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= ChangeLog =
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= Change Log Overview =
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]].
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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 4.6.3.001. 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 v4.6.
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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 ====
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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.  
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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.
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== 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]]
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==== Major Updates (X.y.z) ====
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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 ====
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==== Feature Updates (x.Y.z) ====
The minor version number increments with each minor product update release of QuantaStor which comes out every 2 - 4 monthsReleases 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 upgradeIn 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.
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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 updatesNo 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 ====
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==== Maintenance Updates (x.y.Z) ====
If the release includes maintenance version number like 4.6.'''2''' or 4.6.'''3''' 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. All Hotfix release packages are provided against the current stable release.
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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 ====
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==== 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.
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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 ===
 
=== ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image ===
  
* The latest version of QuantaStor can be found on our [http://downloads.osnexus.com downloads page here].
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* 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.]]
 
* [[QuantaStor_Installation_via_USB_Thumb_Drive|Bootable Flash Drive instructions.]]
  
note: older versions of QuantaStor install media and CLI can be found [http://downloads.osnexus.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/list.html here].
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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].
  
== v5.1.2.002 (March 13th 2019) ==
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= Recent Change Logs =
  
=== [[QuantaStor 5.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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== v6.3.3.033 (May 1st 2024) ==
Click [[QuantaStor 5.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 5.1.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v5.1.2]].
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===Release Notes===
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=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.3]].
  
Core Service
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=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed an issue with the keep alive process checker restarting the tomcat web server every minute. [ QSTOR-5698 ]
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== v5.1.1.008 (March 7th 2019) ==
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Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
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* Added qs_rgw_iam_policy.sh script for generating S3api IAM compatible bucket policies. [ QSTOR-10336 ]
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* Added FQDN specific string validation to the Modify Realm/Zone Group dialog. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
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* Fixed some items with the Modify Realm/Zone Group task. [ QSTOR-10320 ]
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* 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 ]
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* Fixed some issues with adding/removing S3 Gateways with Load Balancers. [ QSTOR-9848 ]
  
QuantaStor 5.1.1 was deprecated for the 5.1.2 release.
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High Availability Failover
 
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* Added a force flag to the Remove Site Cluster Virtual Interface dialog. [ QSTOR-8276 ]
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* 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 ]
 
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* Fixed an issue with enabling client connectivity on HA Groups and implemented more safe guards. [ QSTOR-3432 ]
Installer
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* Updated Installer ISO [ QSTOR-5684 ]
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Network Shares
 
Network Shares
* Fixed an issue with customizing the Network Share record size. [ QSTOR-5641 ]
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* Add touch file to limit discovery of snapshots of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10334 ]
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* Fixed: Network Share rename will correctly remount the /export/ NFS mount location to the new name. [ QSTOR-10318 ]
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* Fix minor message during share disable with active SMB clients. [ QSTOR-10292 ]
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* Share disable will close open file handles to the share when accessed via SMB. [ QSTOR-10291 ]
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* Fixed an issue where Network sub-share alias shares would not start properly after Storage Pool HA Failover. [ QSTOR-10278 ]
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* Fixed an issue where share alias advanced settings allowed modification after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-10276 ]
  
Authentication
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Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed a management service crash related to multi-factor authentication. [ QSTOR-5640 ]
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* Fix update selections for a replication schedule for cases where source is on a HA pool. [ QSTOR-10310 ]
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* Fixed an issue with Windows Previous Versions on share-alias. [ QSTOR-10274 ]
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* Added a check to ensure no duplicate share alias names are created on the same parent share. [ QSTOR-10274 ]
  
Storage Volume
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Security
* Fixed an issue preventing the creation of passthru Storage Volumes from raw disk devices. [ QSTOR-5636 ]
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* Fixed an issue where the Security Manager > Default Login Username field was not initializing to 'admin' for default installs and upgrades. [ QSTOR-10323 ]
  
Disk Devices
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Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed an issue with NVME device support. [ QSTOR-5646 ]
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* 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 ]
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* 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 ]
  
Core Service
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Web Manager
* Fixed: The Auto-restart logic for the QuantaStor Management service was updated for the Xenial platform. [ QSTOR-5628 ]
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* Added paging support to S3 Bucket search [ QSTOR-10324 ]
  
== v5.1.0.160 (Feb 14th 2019) ==
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== v6.3.2.025 (April 15th 2024) ==
  
=== [[QuantaStor 5.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 5.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 5.1.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v5.1.0]].
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Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.2]].
  
===Release Notes===
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=== Release Notes ===
  
* Updated QuantaStor update repository to a new distribution namespace of 'quantastor-xenial' for future upgrades. [ QSTOR-5609 ]
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Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
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* Added search capability to the S3 Bucket section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10288 ]
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* Added Rule Sorting and an explicit rule remove button to the Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules Dialog. [ QSTOR-10287 ]
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* 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 ]
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* Fixed issues with Ceph S3 Bucket discovery with a large amount of buckets. [ QSTOR-10261 ]
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* Fixed some items related to Veeam SOSAPI integration based on testing in Veeam Certifcation scripts. [ QSTOR-10243 ]
  
Ceph
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Enclosures and Controllers
* Added a quick disk format to OSD creation to ensure a disk is clean of any prior partitioning and formatting before use. [ QSTOR-5341 ]
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* 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 ]
  
Storage pools
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High Availability Failover
* Added 'Storage System Optimization' dialog that includes additional tunable controls for ZFS Storage Pool performance settings. [ QSTOR-5583 ]
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* 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 ]
* Added 'qs tunable-*' command sets that allow for CLI configuration of the settings available in the 'Storage System Optimization' dialog. for more information on the commands and their usage please see 'qs help=tunable' [ QSTOR-5543 ]
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* Adds more detail to the Storage Pool Delete warning pop-up to clarify for users what Storage Pool on which QuantaStor node is to be deleted when they click the 'Yes' to confirm the deletion. [ QSTOR-5623 ]
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* Fixed an issue on Virtual Machines where the wrong disk block size(ashift) was being specified during ZFS Pool creation. [ QSTOR-5570 ]
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* Added logic to select the highest matching block size (ashift) for a disk set during ZFS pool creation. [ QSTOR-5570 ]
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* Added checks for ZFS pool creation to ensure that physical disk blocksizes(ashift) up to 64k are supported. Disks with blocksizes larger than 64k are not supported with the ZFS filesystem pool type at this time and will generate an error during ZFS Storage Pool creation recommending the use of disks with a 64k or lower blocksize. [ QSTOR-5570 ]
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* Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools with passphrase, this corrects a regression introduced in 5.0 [ QSTOR-5621 ]
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* Fixed an issue with encrypting ATA devices. This corrects an issue introduced in the 5.0 release. [ QSTOR-5575 ]
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* Fixed an issue with system boot after creating Encrypted Storage Pools [ QSTOR-5627 ]
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* Fixed: manually importing a Storage Pool now immediately performs iofencing of the disk devices during the import process. [ QSTOR-5540 ]
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Storage Volumes
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Network Interfaces
* Changed the default blocksize used during storage volume creation from 128k to 8k. [ QSTOR-5570 ]
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* 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 ]
* Removed the ambiguous 'auto' option from the blocksize selection storage volume create and modify dialogs. 8k will now be the default selection and setting in the WebUi and for qs cli volume creation." [ QSTOR-5570 ]
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* Updated the Storage Volume Create Dialog with the same Compression, sync and blocksize options as the Storage Volume Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-5495 ]
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* Added logic to prioritize high-speed data ports by default in the Ceph Cluster create and S3 gateway create dialogs. [ QSTOR-10266 ]
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* Fixed usable space calculation on Object Pool Group when there are multiple Pools or Storage Classes using the same OSD's. [ QSTOR-10264 ]
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* 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 ]
  
High Availability
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Security
* Adds high Availability iofencing support for NVME shared storage devices. [ QSTOR-5447 ]
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* Updated the OSNEXUS Security Notice service [https://services.osnexus.com/security/](https://services.osnexus.com/security/) for bionic and focal platform support. [ QSTOR-10269 ]
* Fixed an issue that would sometimes leave VIF cluster ports on QuantaStor 5.0 after deletion by a user. [ QSTOR-5616 ]
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* Fixed an issue with HA cluster discovery introduced in the platform change in 5.0 [ QSTOR-5176 ]
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Service Core
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* Added support for replacing ntpd with chronyd in Ubuntu Focal platform based deployments. [ QSTOR-10239 ]
  
Installer
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== v6.3.1.009 (April 1st 2024) ==
* Added a new EFI installer option for systems that have a TPM module. [ QSTOR-5572 ]
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=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.1]].
  
NAS Gateway / Cloud Container
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=== Release Notes ===
* Renamed the Cloud Container tab in the WebUI to 'NAS Gateway' [ QSTOR-5468 ]
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* Various Improvements to the Cloud Container management section of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-5468 ]
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* Fixed an issue with creating Cloud Containers in some Amazon S3 regions. [ QSTOR-5557 ]
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* Removed Cloud Container 'Repair', 'Modify' and 'Remove' context menu options that are no longer required for the deduplication s3ql style Cloud Containers that was deprecated in QuantaStor 5.0. [ QSTOR-5552 ]
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Alerts and Configuration Analysis
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* Fixed an issue where a pool running a scrub would report as degraded in the Config Analyzer health report. [ QSTOR-10258 ]
  
Network Shares
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Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
* Updated the Network Share Show Mount Command Dialog to prioritize the IP used in the mount command based on Link Speed and if the Interface is a VIF. A drop-down IP and interface selection now allows users to easily customize the mount command output. [ QSTOR-4651 ]
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* Added qs-rgw-moveobjects script to allow easier s3api copy-object of a buckets contents to a different storage class. [ QSTOR-10268 ]
* Fixed an issue with Network Share namespaces where /export bind mounts were being placed on systems outside of the namespace. [ QSTOR-4977 ]
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* Changed haproxy load-balancer to use balance source mode by default. [ QSTOR-10260 ]
* Improved filtering and visibility for snapshot parent shares in the Network Share Multi-Delete dialog to make manually removing Snapshots easier on configurations with many snapshots. [ QSTOR-5427 ]
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* 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 ]
  
Remote Replication
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Enclosures and Controllers
* Changed Storage System Link in qs CLI to 'Replication Link' e.g. the commands are now 'qs replication-link-create' 'qs replication-link-list' 'qs replication-link-get' etc. [ QSTOR-5619 ]
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* Changed qs-util seagate-ap-split mode command to use zone 5 [ QSTOR-10259 ]
* Added a clarification for the Replication link speed bandwidth limiter to also show MegaBits per second (Mb/s) in addition to the details for MegaBytes (MB/s) per second that were already shown. [ QSTOR-5535 ]
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Gluster
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* Fixed an issue where pvdisplay commands would hang after Gluster config tear down. [ QSTOR-5223 ]
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* Fixed an issue where Storage Systems would be listed twice in the Gluster Peer Detach Dialog [ QSTOR-5525 ]
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Web Manager
 
Web Manager
* Fixed an issue with showing the users inside of a Multitenancy>Resource Group [ QSTOR-5591 ]
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* Increased default max bucket count for S3 user to 100K. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
 
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* Added new Grid Preferred Port status column in the Network Port Grid. It's hidden by default. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
ZFS
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* Fixed s3 gateway dialog height so it can show more nodes in the grid. [ QSTOR-10256 ]
* Fixed: enabled zvol_request_sync=1 for the ZFS 0.7.12 driver to resolve a kernel panic that can occur in some Storage Volume use cases. This tunable 'sst_zvol_request_sync' is managed via the new 'qs tunable-*' CLI commands. [ QSTOR-5612 ]
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* Fixed s3 tenant create, if "Display Name" is not specified use the "Name" (display name is no longer mandatory in dialog). [ QSTOR-10256 ]
 
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Core Service
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* Added support for authenticated shutdown of a QuantaStor node initiated by APC UPS's with apsupsd. [ QSTOR-5592 ]
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* Fixed an issue preventing the ZFS Event Daemon service from running on QuantaStor 5.0 [ QSTOR-5580 ]
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Disk Management
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* Added the ability to blink storage pool device groups (vdevs) via the CLI with 'qs spdg-list' and 'qs spdg-ident' commands. [ QSTOR-5566 ]
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* Fixed an issue where a disk format task would show as 100% completed even though the format actually failed due to iofencing preventing write access. [ QSTOR-5555 ]
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* Fixed: when formatting disks and choosing to clear iofencing, the iofencing is now cleared first to ensure formatting can complete without a denial for write access. [ QSTOR-5617 ]
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Hardware Controller and Enclosure Management
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* Updated Acromove ServerPack enclosure information to match current offerings. [ QSTOR-5614 ]
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* Updated Hardware Unit Identify Dialog to allow on, off and duration specific identification for supported Hardware Raid unit enclosure slot identification. [ QSTOR-5562 ]
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SNMP
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* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5604 ]
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== v5.0.0.093 (Dec 21st 2018) ==
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'''Note: for IBM Cloud / SoftLayer users'''
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As an addendum to Event 73376867 QuantaStor 5.x will be replacing QuantaStor 4.x in the IBM Cloud starting April 1st, 2019. After April 1st QuantaStor 5.x will be the available provisioning version for new deployments. Long term maintenance and updates for existing installations of QuantaStor 4.x will be enabled with migrating to QuantaStor 5.x starting with the release of QuantaStor 4.7.2 mid-March, 2019.
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For assistance with upgrading an existing QuantaStor 4.x system to QuantaStor 5.x please contact IBM Cloud Support.
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=== QuantaStor 5.0.0 Upgrade Instructions ===
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QuantaStor 5.0.0 was released as ISO media.  Upgrades from QuantaStor 4.x to 5.x will be available with the release of QuantaStor 4.7.2.
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=== QuantaStor 5.0.0 Installation Media ===
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QuantaStor v5.0.0 is available at the link here: [http://downloads.osnexus.com/osn_quantastor_latest_v5.iso QuantaStor v5.0.0 ISO] [http://downloads.osnexus.com/osn_quantastor_latest_v5.md5 md5]
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===Release Notes===
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Release Highlights:
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* Base Platform upgraded to Ubuntu Xenial.
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* Linux Kernel updated to 4.15.0-36-generic.
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* Updated Ceph version to Luminous.
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* New Ceph OSD's will use Bluestore as their backing storage providing a large performance improvement.
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* Added Encryption at rest for Ceph OSD devices.
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* Added Ceph Crush Map management via Ceph Pool Profiles.
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* Added Ansible Automation support, contact OSNEXUS Sales Engineering for details.
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* Updated Cloud Container (NAS Gateway) backend to provide better performance scaling and support for additional Cloud Providors from Microsoft Azure and Backblaze.
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* Added Configuration Analyzer to help users more easily identify problems and address them.
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* Added IPMI sensor monitoring for server models from Dell, HPE, Cisco, Intel, Supermicro, and Lenovo.
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* Added support for HPE’s NV-DIMM technology for use in scale-out object and block storage configurations.
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Further release notes to be posted for detailed QSTOR ticket items
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== v4.7.1.010 (Dec 20th 2018) ==
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=== [[QuantaStor 4.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Click [[QuantaStor 4.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.7.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.1]].
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===Release Notes===
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== v6.3.0.268  (March 20th 2024) ==
  
Ceph
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=== [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Click [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.3.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.0]].
  
* Added the 'Create Ceph Pool Profile' dialog to allow detailed tuning of erasure coded pool CRUSH map rules. [ QSTOR-5049 ]
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=== Release Notes ===
* Added text to recommend increasing the OSD count for your cluster if your cluster is in the 'too few PGs per OSD' Ceph Health warning state. [ QSTOR-5340 ]
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* Added: Additional properties for ceph cluster member added to the grid view. [ QSTOR-5391 ]
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* Created a new multi-add dialog for adding multiple New Members to a Ceph Cluster. [ QSTOR-5381 ]
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* Enable all types of erasure coded ceph pool profiles including: reed_sol_van, reed_sol_r6_op, cauchy_orig, cauchy_good, liberation, blaum_roth, and liber8tion [ QSTOR-5404 ]
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* Fixed an issue that could prevent the deletion of Ceph OSD's. [ QSTOR-5350 ]
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* Fixed an issue that was preventing users from querying the .rgw.root Ceph Pool via the 'qs ceph-pool-get' cli command. [ QSTOR-5276 ]
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* Fixed an issue where Ceph Journal devices were being rediscovered and recreated as new objects inside of the QuantaStor management layer. [ QSTOR-5421 ]
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* Fixed an issue with ceph journal device rediscovery if the QuantaStor node has been reinstalled and disks were not cleanly reformatted. [ QSTOR-5412 ]
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* Removed duplicate entries in the Profile combo box of the Ceph Zone Create dialog. [ QSTOR-5406 ]
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* Fixed an issue where the isWalDevice flag was not being updated after ceph cluster tear down. [ QSTOR-5367 ]
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Alerts and Configuration Analysis
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* Fixed an issue where md software raid os partitions where being reported in the config analyzer as offline storage pools. [ QSTOR-10168 ]
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* Fixed an issue where non-management ports were being flagged in the config analyzer for iSCSI acess being enabled. [ QSTOR-9891 ]
  
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Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
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* Blocked creating new OSDs when the OSD service is masked. [ QSTOR-10212 ]
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* Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the S3 User's and Tenant tree. [ QSTOR-10156 ]
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* Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the bucket tree. [ QSTOR-10150 ]
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* Add support for multiple data pools for storage classes for Ceph Object Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-10137 ]
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* Add auto tiering capability to ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-10125 ]
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* Change the Ceph block storage pool to default to replica=3 for performance. [ QSTOR-10062 ]
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* For CephFS, the min_size for the metadata pool should be 2. [ QSTOR-10015 ]
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* Introduce safe disk replacement for Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-9937 ]
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* Applied adjustments to Ceph Clusters for optimized scrubs on smaller and denser clusters. [ QSTOR-9900 ]
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* Updated NFS Ganesha to 5.7 [ QSTOR-9821 ]
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* Add support for Ceph Multi-site bucket replication. [ QSTOR-6570 ]
  
 
Disk Management
 
Disk Management
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* Added support for ScaleFlux CSD 3000 SSDs that support builtin compression provisioning. [ QSTOR-10198 ]
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* Fixed an issue with disk correlation by serial number on Broadcom/LSI 93XX series HBAs. [ QSTOR-10194 ]
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* Show osd number in 'qs disk-list'. [ QSTOR-9717 ]
  
* Added logic to throttle automatic disk scans for faulty devices that rapidly and repeatedly remove/add themselves to the system over a short period of time. [ QSTOR-5437 ]
+
Enclosures and Controllers
* Added the 'qs-util devinfo' command that can be used to check the queue depth and other tuning options of a disk as set by a storage pool profile. [ QSTOR-5435 ]
+
* Add enclosure view for the ASUS 2u24 NVMe. [ QSTOR-10202 ]
* Fixed an issue that could cause the disk identify LED for a user initiated identify task to be shut off early. [ QSTOR-5374 ]
+
* 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: launching the Disk Identify dialog in the Storage Pool and Physical Disks section will automatically select the disk that was right clicked on in the grid or tree view. [ QSTOR-5114 ]
+
* Updated wddcs tool to 3.2.8.0 [ QSTOR-10166 ]
* Fixed an issue where physical disks were still associated with deleted OSD's. [ QSTOR-5376 ]
+
* 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 ]
  
Hotspare Disk Management
+
Licensing
 +
* Added logic to auto-fetch new QuantaStor License Server ca certificates during online license activation. [ QSTOR-10174 ]
  
* Fixed: Global Spare disks will be iofenced when joining a storage pool as a replacement disk for a failed drive. [ QSTOR-5453 ]
+
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
* Fixed: Global Spare disks will automatically be unmarked for use as a spare when consumed to repair or grow a storage pool. [ QSTOR-5455 ]
+
* 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 ]
  
Storage Pools
+
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 ]
  
* Changed Storage Pool Export to retain I/O fencing of the physical disks by default. [ QSTOR-3227 ]
+
Quantastor CLI
* Added a checkbox to the Storage Pool Export dialog that allows forced clearing of disk I/O fencing. [ QSTOR-3227 ]
+
* Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]
* Fixed an issue that was preventing removing Hot spare disks from a storage pool if they were no longer physically accessible. [ QSTOR-4678 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with the Storage Pool tuning profiles that could have lead to larger than expected queue depths. [ QSTOR-5435 ]
+
* Fixed: Deleting a Storage Pool that cannot be deleted due to all physical disks and VDEV's missing, will now suggest exporting the pool to remove it from the QuantaStor configuration, if a user truly wishes to remove that pool from the system permanently. [ QSTOR-2435 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where the Storage Pool Profile i/o scheduler tuning was not being applied to disk devices. [ QSTOR-5428 ]
+
 
+
 
+
Web Manager
+
 
+
* Increased polling cycles for the dashboard views to 5 seconds. [ QSTOR-5418 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where the Network Share dashboard was not refreshing if a different object type (storage volume or pool) was selected. [ QSTOR-5065 ]
+
* Fixed: Disabled the Multi-factor-Authentication checkbox when creating/modifying users by default if Multi-factor auth has not been configured on the QuantaStor grid. [ QSTOR-5416 ]
+
* Fixed: Widened the 'Create Volume Remote Replica Dialog' to more clearly show the source and destination selection for long storage system names. [ QSTOR-5467 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where the License Key combo box was not being auto-populated by default. [ QSTOR-5033 ]
+
 
+
 
+
Hardware Enclsoures and Controllers
+
 
+
* Fixed enclosure layout automatic discovery for the Cisco S3260/C3X60, Dell MD2060e and Supermicro SBB. [ QSTOR-5436 ]
+
* Fixed an issue that would cause the disk identify LED to light up every minute for Disks on LSI HBA's in IR mode. [ QSTOR-5387 ]
+
* Fixed an issue that could cause the disk identify LED for a user initiated identify task to be shut off early. [ QSTOR-5374 ]
+
 
+
 
+
Cloud Containers
+
 
+
* Fixed: added a check to the Add/Import Cloud Container dialog to ensure that you cannot accidentally import a bucket/container using the wrong Cloud Provider Credentials. [ QSTOR-5345 ]
+
 
+
 
+
Core Service
+
 
+
* Added further ipmi sensor support for Dell, HPE, and Supermicro server nodes. [ QSTOR-5452 ]
+
  
 +
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
 
SNMP
 +
* Regen SNMP MIB for 6.3 [ QSTOR-10228 ]
  
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5488 ]
+
Security
* Added SNMP Object mappings for Ceph Scale-Out Cluster and a few other object types. [ QSTOR-5215 ]
+
* 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 ]
  
== v4.7.0.231 (Nov 5th 2018) ==
+
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 ]
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
Upgrade Manager and Installer
Click [[QuantaStor 4.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.7.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.0]].
+
* 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 ]
===Release Notes===
+
* 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 ]
Key improvements:
+
* Updated megaraid_sas driver to 07.706.03.00
+
* Cisco Duo Multifactor Authentication Support - MFA framework
+
* Cloud Container support for mapping Dropbox folders as NAS Gateway shares
+
* Improved support for Network Share Quotas with alert threshold
+
* Getting Started dialog simplifies common configuration tasks like setting up object storage and provisioning file and block storage.
+
* Automatic Storage Pool device selection in web UI selects drives in sets to ensure disk enclosure fault-toleranance
+
* Grid-wide configuration of DNS/NTP server settings in an single dialog
+
* Storage Pools now show RAID set (vdevs) groupings to simplify management of large pools with 100s of drives
+
* Improved pool and device health alerting, management and LED blink activation system
+
* Integrated server hardware monitoring and platform detection with alerting on server hardware issues including failed fans, power supplies, and high temperature.
+
 
+
Additional Release notes will be posted for QSTOR tickets.
+
 
+
== v4.6.3.001 (Oct 17th 2018) ==
+
 
+
=== [[QuantaStor 4.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
Click [[QuantaStor 4.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.6.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.6.3]].
+
 
+
===Release Notes===
+
 
+
Installer
+
* Fixed an issue with grub-pc upgrade prompt and error during install. [ QSTOR-5254 ]
+
* Updates installer kernel to 4.4.0 [ QSTOR-5231 ]
+
 
+
* Adds updated drivers to install time kernel
+
<pre>
+
i40e: 2.4.3
+
ixgbe: 5.3.4
+
igb: 5.3.5.12
+
e1000e: 3.4.0.2
+
ena: 1.5.0
+
megaraid_sas: 07.706.03.00
+
mpt3sas: 25.00.00.00
+
aacraid: 1.2.1-55022
+
mlnx_en: 3.4
+
hpsa: 3.4.20
+
sfc: 4.12.1.1021
+
arcmsr: 1.30.0X.27-20170206
+
smartpqi: 1.1.2-125
+
</pre>
+
 
+
* Fixes an issue with netboot installations. [ QSTOR-5231 ]
+
 
+
Network Shares
+
* Fixed an issue where custom named snapshots were not inheriting NFS access from the parent share. [ QSTOR-5127 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where the snapshot options in the right click context menu for Network Shares would not always show. [ QSTOR-5143 ]
+
 
+
== v4.6.2.017 (July 26th 2018) ==
+
 
+
=== [[QuantaStor 4.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
Click [[QuantaStor 4.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.6.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.6.2]].
+
 
+
===Release Notes===
+
 
+
Installer
+
* Added updated megaraid_sas 07.706.03.00 driver to trusty platform installer kernel. [ QSTOR-4836 ]
+
* Fixed an issue that could cause a blank screen to appear during boot instead of the expected QuantaStor splash screen. [ QSTOR-4950 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where new installs were not getting auto-multipath for new disks enabled by default. [ QSTOR-4972 ]
+
 
+
Network Shares
+
* Added 'Flat' Namespace options for Windows client DFS access. This option when configured shows Network Shares for other nodes in the QuantaStor grid for access from any configured node. [ QSTOR-4930 ]
+
* Added additional error code information for the new Ldap AD user/group search dialog added in 4.6.0 [ QSTOR-4792 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where a passive HA node would advertise Network Shares that are not longer physically present on the system via smb on it's local IP address(es). [ QSTOR-4980 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where the Network Share Modify dialog would fail to open if local user groups are assigned to a share. [ QSTOR-4905 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with changing the assigned group ownership to be that of a users group if the share had previously been set to ownership for root. [ QSTOR-4764 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with duplicate Share Clone options shown in the UI for the right-click context menu on Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-4907 ]
+
 
+
Active Directory
+
* Fixed: Removing an Active Directory configuration is now immediately reflected upon task completion. [ QSTOR-4793 ]
+
 
+
Ceph
+
* Updated included Ceph version to 12.2.7 [ QSTOR-4953 ]
+
* Updated Minimum memory requirement for ceph node (VM) increased to 4GB [ QSTOR-3400 ]
+
* Added a check for creating erasure coded ceph pools for object storage setup in ceph cluster with less than 3 nodes. Erasure coding for object storage on single node clusters is not available with ceph, please choose one of the mirror profiles instead. [ QSTOR-4915 ]
+
* Added the ability to remove monitors and go below the minimum required number of monitors in a ceph cluster by adding the force flag. [ QSTOR-4872 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with refreshing to display the correct number of OSDs in the Ceph Cluster dashboard cluster after adding OSD's. [ QSTOR-4850 ]
+
 
+
Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
+
* Added a toggle for the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers Enclosure View grid view to collapse the Enclosure graphic panel. This provides the option to show even more of the Enclosure view on smaller displays. [ QSTOR-4936 ]
+
* Adjusted the height and width of disk slots in the Enclosure view. This makes it easier to view the Enclosure layouts on lower resolution displays. [ QSTOR-4917 ]
+
 
+
Disk Management
+
* Changed default page size in the Physical Disk view to show 400 physical disks per page by default. [ QSTOR-4924 ]
+
* Fixed an issue that would require scrubbing a disk's SCSI3-PR io-fencing reservations twice to remove the reservation completely. [ QSTOR-4948 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with SMART disk temperature reporting. This corrects a regression introduced in 4.6.0. [ QSTOR-4949 ]
+
 
+
Remote Replication and Snapshots
+
* Added a tooltip to the Storage System Link Dialog Bandwidth limit slider to indicate a setting of 0 uses the default limit of 100mb/s [ QSTOR-4868 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with character validation when changing the name of a schedule via a replication-schedule-modify qs CLI command. [ QSTOR-4727 ]
+
* Fixed: an alert will now be raise when a snapshot cannot be manually triggered during a cool down period. [ QSTOR-4877 ]
+
 
+
Network Port Management
+
* Added Create Bonded Port option to the ribbon bar at the top of the Storage System section of the QuantaStor web Manager. [ QSTOR-4928 ]
+
* Added maximum advertised link speed information to ports with an offline status. [ QSTOR-4941 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with iSCSI discovery on Manual Virtual interfaces added to Bond and VLAN devices. [ QSTOR-4687 ]
+
 
+
Cloud Containers
+
* Added: Automatically Clean up cache files after removing or deleting a cloud container. [ QSTOR-4530 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where Cloud Containers could sometimes fill up the /tmp directory resulting in not enough free space on the OS disk. [ QSTOR-4529 ]
+
 
+
Storage Pool Management
+
* Fixed an issue that could cause a Storage Pool Remove Cache device task to leave cache devices attached to the selected pool. [ QSTOR-4899 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where removing the Zil log mirror from a pool would leave one disk as iofenced to the pool. [ QSTOR-3214 ]
+
  
 
Web Manager
 
Web Manager
* Fixed multi-delete confirmation popup window now correctly shows the child snapshots in the list. [ QSTOR-4878 ]
+
* Minor fix to show NA for share-alias space columns. [ QSTOR-10227 ]
* Fixed: launching dialogs from right click context menus will by default have the correct system from the selection drop down menu. [ QSTOR-4951 ]
+
* Login dialog shown after service restart is complete. [ QSTOR-10007 ]
  
Service Core & CLI
+
== v6.2.8.016  (March 5th 2024) ==
* Adds filtering to the preferred grid port to ensure HA, Site or Grid VIF's on a node are not used for grid communication.
+
* Fixed: added a check to create a iSCSI initiator name if it is not present for the QuantaStor Software iSCSI Adapter. [ QSTOR-4909 ]
+
* Fixed: the metrics-set command for the qs cli will now return back the expected response confirming the change. [ QSTOR-4568 ]
+
* Increased default RAM limits of management services to allow scaling for larger grids and higher grid object counts. [ QSTOR-4910 ]
+
]]
+
  
== v4.6.1.008 (June 7th 2018) ==
+
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
 +
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.8 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.8]].
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
=== Release Notes ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.6.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.6.1]].
+
  
===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 ]
  
Storage Volumes
+
Multitenancy
* Fixed an issue where storage volume groups were listed in the storage volume section of the Storage Volume group central grid view. [ QSTOR-3753 ]
+
* Updated Resilio container image to 3.8.1.2250 [ QSTOR-10162 ]
* Fixed, Selecting a volume in the Storage Volume list of the Storage Volume Group section of the central grid view now selects the associated Storage volume group.[ QSTOR-3757 ]
+
* Fix errors with Resilio container errors seen after upgrade. [ QSTOR-10099 ]
  
Security
+
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
* Fixed an issue with the Password Policy rules for 'Days until password expires' in the Security Manager. [ QSTOR-4482 ]
+
* 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 ]
  
Ceph
+
SCSI / NVMe Target
* Added the Placement Group count property to the Ceph cluster object. [ QSTOR-4840 ]
+
* 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 ]
* Fixed an issue where the task would never complete when creating a Object Storage Gateway on a single node Ceph configuration. [ QSTOR-4820 ]
+
* Fixed: The Ceph Dashboard now correctly scopes Ceph cluster health for the individual Ceph clusters OSD's and Pools. [ QSTOR-4823 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with Ceph Journal replacement on Ceph Luminous deployments. [ QSTOR-4828 ]
+
* Fixed an issue when creating a Ceph Object Storage Gateway and Pool on Grid's with multiple Ceph clusters configured. [ QSTOR-4821 ]
+
  
Gluster
+
Upgrade Manager and Installer
* Fixed an issue with subshares on Gluster volumes not coming back after reboot. [ QSTOR-4799 ]
+
* Added Kernel Driver Support for QuantaStor installation on Ubuntu 20.04 images on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. [ QSTOR-10138 ]
* Fixed: Deleting a sub-share on a Gluster Volume Network Share is now supported. [ QSTOR-4763 ]
+
* Fixed: The Network Share Owner property is now correctly shown on all Gluster peers in the same Gluster Volume configuration [ QSTOR-4718 ]
+
* Added subshare permission management support for Gluster Volume Network Shares. [ QSTOR-4690 ]
+
  
Storage Volumes
+
== v6.2.7.002  (February 23rd 2024) ==
* Fixed, Selecting a volume in the Storage Volume list of the Storage Volume Group section of the central grid view now selects the associated Storage volume group. [ QSTOR-3757 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where storage volume groups were listed in the storage volume section of the Storage Volume group central grid view. [ QSTOR-3753 ]
+
  
SCSI Target
+
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
* Fixed an issue with WWN Fibre channel address display if the address starts with a zero. [ QSTOR-4827 ]
+
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.7 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.7]].
  
Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
+
=== Release Notes ===
* Added new CBLERR status for Hardware Enclosures that are cabled in ways that are not optimal. Please contact OSNEXUS Support for assistance with proper Enclosure cabling if you see this error state. [ QSTOR-4795 ]
+
* Fixed: HPE H241 controllers in HBA's now correctly fail the disk identify task as it is not supported via the hpe cli utilities. [ QSTOR-4170 ]
+
* Fixed: Selecting a Raid controller in the center grid pane of the Hardware Enclosures and Controller now correctly updates the Properties view. [ QSTOR-3780 ]
+
  
 +
Licensing
  
Service Core
+
* Updated license manager certificates for online license activation. [ QSTOR-10154 ]
* Fixed: Updated udev rules for encrypted devices to ensure they import after a reboot with the correct device path. [ QSTOR-4833 ]
+
  
== v4.6.0.077 (May 22nd 2018) ==
+
== v6.2.6.024  (February 8th 2024) ==
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.6.0 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
=== [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
Click [[QuantaStor 4.6.0 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.6.0 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.6.0]].
+
Click [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 6.2.6 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.6]].
  
===Release Notes===
+
=== Release Notes ===
  
* Enabled Ceph Management for Migration Edition.  [ QSTOR-4695 ]
+
Enclosures and Controllers
* Enabled Ceph Management, Gluster Management, and Site Management for Community Edition. [ QSTOR-4695 ]
+
  
Ceph Scale-out block and object
+
* Added support for iofencing NVMe disks that do not support cdw11 [ QSTOR-10087 ]
* Added: HTTPS support for Ceph Object storage Gateway is now enabled by default on new Object gateway creation. [ QSTOR-4234 ]
+
* Added an Alert for when a OS Software RAID1 mirror enters a degraded state. [ QSTOR-10080 ]
* Added support for Single Node deployments for Community Edition Developer and Migration edition support. [ QSTOR-4696 ]
+
* Added support LSI-3008C0 model controllers. [ QSTOR-9841 ]
* Added initial FC ALUA support for Ceph Storage Volumes (rbd's) [ QSTOR-4751 ]
+
* Added a check to hardware Enclosure Discovery to automatically filter out enclosures that do not have any drive slots. [ QSTOR-9716 ]
* Added support for Ceph Luminous [ QSTOR-4363 ]
+
* Added: Site VIF's can now be created and used to enforce a VIF for iSCSI Portal access for Ceph Scale-out RBD Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-4626 ]
+
* Fixed an issue that caused a vertical scroll bar to appear in the ceph dashboard. [ QSTOR-4772 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with Ceph RBD Storage Volume State toggling between "missing" and "normal". [ QSTOR-4753 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with disks being filtered out from the list of available disks in the ceph multi-osd create dialogs. [ QSTOR-4777 ]
+
* Fixed Multi-Create of OSDs and journals with more than 10 disks failing due to timeout. [ QSTOR-4774 ]
+
* Fixed: In Grids with multiple Ceph Clusters configured, only the disk and journals available on the nodes for a selected ceph cluster will be shown as available in the OSD create dialog. [ QSTOR-4783 ]
+
* Improved the ceph multi-osd create to use a single nvme/ssd to create upto 30 journals, for large setups. [ QSTOR-4755 ]
+
  
High Availability
+
High Availability Failover
* Added support to detect Fibre Channel Link Down to the HA Failover Group Policy configuration. [ QSTOR-4214 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with HA pools not starting properly if both HA nodes lose power and power is restored. [ QSTOR-4754 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with the Modify HA Failover Group dialog where it was not retaining it's settings after a change. [ QSTOR-4675 ]
+
Gluster Scale-out
+
* Fixed an issue where Gluster volumes deployed with Gluster version 3.10 would provide additional shares via smb protocol than available from the QuantaStor management interface. [ QSTOR-4775 ]
+
* Added CLI commands to provide Gluster peer attach / remove capabilities. [ QSTOR-4637 ]
+
  
Active Directory and Network Shares
+
* Fixed an issue with the I/O fencing tool where it was reporting not-supported on reservation capable nvme devices. [ QSTOR-10114 ]
* Improved Active Directory user and group search to use LDAP search syntax. [ QSTOR-4646 ]
+
* Enable secure ldap search for Active Directory user and group lookup for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-4782 ]
+
* Updated the Network Share Quota dialog to use the new LDAP based AD Search function for specifying users/groups for Quotas. [ QSTOR-3694 ]
+
* Added "Copy from Share" feature for duplicating access mode settings for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-4806 ]
+
* Added the ability to assign Network Share user / group ownership to root (0:0) [ QSTOR-4685 ]
+
* Added: You can now query and display a list of open file locks for a chosen Network Share with the 'View Network Share File Locks' dialog and 'qs shr-lock-list' CLI command. [ QSTOR-4441 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with Network Share Global Namespace link update during ha failover or pool export. [ QSTOR-4734 ]
+
* Fixed: Network Shares created with a custom Compression option will have that option set as expected. [ QSTOR-3548 ]
+
* Removed active directory cache commands from qs-util as the direct ldap query better fulfills the needs for AD searching. [ QSTOR-4760 ]
+
* Removed: Alias/Subshare support for Network Shares on XFS pools. These features are only for ZFS and Gluster going forward. [ QSTOR-4800 ]
+
 
+
Replication, Snapshots and Cloning
+
* Added Local to Local replication scheduling to replicate Storage Volumes and Network Shares between storage pools on the same node.[ QSTOR-3762 ]
+
* Fixed an issue where Snapshot Schedules were not taking snapshots for all systems and volumes/shares in the schedule. [ QSTOR-4735 ]
+
* Fixed an issue with Remote Replication tasks showing a pending status if a manual replication or snapshot schedule has also occurred within 60 seconds of the replication schedule trigger. [ QSTOR-4621 ]
+
* Fixed: Canceling a Clone task for Storage Volume or Network Share cloning now terminates the clone process as expected. [ QSTOR-4403 ]
+
 
+
Backup Policies
+
* Added minimum and maximum file age support for backup policies [ QSTOR-4421 ]
+
 
+
Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
+
* Added a 'Create Passthrough Disks' dialog for Raid controllers without built in passthrough mode. This dialog creates RAID0 units for each individual disk selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-4704 ]
+
* Added sasAddress property to SAS Enclosure objects. [ QSTOR-4794 ]
+
* Fixed a discovery issue for disks directly attached to SAS HBA hardware controllers. [ QSTOR-4776 ]
+
* Fixed a discovery issue with a Adaptec controller, which was causing the quantastor service to be stuck at startup. [ QSTOR-4784 ]
+
* Fixed: Disk slot numbers for SAS HBA's are now padded with a leading 0 if they are single digits to ensure proper sorting in the tree and grid views. [ QSTOR-4594 ]
+
 
+
Disk Management
+
* Added Automatic Multipath configuration for disk device types that advertise multipathing. This is enabled by default on new installs and can also be added to existing configuration by enabling the automatic multipathing option in the Storage System Modify Dialog and rebooting the system. [ QSTOR-4267 ]
+
* Fixed CLI output around Global Spare Add / Remove [ QSTOR-4551 ]
+
  
 
Network Interfaces
 
Network Interfaces
* Added support for active-backup bond mode for bonded interfaces. Note: due to the nature of the MAC address duplication with Active-Backup mode it is not supported in combination with Virtual Interface addresses. [ QSTOR-4664 ]
 
* Fixed a kernel boot issue where network interfaces were not coming up as the expected ethX device. [ QSTOR-4360 ]
 
* Fixed an issue where Virtual Interfaces would not come online after create on top of a VLAN interface. [ QSTOR-4638 ]
 
* Fixed an issue with network port modify of a virtual interface on top of vlan. [ QSTOR-4639 ]
 
* Fixed: If a Network port is modified with a new IP address is changed on a system in a Network Share Namespace, it's new IP address information is now updated on all the nodes in the namespace. [ QSTOR-4628 ]
 
* Fixed: It is now possible to configure network ports on ceph cluster member nodes if the port starts in an offline state. Previously all network configuration changes were blocked if a node was configured in a ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-2520 ]
 
  
Storage Pools
+
* Updated static routes to use modern ip route syntax with the 'proto static' option. [ QSTOR-10103 ]
* Fixed an issue with XFS meta-data corruption resulting for newly created pools not starting upon a system reboot. This fixes a regression introduced in v4.5.0 [ QSTOR-4737 ]
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* Updated netplan conversion to by default create static routes using ip route to match the original netplan static route rules. [ QSTOR-10103 ]
* Fixed an issue with starting a newly created encrypted storage pool after reboot. [ QSTOR-4721 ]
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* Fixed: Added a validation check to the 'qs pool-create' CLI command to ensure all selected disks are on the same storage system before initiating the pool create task. [ QSTOR-3845 ]
+
* Fixed: Deleting a Storage Pool that has shared disks between multiple nodes now cleans up partition information in the kernel partition table for those disks on both nodes. [ QSTOR-4472 ]
+
  
Fibre Channel Target
+
Storage Pool Management
* Fixed an issue with the Fibre Channel Target Port reverting back to initiator mode upon reboot, if previously configured in target mode. [ QSTOR-1622 ]
+
  
Web UI
+
* Fixed: Activate HA Failover Group now works for Storage Pools in a degraded state missing a few devices. [ QSTOR-10100 ]
* Added Improvements to paging tool-bar to make the pagesize configurable in the UI. [ QSTOR-4619 ]
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* 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 ]
* Fixed a an issue with inconsistency of the properties panel view depending on the selected item in the tree or central grid selections. [ QSTOR-4725 ]
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* Added support for Zero Touch Maintenance Automatic Global Hot spare marking of Hardware RAID0 Passthrough units. [ QSTOR-9865 ]
* Fixed an issue where the selection set for a Multi-Delete dialog would retain the first selected item on dialog open even if the selection was changed and item was unchecked. [ QSTOR-4741 ]
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* Fixed an issue with the Web Interface hanging or becoming unresponsive in Firefox. [ QSTOR-4669 ]
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* Fixed: Multi-select based dialogs now retain their selections if overall set filters are used, such as hide snapshots in the Network Share or Storage Volume Multi-delete dialogs. [ QSTOR-4749 ]
+
* Fixed an issue causing the WebUI to hang in the network interfaces section after bonded interface create. [ QSTOR-4724 ]
+
  
Service Core and Installer
+
Storage Volumes
* Added iozone3 and fio packages to the ISO for availability on new installs. [ QSTOR-4522 ]
+
* Added an Alert for Low disk space on the OS Disk drive. [ QSTOR-4436 ]
+
* Improved log collection with automatic PII scrubbing for GDPR compliance. [ QSTOR-4796 ]
+
* Masked further password fields in CLI output. [ QSTOR-4728 ]
+
* qs-upgrade CLI command will now updates the Ceph version on the system to the Luminous release. [ QSTOR-4771 ]
+
* Removed 'qs-util megalsiget' as it has been replaced by better options provided by Broadcom/Avago/LSI support. [ QSTOR-4711 ]
+
* Updated Redhat compatible QuantaStor CLI .rpm [ QSTOR-2885 ]
+
* Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-4797 ]
+
* Improved connection retry logic in QuantaStor dashboard on a scaled setup. [ QSTOR-4713 ]
+
  
== v4.5.3.002 (May 1st 2018) ==
+
* 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 ]
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.5.3 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Upgrade Manager and Installer
Click [[QuantaStor 4.5.3 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.5.3 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.5.3]].
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===Release Notes===
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* 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 ]
  
* Updated influxdb to 1.5.2 [ QSTOR-4257 ]
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== v6.2.5.032  (January 18th 2024) ==
* Updated telegraf to 1.5.3 [ QSTOR-4257 ]
+
* Upgraded sg3 utils to 1.42 [ QSTOR-4571 ]
+
  
High Availability Shared Storage Pool
+
=== [[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]].
  
* Fixed an issue where iofencing checks could return with a incomplete list if a faulted disk is present that could not respond to scsi inquiry commands. [ QSTOR-4672 ]
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=== Release Notes ===
* Fixed an issue where after a reboot, the standby node in a High Availability shared storage pool configuration was taking 30-minutes to be in a ready state to accept client network connections. Now it is immediately ready after synchronizing with it's partner node on boot. Previously this could have caused a temporary loss of client connection if a failover was triggered before the node was ready. [ QSTOR-4688 ]
+
  
Hardware Enclosure Management
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Alerts and Configuration Analysis
 +
* Added ssh port 22 to network connectivity checker tests. [ QSTOR-10092 ]
  
* Added: SES disk identify commands are now sent down all available sas paths to a JBOD and it's Enclosure Service Modules(ESM). This helps ensure disk identification continues to work in the event of a faulty ESM. [ QSTOR-4706 ]
+
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 ]
  
CLI
+
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 ]
  
* Fixed: added the qs task-clear-all command back. This was a regression from 4.4.0 [ QSTOR-4683 ]
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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 ]
  
== v4.5.2.001 (April 17th 2018) ==
+
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 ]
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.5.2 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
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Network Shares
Click [[QuantaStor 4.5.2 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.5.2 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.5.2]].
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* Block rename of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10091 ]
 +
* Add the ability to enable and clone a GMT snapshot [ QSTOR-4145 ]
  
===Release Notes===
+
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 ]
  
Upgrade Management
+
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 ]
  
* Fixed the qs-distupgrade command for precise -> Trusty upgrades. this corrects an issue where the system would fail to boot with a grub rescue prompt after upgrading [ QSTOR-4674 ]
+
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 ]
  
== v4.5.1.003 (March 16th 2018) ==
+
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 ]
  
=== [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | Upgrade Instructions]] ===
+
= Archived Change Logs =
Click [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | here]] for instructions on [[QuantaStor 4.5.1 Upgrade Instructions | upgrading to QuantaStor v4.5.1]].
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===Release Notes===
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== [[Change Log Archive 2023]] ==
  
Encrypted Storage Pool
+
== [[Change Log Archive 2022]] ==
 
+
* Fixed an issue with starting Passphrase Protected Encrypted Storage after upgrading from 4.4.3 or earlier releases. [ QSTOR-4598 ]
+
 
+
Storage Pool Management
+
 
+
* 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 ]
+
* 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 ]
+
 
+
Web Manager
+
  
* 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 ]
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== [[Change Log Archive 2021]] ==
* Expanded the size of the Ceph Cluster create dialog to show more nodes. [ QSTOR-4584 ]
+
  
Core Service and CLI
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== [[Change Log Archive 2020]] ==
  
* Updated Windows CLI for QuantaStor [ QSTOR-4592 ]
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== [[Change Log Archive 2019]] ==
  
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== [[Change Log Archive 2018]] ==
  
== [[Change Log Archive]] ==
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== [[Change Log Archive|Change Log Archive pre-2018]] ==
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:16, 1 May 2024

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

v6.3.3.033 (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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