v6.8.5.018 (August 19th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed: RGW auto-tiering rules now apply to tenant-scoped buckets; the tiering script is installed for every tenant instead of only the default one. [ QSTOR-12223 ]

  • Added: auto-tiering rules can now be scoped to a tenant from the web interface and CLI - all tenants, buckets outside any tenant, or a named tenant. [ QSTOR-12225 ]

  • Changed: named-tenant matching is now exact ('sc2' no longer also matches 'sc2_prod'); no rule created in the web interface could carry a named tenant before this change, so no existing configuration is affected. [ QSTOR-12225 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed: Supermicro SC846 and SC847 enclosures reporting vendor SMC now match their JBOD layout profile instead of logging a layout detection failure on every discovery cycle. [ QSTOR-11947 ]

  • Fixed: disks could remain displayed under a 9600-series HBA after the attached storage was removed, because a successful-but-empty discovery result was treated as a command failure and the disk list was never refreshed. [ QSTOR-12036 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Active Directory user and group lookups no longer fail intermittently where a domain controller address reverse-resolves to a name other than the controller own name. [ QSTOR-12214 ]

  • Added: a domain-join option that disables reverse DNS canonicalization and sends user and group lookups to every pinned domain controller. [ QSTOR-12214 ]

  • Fixed: an Active Directory user/group search now reports why it could not run, instead of always blaming a trusted-domain search filter. [ QSTOR-12216 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed a qs_service crash under sustained DB connection pool exhaustion on large Ceph/S3 grids by serializing and capping overflow connection creation. [ QSTOR-11580 ]

  • Fixed: a task that failed to resume after a service restart could block every other task from resuming. [ QSTOR-12218 ]

  • Fixed: the task resume limit was not enforced for some task types, so a task that could never finish was retried on every service start. [ QSTOR-12218 ]

Storage Pool Management

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

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: a storage system upgrade task could stop resuming after the second service restart, leaving a completed upgrade reported as stuck at 30%. [ QSTOR-12177 ]

  • Fixed: leftover upgrade progress files were never purged, so a finished upgrade could keep reporting stale progress. [ QSTOR-12219 ]

  • Fixed: 6.8.4 ISO and OVA images were missing qstortomcat, qstorrest, qstoraws and qstorbase, which left the web interface unavailable after an offline install. The images have been rebuilt. [ QSTOR-12237 ]

  • Added: an ISO build now fails if a package it declares is absent, so an incomplete image cannot ship. [ QSTOR-12237 ]

v6.8.4.038 (August 13th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Dashboards and Analytics

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

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed the script to set the device reservation ability on WD Openflex Data24 [ QSTOR-12117 ]

  • Fixed site cluster heartbeat rings so each ring keeps its own network address and member list. Previously the rings of a multi-ring site collapsed into a single entry with no subnet shown. [ QSTOR-12159 ]

Network Shares

  • Adds an explicit domain controller to the GSSAPI ldapsearch for Active Directory user and group lookups, fixing intermittent failures on multi-controller domains. Domain joins also wait longer for a busy controller. [ QSTOR-11939 ]

  • Added a cleanup-only mode to the Active Directory leave operation that reverts the local domain configuration without contacting the domain controller, for recovering from a failed or partial leave. [ QSTOR-12058 ]

  • Fixed: SMB/DFS network share namespace referrals now advertise all of an appliance's reachable addresses rather than just one, so clients on any subnet can reach the share. [ QSTOR-12107 ]

  • Fixed per-user share permissions so an existing entry with no recorded read/write/execute setting is treated as full access rather than no access. Modifying a share no longer rewrites ACLs when no permission actually changed. [ QSTOR-12113 ]

  • Fixed Active Directory joins in SSSD-only mode against Windows Server 2025 domain controllers, which previously failed to set the machine account password. [ QSTOR-12141 ]

  • Fixed placeholder values such as None, null or undefined sent by API clients being written into the Samba configuration, which stopped Samba loading the file and took SMB access down for every share on the node. [ QSTOR-12152 ]

  • Fixed the Active Directory leave hanging when the PDC Emulator is offline. The leave now completes within a bounded timeout and reverts the local configuration. [ QSTOR-12161 ]

v6.8.3.018 (August 6th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Creating or removing a Ceph object storage class now commits the RGW period so it takes effect immediately. [ QSTOR-11938 ]

  • A failed bucket enumeration is no longer treated as an empty list, which could silently drop bucket configuration. [ QSTOR-12130 ]

  • Ceph object pool group creation now commits the RGW period, fixing persistent RGW realm/master-zone errors. [ QSTOR-12132 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed Active Directory join failures on domains that use older Kerberos encryption methods. [ QSTOR-11646 ]

  • Changed: Active Directory joins now set 'restrict anonymous = 2' in smb.conf to block unauthenticated SID/RID enumeration. [ QSTOR-11834 ]

  • Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer fail when the computer-account OU contains a space. [ QSTOR-11895 ]

  • Fixed: Active Directory joins no longer disable SASL signing in the system-wide ldap.conf. [ QSTOR-11926 ]

  • Added a 'Skip DNS registration' option to the Active Directory join dialog, CLI and API for sites whose DNS is managed outside AD. [ QSTOR-12083 ]

  • Fixed a custom autorid Domain Range Size being discarded during an Active Directory join. [ QSTOR-12089 ]

  • The Active Directory KDC field now accepts a comma-separated list of domain controllers for Kerberos failover. [ QSTOR-12091 ]

  • Active Directory joins in SSSD modes no longer force user/group enumeration, which could stall startup on large domains. [ QSTOR-12092 ]

  • Fixed: Active Directory joins now send the machine-account password update to the PDC Emulator, fixing 'Message stream modified' failures. [ QSTOR-12136 ]

  • Fixed: leaving an Active Directory domain now updates the web UI immediately instead of still showing the old domain. [ QSTOR-12153 ]

  • Changed: the Active Directory join dialog now labels its two ID-range sections distinctly so it's clear which is being edited. [ QSTOR-12154 ]

Service Core

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

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • The upgrade system now fetches and verifies the latest OSNEXUS package signing key before applying updates. [ QSTOR-9551 ]

  • Fixed EL8 upgrades pinning a stale awscli/qstoraws package version from the RedHat repository. [ QSTOR-11991 ]

  • In-place Ceph upgrades now install the shipped Ceph 20.2.2 release instead of an older pinned version. [ QSTOR-11998 ]

  • Fixed a grafana-enterprise package upgrade failure that could leave dpkg in a held state during upgrades from 6.8.1. [ QSTOR-12075 ]

  • Updated the Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade configuration to the shipped kernel and Ceph 20.2.2 versions. [ QSTOR-12077 ]

v6.8.1.007 (July 18th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: platform upgrades remove the obsolete linux-tools-common package that could trigger security alerts. [ QSTOR-10314 ]

  • Changed: qs-distupgrade output is timestamped and includes a pre-upgrade configuration report. [ QSTOR-11632 ]

  • Added: platform distribution upgrade (qs-distupgrade) from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. [ QSTOR-11651 ]

  • Added: non-interactive flags for qs-distupgrade enabling fully unattended platform upgrades with automatic reboot. Use the qs-distupgrade --help to review the available usage options. [ QSTOR-11918 ]

  • Fixed: platform distribution upgrades keep Ceph pinned at its current version. [ QSTOR-11955 ]

  • Added: qs-distupgrade requires all Ceph nodes on the latest offered Ceph version (--skip-check-ceph-latest to override). [ QSTOR-11958 ]

  • Fixed: coordinated Ceph upgrades restart all RGW daemons on hosts running multiple RGW services. [ QSTOR-11983 ]

  • Fixed: a 6.8.0-only issue where service-driven package upgrades reported success without installing anything. [ QSTOR-11992 ]

v6.8.0.205 (July 8th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added alert webhook support for Google Chat. [ QSTOR-9793 ]

  • Allow users to have a subset of alert subscriptions. [ QSTOR-11683 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added an 'Enable Versioning' checkbox to the Create Bucket dialog (automatically enabled when object locking or governance/compliance is selected); versioning can also be enabled on existing buckets. [ QSTOR-10937 ]

  • Added Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 support to the Jammy QuantaStor ISO and package mirror. [ QSTOR-11441 ]

  • QuantaStor 6.8 ships Ceph 20.2.2 (Tentacle), which includes the upstream MDS fix (tracker #76031) for the SIGABRT/crash on client eviction caused by a null MDRequestRef under sustained metadata contention. [ QSTOR-11504 ]

  • The Ceph Tentacle 20.2.2 release resolves frequent radosgw (RGW) crashes related to Kafka bucket notifications. [ QSTOR-11687 ]

  • Fix ceph bucket delete with large number of objects timing out. [ QSTOR-11728 ]

  • Removed: the deprecated S3 bucket orphan-object cleanup feature; any existing scheduled task is disabled automatically on upgrade. [ QSTOR-11729 ]

  • Fixed a regression where deleting multiple Ceph (RBD) volumes at once on a multi-node cluster would fail after the first volume. [ QSTOR-11756 ]

  • Added support for major-version Ceph upgrades (through Tentacle 20.2.x) in the upgrade script. [ QSTOR-11762 ]

  • Increase the timeout for "Add Node" to a ceph cluster [ QSTOR-11906 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added: a 'qs-statsdb resetpassword' command to rotate the InfluxDB stats password; telegraf is updated in lockstep so dashboards keep working. [ QSTOR-11170 ]

  • Rebuilt bundled telegraf with its vendored rclone library updated to 1.74.3, clearing CVE-2026-41176 and CVE-2026-41179. [ QSTOR-11771 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed issue with "disappearing" enclosures [ QSTOR-11676 ]

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

High Availability Failover

  • Add logging for manually run iofence commands [ QSTOR-11751 ]

  • Fixed HA pool failover persisting a stale size=0 / isMounted=false when the pool's datasets were still mounting during fast-import; the last-known-good size and mount state are now preserved (and the corrected record wins via a bumped modified timestamp). [ QSTOR-11818 ]

  • Fixed: Storage Pool HA io-fencing and failover now work over NVMe-TCP; target namespaces advertise persistent reservations. [ QSTOR-11850 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated the Mellanox OFED driver installer for current Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) kernels, fixing driver installation failures on recent kernels. [ QSTOR-11709 ]

Multitenancy

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

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Add a fix for Samba access to Cloud Container shares. [ QSTOR-11763 ]

  • Fixed: cloud containers are now accessible over SMB, not just NFS. [ QSTOR-11824 ]

  • Updated the bundled AWS CLI to version 2.35.6. [ QSTOR-11827 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added DOCA OFED install script for jammy and upcoming noble platforms as an optional install for latest hardware. [ QSTOR-11069 ]

  • Fixed the Network Interface Rename feature on systems upgraded from older releases where the 'ip' command resides in a different path. [ QSTOR-11614 ]

  • Fixed: converting a local VIF to an HA VIF now preserves the original local interface if the conversion fails, so client connectivity isn't lost. [ QSTOR-11706 ]

Network Shares

  • Add the ability to specify per user or group permissions on Network Shares during create or modify [ QSTOR-10662 ]

  • Fixed: intermittent 'NFS server not responding' stalls under load by raising the nfsd listen backlog from 64 to 4096. [ QSTOR-10872 ]

  • Fixed: NFS client entries can now be added or removed on a share while a long-running replication or snapshot task is using it, instead of queuing. [ QSTOR-11571 ]

  • Consolidated the Network Share create/modify dialog's Permission Settings into the File Masks tab — now a single 'File Masks & Permission Settings' tab containing Owner Permission Settings plus the Directory and File Create Permissions Masks. [ QSTOR-11625 ]

  • Reduced excessive event logging (event spam) for network shares and related grid objects. [ QSTOR-11695 ]

  • Fixed handling of CIFS share options so empty/null option values are no longer written to the Samba configuration. [ QSTOR-11731 ]

  • Fixed an issue where an Active Directory group added to a share's permissions was not preserved, and excluded built-in/default AD groups from the group picker. [ QSTOR-11767 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Copy source Network Share settings to the destination share after replication. [ QSTOR-5738 ]

  • Add support for rollback of Storage Volumes and Network Shares for a replication schedule [ QSTOR-6227 ]

  • Minor updates to the auto snapshot cleanup tasks for replication schedules. [ QSTOR-11622 ]

  • Fix auto create of replication association after failover [ QSTOR-11700 ]

  • Snapshot schedule now shows the state detail when schedule is disabled by user. [ QSTOR-11717 ]

  • The Snapshot Schedule properties page now displays Retention Tags. [ QSTOR-11719 ]

  • Changed: Auto-tier backup policies now display as 'Auto-Tier >> Outbound' instead of 'Move >> Outbound'. [ QSTOR-11764 ]

  • Fixed the CLI replication-schedule rollback so volume and share names are accepted (not just IDs), and rolling back only volumes (or only shares) no longer also rolls back the other type. [ QSTOR-11814 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added: a 'Select Initiator...' picker in the Add Host dialog to choose a discovered FC remote initiator WWPN instead of typing it. [ QSTOR-10741 ]

  • Renamed the sys-list 'Firmware Version' column to 'SCSI Target Version' and corrected the value to show the actual SCST target-driver version (e.g. scst-3.10.0.qs01-...) instead of the literal 'scst-SCST'. [ QSTOR-11854 ]

Security

  • Added support for Okta multi-factor authentication. [ QSTOR-9399 ]

  • Added Multi-Admin Approval support, allowing deletion of pools, buckets, shares, and volumes to require approval from a configurable number of administrators. [ QSTOR-11344 ]

  • Fixed certificate update failures when using a certificate template, and ensured dependent services (such as HAProxy and RGW) are restarted after a certificate replacement. [ QSTOR-11678 ]

  • Fixed an issue in the Security Manager dialog where it was showing the "password policy change" warning confirmation when no fields were changed. [ QSTOR-11708 ]

  • InfluxDB (port 8086) now requires authentication and binds to localhost by default; remote access is opt-in via the tf_influxdb_remote_access.enable touchfile (authentication still enforced). [ QSTOR-11759 ]

  • Added the Ubuntu security apt repositories to the default package sources and removed unused bundled components flagged by scanning (Chronograf, the LXD/core20/snapd snaps, the docker-scan plugin), clearing CVE-2024-41110, CVE-2026-34177/-34178/-34179, CVE-2020-14343, CVE-2025-68121, and CVE-2024-45337. [ QSTOR-11760 ]

  • Rebuilt the bundled QuantaStor Go tools (qs_iofence, qs_pool_export_helper, qs_diskinfo) and s5cmd with a current Go toolchain, clearing CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-24790, CVE-2023-24540, and CVE-2023-24538. [ QSTOR-11761 ]

  • Hardened the internal QuantaStor script service (scriptsvc): removed a command-injection vector in request handling and now enforce the service's authorization check on every call. Addresses ZDI-CAN-30036 [ QSTOR-11799 ]

  • Made a number of usability and reliability improvements to the multi-admin delete-approval workflow. [ QSTOR-11804 ]

Service Core

  • Fix tag-set where custom key/value tags were not appearing for User objects. [ QSTOR-11528 ]

  • Improved Ceph OSD daemon restart handling during upgrades and reduced database load on large-scale clusters. [ QSTOR-11675 ]

  • Fixed an issue with QuantaStor management service memory usage when a grid node was offline. [ QSTOR-11693 ]

  • Improved crash handling and diagnostic tracing for coordinated tasks, during operations such as adding a Ceph RADOS Gateway across multiple nodes. [ QSTOR-11702 ]

  • Improved logging and error checking for QuantaStor configuration database backups, including capturing error output when a backup fails. [ QSTOR-11742 ]

  • Expanded diagnostic log collection to capture additional network routing details (ip route output and static-route configuration). [ QSTOR-11748 ]

  • Fixed the Sessions view showing stale SMB/NFS client sessions that lingered after a reboot; the share session monitor now forces a full re-sync on its first poll after startup so sessions left over from before the reboot are cleared. [ QSTOR-11757 ]

  • Fixed a self-sustaining grid event flood triggered when creating CephFS/CIFS network shares at scale: nodes no longer re-cache remote-origin (sync-applied) events, and CIFS options are diff-merged to secondaries, eliminating the event resync cascade. [ QSTOR-11785 ]

  • qs-sendlogs now writes a qs_logs.runtime.info file recording the options and variables used during log collection, and reliably scrubs sensitive data from the collected database. [ QSTOR-11897 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added automated ordered-disk-list pool creation for Seagate Corvault and WD Data24 systems, simplifying creation of fully redundant storage pools. [ QSTOR-11538 ]

  • Fixed software-encrypted pool creation so a disk block-size mismatch is detected before disks are encrypted, avoiding leftover encryption mappings. [ QSTOR-11599 ]

  • ZFS deduplication now uses the faster fast_dedup mode by default, improving sustained deduplication performance. [ QSTOR-11714 ]

  • When a LUKS-encrypted disk member of a pool momentarily goes offline and the hot-spare swap-in completes, if the "bad" disk in question has in the meantime come back online, its iofence status, encryption status and its related properties in its respective disk object are cleared up, making the disk available for use again. [ QSTOR-11738 ]

  • Resolved a boot-time race where the OS-level zfs-import-cache.service could import ZFS pools before qs_service started. QuantaStor now imports pools with cachefile=none, masks the zfs-import-cache and zfs-import-scan services on install and upgrade, and clears the stale global ZFS cache file at boot, ensuring QuantaStor remains the sole coordinator of pool imports. [ QSTOR-11752 ]

  • Add the ability to create a Storage Pool checkpoint for scale-up pools [ QSTOR-11784 ]

  • Added a support-only, touchfile-gated pool-export triage call-out (qs_pool_export_triage.sh) that gathers diagnostics when a share or volume is still open during a storage pool export. Off by default (enabled via the tf_pool_export_triage.enable touchfile). [ QSTOR-11807 ]

  • Resolved issue preventing HA failover functionality using SED drives. [ QSTOR-11832 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added retry logic with a timeout to the Ceph upgrade script's daemon restarts so transient restart failures no longer abort the upgrade. [ QSTOR-10598 ]

  • Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades leaving the HA cluster service (pcsd/pacemaker) inoperative due to a missing ruby-webrick dependency on Ruby 3.0+. The upgrade now installs ruby-webrick so HA failover keeps working. [ QSTOR-11841 ]

  • Fixed focal-to-jammy distribution upgrades that could abort and roll back when Ubuntu's unattended-upgrades/apt-daily held the apt lock or needrestart blocked on a prompt. QuantaStor now disables automatic apt upgrades and runs the distribution upgrade non-interactively. [ QSTOR-11874 ]

  • Fixed a Noble (24.04) upgrade failure where qs-upgrade aborted because the dpkg package version string could not be parsed. QuantaStor now compares Debian package versions using dpkg's native version ordering. [ QSTOR-11881 ]

Web Manager

  • Minor fix to the "Copy to Clipboard" for task descriptions [ QSTOR-9574 ]

  • Added a method field and a sortable timestamp column to the web interface Audit Log Analyzer. [ QSTOR-11191 ]

  • Updated web interface translations across the major supported languages. [ QSTOR-11585 ]

  • Added a 'Create Share' option to the share template menu to quickly create a share applying all of a template's settings. [ QSTOR-11595 ]

  • Fixed the web interface to display all configured Ceph MDS daemons instead of limiting the list to five. [ QSTOR-11615 ]

  • Add auto select convenience buttons to the Storage Volume multi-delete dialog. [ QSTOR-11707 ]

v6.7.5.013 (May 21st 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Kernel and Drivers

  • Added RedHat Platform kernel 4.18.0-553.124.1.el8_10.x86_64 support via DKMS driver build [ QSTOR-11679 ]

  • Updated SCST driver to 3.10.0.qs01.9273.1b48521 with a patch that allows for dkms builds/support on non-preferred 5.15.x kernels on jammy platforms. [ QSTOR-11672 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

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

Service Core

  • Fixes bug where partial upgraded node would be skip daemon restart phase at version check. [ QSTOR-11703 ]

  • Fixed a rare race condition where adding a Ceph Object (RADOS) Gateway on a multi-node cluster could silently crash. [ QSTOR-11689 ]

  • Added defensive exception handling and trace coverage around coordinated task execution. [ QSTOR-11689 ]

Storage Pool Management

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

Web Manager

  • Add graphs for replication task status details. [ QSTOR-11661 ]

  • Make improvements in the replication reporting area. [ QSTOR-11661 ]

v6.7.4.011 (April 30th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Network Interfaces

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

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

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

Service Core

  • Updated task output for storage system modify to improve clarity [ QSTOR-11660 ]

  • Coordinated Task (CCT) Reliability Improvements — Fixed an issue on large or heavily-loaded Ceph clusters where CCT broadcasts could silently hang until timeout. [ QSTOR-11648 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

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

v6.7.3.010 (April 17th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

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

  • Fixed a corner case where Site cluster vifs could start on nodes outside of the site cluster. [ QSTOR-11630 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

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

Service Core

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

Storage Pool Management

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

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

v6.7.2.003 (April 13th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Network Shares

  • Added a qs_global_namespace.conf file for users to provide a specific IP address to be offered for Microsoft DFS with the preferred_ip=x.x.x.x [ QSTOR-11627 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform nfs-kernel-server and related nfs-utils packages to include junction support needed for NFS Referrals. [ QSTOR-11626 ]

v6.7.1.008 (April 10th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Network Shares

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

Security

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

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Disable and mask openzfs util zfs-shares.service which caused unexpected Share service restarts. [ QSTOR-11619 ]

  • Fixed an issue with qs-distupgrade from Focal to Jammy Platforms of systems that had been originally deployed with bionic and older platforms. [ QSTOR-11616 ]

  • Ensured the 6.8.0-90-generic kernel is deployed during Focal to Jammy Platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-11616 ]

v6.7.0.184 (April 8th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Add a 'Skip log server ping pre-checks' checkbox to the Send Support Logs dialog. The server will skip ping checks during log upload when the checkbox is checked. [ QSTOR-11397 ]

  • Fixed an issue with clearing parent interface status alerts in the Health Checker System report [ QSTOR-11058 ]

  • Add ability to specify reason for log uploads [ QSTOR-10479 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed a QuantaStor service crash for Ceph scale-out file storage share snapshot delete [ QSTOR-11570 ]

  • Adds support for new load balancer modes and customization in the /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_loadbalancer.conf file. [ QSTOR-11502 ]

  • Improved the method of tracking degraded object cleanup and reporting progress to the task objects. [ QSTOR-11292 ]

  • Bug fixes in qs-s3util script when an invalid endpoint URL is provided. [ QSTOR-11292 ]

  • Improved object state reporting for OSDs. [ QSTOR-11292 ]

  • Fixed an issue with unlocking NVMe SED media on boot for Ceph Scale-out Cluster OSDs [ QSTOR-11118 ]

  • Enabled Ceph OSD block and journal discard support [ QSTOR-10672 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

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

Disk Management

  • Added logic to make SED Locking status consistent between QuantaStor Scale-Up ZFS HA Storage Pools. Note: Pools must have an HA group and HA Vif and be activated. [ QSTOR-11515 ]

  • Added error counters for disks with available columns in the center grid view of the Physical Disks section. [ QSTOR-11308 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure layout support for Supermicro SSG-542B-DE1CR90 [ QSTOR-11572 ]

  • This feature allows servers equipped with the Xinnor XiRAID software [ QSTOR-11374 ]

*  Create a XiRAID raid unit, which appears as a QS HwUnit. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  This HwUnit entity is surfaced in Quantastor as a physical disk drive. [ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  The physical disks that are used to create the XiRaid unit are surfaced as HwDisks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  The creation includes a variable number of partitions on said physical disk.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  These partitions are also surfaced as QS physical disks.[ QSTOR-11374 ]
*  These partition-based physical disks can be used to create Ceph OSD objects. [ QSTOR-11374 ]

  • Updated Storcli64 version to 007.3603.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10911 ]

High Availability Failover

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


Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated kernel 6.8.0-90-generic drivers include intel ixgbe driver version 6.3.4 [ QSTOR-11524 ]

  • Updated Jammy Platform installer ISO image to 22.04.5 [ QSTOR-11380 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform Kernel to 6.8.0-90-generic [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform ZFS driver to 2.3.5 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform SCST driver to 3.10 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

  • Updated Jammy platform mpi3mr driver to 8.15.1.0.0 [ QSTOR-10903 ]

Multitenancy

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

Network Interfaces

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

Network Shares

  • Added further checks to Network Share Delete to verify the underlying ZFS filesystem properties has a matching OSNEXUS QuantaStor share ID before removing. [ QSTOR-11525 ]

  • Auto populate the AD dialog with Organization Unit of specified on other systems in the grid [ QSTOR-11519 ]

  • Add more options to filter shares in the delete dialog [ QSTOR-11499 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

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

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11602 ]

Security

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

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

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

Service Core

  • Strip any invalid XML characters from description fields causing WebUI to not load [ QSTOR-11566 ]

  • Cleaned up some repetitive log spam from the Blink Manager and the storcli hardware adappter [ QSTOR-11551 ]

  • Fixed event spam and potential crash during Ceph daemon upgrade on large grids. [ QSTOR-11510 ]

  • Fixes bug in site cluster maintenance mode logic. [ QSTOR-11489 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the iSCSI/NVMe flag settings were not being retained for site cluster vifs after moving the vif to a new node. [ QSTOR-11464 ]

  • Added support for LACP layer2+3 xmit\_hash\_policy [ QSTOR-11400 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Add more storage system tuning parameters [ QSTOR-11549 ]

  • Added discard to LUKS options for NVMe model disks on ZFS Scale-Up Storage Pools with encryption. [ QSTOR-11501 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a throw in the qstorservice package install if the radosgw-admin command is not available [ QSTOR-11579 ]

  • Fixed the qs-upgrade for kernel upgrades to ensure recommended packages for qstortarget are installed if they were previously manually removed. [ QSTOR-11556 ]

Web Manager

  • When selecting Create Share from an existing selected share in the tree view, ensure the correct Storage Pool is selected in the Create Share dialog. [ QSTOR-11591 ]

  • Create a new share template system for users to reuse settings from existing network shares. [ QSTOR-11314 ]

v6.6.11.017 (March 5th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.6.11.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue with SED media when adding as a hot-spare / for repair of a failed storage pool disk. [ QSTOR-11531 ]

  • Fixed an issue where SSD Life Left status showing on multipath devices. [ QSTOR-11463 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure support from multiple Manufacturers such as Seagate, Gigabyte, Supermicro etc. [ QSTOR-11498 ]

  • Fixed items related to the Intel 2u12 enclosure layout [ QSTOR-11286 ]

  • Fixed Items related to the Supermicro 90-bay enclosure layout [ QSTOR-10932 ]

Network Shares

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

Security

  • Fixed a few items related to Grafana default security ports [ QSTOR-11526 ]

  • Fix configuration file manager file paths for telegraf.qstor and influxdb.qstor. [ QSTOR-11526 ]

  • Fixed some items related to software encrypted HA storage pools management of /etc/crypttab [ QSTOR-11416 ]

Service Core

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

v6.6.7.017 (February 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Optimized grid communication paths and reduced database read frequency by improving internal object caching mechanisms. [ QSTOR-11473 ]

  • Show compression ratio in the Scale-out Storage Pool grid. It is hidden by default. [ QSTOR-11130 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue where a NVMe quick secure erase would be executed when formatting disks used for new storage pool creation [ QSTOR-11478 ]

  • Fixed an issue where quick secure erase reformated the NVMe disk with a new namespace using a 512K sector size. [ QSTOR-11478 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Recertify Quantastor with the gen4 series of Western Digital Data24 [ QSTOR-11479 ]

  • Fix up the config file defaults for NVMe software adapter when logging into a NVMe WD Data24. [ QSTOR-11470 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix an issue with password shown in the service log during AD join [ QSTOR-11483 ]

  • Add the ability to select multiple shares using the ctrl key in the share multi-delete dialog [ QSTOR-9181 ]

Web Manager

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

v6.6.5.026 (January 16th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix an issue with creation of S3 user on a secondary zone. User will be created on the master zone. [ QSTOR-11438 ]

  • Fixed an Issue with the Ceph initial PG calculations when creating ceph storage pools on HDD and SSD based OSDs. [ QSTOR-11437 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with bucket sync when bucket originates on a secondary zone [ QSTOR-11435 ]

  • Add granular options for object bucket rescan. [ QSTOR-11312 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Reduced the frequency of Corvault device discovery for External Storage System Enclosures per Seagate Recommended values. [ QSTOR-11436 ]

  • Fix a row selection issue in the central pane on the External Media and Port grids. Show the 'Used By' column for External Volumes. [ QSTOR-11384 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the Storage Pool Health check on systems with high load. [ QSTOR-11454 ]

  • Fixed an issue with HA storage Pools in a degraded warnign state. [ QSTOR-11451 ]

  • Reduced scale-out Object logging for site cluster vifs to debug level. [ QSTOR-11448 ]

Network Shares

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

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11456 ]

Security

  • Enabled HTTPS redirect mode in QuantaStor WebUI by default during new Installs and upgrades to version 6.6.5 and newer. [ QSTOR-11368 ]

  • Added a custom script callout via a security-message-update for the Security manager System Usage Notification contents: [ QSTOR-11222 ]

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Service Core

  • Added minimum timeout value to Coordinated tasks [ QSTOR-11455 ]

  • Optimized Grid logic for Scale-out Object Bucket discovery on deployments with a large amount of ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-11433 ]

  • Fixed an issue with License Key activation verification [ QSTOR-11110 ]