v6.6.11.017 (March 5th 2026)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Disk Management

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

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

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

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

Network Shares

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

Security

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

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

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

Service Core

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

v6.6.7.017 (February 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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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

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

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

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

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

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

High Availability Failover

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

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

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

Network Shares

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

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11456 ]

Security

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

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

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Service Core

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

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

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

v6.6.3.033 (December 16th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with object user create under a tenant with multi-site is enabled for two zones. [ QSTOR-11427 ]

  • Fix an issue with bucket sync policy create on the secondary zone bucket. [ QSTOR-11426 ]

  • Allow selection of any object gateway when setting up ceph multi-site configuration. [ QSTOR-11409 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Adds enclosure management support for Supermicro Server SSG-522B-ACR12L [ QSTOR-11422 ]

  • Change external volumes, media and volume grids from grouping to non-grouping for a minor performance improvement. Re-order Corvault columns in central grid (External Systems). Only show volumes for the currently selected Corvault. [ QSTOR-11370 ]

High Availability Failover

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

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue where modifying the iscsi/nvme portal port settings on a VLAN or VIF interface would cause the parent interface to be restarted [ QSTOR-11406 ]

  • Fixed an issue with importing LACP options in the /etc/network/interfaces file. [ QSTOR-11396 ]

  • Updated the LACP bond-xmit-hash-policy options to use the modern text option names instead of the legacy numerical values. [ QSTOR-11396 ]

Network Shares

  • Added 'qs-util nfsrdma' command to enable nfs rdma support for systems that have NFS RDMA supported hardware and drivers. [ QSTOR-11309 ]

  • Auto detect when the AD server goes down and raise an alert. [ QSTOR-11182 ]

  • Fixed issues with SSSD AD Join [ QSTOR-11335 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11428 ]

  • Fixed a few items related to the SNMP agent stability. [ QSTOR-11405 ]

  • Added logic to ensure new nodes joined to the grid get the snmp agent deployed on them with the same settings and snmp user. [ QSTOR-11393 ]

Security

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

Service Core

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

  • Enhanced grid logic for High Latency multi-site deployments. [ QSTOR-11391 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

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

Web Manager

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

v6.6.2.003 (November 14th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Security

  • Updated QuantaStor Tomcat version to 9.0.112 [ QSTOR-11376 ]

  • Fix a regression in single sign on failing to login AD users. [ QSTOR-11375 ]

  • Enhanced Grid communication event batching that can help with large numbers of QuantaStor Grid object counts. [ QSTOR-11366 ]

v6.6.1.013 (November 7th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added some new warning icons for hardware controllers, hardware units and hardware disks. Fixed icon priority for status on hardware enclosures. [ QSTOR-11358 ]

  • Fixed an issue with discovery of Hardware RAID Disks for LSI Hardware RAID controllers that use the storcli tool. [ QSTOR-11347 ]

  • Fixed an issue with enclosure discovery for older LSI SAS HBA controllers that utilize sas3ircu [ QSTOR-11209 ]

High Availability Failover

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

Security

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

Service Core

  • Changes haproxy logrotate to be hourly by default. [ QSTOR-11349 ]

  • Updated the QS PyClient Code in the github repo. [ QSTOR-11346 ]

v6.6.0.362 (October 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Block rename of object pool group. [ QSTOR-11336 ]

  • Add a fix so auto-tier rules can be set on multiple ceph clusters [ QSTOR-11323 ]

  • Fixes bug with OSD replace prepare context menu button when called from the enclosure view. [ QSTOR-11313 ]

  • Fixed: added duplicate zone check for Object Group Create [ QSTOR-11266 ]

  • Add indication on the journal group if it is encrypted. [ QSTOR-11261 ]

  • Updated Ceph version on Focal and Jammy platforms to 18.2.7 [ QSTOR-11129 ]

  • Generate proper caps for keyring when using additional pools in CephFS [ QSTOR-11106 ]

  • Display S3 user information in the delete user dialog to distinguish between S3 user and local user. [ QSTOR-10723 ]

  • New feature adds the ability to modify RGW settings. Added the ability to add and remove load balancers on each Ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-10623 ]

  • Added support for Portal Groups for FC and iSCSI Targets [ QSTOR-10533 ]

  • Add the ability to control synchronization for selected buckets in two objects storage clusters. [ QSTOR-10346 ]

  • Add ability to specify multiple pools in a ceph file system. [ QSTOR-8674 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

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

Disk Management

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Multitenancy

  • Scope the access of user accounts so that they can only manage users, buckets, keys and other resources related to the tenant in the resource group they're a member of [ QSTOR-11326 ]

  • Allow CephFS shares to be added to a Resource Group. [ QSTOR-11007 ]

Network Shares

  • Share rename needs a force flag as it may disconnect NFS clients. [ QSTOR-11337 ]

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

Security

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

Service Core

  • Eliminates common errors in active directory join process, prepopulating dialog from previously joined systems [ QSTOR-11015 ]

  • Added support for shutting down or restarting multiple systems at once [ QSTOR-10022 ]

  • Added an optional force flag to Storage System Restart and Shutdown Dialogs to provide an option for immediate sysrq based shutdown of the system [ QSTOR-10022 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11343 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Allow rename of Scale Out block storage volumes [ QSTOR-11311 ]

  • Fix an event issue where the Volumes count was not getting updated in the central Host grid view. [ QSTOR-11038 ]

Universal Containers

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

Upgrade Manager and Installer

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

Web Manager

  • Minor fix to the modify Network Port dialog. [ QSTOR-11302 ]

  • Added the ability to save a local copy of a report schedule. [ QSTOR-11217 ]

  • Simplifies active directory join and leave process, allowing multiple systems to join or leave at once [ QSTOR-8771 ]

v6.5.12.005 (September 22nd 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Security

  • Fixed: disable gzip compresson on web and api ports by default. [ QSTOR-11210 ]

  • Fixed: internal qs-statsd/qs_restd service port 5173 moved to localhost only as it should not be presented as an external port. [ QSTOR-11210 ]

  • Fixed: reduced syslog logging of qs-statsdb/qs_restd. [ QSTOR-11210 ]

  • Added: DROP rules to block ICMP timechecks [ QSTOR-11210 ]

  • Updated SSL Ciphers and TLS1.3 support for the web and API ports [ QSTOR-11210 ]

  • Fixed: Set pcsd api port 2224 to bind to localhost only by default [ QSTOR-11210 ]

v6.5.11.029 (August 28th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

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

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with multiple alerts occurring for long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]

  • Fixed some corner case issues with long running OSD replace prepare tasks. [ QSTOR-11276 ]

  • Added support for larger MDB devices upto 2100GB [ QSTOR-11274 ]

  • Added support for encryption bypass on OSD create while still encrypting wal/db journal devices. [ QSTOR-11260 ]

Disk Management

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

High Availability Failover

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

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed: added gfortran-11 dependency to jammy repository required for LTS mellanox ofed install to succeed [ QSTOR-11285 ]

  • Add QS cli command to hide disabled Network Ports [ QSTOR-10898 ]

  • Fixed an issue where VLAN and VIF interfaces would not report their bond mode correctly if their parent interfaces was a bonded port. [ QSTOR-10754 ]

Network Shares

  • Adds support for multiple HA VIF redirects and smart network filtering for NFSv4 referrals [ QSTOR-11278 ]

  • Minor fix to skip NFS export commands for scale out shares. [ QSTOR-11275 ]

Quantastor CLI

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

SCSI / NVMe Target

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

Service Core

  • Fixed: added the option to cancel the Physical Disk Identify task if the duration for the identify task is longer than the user wants. [ QSTOR-11258 ]

  • Provide a download link for log collection in case logs cannot be uploaded from a Quantastor system [ QSTOR-11116 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: added proxy settings to the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy file [ QSTOR-11281 ]

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

Web Manager

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

v6.5.10.013 (August 12th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue where the access key and secret key were not updating in the UI in instances with multiple object storage users across multiple ceph clusters in the same grid. [ QSTOR-11254 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the cephfs mounts if communication is lost with the active MDS and a new MDS is elected. [ QSTOR-10738 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fix an enclosure refresh issue via the event path where the underlying disk were not getting refreshed. [ QSTOR-11247 ]

  • Fixed: Added additional checks for enclosure id on enclosures that fail to report correctly on older firmwares. [ QSTOR-11227 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed: replaced size with maxsize in the ceph, radosgw and haproxy logrotate definitions so that they rotate as expected on their daily rotations as well as when reaching the max size definition. [ QSTOR-11253 ]

  • Fix an underlying dashboard issue where new diskio entries were not properly added to the telegraf.conf file on new deployments. [ QSTOR-11246 ]

  • Fix: Optimize the restarting of influx and telegraf. [ QSTOR-11246 ]

v6.5.9.003 (August 5th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue where QuantaStor was restarting the influxdb service when it was not needed. [ QSTOR-11244 ]

  • Fixed: separated the influxdb, telegrafd and QuantaStor stats_db service restart logic to allow more granular control. [ QSTOR-11244 ]

v6.5.8.008 (July 31st 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

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

Enclosures and Controllers

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

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Disable security features options in Network Share Create/Modify dialogs when the share is from a Scale-out File Pool. [ QSTOR-11235 ]

  • Fixed: Remove redundant "NFS Security Mode" on the share advanced tab. [ QSTOR-11235 ]

  • Fixed an issue with clearing the manage gids setting on Jammy platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]

  • Fixed an issue with setting specific nfs v3 or v4 server configurations on Focal platforms [ QSTOR-11225 ]

  • Fixed a conflict with the nfs mountd ports between scale-out and scale-up nfs modes. [ QSTOR-11212 ]

  • Fixed detection of nfs scale-out mode when it is configured at the time of ceph scale-out filesystem creation. [ QSTOR-11212 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

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

v6.5.7.004 (July 24th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with network share cifs/smb settings such as ignore system acls introduced in the 6.5.1 release. [ QSTOR-11224 ]

  • Removed the API underscore to space conversion logic in cifs/smb settings introduced in 6.5.1. REST API's should use proper url encoding like %20 when sending strings that contain spaces via curl or other http calls. [ QSTOR-11224 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a path naming issue for the sedutil-cli binaries used for SED disk encryption. [ QSTOR-11221 ]

  • Added Several small enhancements and fixes for the sedutil-cli tool usage and SED supported disk discovery [ QSTOR-11219 ]

v6.5.6.052 (July 16th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fix minor issue with Corvault log collection. [ QSTOR-11201 ]

  • Added alerts to notify the user as they approach quota limits for S3C buckets [ QSTOR-11055 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the IPMI Ip addresses showing up in the Health Check reports. [ QSTOR-10356 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed radosgw logging logrotation not always occurring on fresh installs. [ QSTOR-11176 ]

  • Fixed: radosgw logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]

  • Fixed: haproxy logging now defaults to rotating at 100MB [ QSTOR-11176 ]

  • Improved logic for Ceph OSD Gentle Reweight. [ QSTOR-11163 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the version check when upgrading the the scale-out ceph MDS, RGW and other daemons. [ QSTOR-11138 ]

  • Fixed a few corner cases with ensuring successful Ceph upgrades. [ QSTOR-11138 ]

  • Allow compression support for Ceph RBD pools. [ QSTOR-11131 ]

  • Added Object User quota usage information to the Object User grid [ QSTOR-10722 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboards (Early Access). [ QSTOR-11076 ]

  • Add Pool, volume and share space usage trending dashboard routes and toggle buttons. [ QSTOR-11076 ]

  • Expand the trending time scale for Tenants and Owners to make use of longer retention policies (e.g. 'Last 30 Days'). [ QSTOR-11076 ]

  • Fix InfluxDB trending continuous query settings in qs\_statsdb.sh. [ QSTOR-11076 ]

Disk Management

  • Add Multipath and HA support for SED Disks. [ QSTOR-11172 ]

  • Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11065 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixes intermittent boot time OSD start issue with Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]

  • Adds encryption bypass mode to avoid applying double (hardware plus software) encryption to Corvault media. [ QSTOR-11195 ]

  • Added enclosure layout for Supermicro SYS-221H-TN24R systems. [ QSTOR-11154 ]

High Availability Failover

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

Network Shares

  • Add new cyphers for active directory join. [ QSTOR-11183 ]

  • Added sync flag by default to NFS mount for ceph object storage ganesha shares [ QSTOR-11181 ]

  • Adjust minor Network Share quota alert levels. [ QSTOR-11171 ]

  • Add larger record size upto 8M for Network Shares on ZFS Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-10118 ]

  • Added support for hidden shares that end in a '$' as 'Browseable (admin-only) shares in the CIFS/SMB Options tab of the Network Share Create/Modify Dialogs. [ QSTOR-9222 ]

Service Core

  • Optimize database reads for large clusters. [ QSTOR-11178 ]

  • Added qs-util dbdiff for use to compare osn.db database versions [ QSTOR-10566 ]

  • Added https as the default preferred method for support log bundle upload. [ QSTOR-9875 ]

Universal Containers

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

Upgrade Manager and Installer

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

Web Manager

  • Revise the Object User Access Key Manager to include Storage URLs in the Copy to Clipboard action. [ QSTOR-11177 ]

  • Improved fieldset placements for network share create/modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-11156 ]

  • SED Pool management - Reorder SED columns in PD grid. Move to the right of the "Correlated Device" column. Revise the SED capability detection to check for non-enterprise. [ QSTOR-11146 ]

v6.5.5.039 (May 29th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixes bug in osd gentle reweight script that was bottlenecking performance. [ QSTOR-11123 ]

  • Added logic to auto-clean up volume objects for non-QuantaStor managed ceph rbd's (rbd's created directly by the client using client rbd drivers/software). [ QSTOR-11112 ]

  • Add warnings for the user if OSD or journal delete is being used on a device with duplicate PVs due to multi-pathing mapping. [ QSTOR-11099 ]

  • Added 'qs-ceph' utility commands to modify compression options on Ceph pools. [ QSTOR-11096 ]

  • Added compression ratio column in storage pools grid. [ QSTOR-11087 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for discovery of RMSP3JD160J controllers. [ QSTOR-11107 ]

  • Add validation for both primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-11009 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed a very rare corner case where a Manual HA failover task could generate unexpected errors due to a background periodic storage pool scan. [ QSTOR-11111 ]

  • Added the option to set a Site Cluster Member Node as Manual Standby. [ QSTOR-11105 ]

  • Fixed an issue where nodes could come out of standby status on a reboot too early before grid communication was established. [ QSTOR-11105 ]

  • Enhanced HA Failover times for Storage Volumes for Fibre Channel clients. [ QSTOR-11105 ]

  • Enhanced Fiber Channel High availability ALUA Changes to occur more quickly and to more quickly advertise failed paths to clients like VMware so that they can resume I/O to healthy available paths sooner. [ QSTOR-11105 ]

  • Enhanced the logic used for High Availability Storage SCSI Target decoupling during a Storage Pool export. This can help greatly reduce the failover time for very Large configurations with thousands of volumes or volume snapshots. [ QSTOR-10969 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes bug that was blocking users from creating a static route with the same destination subnet across different systems. [ QSTOR-11125 ]

  • Fixed a bug in static route validation logic and allow users to delete malformed static route entries. [ QSTOR-11115 ]

Network Shares

  • Allow rename of nested shares [ QSTOR-11046 ]

  • Added logic to help persist and manage NFS options for NFS version and nfs --manage-gids flags [ QSTOR-11001 ]

REST API

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

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

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

Security

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

Service Core

  • Enhanced the Core QuantaStor service management thread scaling. [ QSTOR-10767 ]

  • Fixed a small memory leak with debug log tracing [ QSTOR-10689 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Updated sedutil-cli that supports a wider range of encrypted devices. [ QSTOR-11088 ]

  • Restores sedutil / Storage Pool encryption support for SED Ruby NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-11088 ]

  • Removed restriction to satisfy the VDEV count of N+1 to create a RAIDZx(RAID50/60/etc) array on a ZFS scale-up Storage pool when passing in a Set Disk Size instead of using the 'auto' option. [ QSTOR-11086 ]

v6.5.4.016 (April 29th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fix issue where the dashboard of a newly created volume was not showing performance data after it had been assigned because of a pending Telegraf restart required. [ QSTOR-11077 ]

  • Show CPU Temp and Power Usage in the System Dashboard (new Sensors button). [ QSTOR-11029 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Unblocked creating HA ViF if there is an HA irrelavant bond in active-backup mode and unblocked modifying an HA irrelavant bond. [ QSTOR-11073 ]

  • Fixed an issue when modifying non-name fields of an HA group. [ QSTOR-11071 ]

Network Interfaces

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

Network Shares

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

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Minor log file cleanup after backup job is finished. [ QSTOR-11044 ]

  • Add the ability to rollback a read-write Storage Volume or Network Share snapshot to it's underlying snapshot. [ QSTOR-9820 ]

Storage Pool Management

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