QuantaStor Version ChangeLog

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

• The latest version of QuantaStor can be found on our downloads page here.

• Bootable Flash Drive instructions.

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

Recent Change Logs

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

• Updated the OSNEXUS Security Notice service [1](https://services.osnexus.com/security/) for bionic and focal platform support. [ QSTOR-10269 ]

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 ]

Archived Change Logs

Change Log Archive pre-2018

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