLERR\] when that status was incorrect. [ QSTOR-11135 ]

Network Shares

  • Added a qs_global_namespace.conf file for users to provide a specific IP address to be offered for Microsoft DFS with the preferred_ip=x.x.x.x [ QSTOR-11627 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform nfs-kernel-server and related nfs-utils packages to include junction support needed for NFS Referrals. [ QSTOR-11626 ]

v6.7.1.008 (April 10th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.1.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fix an issue with snapshot cleanup by the replication schedule. [ QSTOR-11621 ]

Security

  • Upgrade the Cisco Duo library to 2.2.0 [ QSTOR-11592 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Disable and mask openzfs util zfs-shares.service which caused unexpected Share service restarts. [ QSTOR-11619 ]
  • Fixed an issue with qs-distupgrade from Focal to Jammy Platforms of systems that had been originally deployed with bionic and older platforms. [ QSTOR-11616 ]
  • Ensured the 6.8.0-90-generic kernel is deployed during Focal to Jammy Platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-11616 ]

v6.7.0.184 (April 8th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.7.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Add a 'Skip log server ping pre-checks' checkbox to the Send Support Logs dialog. The server will skip ping checks during log upload when the checkbox is checked. [ QSTOR-11397 ]
  • Fixed an issue with clearing parent interface status alerts in the Health Checker System report [ QSTOR-11058 ]
  • Add ability to specify reason for log uploads [ QSTOR-10479 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed a QuantaStor service crash for Ceph scale-out file storage share snapshot delete [ QSTOR-11570 ]
  • Adds support for new load balancer modes and customization in the /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_loadbalancer.conf file. [ QSTOR-11502 ]
  • Improved the method of tracking degraded object cleanup and reporting progress to the task objects. [ QSTOR-11292 ]
  • Bug fixes in qs-s3util script when an invalid endpoint URL is provided. [ QSTOR-11292 ]
  • Improved object state reporting for OSDs. [ QSTOR-11292 ]
  • Fixed an issue with unlocking NVMe SED media on boot for Ceph Scale-out Cluster OSDs [ QSTOR-11118 ]
  • Enabled Ceph OSD block and journal discard support [ QSTOR-10672 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed an issue with influxdb install for qs\_upgrade\_redhat8.sh [ QSTOR-11562 ]

Disk Management

  • Added logic to make SED Locking status consistent between QuantaStor Scale-Up ZFS HA Storage Pools. Note: Pools must have an HA group and HA Vif and be activated. [ QSTOR-11515 ]
  • Added error counters for disks with available columns in the center grid view of the Physical Disks section. [ QSTOR-11308 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure layout support for Supermicro SSG-542B-DE1CR90 [ QSTOR-11572 ]
  • This feature allows servers equipped with the Xinnor XiRAID software [ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  Create a XiRAID raid unit, which appears as a QS HwUnit. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  This HwUnit entity is surfaced in Quantastor as a physical disk drive. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  The physical disks that are used to create the XiRaid unit are surfaced as HwDisks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  The creation includes a variable number of partitions on said physical disk.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  These partitions are also surfaced as QS physical disks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  These partition-based physical disks can be used to create Ceph OSD objects. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
  • Updated Storcli64 version to 007.3603.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10911 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with FC ALUA path status when HA groups are disabled and HA VIFs are not present. [ QSTOR-11598 ]


Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated kernel 6.8.0-90-generic drivers include intel ixgbe driver version 6.3.4 [ QSTOR-11524 ]
  • Updated Jammy Platform installer ISO image to 22.04.5 [ QSTOR-11380 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10 [ QSTOR-10903 ]
  • Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

Multitenancy

  • Changed Object User Create dialog text to more accurately reflect that it refers to Object Users/Tenants, and not Multitenancy objects [ QSTOR-9803 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue where MTU values were being written to the VLAN interface configuration files. [ QSTOR-11552 ]

Network Shares

  • Added further checks to Network Share Delete to verify the underlying ZFS filesystem properties has a matching OSNEXUS QuantaStor share ID before removing. [ QSTOR-11525 ]
  • Auto populate the AD dialog with Organization Unit of specified on other systems in the grid [ QSTOR-11519 ]
  • Add more options to filter shares in the delete dialog [ QSTOR-11499 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Adds a new '--snapshots-with-holds-only' option to qs share-list and volume-list to list snapshots with holds on them. [ QSTOR-11388 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11602 ]

Security

  • When updating a certificate via cert-update, the relevant service (e.g. HAProxy) is now

automatically restarted to pick up the new certificate. Additionally, cert-update and cert-rescan now accept the storage system by name or UUID. [ QSTOR-11529 ]

  • Updated WebUI to have System Use Notification dialog/message display before user login dialog. [ QSTOR-11174 ]

Service Core

  • Strip any invalid XML characters from description fields causing WebUI to not load [ QSTOR-11566 ]
  • Cleaned up some repetitive log spam from the Blink Manager and the storcli hardware adappter [ QSTOR-11551 ]
  • Fixed event spam and potential crash during Ceph daemon upgrade on large grids. [ QSTOR-11510 ]
  • Fixes bug in site cluster maintenance mode logic. [ QSTOR-11489 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the iSCSI/NVMe flag settings were not being retained for site cluster vifs after moving the vif to a new node. [ QSTOR-11464 ]
  • Added support for LACP layer2+3 xmit\_hash\_policy [ QSTOR-11400 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Add more storage system tuning parameters [ QSTOR-11549 ]
  • Added discard to LUKS options for NVMe model disks on ZFS Scale-Up Storage Pools with encryption. [ QSTOR-11501 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a throw in the qstorservice package install if the radosgw-admin command is not available [ QSTOR-11579 ]
  • Fixed the qs-upgrade for kernel upgrades to ensure recommended packages for qstortarget are installed if they were previously manually removed. [ QSTOR-11556 ]

Web Manager

  • When selecting Create Share from an existing selected share in the tree view, ensure the correct Storage Pool is selected in the Create Share dialog. [ QSTOR-11591 ]
  • Create a new share template system for users to reuse settings from existing network shares. [ QSTOR-11314 ]

v6.6.11.017 (March 5th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added a check to alert on SSL certificate expiration for the certificate manager managed certs. [ QSTOR-11462 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with rekeying scale-out ceph OSD's on Seagate Corvault backend external storage systems [ QSTOR-11206 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue with SED media when adding as a hot-spare / for repair of a failed storage pool disk. [ QSTOR-11531 ]
  • Fixed an issue where SSD Life Left status showing on multipath devices. [ QSTOR-11463 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure support from multiple Manufacturers such as Seagate, Gigabyte, Supermicro etc. [ QSTOR-11498 ]
  • Fixed items related to the Intel 2u12 enclosure layout [ QSTOR-11286 ]
  • Fixed Items related to the Supermicro 90-bay enclosure layout [ QSTOR-10932 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix to allow creation of Network Shares with record size greater than 1M (1M, 2M, 4M, 8M). [ QSTOR-11535 ]

Security

  • Fixed a few items related to Grafana default security ports [ QSTOR-11526 ]
  • Fix configuration file manager file paths for telegraf.qstor and influxdb.qstor. [ QSTOR-11526 ]
  • Fixed some items related to software encrypted HA storage pools management of /etc/crypttab [ QSTOR-11416 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed some items related to QuantaStor Management Service database transactions [ QSTOR-11527 ]

v6.6.10.006 (February 23rd 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.10.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed a service crash with Network share global Namespaces [ QSTOR-11518 ]
  • Fixed an issue with AD join. [ QSTOR-11514 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Seagate Corvault vpd83 parsing [ QSTOR-11518 ]

v6.6.9.002 (February 13th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.9.

Release Notes

Service Core

  • Fixed a QuantaStor management service crash when upgrading QuantaStor on Systems configured with Scale-Out storage. [ QSTOR-11509 ]

v6.6.8.004 (February 11th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.8.

Release Notes

Service Core

  • Fixed a QuantaStor management service crash for Network Interface discover logic [ QSTOR-11507 ]
  • Fixed a service crash in Scale-out bucket discovery logic. [ QSTOR-11505 ]

v6.6.7.017 (February 9th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Optimized grid communication paths and reduced database read frequency by improving internal object caching mechanisms. [ QSTOR-11473 ]
  • Show compression ratio in the Scale-out Storage Pool grid. It is hidden by default. [ QSTOR-11130 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue where a NVMe quick secure erase would be executed when formatting disks used for new storage pool creation [ QSTOR-11478 ]
  • Fixed an issue where quick secure erase reformated the NVMe disk with a new namespace using a 512K sector size. [ QSTOR-11478 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Recertify Quantastor with the gen4 series of Western Digital Data24 [ QSTOR-11479 ]
  • Fix up the config file defaults for NVMe software adapter when logging into a NVMe WD Data24. [ QSTOR-11470 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix an issue with password shown in the service log during AD join [ QSTOR-11483 ]
  • Add the ability to select multiple shares using the ctrl key in the share multi-delete dialog [ QSTOR-9181 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed a minor issue with file masks in modify Network Share [ QSTOR-11495 ]

v6.6.5.026 (January 16th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.5.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Adds alerts in the event a Corvault device is in a warning or missing state. [ QSTOR-11411 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix an issue with creation of S3 user on a secondary zone. User will be created on the master zone. [ QSTOR-11438 ]
  • Fixed an Issue with the Ceph initial PG calculations when creating ceph storage pools on HDD and SSD based OSDs. [ QSTOR-11437 ]
  • Fix a minor issue with bucket sync when bucket originates on a secondary zone [ QSTOR-11435 ]
  • Add granular options for object bucket rescan. [ QSTOR-11312 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Reduced the frequency of Corvault device discovery for External Storage System Enclosures per Seagate Recommended values. [ QSTOR-11436 ]
  • Fix a row selection issue in the central pane on the External Media and Port grids. Show the 'Used By' column for External Volumes. [ QSTOR-11384 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the Storage Pool Health check on systems with high load. [ QSTOR-11454 ]
  • Fixed an issue with HA storage Pools in a degraded warnign state. [ QSTOR-11451 ]
  • Reduced scale-out Object logging for site cluster vifs to debug level. [ QSTOR-11448 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with joining AD domains using SSSD+Winbind [ QSTOR-7845 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11456 ]

Security

  • Enabled HTTPS redirect mode in QuantaStor WebUI by default during new Installs and upgrades to version 6.6.5 and newer. [ QSTOR-11368 ]
  • Added a custom script callout via a security-message-update for the Security manager System Usage Notification contents: [ QSTOR-11222 ]

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Service Core

  • Added minimum timeout value to Coordinated tasks [ QSTOR-11455 ]
  • Optimized Grid logic for Scale-out Object Bucket discovery on deployments with a large amount of ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-11433 ]
  • Fixed an issue with License Key activation verification [ QSTOR-11110 ]

v6.6.4.001 (December 17th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix an issue where the S3 Object User Create fails when the User is not a Tenant member. [ QSTOR-11432 ]

v6.6.3.033 (December 16th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.3.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Raise alerts when OSDs are down. [ QSTOR-11415 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with object user create under a tenant with multi-site is enabled for two zones. [ QSTOR-11427 ]
  • Fix an issue with bucket sync policy create on the secondary zone bucket. [ QSTOR-11426 ]
  • Allow selection of any object gateway when setting up ceph multi-site configuration. [ QSTOR-11409 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Adds enclosure management support for Supermicro Server SSG-522B-ACR12L [ QSTOR-11422 ]
  • Change external volumes, media and volume grids from grouping to non-grouping for a minor performance improvement. Re-order Corvault columns in central grid (External Systems). Only show volumes for the currently selected Corvault. [ QSTOR-11370 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a check to the site cluster to ensure that a user cannot set the final active node in a site cluster into standby. This is to prevent all nodes in a site cluster or HA pair from both being in standby and not serving any resources. [ QSTOR-11402 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue where modifying the iscsi/nvme portal port settings on a VLAN or VIF interface would cause the parent interface to be restarted [ QSTOR-11406 ]
  • Fixed an issue with importing LACP options in the /etc/network/interfaces file. [ QSTOR-11396 ]
  • Updated the LACP bond-xmit-hash-policy options to use the modern text option names instead of the legacy numerical values. [ QSTOR-11396 ]

Network Shares

  • Added 'qs-util nfsrdma' command to enable nfs rdma support for systems that have NFS RDMA supported hardware and drivers. [ QSTOR-11309 ]
  • Auto detect when the AD server goes down and raise an alert. [ QSTOR-11182 ]
  • Fixed issues with SSSD AD Join [ QSTOR-11335 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11428 ]
  • Fixed a few items related to the SNMP agent stability. [ QSTOR-11405 ]
  • Added logic to ensure new nodes joined to the grid get the snmp agent deployed on them with the same settings and snmp user. [ QSTOR-11393 ]

Security

  • Removed default nginx index.html and version reporting from nginx. [ QSTOR-11351 ]

Service Core

  • Extended timeout values for coordinated task finishing stage throughout the service. This will help prevent grid communication errors that are caused in high latency environments. [ QSTOR-11421 ]
  • Enhanced grid logic for High Latency multi-site deployments. [ QSTOR-11391 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added protections to ensure zfs pools are not imported incorrectly on a passive HA node during upgrade processes that update the grub configuration. [ QSTOR-11413 ]

Web Manager

  • Add a tooltip to the Force checkbox on the Storage System Restart and Shutdown dialogs to clarify it's for immediate, unclean shutdowns. [ QSTOR-11381 ]

v6.6.2.003 (November 14th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.2.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Reduced the frequency of Corvault device discovery for External Storage System Enclosures per Seagate Recommended values. [ QSTOR-11367 ]

Security

  • Updated QuantaStor Tomcat version to 9.0.112 [ QSTOR-11376 ]
  • Fix a regression in single sign on failing to login AD users. [ QSTOR-11375 ]
  • Enhanced Grid communication event batching that can help with large numbers of QuantaStor Grid object counts. [ QSTOR-11366 ]

v6.6.1.013 (November 7th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Removed rgw gc optimizations that are no longer needed for modern ceph versions. [ QSTOR-10920 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added some new warning icons for hardware controllers, hardware units and hardware disks. Fixed icon priority for status on hardware enclosures. [ QSTOR-11358 ]
  • Fixed an issue with discovery of Hardware RAID Disks for LSI Hardware RAID controllers that use the storcli tool. [ QSTOR-11347 ]
  • Fixed an issue with enclosure discovery for older LSI SAS HBA controllers that utilize sas3ircu [ QSTOR-11209 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA failover for storage pools that have multipath disks with -part1- in the device name. [ QSTOR-11373 ]

Security

  • Fixed a possible SQL Injection during Login. [ QSTOR-11365 ]

Service Core

  • Changes haproxy logrotate to be hourly by default. [ QSTOR-11349 ]
  • Updated the QS PyClient Code in the github repo. [ QSTOR-11346 ]

v6.6.0.362 (October 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.0.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Block rename of object pool group. [ QSTOR-11336 ]
  • Add a fix so auto-tier rules can be set on multiple ceph clusters [ QSTOR-11323 ]
  • Fixes bug with OSD replace prepare context menu button when called from the enclosure view. [ QSTOR-11313 ]
  • Fixed: added duplicate zone check for Object Group Create [ QSTOR-11266 ]
  • Add indication on the journal group if it is encrypted. [ QSTOR-11261 ]
  • Updated Ceph version on Focal and Jammy platforms to 18.2.7 [ QSTOR-11129 ]
  • Generate proper caps for keyring when using additional pools in CephFS [ QSTOR-11106 ]
  • Display S3 user information in the delete user dialog to distinguish between S3 user and local user. [ QSTOR-10723 ]
  • New feature adds the ability to modify RGW settings. Added the ability to add and remove load balancers on each Ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-10623 ]
  • Added support for Portal Groups for FC and iSCSI Targets [ QSTOR-10533 ]
  • Add the ability to control synchronization for selected buckets in two objects storage clusters. [ QSTOR-10346 ]
  • Add ability to specify multiple pools in a ceph file system. [ QSTOR-8674 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add a new bucket dashboard that reports Average Total Objects and Average Utilized Space. [ QSTOR-11259 ]

Disk Management

  • Adds an NVMe quick format to the Physical Disk Format dialog using the secure erase options. [ QSTOR-10688 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed various items related to Linux Software RAID adapter support. [ QSTOR-11198 ]

Multitenancy

  • Scope the access of user accounts so that they can only manage users, buckets, keys and other resources related to the tenant in the resource group they're a member of [ QSTOR-11326 ]
  • Allow CephFS shares to be added to a Resource Group. [ QSTOR-11007 ]

Network Shares

  • Share rename needs a force flag as it may disconnect NFS clients. [ QSTOR-11337 ]
  • Provides an optional backported version of samba via a 'qs_samba_jammy_optional.sh' install script that includes a version of samba required to address the ad rfc2307 changes Microsoft introduced in KB5062572. Note this samba version does not include sssd support and so will not be installed by default. It should only be used for those customers using ad rfc2307 mode. [ QSTOR-11319 ]

Security

  • Adds the ability to add and remove SSL certificate templates. Using those templates you can update the certificates for HaProxy and Rados gateways configured for HTTPS. [ QSTOR-9016 ]

Service Core

  • Eliminates common errors in active directory join process, prepopulating dialog from previously joined systems [ QSTOR-11015 ]
  • Added support for shutting down or restarting multiple systems at once [ QSTOR-10022 ]
  • Added an optional force flag to Storage System Restart and Shutdown Dialogs to provide an option for immediate sysrq based shutdown of the system [ QSTOR-10022 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11343 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Allow rename of Scale Out block storage volumes [ QSTOR-11311 ]
  • Fix an event issue where the Volumes count was not getting updated in the central Host grid view. [ QSTOR-11038 ]

Universal Containers

  • Add Universal Container support to the server and the Create Config dialog in the WUI. [ QSTOR-11194 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • verified that packages are being installed properly with the new iso filtering stuff [ QSTOR-11030 ]

Web Manager

  • Minor fix to the modify Network Port dialog. [ QSTOR-11302 ]
  • Added the ability to save a local copy of a report schedule. [ QSTOR-11217 ]
  • Simplifies active directory join and leave process, allowing multiple systems to join or leave at once [ QSTOR-8771 ]

v6.5.12.005 (September 22nd 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.12.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed vendor/model defaulting, improved enclosure layout auto-selection in the Modify Storage System dialog (including correct child-layout selection to choose the primary NVMe drive group), and resolved an invalid enclosureLayoutId that prevented layout auto-detection. [ QSTOR-11263 ]

Security

  • Fixed: disable gzip compresson on web and api ports by default. [ QSTOR-11210 ]
  • Fixed: internal qs-statsd/qs_restd service port 5173 moved to localhost only as it should not be presented as an external port. [ QSTOR-11210 ]
  • Fixed: reduced syslog logging of qs-statsdb/qs_restd. [ QSTOR-11210 ]
  • Added: DROP rules to block ICMP timechecks [ QSTOR-11210 ]
  • Updated SSL Ciphers and TLS1.3 support for the web and API ports [ QSTOR-11210 ]
  • Fixed: Set pcsd api port 2224 to bind to localhost only by default [ QSTOR-11210 ]

v6.5.11.029 (August 28th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.11.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added support for SMTP servers that allow open relay with no username/password to the Alert Manager [ QSTOR-11167 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with multiple alerts occurring for long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]
  • Fixed some corner case issues with long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]
  • Added support for larger MDB devices upto 2100GB [ QSTOR-11274 ]
  • Added support for encryption bypass on OSD create while still encrypting wal/db journal devices. [ QSTOR-11260 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue with running the disk read performance test benchmark on very fast modern media. [ QSTOR-11296 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed Enclosure and Controller discovery support for SAS3516 based SAS controllers [ QSTOR-11267 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fix an issue with VIF used for scale-out file usage after rebooting all nodes in the cluster. [ QSTOR-11265 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed: added gfortran-11 dependency to jammy repository required for LTS mellanox ofed install to succeed [ QSTOR-11285 ]
  • Add QS cli command to hide disabled Network Ports [ QSTOR-10898 ]
  • Fixed an issue where VLAN and VIF interfaces would not report their bond mode correctly if their parent interfaces was a bonded port. [ QSTOR-10754 ]

Network Shares

  • Adds support for multiple HA VIF redirects and smart network filtering for NFSv4 referrals [ QSTOR-11278 ]
  • Minor fix to skip NFS export commands for scale out shares. [ QSTOR-11275 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Provide a utility to create temporary log download links via qs-download-link [ QSTOR-11273 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed: Added logic to always default FC ports to target mode for supported FC target card models from QLogic. Ports can still be explicitly set to initiator mode if the user so chooses. [ QSTOR-10744 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed: added the option to cancel the Physical Disk Identify task if the duration for the identify task is longer than the user wants. [ QSTOR-11258 ]
  • Provide a download link for log collection in case logs cannot be uploaded from a Quantastor system [ QSTOR-11116 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: added proxy settings to the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy file [ QSTOR-11281 ]
  • Fixed: added logic to the upgrade manager and qs-upgrade command to check for missing version pinning if qs-util aptnopin has been run on the system. The upgrade task will fail early if correct pinning is not in place advising running qs-util aptpin. [ QSTOR-11277 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed: clarified text in create resource group for network share access of service containers [ QSTOR-11187 ]

v6.5.10.013 (August 12th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.10.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue where the access key and secret key were not updating in the UI in instances with multiple object storage users across multiple ceph clusters in the same grid. [ QSTOR-11254 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the cephfs mounts if communication is lost with the active MDS and a new MDS is elected. [ QSTOR-10738 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fix an enclosure refresh issue via the event path where the underlying disk were not getting refreshed. [ QSTOR-11247 ]
  • Fixed: Added additional checks for enclosure id on enclosures that fail to report correctly on older firmwares. [ QSTOR-11227 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed: replaced size with maxsize in the ceph, radosgw and haproxy logrotate definitions so that they rotate as expected on their daily rotations as well as when reaching the max size definition. [ QSTOR-11253 ]
  • Fix an underlying dashboard issue where new diskio entries were not properly added to the telegraf.conf file on new deployments. [ QSTOR-11246 ]
  • Fix: Optimize the restarting of influx and telegraf. [ QSTOR-11246 ]

v6.5.9.003 (August 5th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.9.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with slotmap updates when changing the slotmap in the enclosure and controllers section. [ QSTOR-11245 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue where QuantaStor was restarting the influxdb service when it was not needed. [ QSTOR-11244 ]
  • Fixed: separated the influxdb, telegrafd and QuantaStor stats_db service restart logic to allow more granular control. [ QSTOR-11244 ]

v6.5.8.008 (July 31st 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.8.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed a small issue with the ceph osd reweight script progress trace. [ QSTOR-11234 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add support for Supermicro ASG-2115S-NE332R system enclosure layouts [ QSTOR-11237 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Disable security features options in Network Share Create/Modify dialogs when the share is from a Scale-out File Pool. [ QSTOR-11235 ]
  • Fixed: Remove redundant "NFS Security Mode" on the share advanced tab. [ QSTOR-11235 ]
  • Fixed an issue with clearing the manage gids setting on Jammy platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]
  • Fixed an issue with setting specific nfs v3 or v4 server configurations on Focal platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]
  • Fixed a conflict with the nfs mountd ports between scale-out and scale-up nfs modes. [ QSTOR-11212 ]
  • Fixed detection of nfs scale-out mode when it is configured at the time of ceph scale-out filesystem creation. [ QSTOR-11212 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a check to disable the grub os prober by default to prevent adding of any block devices with OS data other than the installed QuantaStor OS disk to the grub boot loader. [ QSTOR-11199 ]

v6.5.7.004 (July 24th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.7.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with network share cifs/smb settings such as ignore system acls introduced in the 6.5.1 release. [ QSTOR-11224 ]
  • Removed the API underscore to space conversion logic in cifs/smb settings introduced in 6.5.1. REST API's should use proper url encoding like %20 when sending strings that contain spaces via curl or other http calls. [ QSTOR-11224 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a path naming issue for the sedutil-cli binaries used for SED disk encryption. [ QSTOR-11221 ]
  • Added Several small enhancements and fixes for the sedutil-cli tool usage and SED supported disk discovery [ QSTOR-11219 ]

v6.5.6.052 (July 16th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.6.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fix minor issue with Corvault log collection. [ QSTOR-11201 ]
  • Added alerts to notify the user as they approach quota limits for S3C buckets [ QSTOR-11055 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the IPMI Ip addresses showing up in the Health Check reports. [ QSTOR-10356 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed radosgw logging logrotation not always occurring on fresh installs. [ QSTOR-11176 ]
  • Fixed: radosgw logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]
  • Fixed: haproxy logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]
  • Improved logic for Ceph OSD Gentle Reweight. [ QSTOR-11163 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the version check when upgrading the the scale-out ceph MDS, RGW and other daemons. [ QSTOR-11138 ]
  • Fixed a few corner cases with ensuring successful Ceph upgrades. [ QSTOR-11138 ]
  • Allow compression support for Ceph RBD pools. [ QSTOR-11131 ]
  • Added Object User quota usage information to the Object User grid [ QSTOR-10722 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboards (Early Access). [ QSTOR-11076 ]
  • Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboard routes and toggle buttons. [ QSTOR-11076 ]
  • Expand the trending time scale for Tenants and Owners to make use of longer retention policies (e.g. 'Last 30 Days'). [ QSTOR-11076 ]
  • Fix InfluxDB trending continuous query settings in qs\_statsdb.sh. [ QSTOR-11076 ]

Disk Management

  • Add Multipath and HA support for SED Disks. [ QSTOR-11172 ]
  • Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11065 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixes intermittent boot time OSD start issue with Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]
  • Adds encryption bypass mode to avoid applying double (hardware plus software) encryption to Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]
  • Added enclosure layout for Supermicro SYS-221H-TN24R systems. [ QSTOR-11154 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with Storage pool import of a previously exported pool that has iofencing on nvme disks. [ QSTOR-11173 ]

Network Shares

  • Add new cyphers for active directory join. [ QSTOR-11183 ]
  • Added sync flag by default to NFS mount for ceph object storage ganesha shares [ QSTOR-11181 ]
  • Adjust minor Network Share quota alert levels. [ QSTOR-11171 ]
  • Add larger record size upto 8M for Network Shares on ZFS Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-10118 ]
  • Added support for hidden shares that end in a '$' as 'Browseable (admin-only) shares in the CIFS/SMB Options tab of the Network Share Create/Modify Dialogs. [ QSTOR-9222 ]

Service Core

  • Optimize database reads for large clusters. [ QSTOR-11178 ]
  • Added qs-util dbdiff for use to compare osn.db database versions [ QSTOR-10566 ]
  • Added https as the default preferred method for support log bundle upload. [ QSTOR-9875 ]

Universal Containers

  • Added initial support for a universal container system [ QSTOR-11162 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added logic to fix the /boot/efi based on a efi partition label for Software RAID and EFI installs [ QSTOR-11140 ]

Web Manager

  • Revise the Object User Access Key Manager to include Storage URLs in the Copy to Clipboard action. [ QSTOR-11177 ]
  • Improved fieldset placements for network share create/modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-11156 ]
  • SED Pool management - Reorder SED columns in PD grid. Move to the right of the "Correlated Device" column. Revise the SED capability detection to check for non-enterprise. [ QSTOR-11146 ]

v6.5.5.039 (May 29th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixes bug in osd gentle reweight script that was bottlenecking performance. [ QSTOR-11123 ]
  • Added logic to auto-clean up volume objects for non-QuantaStor managed ceph rbd's (rbd's created directly by the client using client rbd drivers/software). [ QSTOR-11112 ]
  • Add warnings for the user if OSD or journal delete is being used on a device with duplicate PVs due to multi-pathing mapping. [ QSTOR-11099 ]
  • Added 'qs-ceph' utility commands to modify compression options on Ceph pools. [ QSTOR-11096 ]
  • Added compression ratio column in storage pools grid. [ QSTOR-11087 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for discovery of RMSP3JD160J controllers. [ QSTOR-11107 ]
  • Add validation for both primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-11009 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed a very rare corner case where a Manual HA failover task could generate unexpected errors due to a background periodic storage pool scan. [ QSTOR-11111 ]
  • Added the option to set a Site Cluster Member Node as Manual Standby. [ QSTOR-11105 ]
  • Fixed an issue where nodes could come out of standby status on a reboot too early before grid communication was established. [ QSTOR-11105 ]
  • Enhanced HA Failover times for Storage Volumes for Fibre Channel clients. [ QSTOR-11105 ]
  • Enhanced Fiber Channel High availability ALUA Changes to occur more quickly and to more quickly advertise failed paths to clients like VMware so that they can resume I/O to healthy available paths sooner. [ QSTOR-11105 ]
  • Enhanced the logic used for High Availability Storage SCSI Target decoupling during a Storage Pool export. This can help greatly reduce the failover time for very Large configurations with thousands of volumes or volume snapshots. [ QSTOR-10969 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes bug that was blocking users from creating a static route with the same destination subnet across different systems. [ QSTOR-11125 ]
  • Fixed a bug in static route validation logic and allow users to delete malformed static route entries. [ QSTOR-11115 ]

Network Shares

  • Allow rename of nested shares [ QSTOR-11046 ]
  • Added logic to help persist and manage NFS options for NFS version and nfs --manage-gids flags [ QSTOR-11001 ]

REST API

  • Add an API to clear missing shares or volumes from the QS database. [ QSTOR-11117 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Clarify concurrency options for backup policies. [ QSTOR-11004 ]

Security

  • Added explicit modprobe disable and blacklist of ksmbd module to address any CVE-2025-37899 concerns. [ QSTOR-11134 ]

Service Core

  • Enhanced the Core QuantaStor service management thread scaling. [ QSTOR-10767 ]
  • Fixed a small memory leak with debug log tracing [ QSTOR-10689 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Updated sedutil-cli that supports a wider range of encrypted devices. [ QSTOR-11088 ]
  • Restores sedutil / Storage Pool encryption support for SED Ruby NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-11088 ]
  • Removed restriction to satisfy the VDEV count of N+1 to create a RAIDZx(RAID50/60/etc) array on a ZFS scale-up Storage pool when passing in a Set Disk Size instead of using the 'auto' option. [ QSTOR-11086 ]

v6.5.4.016 (April 29th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.4.

Release Notes

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fix issue where the dashboard of a newly created volume was not showing performance data after it had been assigned because of a pending Telegraf restart required. [ QSTOR-11077 ]
  • Show CPU Temp and Power Usage in the System Dashboard (new Sensors button). [ QSTOR-11029 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Unblocked creating HA ViF if there is an HA irrelavant bond in active-backup mode and unblocked modifying an HA irrelavant bond. [ QSTOR-11073 ]
  • Fixed an issue when modifying non-name fields of an HA group. [ QSTOR-11071 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed bugs in validation logic for static route create and delete. [ QSTOR-11056 ]

Network Shares

  • Ensure 'Browseable' is checked on SMB network shares when Browseable (Access Based) is checked. This ensures that authenticated clients who have pre-assigned browseable access can see the share offered by the QuantaStor but prevents non-authenticated users from seeing the share. [ QSTOR-11078 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Minor log file cleanup after backup job is finished. [ QSTOR-11044 ]
  • Add the ability to rollback a read-write Storage Volume or Network Share snapshot to it's underlying snapshot. [ QSTOR-9820 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue with Storage Pool auto-start on reboot for software encrypted storage pools. [ QSTOR-11081 ]

v6.5.3.021 (April 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Improved timeout handling for QuantaStor coordinated task system. [ QSTOR-11022 ]

Disk Management

  • Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11032 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Hardware Enclosure support for Dell PowerEdge R7615 [ QSTOR-11043 ]
  • Added Hardware Enclosure support for Supermicro AS-1115CS-TNR [ QSTOR-11043 ]
  • Optimized performance and fixed issues when rendering systems with attached CORVAULT external systems. [ QSTOR-11039 ]
  • Optimize the rendering of enclosures. Fix drawer rendering issue where extra slots were appearing. [ QSTOR-11014 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with static route netmask CIDR calculations. [ QSTOR-11048 ]

Network Shares

  • Update Network Share Namespace on all nodes to reflect any modification to NFS access entries to share that is part of a Namespace. [ QSTOR-11042 ]
  • Online newly promoted Network Share Snapshots. [ QSTOR-11021 ]
  • Add post share create and modify script callouts. [ QSTOR-11016 ]
  • Fixed mount paths for enabled snapshots of Network Share when Share is renamed. [ QSTOR-11012 ]
  • Add the ability to prioritize NFS access rules in /etc/exports file. [ QSTOR-10552 ]

SNMP

  • Regen SNMP for 6.5.3 [ QSTOR-11054 ]

Security

  • Added docker http proxy override [ QSTOR-11040 ]
  • Updated Tomcat version to 9.0.102.0 [ QSTOR-11013 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed various issues with the OVA vApp properties being set after VM image cloning. Added additional properties to the OVA by default. [ QSTOR-10508 ]

v6.5.2.070 (March 27th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added SED version of Micron 7300 drives to firmware check for Config Analyzer [ QSTOR-10933 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Update AWS cli. [ QSTOR-10956 ]
  • Extend Resource Groups to support adding S3 Tenant resource type. [ QSTOR-10808 ]
  • Extended timeouts for logical volume allocation commands when creating Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-10930 ]
  • Added more permissive check when running Ceph OSD replace prepare operation. (CLI only) [ QSTOR-10914 ]
  • Add a qs-ceph command to allow switching between fuse and kernel mount for cephFS to allow user comparison of fuse versus the faster kernel option. [ QSTOR-10905 ]
  • Adds additional Ceph coordinator election mode that maps to the site-cluster. [ QSTOR-10795 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added Jammy platform support for the ceph prometheus install script [ QSTOR-10949 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Strip whitespace characters from primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-10896 ]
  • Add validation for External System Credentials during creation. [ QSTOR-10826 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed a bug with creation grid master (gm) Site Cluster vifs. [ QSTOR-10996 ]
  • Implemented new naming schema for underlying Site Cluster HA Groups. [ QSTOR-10904 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with deleting bonded interfaces leaving slave interfaces tagged as slaves. [ QSTOR-10931 ]
  • Updates for mellanox ofed lossless networking support to work better with newer model cards. [ QSTOR-10779 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixes bug where having 'gmt' or 'GMT' in the name of a network share would cause issues with NFS protocol. [ QSTOR-10982 ]
  • Fix the mount paths for read-write GMT snapshots. [ QSTOR-10938 ]
  • Add mountaddr to the view mount instructions for Network Share. [ QSTOR-10923 ]
  • Add crossmnt option in the NFS exports for newly created shares. Also skip adding the default export for .zfs directory. [ QSTOR-10806 ]
  • Add the ability to clone a GMT snapshot and promote it.

Add QS CLI to copy share permissions. [ QSTOR-10580 ]

REST API

  • Handle empty lists from the curl calls to Quantastor APIs. [ QSTOR-10939 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed up dead links which were created after running some types of auto-tier Backup Policies. [ QSTOR-10934 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11019 ]

Security

  • Prevent MFA passcodes with leading 0 from being truncated. [ QSTOR-10852 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes an issue where role-creation would fail due to deprecated permission-definitions. [ QSTOR-10988 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added support for the creation of mirror sets consisting of "quad-mirrors" (4-way mirror sets) for both the data device groups in the pool and also the "special" devices, such as "dedup" and "metadata offload" devices. [ QSTOR-10893 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Add more detail for logical and physical space utilization for volumes. [ QSTOR-10981 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Deprecates legacy package version pinning for the packages.osnexus.com mirror server that was causing issues with some ceph cluster upgrades [ QSTOR-10990 ]
  • Added protections in qs\_distupgrade.sh for lvm snapshots that could cause issues with the platform upgrade. [ QSTOR-10970 ]
  • Resolved multiple items that were causing issues with installing QuantaStor on redhat based platforms when STIG enforcement policies were present. [ QSTOR-10958 ]

Note: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install/upgrade script temporarily sets selinux to permissive mode and temporarily disables fapolicyd if it is enabled when the script is running and restores them to their original state when the script completes.

Web Manager

  • Auto select S3 tenant for S3 User when user create is invoked from context menu on the S3 tenant. [ QSTOR-11010 ]
  • Increase the width of grids to show the 'Correlated Device' column in the Add Log/Cache/Metadata Device to Pool dialog w/o the need for scrolling. [ QSTOR-10951 ]
  • Add an option to upload logs with no truncation. [ QSTOR-10925 ]
  • Add drawer support for the Corvault enclosure layout and rendering engine in the WUI. [ QSTOR-10796 ]

v6.5.1.058 (February 12th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • General improvements to OSD drive replacement process. Added additional LVM clean up logic. Fixed issues with device correlation for multipath devices and encrypted drives. [ QSTOR-10915 ]
  • Allow deleting journals from the UI via Ceph journal delete dialog [ QSTOR-10890 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add gridPreferredPort check to the WUI dashboard service (qsrestd) if set on a Storage System. [ QSTOR-10866 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed: New systems and clean QuantaStor service configurations databases will initialize Multipath autoconfig support as enabled by default. [ QSTOR-10900 ]
  • Increased timeouts and other optimizations for large multipath configurations. [ QSTOR-10881 ]
  • Added protections to prevent QuantaStor service from running multiple blkid instances if one is already running. [ QSTOR-10881 ]
  • Unblocked adding disk as a scale-up pool spare with a larger block size. [ QSTOR-10876 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add Enclosure mapping support for HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10. [ QSTOR-10899 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Hardware Disk Identify for Storage Pool Physical Disks where the controller was not properly selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10858 ]
  • Fixed an issue with applying External System Profile A+B. [ QSTOR-10840 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with automatically starting HA scale-up ZFS pools if both HA nodes are booted at the same time. [ QSTOR-10902 ]
  • Added a a check to ensure the luks crypttab was upto date after encrypted ha pool failover. [ QSTOR-10901 ]
  • Added VLAN interfaces to allowed interfaces for Site Cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-10871 ]
  • Added better logic for smb/nfs service management for Scale-up HA configurations with shares on multiple storage pools in the same HA cluster. [ QSTOR-10762 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Resource Group Service configs starting on a node after the node had previously hosted the service. [ QSTOR-10762 ]
  • Fixed: added a unique name check for HA group create/modify. [ QSTOR-10311 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Change Seagate Lyve Cloud endpoints [ QSTOR-10868 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with calling iptables commands when distupgrading from older distributions. [ QSTOR-10860 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to allow creation of GMT snapshots for volumes from the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10873 ]
  • Fixed an issue with spaces in the curl command issued to Quantastor. [ QSTOR-10838 ]
  • Fix issue where renaming a share that contained a nested share failed. [ QSTOR-10811 ]
  • Allow setting Samba share as read-only using ZFS. The new support has been added to the Network Share create and modify dialogs on the Advanced settings tab. [ QSTOR-10755 ]
  • Fixed an issue which created duplicate mounts for nested shares. [ QSTOR-10704 ]
  • Exposed ZFS 'Case Sensitivity' option at share creation time. [ QSTOR-8869 ]

REST API

  • Fixed the POST command in the REST API [ QSTOR-10844 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix an issue with auto tiering in backup policies. [ QSTOR-10845 ]
  • Refined the Backup Policy Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10843 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Backup Policy tasks completing when the underlying file copy or move process process had returned. [ QSTOR-10839 ]
  • Add alerting when replication fails. [ QSTOR-10799 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10922 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause performing a reboot or shutdown of the storage system via the QuantaStor UI to fail. [ QSTOR-10917 ]
  • Fix an issue with database backups on the storage pools. [ QSTOR-10907 ]
  • Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools when an underlying disk is read-only. [ QSTOR-10886 ]
  • Fixed a disk discovery issue when discoverying a large number of disks. [ QSTOR-10875 ]
  • Fixed QuantaStor service builds for Redhat based distros. [ QSTOR-10846 ]
  • Added /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf_sendlogs_ping_check.disable touchfile to bypess the icmp ping check and allow sending logs from the UI/qs cli. [ QSTOR-10556 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fix an issue with pick a smaller hotspare disk getting picked for metadata offload if disk goes missing. [ QSTOR-10877 ]
  • Add storage capacity properties for metadata offload VDEV [ QSTOR-10661 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a blacklist of the bnxt\_re driver to prevent issues for normal network operations for the bnxt_en driver loading on network controllers that have rdma support enabled in their firmware by default. [ QSTOR-10918 ]
  • Added elbencho benchmarking tool to quantastor utilities. [ QSTOR-10892 ]
  • Added support for Focal 20.04 to Jammy 22.04 Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-10547 ]
  • Fix telegraf start failures at startup due to invalid config file errors. [ QSTOR-10353 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed a minor truncation issue with trigger Backup Policy dialog [ QSTOR-10919 ]
  • Add a Description column to the share and snapshot grid and default to hidden. [ QSTOR-10882 ]
  • Minor fix to NTP server add dialog to prevent empty entries in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10870 ]
  • Auto select first row in NTP and DNS settings dialogs. [ QSTOR-10867 ]
  • Improve the host assign volume dialog. [ QSTOR-10862 ]

v6.5.0.246 (January 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Increased HA health checks on Systems with local HA Pools. [ QSTOR-10746 ]
  • Fixed: sending logs from specific grid nodes will now send logs only from the selected nodes. [ QSTOR-10694 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixes issue with access permissions for ceph client admin keyring file. [ QSTOR-10818 ]
  • Fixed issues related to encrypted OSD replace operations. [ QSTOR-10786 ]
  • Fixed an issue with wal journal device discovery and association with osds. [ QSTOR-10751 ]
  • Deprecated replica=2 as a creation option from Ceph Scale-out storage. Replica=2 did not provide enough redundancy for consistent normal storage operations in the event of an osd or storage system outage. [ QSTOR-10748 ]
  • Added the force flag checkbox to the Create S3 Storage Class dialog. [ QSTOR-10734 ]
  • Fixed bugs in Ceph upgrade stage completion and failure alerting. [ QSTOR-10730 ]
  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10717 ]
  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10716 ]
  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10708 ]
  • Improve ceph discovery. [ QSTOR-10675 ]
  • Add metadata pool utilization for Ceph Object Pool Group and Ceph File System [ QSTOR-10650 ]
  • Disabled OSD auto restart. auto restart can be activated using the touchfile '/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf\_ceph\_osd\_auto\_start.enable' [ QSTOR-10632 ]
  • Ensure the Tenant and User grid's bucket count column is updated after the delete bucket operation via events. [ QSTOR-10610 ]
  • Fixed a bug with Ceph OSD 'Last Rekey Date' field not being updated properly. [ QSTOR-10509 ]
  • Updated default Ceph version to Reef 18.2.4 for new Focal and Jammy platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10415 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add a new Ceph Member selection combo to the Ceph Pool dashboard. [ QSTOR-10798 ]
  • Add Tenant and Owner usage dashboards to the Bucket menu area. [ QSTOR-10698 ]
  • Add CPU Temp and Power Usage to the Grid Dashboard's System Tiles. [ QSTOR-10427 ]
  • Change the grid CPU metric to use system\_usage which matches the metric used in the System dashboard. The overlapping text issue is no longer an issue as Highcharts has been replaced with Chart.js. [ QSTOR-10263 ]
  • Add power usage and average CPU temp sparklines to the System Tile dashboards in the grid view. [ QSTOR-10013 ]
  • Removed resource column from Health Checker/Config Analyzer. [ QSTOR-5515 ]

Disk Management

  • Removed the multipath autoconf touchfile support which fixes issues where disabling multipath autoconfig would not apply. [ QSTOR-10706 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Addes enclosure layour for Supermicro Server SYS-F629P3-RC1B FatTwin 4-Node 24+12 bay [ QSTOR-10853 ]
  • Fixed an issue with disk discovery when a CORVAULT is attached. [ QSTOR-10664 ]
  • Added the ability to blink empty slots on jbod hardware that supports that feature. This action is accomplished using sg\_ses commands. [ QSTOR-10618 ]
  • Added functionality to treat enclosures accidentally unplugged as MISSING, so that when reconnected their user-set properties are not lost . [ QSTOR-10542 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with post failover storage pool update tasks being stuck in a running state for nodes where the HA storage pool was previously evicted from due to an automatically triggered failover event. [ QSTOR-10485 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated ZFS driver version to 2.2.6 [ QSTOR-10647 ]
  • Updated scst iSCSI/FC Target driver to 3.9.0 [ QSTOR-10534 ]

Licensing

  • Fixup old license keys to work with new format. [ QSTOR-10788 ]
  • Added Express Edition Licenses [ QSTOR-10619 ]
  • Show TB Utilized in the License grid and property view. [ QSTOR-8009 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fix wrap and truncation issues in the Cloud Add Credential dialog for Spanish. [ QSTOR-10792 ]

Network Shares

  • Retain include line position in smb.conf [ QSTOR-10800 ]
  • Minor fix to retain the share description when creating a Network Share. [ QSTOR-10793 ]
  • Enhance the network share CLI search to support paging (similar to buckets). [ QSTOR-10757 ]
  • Fix minor share name and snapshot name validation. [ QSTOR-10520 ]
  • Added additional share name validation to share modify cli and API calls. [ QSTOR-10519 ]
  • Add SSSD support [ QSTOR-10445 ]
  • Implemented ransomware detection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10391 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed qs cli disk-list filters for ssd, and nvme disk types. [ QSTOR-10515 ]
  • Fixed the filtering for qs cli disk-list --filter="\[unused\]" and --filter="\[used\]" commands [ QSTOR-10482 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Remove SSH keys after replication links are deleted [ QSTOR-10782 ]
  • Fix minor argument validation for replication schedule create and snapshot schedule create. [ QSTOR-10732 ]
  • Added monitoring for file modify events to enable continuous data protection on modified files. [ QSTOR-10557 ]
  • Added ability for Snapshot Schedules and Replication Schedules to absorb old snapshots. [ QSTOR-10524 ]
  • Create local delta Snapshot on source when Replication Schedule is skipped. [ QSTOR-10357 ]
  • Change the control in the 'Update Selections for Replication Schedule' dialog to be a dual chooser. [ QSTOR-10351 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added a remote Fibre Channel port list to the fc target port section of the UI and 'qs fc-remote-port-enum' CLI command. [ QSTOR-10541 ]
  • Added the Fiber Channel Issue LIP dialog to the UI that can be used to issue a lip on a specific FC port. [ QSTOR-10226 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10847 ]

Security

  • Fixed a bug in the 2FA login process. [ QSTOR-10841 ]
  • Added support for a custom iptables include script under

/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/iptables.qscustom [ QSTOR-10794 ]

  • Updated tomcat package version to 9.0.96.0 [ QSTOR-10691 ]

Service Core

  • Fix a small memory leak [ QSTOR-10778 ]
  • Revise the server S3 modify API to accept spaces for the Display Name property. [ QSTOR-10724 ]
  • Fixed some issues with writing the Chrony conf file on platforms that have chrony installed (like Jammy) [ QSTOR-10293 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Allow trim schedule to run nightly. [ QSTOR-10652 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Allow minimum of <4MB for Storage Volume QoS Control limits. [ QSTOR-10765 ]
  • Updated Storage Volume QoS controls to use cGroups v2 for modern linux kernels/platforms. [ QSTOR-10529 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added logic to temporarily disable the upmap balancer during ceph upgrade. [ QSTOR-10702 ]
  • Fixed an issue where Storage System Upgrade tasks were showing 25% progress but transitioned to the 'Completed' stage. [ QSTOR-10673 ]
  • Install sssd packages by default on focal and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10549 ]
  • chrony is now the default time daemon for ubuntu 22.04 jammy and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10273 ]
  • Added 22.04 Jammy as a new Platform for QuantaStor [ QSTOR-10225 ]

Web Manager

  • Disable the 'Start Upgrade' button in the Upgrade dialog until the system update check is complete. [ QSTOR-10776 ]
  • Show the Tag/Alt Name value along with the Controller name in the identify dialog if provided. [ QSTOR-10775 ]
  • Decrease the replication detail chart update frequency. [ QSTOR-10753 ]
  • Added email validation check for the Alert Manager dialog [ QSTOR-10590 ]
  • Added Timezone configuration as a step in the getting started guide. [ QSTOR-10502 ]

v6.4.5.001 (November 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an error with Ceph Bucket Discovery tasks. [ QSTOR-10707 ]

v6.4.4.013 (October 25th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added a fix for Seagate Corvault based Ceph deployments to ensure ceph LVM layer is started on system boot. [ QSTOR-10686 ]
  • Added qs-osd-compact script to assist with OSD compaction on a per system basis. [ QSTOR-10668 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Ceph OSD Journal device discovery for encrypted Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10666 ]
  • Extend timeouts for OSD restart stage of the Ceph upgrade task. [ QSTOR-10665 ]
  • Fixes bug were OSDs lose journal device correlation after OSD reweight operation. [ QSTOR-10657 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with enclosure and disk slot identity correlation information. [ QSTOR-10681 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Disables the PCS daemon WebUI by default. [ QSTOR-10692 ]
  • Adds a check for versions older than 6.4.3 to auto-disable the new health checks logic that is not compatible with older versions. [ QSTOR-10692 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh script now automatically removes legacy centos repos that are no longer needed for Redhat platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10676 ]

v6.4.3.021 (October 10th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.3.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed a incorrect encrypted ZFS pool check check in the Config Analyzer for encrypted Ceph clusters with encrypted OSDs. [ QSTOR-10643 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Optimized scale-out ceph bucket discovery for very large number of S3 buckets. [ QSTOR-10621 ]
  • Ceph OSD create and delete operations will no longer fail due to services being masked. [ QSTOR-10617 ]
  • Made some improvements to the Veeam SOSAPI update cycle. [ QSTOR-10616 ]
  • Fixed an issue with creating Ceph Storage Classes of the same name on different Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10592 ]
  • Default to http based checks from the haproxy load balancer to backend http radosgw instances. [ QSTOR-10559 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Add a rescan for cloud containers so that data is refreshed if uploaded from another S3 gateway. [ QSTOR-10627 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix an issue with trusted domain users not found in the Active Directory User search dialog. [ QSTOR-7353 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Enabled Continuous Data Protection and Auto-tiering on Backup Policies using the SMB protocol. [ QSTOR-10601 ]

Security

  • Added http proxy support for Upgrades, Support Log submission and License Key Activation. [ QSTOR-10432 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fix triggering Ceph cluster upgrades when there are multiple scale-out storage Ceph clusters in the same QuantaStor Storage Grid. [ QSTOR-10612 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the Ganesha 5.9 libntirpc dependency. This change was shipped earlier with a respin of QuantaStor 6.4.3 to include the missing updated library in the update repo and in the ISO and OVA image. [ QSTOR-10576 ]

v6.4.2.053 (September 19th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed tolerances for alerting on changes in PSU status and other IPMI sensors. [ QSTOR-10447 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Adds total Object count to S3 tenant and user objects [ QSTOR-10606 ]
  • Improved logic to ensure Scale-out Object Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules were applied correctly on all nodes after an update. [ QSTOR-10599 ]
  • Unblocked file quotas for CephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-10584 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure for Tyan Transport SX TS70-B8056. [ QSTOR-10597 ]
  • Fixed an issue with enclosure support for Supermicro SSG-621E-ACR16L [ QSTOR-10563 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fix a regression with NFS and SMB access for cloud container shares. [ QSTOR-10588 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue where the quota field was incorrectly disabled in the network share modify and create dialogs for nested shares on zfs storage pools. [ QSTOR-10602 ]
  • Implemented ability to adjust Network Shares permission settings via a specified permissions mask. [ QSTOR-10147 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fix a minor regression with share name now showing in the output of "qs share-list" [ QSTOR-10587 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Show more informative errors when a Backup Job fails. [ QSTOR-10575 ]
  • Fixed an issue where multiple snapshots were wrongfully created. [ QSTOR-10564 ]
  • Fix an issue with removing excess snapshots for a backup policy with cephFS shares. [ QSTOR-10560 ]
  • Add maximum total snapshots for replication, snapshot and backup schedules. [ QSTOR-10539 ]
  • Fixed an issue where GMT Snapshots were disappearing. [ QSTOR-10538 ]
  • Fix an issue with resume replication not updating the replication reports. [ QSTOR-10536 ]
  • Added auto-tier stubbing minimum file size threshold. [ QSTOR-10505 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added support for setting specific LUN numbers on Storage volumes for Fibre Channel access. This is available in the Advanced tab of the Storage Volume Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10544 ]

Service Core

  • Improved efficiency for Ceph Bucket discovery. New Default behavior is to skip collecting life cycle policy and object locking data on the bucket. Contact support to enable object locking discovery on buckets. [ QSTOR-10600 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added script to fix RGW configurations on clusters created on older versions of QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-10569 ]
  • Added support for Ceph Reef 18.x upgrades. [ QSTOR-10493 ]

Web Manager

  • Make the info fields, in the Snapshot Rollback Point fieldset of the Rollback Storage Volume dialog, read-only. [ QSTOR-10596 ]
  • Hide the timezone column in the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-10540 ]
  • Change S3 Bucket Search panel location from North to West of screen. [ QSTOR-10405 ]

v6.4.1.011 (August 6th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with the Supermicro NVMe Enclosure mappings for the SBB-SSG-221E and SSG-641E [ QSTOR-10506 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed: Infiniband Devices should now have the correct Make and Model displayed in the Network interface section. [ QSTOR-10448 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with updating the status of Backup Policy Jobs. [ QSTOR-10517 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed: Shows the last 14 days in the replication schedule dashboard regardless of the replication schedule configuration. Fix an issue where not all series data was appearing despite being in a completed state. [ QSTOR-10528 ]
  • Fixed an issue with duplicate Replication tasks. [ QSTOR-10526 ]
  • Correct the max temporary snapshots retained for volumes in a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-10525 ]
  • Add the ability to discover partially transferred chkpnts if replication is interrupted on the first transfer. [ QSTOR-10500 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: optimized dependency checker for qs-upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10531 ]

v6.4.0.174 (July 18th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed an issue with adding new ITSM webhook integrations. [ QSTOR-10480 ]
  • Added support for Microsoft Teams to ITSM integrations. [ QSTOR-10458 ]
  • Added the ability to easily extend ITSM integrations with new integration modules with qs_alerthandlers.conf file. [ QSTOR-10458 ]
  • Include storage volumes in pool reports. [ QSTOR-10083 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue where the wrong libntirpc library was installed for nfs-ganesha. [ QSTOR-10463 ]
  • Added a Copy to Clipboard Button for a selected access key and changed the double click on access/secret key behavior to copy to clipboard for the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]
  • Added a check to the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog to ensure only the selected key text is shown when the user clicks the 'Show Key Text' button on the dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]
  • Added block for more than 2 S3 Gateway loadbalancer modes configured at the same time. [ QSTOR-10407 ]
  • Added a new feature for data pool capacity based, overflow rules for ceph object storage. Added support for a force flag for the auto tiering rules, that will overwrite any client side storage class specifications. [ QSTOR-10379 ]
  • Add reporting for object storage usage. Periodic reports can be generated as part of "Report Schedules" by enabling "Object Zone Usage Report". [ QSTOR-10355 ]
  • Added object count for Ceph Buckets. [ QSTOR-10348 ]
  • Updated the default access permissions for Ceph keyring files. [ QSTOR-10325 ]
  • Updated ceph cluster scale-out OSD osd_op_queue setting to wpq by default. The setting will take effect for any new OSDs on creation. Existing OSDs will use the new setting on OSD service restart (system reboot, encrypted OSD re-keying or manual OSD service restart) [ QSTOR-10123 ]
  • Improved an error message when creating a Site Vif with Block Storage use case. [ QSTOR-9984 ]
  • Added ability to enable a size quota and a file number quota on cephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-7344 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where a disconnected JBOD could leave the enclosure object around on LSI HBAs. [ QSTOR-10503 ]
  • Fixed: a modify of enclosure or system layout to something other than default will also set the same layout on the corresponding system or enclosure(s) that are currently set to default. [ QSTOR-10496 ]
  • Fixed an issue with using the wrong LED control Utility for disk identification on Supermicro NVMe storage systems. [ QSTOR-10469 ]
  • Added support for Supermicro SBB-SSG-221E-DN2R24R to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10460 ]
  • Added Support for Supermicro SSG-641E-E1CR36L/H to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10429 ]
  • Prevent a missing disk from being blinked. [ QSTOR-10179 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue that could terminate the qs_pool_export script early on ha failover without final logging. [ QSTOR-10514 ]
  • Fixed: added a check for HA VIFs to the network port offline dialog. This prevents a possible split cluster scenario. [ QSTOR-10414 ]
  • Updated Task error messages to include the system where an error occurred for HA Storage pool failover tasks. [ QSTOR-10248 ]
  • Added periodic HA failover group health checks for client and media connectivity. An alert will be raised If a health check fails that could indicate an issue with the future success of a High Availability failover from the primary to secondary node. [ QSTOR-9380 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Prevent modifying parent port when static route is configured. [ QSTOR-10200 ]
  • Fixed: removed iscsi and nvmeof portal configuration options on all grid vifs. client access should be configured through HA or Site cluster vifs only. [ QSTOR-9974 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: NFS remove client access dialog and the qs share-client-remove CLI command now default to immediately terminate client connections for removed export rules, enhancing security. An option to retain client connections is available in the UI ("Retain Client Connections") and CLI (--retain-client-connection=true). [ QSTOR-10431 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with Remote Replication reporting incorrect snapshot count. [ QSTOR-10476 ]
  • Added a ZFS quantastor:scheduletype property to snapshots so that it is clearer what type of schedule created the snapshot. [ QSTOR-10421 ]
  • Fix duplicate entries in replication dashboard. [ QSTOR-10385 ]
  • Use raw mode for ZFS send and receive. Use on the wire compression if the source is not compressed. [ QSTOR-10153 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10512 ]

Security

  • Added feature to replace the OSD encryption keys for a given Ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-10283 ]
  • Improved qs-util wrapper script so that user is prompted for secret passphrase. Passphrase will remain hidden. [ QSTOR-9982 ]

Service Core

  • Fix minor trace message for Maintenance schedules. [ QSTOR-10416 ]
  • Added a check to the QuantaStor system startup to ensure that LUKS encrypted Physical disks devices provided to QuantaStor via the iSCSI Software adapter are opened after system boot. [ QSTOR-10257 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added support for customizing OVF templates with passwords and license keys. [ QSTOR-10451 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the archived centos ganesha mirrors in the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install and upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10446 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue where the User Web Customization rules were not being properly applied when the rules were defined in the Role create or modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10513 ]
  • Fixed the text highlight and other colors used in the UI to be consistent across elements. [ QSTOR-10470 ]
  • Update: Replaced all instances of 'double click to reveal plain text' on password fields with an explicit eyeball reveal button to allow users to show plain text. [ QSTOR-10410 ]
  • Updated web manager tomcat and Java runtime dependencies. [ QSTOR-9492 ]

v6.3.7.011 (June 18th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with creating Erasure Coded Ceph Object Storage Classes in the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10434 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed the install-ceph-prometheus scripts to always have a default fallback install version if the latest version is not available. [ QSTOR-10441 ]
  • Updated wiki documentation for the Prometheus and Grafana Integration guide to reflect changes from latest Grafana 11.0 release. [ QSTOR-10441 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed several items and updated logic for External System Corvault support. [ QSTOR-10235 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • * Fixed an issue with modern mellanox OFED installs using the mellanox-ofed-install.sh script and legacy ConnectX-3 Based Mellanox HBA's [ QSTOR-10295 ]

Network Shares

  • Added logic to always bind mount the /export paths on Network Shares even if the share has no NFS access rules and is set to disabled and SMB/CIFS disabled. This includes Nested shares under Parent Network Shares. No noticeable increase in failover times was detected when testing on a Large HA config with many Network Shares including many Nested Shares and snapshots. [ QSTOR-10424 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the Network Share snapshot count property. [ QSTOR-10329 ]
  • Re-enabled the Network Share Snapshot count column by default in the Network Share Grid View. [ QSTOR-10329 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue where FC ALUA standby LUN devices for Storage Volumes would not appear as non-rotational(SSD) to clients when on an SSD or NVMe based Storage Pool. Note: a reboot is required to reload the SCST kernel driver stack on the system for the fix to take effect. [ QSTOR-10417 ]
  • Fixed an issue with presenting pass-through Storage Volumes as non-rotational(SSD) to clients. [ QSTOR-10417 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support latest Mellanox OFED 24.04-0.6.6.0 [ QSTOR-10438 ]
  • Added a lts optional flag to the mellanox-ofed-install.sh for installing Mellanox OFED version 5.8-4.1.5.0. [ QSTOR-10438 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix a minor ribbon bar alignment and spacing issue between elements by making a deferred force layout call during context switching. [ QSTOR-10413 ]
  • Fixed an issue where some elements of the Ribbon Bar would not be visible or would somehow be under the visible section of the UI. [ QSTOR-10413 ]
  • Removed the ZFS share encryption tab from the create and modify network share dialogs. The ZFS Share encryption feature is still available for share creation via the CLI but is not recommended for most users due to ZFS driver level issues. When the ZFS driver issues are resolved in a future ZFS release, the encryption tab will be re-enabled. [ QSTOR-10352 ]

v6.3.6.003 (June 4th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.6.

Release Notes

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Added a check to enforce 'Enable target checkpoint recovery (unchecking will perform full replication)' setting on Remote Replication Schedules. This helps ensure that no additional _chkpnt is created for a share or volume if one already exists for the source and target replication association. [ QSTOR-10419 ]
  • Fixed an issue with replication report showing synchronizing state forever. [ QSTOR-10419 ]

Security

  • Added qs-util wuicustomcerts command to allow creation of a /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/ssl/nginx_quantastor_ssl_custom.conf nginx override config so that users can customize certificate paths and ciphers from the QuantaStor defaults for the Web UI. [ QSTOR-9037 ]

v6.3.5.020 (May 23rd 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue where s3 gateway create was creating load balancers with https->https mode when https->http mode was passed in. [ QSTOR-10399 ]
  • Fixed some issues with discovery of the http/https mode for the S3 load balancer. [ QSTOR-10399 ]
  • Further optimizations and fixes related to Grid communication and Ceph Scale-out Object discovery on Object Storage Pools with a large number of buckets. [ QSTOR-10380 ]
  • Fixed an issue with adding and removing RGW instances on the same node via different IP addresses. [ QSTOR-10370 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added logic to limit number of open threads and open file handles needed to unmount shares for the HA storage pool failover process. This fixes an issue with deployments that have a large amount of shares, including nested shares and share snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]
  • Added more coverage for the auto close open file handles logic during HA storage pool failover to help unmount shares under the nfs /exports path as well as nested shares/snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]

Multitenancy

  • Fixed some issues with Multitenancy Container discovery and database table updates. [ QSTOR-10363 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added a exact match filter config file /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_portFilter.conf for interface names that allows users to blacklist interfaces they do not want QuantaStor to see and/or manage. [ QSTOR-9664 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with the Network Share samba audit logging feature when upgrading from a legacy audit logging config. [ QSTOR-10390 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]

Security

  • Adds support for controlling the sample period over which bad login attempts can trigger a short or permanent lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
  • Adds support for controlling the duration of the short lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
  • Fixes a security bug where good login attempts could mask bad login attempts by clearing the bad login attempt sample set for a given user. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
  • Changes the special rules around bad login attempts for the 'admin' user, now allowing it to be locked. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
  • Adds a touch file to unlock the 'admin' user account. [ QSTOR-10374 ]
  • Adds a touch file to block the permanent locking of the 'admin' user account, which is similar to the current behavior. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue where iSCSI CHAP was not being correctly enabled in the iSCSI target on volumes when configured. [ QSTOR-10398 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Fibre Channel Storage Volumes being presented after Storage System boot for Single QuantaStor node deployments (non-HA). [ QSTOR-10277 ]

v6.3.4.003 (May 14th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.4.

Release Notes

Web Manager

  • Optimized WebUI login time for Large Scale-out Object deployments. [ QSTOR-10365 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the WUI idle logout timer would be reached even when browsing inside of the WUI for various different sections. [ QSTOR-10361 ]

v6.3.3.033 (May 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added qs_rgw_iam_policy.sh script for generating S3api IAM compatible bucket policies. [ QSTOR-10336 ]
  • Added FQDN specific string validation to the Modify Realm/Zone Group dialog. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
  • Fixed some items with the Modify Realm/Zone Group task. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
  • Added a drop-down to the Create Storage Class Dialog with pre-defined S3 Storage Classes supported by most S3 CLI and S3 Library based clients. Users can still create a custom Storage class if they so choose and use their own custom S3 API implementation that supports Custom S3 Storage Classes. [ QSTOR-10232 ]
  • Fixed some issues with adding/removing S3 Gateways with Load Balancers. [ QSTOR-9848 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a force flag to the Remove Site Cluster Virtual Interface dialog. [ QSTOR-8276 ]
  • Added logic to auto re-apply iofencing to devices that are re-added to the system due to prior physical removal or power loss of the device/device enclosure. [ QSTOR-5475 ]
  • Fixed an issue with enabling client connectivity on HA Groups and implemented more safe guards. [ QSTOR-3432 ]

Network Shares

  • Add touch file to limit discovery of snapshots of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10334 ]
  • Fixed: Network Share rename will correctly remount the /export/ NFS mount location to the new name. [ QSTOR-10318 ]
  • Fix minor message during share disable with active SMB clients. [ QSTOR-10292 ]
  • Share disable will close open file handles to the share when accessed via SMB. [ QSTOR-10291 ]
  • Fixed an issue where Network sub-share alias shares would not start properly after Storage Pool HA Failover. [ QSTOR-10278 ]
  • Fixed an issue where share alias advanced settings allowed modification after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-10276 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix update selections for a replication schedule for cases where source is on a HA pool. [ QSTOR-10310 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Windows Previous Versions on share-alias. [ QSTOR-10274 ]
  • Added a check to ensure no duplicate share alias names are created on the same parent share. [ QSTOR-10274 ]

Security

  • Fixed an issue where the Security Manager > Default Login Username field was not initializing to 'admin' for default installs and upgrades. [ QSTOR-10323 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added logic to remove legacy google-compute-engine-oslogin and/or google-guest-agent on upgrade. These packages caused systems to not shutdown properly when installed. [ QSTOR-10340 ]
  • Added a check to ensure the ledmon service is disabled by default. This is to ensure that there are no conflicts with the QuantaStor managed Disk Identify logic. [ QSTOR-10313 ]

Web Manager

  • Added paging support to S3 Bucket search [ QSTOR-10324 ]

v6.3.2.025 (April 15th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.2.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added search capability to the S3 Bucket section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10288 ]
  • Added Rule Sorting and an explicit rule remove button to the Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules Dialog. [ QSTOR-10287 ]
  • Added: You can now add the FQDN's for DNS names that you want the S3 Gateways to respond to via the Modify Realm/Zone Group Dialog. Note: you must add the FQDN's of the hosts or an FQDN alias e.g. s3.yourdomain.net (like used by DNS round robin) for the HAproxy load balancer to work properly. [ QSTOR-10285 ]
  • Fixed issues with Ceph S3 Bucket discovery with a large amount of buckets. [ QSTOR-10261 ]
  • Fixed some items related to Veeam SOSAPI integration based on testing in Veeam Certifcation scripts. [ QSTOR-10243 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where Dell RAID Controllers were being discovered twice in due to new support for the controllers discovery in Broadcom storcli utilities. [ QSTOR-10244 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where rebooting an active High Availability storage node would cause ZFS encrypted shares to go offline for any active pools on that node prior to automatic failover. [ QSTOR-10218 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue where legacy VLAN interfaces that had the RX/TX optimizations flag set would not allow modification of the interface for any other setting. [ QSTOR-10272 ]

Not Set

  • Added logic to prioritize high-speed data ports by default in the Ceph Cluster create and S3 gateway create dialogs. [ QSTOR-10266 ]
  • Fixed usable space calculation on Object Pool Group when there are multiple Pools or Storage Classes using the same OSD's. [ QSTOR-10264 ]
  • Fixed an issue with modifying a network share after after a custom veto files setting had been added to the samba cifs options. Now the veto files merge as a set with the default .qssnaps veto files used by the VSS GMT snapshots feature. [ QSTOR-10249 ]

Security

Service Core

  • Added support for replacing ntpd with chronyd in Ubuntu Focal platform based deployments. [ QSTOR-10239 ]

v6.3.1.009 (April 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.1.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed an issue where a pool running a scrub would report as degraded in the Config Analyzer health report. [ QSTOR-10258 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added qs-rgw-moveobjects script to allow easier s3api copy-object of a buckets contents to a different storage class. [ QSTOR-10268 ]
  • Changed haproxy load-balancer to use balance source mode by default. [ QSTOR-10260 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the Storage Class Auto-Tiering rules where multipart uploads with Capacity Operators of greater than or greater and equal to the Capacity Threshold would not be uploaded to the correct storage class. [ QSTOR-10254 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Changed qs-util seagate-ap-split mode command to use zone 5 [ QSTOR-10259 ]

Web Manager

  • Increased default max bucket count for S3 user to 100K. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
  • Added new Grid Preferred Port status column in the Network Port Grid. It's hidden by default. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
  • Fixed s3 gateway dialog height so it can show more nodes in the grid. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
  • Fixed s3 tenant create, if "Display Name" is not specified use the "Name" (display name is no longer mandatory in dialog). [ QSTOR-10256 ]

v6.3.0.268 (March 20th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed an issue where md software raid os partitions where being reported in the config analyzer as offline storage pools. [ QSTOR-10168 ]
  • Fixed an issue where non-management ports were being flagged in the config analyzer for iSCSI acess being enabled. [ QSTOR-9891 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Blocked creating new OSDs when the OSD service is masked. [ QSTOR-10212 ]
  • Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the S3 User's and Tenant tree. [ QSTOR-10156 ]
  • Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the bucket tree. [ QSTOR-10150 ]
  • Add support for multiple data pools for storage classes for Ceph Object Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-10137 ]
  • Add auto tiering capability to ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-10125 ]
  • Change the Ceph block storage pool to default to replica=3 for performance. [ QSTOR-10062 ]
  • For CephFS, the min_size for the metadata pool should be 2. [ QSTOR-10015 ]
  • Introduce safe disk replacement for Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-9937 ]
  • Applied adjustments to Ceph Clusters for optimized scrubs on smaller and denser clusters. [ QSTOR-9900 ]
  • Updated NFS Ganesha to 5.7 [ QSTOR-9821 ]
  • Add support for Ceph Multi-site bucket replication. [ QSTOR-6570 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for ScaleFlux CSD 3000 SSDs that support builtin compression provisioning. [ QSTOR-10198 ]
  • Fixed an issue with disk correlation by serial number on Broadcom/LSI 93XX series HBAs. [ QSTOR-10194 ]
  • Show osd number in 'qs disk-list'. [ QSTOR-9717 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add enclosure view for the ASUS 2u24 NVMe. [ QSTOR-10202 ]
  • Fix controller selection issue in the 'Identify Hardware Controller Disk Device' dialog for when the selected object in the Physical Disk tree is a Physical Disk and not the Disk itself. [ QSTOR-10195 ]
  • Updated wddcs tool to 3.2.8.0 [ QSTOR-10166 ]
  • Added to feature to create or delete multiple External System Volume configurations. [ QSTOR-10061 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the Create HA Failover Group Dialog when there are active FC sessions on volumes on the selected pool. [ QSTOR-10169 ]
  • Changed NVMe reservations to use cptpl=2 when available so that iofencing is cleared on power on of a nvme drive. [ QSTOR-10124 ]

Licensing

  • Added logic to auto-fetch new QuantaStor License Server ca certificates during online license activation. [ QSTOR-10174 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Update rclone version. [ QSTOR-9512 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Show static route parent port in the respective grid and delete dialog. [ QSTOR-10199 ]
  • Fixed an issue with onlining/restarting offline VLAN interfaces. [ QSTOR-10180 ]
  • Fixed an issue with VLAN ontop of Bonded ports on VM deployed QuantaStor instances. [ QSTOR-10180 ]
  • Improve the Network bond mode descriptions, in the 'Create Bonded Port' dialog, for those that require managed switches. [ QSTOR-9842 ]
  • Added IP address place holder for DHCP interfaces that have no assigned IP address. [ QSTOR-9828 ]
  • Fixed an issue with downing virtual interfaces when converting to HA virtual interface. [ QSTOR-9774 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor Web UI fix to display share quota percent utilization. [ QSTOR-10121 ]
  • Implemented a Real Time Auto Copy feature to enhance data protection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-9929 ]
  • Updated Focal platform Samba to 4.18.6 backported from ubuntu upstream release. [ QSTOR-9924 ]
  • Show parent shares in the 'qs share-list' command results. [ QSTOR-9702 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Add the ability to force create symbolic links for backup policy outbound-move to cloud containers without a delay of 24 hours. [ QSTOR-10136 ]
  • Update Replication Report Summary object as failed if source system reboots right after schedule is triggered. [ QSTOR-10097 ]

SNMP

  • Regen SNMP MIB for 6.3 [ QSTOR-10228 ]

Security

  • Updated JQuery version used in the QuantaStor WebUI to 3.7.1 [ QSTOR-10064 ]
  • Add Audit Log Viewing to the Storage System menus. [ QSTOR-10031 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Improved logic for replacing zpool UNAVAIL disks that are identified by their id instead of a device path as the disk is no longer present or visible to the OS. [ QSTOR-10129 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Automatically disable and mask uefi fwupd service on platforms that include it to prevent unplanned firmware updates. [ QSTOR-10205 ]
  • Fixed: the low boot space warning for kernel upgrades now correctly appears in the Upgrade Manager task failure message. [ QSTOR-10185 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the scst/zfs userspace packages were not being pinned on security updates. [ QSTOR-10185 ]
  • Fixed an issue where qstortarget was incorrectly selected during security updates but fails due to existing pinning rules. qstortarget now correctly only gets selected for install on kernel/driver upgrades. [ QSTOR-10185 ]

Web Manager

  • Minor fix to show NA for share-alias space columns. [ QSTOR-10227 ]
  • Login dialog shown after service restart is complete. [ QSTOR-10007 ]

v6.2.8.016 (March 5th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.8.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed Hardware Disk to Physical disk slot correlation issues. [ QSTOR-10135 ]
  • Improved Enclosure object guid uniqueness to better support more complex/multipath setups for hardware disk to physical disk mapping. [ QSTOR-10135 ]
  • Added Hardware Enclosure Serial\# property and logic to discover serial\# when available. [ QSTOR-10102 ]

Multitenancy

  • Updated Resilio container image to 3.8.1.2250 [ QSTOR-10162 ]
  • Fix errors with Resilio container errors seen after upgrade. [ QSTOR-10099 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause duplicate snapshot objects to appear for snapshot schedules with nested shares and recursive snapshot enabled. [ QSTOR-10159 ]
  • Added a check to temporarily prevent adding ZFS dataset encrypted Network Shares to remote replication schedules until the Open ZFS issue \#12014 is resolved in an upcoming ZFS release. [ QSTOR-10145 ]
  • Fixed an issue with using Windows Restore Previous Versions on remote Replica \_chkpnt Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10065 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Updated SCST driver to 3.8.0.9038-f134517-qs01 to support latest available linux kernels for Focal platform and Focal cloud platform kernels. [ QSTOR-10151 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added Kernel Driver Support for QuantaStor installation on Ubuntu 20.04 images on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. [ QSTOR-10138 ]

v6.2.7.002 (February 23rd 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.7.

Release Notes

Licensing

  • Updated license manager certificates for online license activation. [ QSTOR-10154 ]

v6.2.6.024 (February 8th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.6.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for iofencing NVMe disks that do not support cdw11 [ QSTOR-10087 ]
  • Added an Alert for when a OS Software RAID1 mirror enters a degraded state. [ QSTOR-10080 ]
  • Added support LSI-3008C0 model controllers. [ QSTOR-9841 ]
  • Added a check to hardware Enclosure Discovery to automatically filter out enclosures that do not have any drive slots. [ QSTOR-9716 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the I/O fencing tool where it was reporting not-supported on reservation capable nvme devices. [ QSTOR-10114 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Updated static routes to use modern ip route syntax with the 'proto static' option. [ QSTOR-10103 ]
  • Updated netplan conversion to by default create static routes using ip route to match the original netplan static route rules. [ QSTOR-10103 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: Activate HA Failover Group now works for Storage Pools in a degraded state missing a few devices. [ QSTOR-10100 ]
  • Fixed: Create HA Failover Group now allows a force option if there are a small number of drives missing on the secondary node. Note that the operation will still be blocked if most/all of the drives are missing from the secondary node. [ QSTOR-10100 ]
  • Added support for Zero Touch Maintenance Automatic Global Hot spare marking of Hardware RAID0 Passthrough units. [ QSTOR-9865 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed: NVMe Target Storage volumes now persist their serial numbers correctly on reboot [ QSTOR-9992 ]
  • Fixed: the NVMe Target now correctly re-exports the allowed portals on system boot. [ QSTOR-9992 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support the latest Focal platform 5.15.0-91-generic kernel. [ QSTOR-10117 ]
  • Updated the GPG repo keys for QuantaStor RedHat / and Almalinux platform installs [ QSTOR-10107 ]
  • Fixed a incorrect error log when upgrading the Kernel and Drivers on the Ubuntu Focal platform. The upgrade would succeed when the error was seen, but it was unclear to the user without full log analysis. [ QSTOR-10106 ]
  • Updated upgrade manager logic to ensure recommended dependency packages are always selected for install during core service and security upgrades. [ QSTOR-10101 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the qs-distupgrade script where some QuantaStor core package changes were not being applied after a platform dist-upgrade from bionic to focal. [ QSTOR-10132 ]
  • Added better logging of systemctl service enablement and restart during qstorservice package installs. [ QSTOR-10134 ]

v6.2.5.032 (January 18th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.5.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added ssh port 22 to network connectivity checker tests. [ QSTOR-10092 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix bug where ceph monitor daemon is disabled. [ QSTOR-10095 ]
  • Added script to setup Ceph multi-site replication. [ QSTOR-10075 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli version to 007.2705.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10072 ]
  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-10036 ]
  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-9825 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated Linux Kernel to 5.15.0-91-generic for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]
  • Linux Kernel 5.15.0-91-generic includes fixes for NFS v3 lockd that would cause file handles to be left open for NFSv3 clients when attempting to stop the nfs server before ZFS pool export during HA failover. [ QSTOR-10025 ]
  • Updated ZFS to 2.1.14.qs25 for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]

Multitenancy

  • Fix an issue with missing Service Configs. [ QSTOR-10079 ]
  • Add the ability to sync nested shares when parent share is selected in Resilio. Optionally skip changing the share permissions when user is specified in the config file. [ QSTOR-10070 ]

Network Shares

  • Block rename of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10091 ]
  • Add the ability to enable and clone a GMT snapshot [ QSTOR-4145 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue where Remote Replication Schedules can fail if 2 source snapshots have the same created timestamp. [ QSTOR-10059 ]
  • Fix a minor issue with File Age settings in the Backup Schedule Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10056 ]
  • Properly transition a Replication task and Replication Report to the 'failed' status if the source system loses power during the Replication. [ QSTOR-10041 ]
  • Add a warning if checkpoint is selected in create snapshot schedule. [ QSTOR-10038 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with zfs storage volumes being correctly marked as missing if the underlying zfs zvol or snapshot is removed or unavailable. [ QSTOR-10086 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a --password option to the qs\_install.sh script to allow users to provide the QuantaStor admin user password as well as the same password for the default qadmin shell account. [ QSTOR-10085 ]

Web Manager

  • Clear the replica summary graph when there are no report entries. [ QSTOR-10057 ]
  • Fix enclosure graph rendering issue where a selected system with multiple valid controllers was not being render because of one underlying MD BOOT Controller. [ QSTOR-10055 ]

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