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Change Log Archive 2026

v6.7.6.001 (June 25th 2026)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ]
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