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

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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

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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

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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

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.4.

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 ]

v6.5.3.021 (April 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Improved timeout handling for QuantaStor coordinated task system. [ QSTOR-11022 ]

Disk Management

  • Added Hardware Encryption Storage Pool create support for Seagate ST20000NM000D Enterprise SED drives. [ QSTOR-11032 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Hardware Enclosure support for Dell PowerEdge R7615 [ QSTOR-11043 ]

  • Added Hardware Enclosure support for Supermicro AS-1115CS-TNR [ QSTOR-11043 ]

  • Optimized performance and fixed issues when rendering systems with attached CORVAULT external systems. [ QSTOR-11039 ]

  • Optimize the rendering of enclosures. Fix drawer rendering issue where extra slots were appearing. [ QSTOR-11014 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with static route netmask CIDR calculations. [ QSTOR-11048 ]

Network Shares

  • Update Network Share Namespace on all nodes to reflect any modification to NFS access entries to share that is part of a Namespace. [ QSTOR-11042 ]

  • Online newly promoted Network Share Snapshots. [ QSTOR-11021 ]

  • Add post share create and modify script callouts. [ QSTOR-11016 ]

  • Fixed mount paths for enabled snapshots of Network Share when Share is renamed. [ QSTOR-11012 ]

  • Add the ability to prioritize NFS access rules in /etc/exports file. [ QSTOR-10552 ]

SNMP

  • Regen SNMP for 6.5.3 [ QSTOR-11054 ]

Security

  • Added docker http proxy override [ QSTOR-11040 ]

  • Updated Tomcat version to 9.0.102.0 [ QSTOR-11013 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed various issues with the OVA vApp properties being set after VM image cloning. Added additional properties to the OVA by default. [ QSTOR-10508 ]

v6.5.2.070 (March 27th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added SED version of Micron 7300 drives to firmware check for Config Analyzer [ QSTOR-10933 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Update AWS cli. [ QSTOR-10956 ]

  • Extend Resource Groups to support adding S3 Tenant resource type. [ QSTOR-10808 ]

  • Extended timeouts for logical volume allocation commands when creating Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-10930 ]

  • Added more permissive check when running Ceph OSD replace prepare operation. (CLI only) [ QSTOR-10914 ]

  • Add a qs-ceph command to allow switching between fuse and kernel mount for cephFS to allow user comparison of fuse versus the faster kernel option. [ QSTOR-10905 ]

  • Adds additional Ceph coordinator election mode that maps to the site-cluster. [ QSTOR-10795 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added Jammy platform support for the ceph prometheus install script [ QSTOR-10949 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Strip whitespace characters from primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-10896 ]

  • Add validation for External System Credentials during creation. [ QSTOR-10826 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed a bug with creation grid master (gm) Site Cluster vifs. [ QSTOR-10996 ]

  • Implemented new naming schema for underlying Site Cluster HA Groups. [ QSTOR-10904 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with deleting bonded interfaces leaving slave interfaces tagged as slaves. [ QSTOR-10931 ]

  • Updates for mellanox ofed lossless networking support to work better with newer model cards. [ QSTOR-10779 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixes bug where having 'gmt' or 'GMT' in the name of a network share would cause issues with NFS protocol. [ QSTOR-10982 ]

  • Fix the mount paths for read-write GMT snapshots. [ QSTOR-10938 ]

  • Add mountaddr to the view mount instructions for Network Share. [ QSTOR-10923 ]

  • Add crossmnt option in the NFS exports for newly created shares. Also skip adding the default export for .zfs directory. [ QSTOR-10806 ]

  • Add the ability to clone a GMT snapshot and promote it.

Add QS CLI to copy share permissions. [ QSTOR-10580 ]

REST API

  • Handle empty lists from the curl calls to Quantastor APIs. [ QSTOR-10939 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed up dead links which were created after running some types of auto-tier Backup Policies. [ QSTOR-10934 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11019 ]

Security

  • Prevent MFA passcodes with leading 0 from being truncated. [ QSTOR-10852 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes an issue where role-creation would fail due to deprecated permission-definitions. [ QSTOR-10988 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added support for the creation of mirror sets consisting of "quad-mirrors" (4-way mirror sets) for both the data device groups in the pool and also the "special" devices, such as "dedup" and "metadata offload" devices. [ QSTOR-10893 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Add more detail for logical and physical space utilization for volumes. [ QSTOR-10981 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Deprecates legacy package version pinning for the packages.osnexus.com mirror server that was causing issues with some ceph cluster upgrades [ QSTOR-10990 ]

  • Added protections in qs\_distupgrade.sh for lvm snapshots that could cause issues with the platform upgrade. [ QSTOR-10970 ]

  • Resolved multiple items that were causing issues with installing QuantaStor on redhat based platforms when STIG enforcement policies were present. [ QSTOR-10958 ]

Note: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install/upgrade script temporarily sets selinux to permissive mode and temporarily disables fapolicyd if it is enabled when the script is running and restores them to their original state when the script completes.

Web Manager

  • Auto select S3 tenant for S3 User when user create is invoked from context menu on the S3 tenant. [ QSTOR-11010 ]

  • Increase the width of grids to show the 'Correlated Device' column in the Add Log/Cache/Metadata Device to Pool dialog w/o the need for scrolling. [ QSTOR-10951 ]

  • Add an option to upload logs with no truncation. [ QSTOR-10925 ]

  • Add drawer support for the Corvault enclosure layout and rendering engine in the WUI. [ QSTOR-10796 ]

v6.5.1.058 (February 12th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • General improvements to OSD drive replacement process. Added additional LVM clean up logic. Fixed issues with device correlation for multipath devices and encrypted drives. [ QSTOR-10915 ]

  • Allow deleting journals from the UI via Ceph journal delete dialog [ QSTOR-10890 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add gridPreferredPort check to the WUI dashboard service (qsrestd) if set on a Storage System. [ QSTOR-10866 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed: New systems and clean QuantaStor service configurations databases will initialize Multipath autoconfig support as enabled by default. [ QSTOR-10900 ]

  • Increased timeouts and other optimizations for large multipath configurations. [ QSTOR-10881 ]

  • Added protections to prevent QuantaStor service from running multiple blkid instances if one is already running. [ QSTOR-10881 ]

  • Unblocked adding disk as a scale-up pool spare with a larger block size. [ QSTOR-10876 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add Enclosure mapping support for HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10. [ QSTOR-10899 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Hardware Disk Identify for Storage Pool Physical Disks where the controller was not properly selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10858 ]

  • Fixed an issue with applying External System Profile A+B. [ QSTOR-10840 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with automatically starting HA scale-up ZFS pools if both HA nodes are booted at the same time. [ QSTOR-10902 ]

  • Added a a check to ensure the luks crypttab was upto date after encrypted ha pool failover. [ QSTOR-10901 ]

  • Added VLAN interfaces to allowed interfaces for Site Cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-10871 ]

  • Added better logic for smb/nfs service management for Scale-up HA configurations with shares on multiple storage pools in the same HA cluster. [ QSTOR-10762 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Resource Group Service configs starting on a node after the node had previously hosted the service. [ QSTOR-10762 ]

  • Fixed: added a unique name check for HA group create/modify. [ QSTOR-10311 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Change Seagate Lyve Cloud endpoints [ QSTOR-10868 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with calling iptables commands when distupgrading from older distributions. [ QSTOR-10860 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to allow creation of GMT snapshots for volumes from the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10873 ]

  • Fixed an issue with spaces in the curl command issued to Quantastor. [ QSTOR-10838 ]

  • Fix issue where renaming a share that contained a nested share failed. [ QSTOR-10811 ]

  • Allow setting Samba share as read-only using ZFS. The new support has been added to the Network Share create and modify dialogs on the Advanced settings tab. [ QSTOR-10755 ]

  • Fixed an issue which created duplicate mounts for nested shares. [ QSTOR-10704 ]

  • Exposed ZFS 'Case Sensitivity' option at share creation time. [ QSTOR-8869 ]

REST API

  • Fixed the POST command in the REST API [ QSTOR-10844 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix an issue with auto tiering in backup policies. [ QSTOR-10845 ]

  • Refined the Backup Policy Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10843 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Backup Policy tasks completing when the underlying file copy or move process process had returned. [ QSTOR-10839 ]

  • Add alerting when replication fails. [ QSTOR-10799 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10922 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause performing a reboot or shutdown of the storage system via the QuantaStor UI to fail. [ QSTOR-10917 ]

  • Fix an issue with database backups on the storage pools. [ QSTOR-10907 ]

  • Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools when an underlying disk is read-only. [ QSTOR-10886 ]

  • Fixed a disk discovery issue when discoverying a large number of disks. [ QSTOR-10875 ]

  • Fixed QuantaStor service builds for Redhat based distros. [ QSTOR-10846 ]

  • Added /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf_sendlogs_ping_check.disable touchfile to bypess the icmp ping check and allow sending logs from the UI/qs cli. [ QSTOR-10556 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fix an issue with pick a smaller hotspare disk getting picked for metadata offload if disk goes missing. [ QSTOR-10877 ]

  • Add storage capacity properties for metadata offload VDEV [ QSTOR-10661 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a blacklist of the bnxt\_re driver to prevent issues for normal network operations for the bnxt_en driver loading on network controllers that have rdma support enabled in their firmware by default. [ QSTOR-10918 ]

  • Added elbencho benchmarking tool to quantastor utilities. [ QSTOR-10892 ]

  • Added support for Focal 20.04 to Jammy 22.04 Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-10547 ]

  • Fix telegraf start failures at startup due to invalid config file errors. [ QSTOR-10353 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed a minor truncation issue with trigger Backup Policy dialog [ QSTOR-10919 ]

  • Add a Description column to the share and snapshot grid and default to hidden. [ QSTOR-10882 ]

  • Minor fix to NTP server add dialog to prevent empty entries in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10870 ]

  • Auto select first row in NTP and DNS settings dialogs. [ QSTOR-10867 ]

  • Improve the host assign volume dialog. [ QSTOR-10862 ]

v6.5.0.246 (January 9th 2025)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Increased HA health checks on Systems with local HA Pools. [ QSTOR-10746 ]

  • Fixed: sending logs from specific grid nodes will now send logs only from the selected nodes. [ QSTOR-10694 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixes issue with access permissions for ceph client admin keyring file. [ QSTOR-10818 ]

  • Fixed issues related to encrypted OSD replace operations. [ QSTOR-10786 ]

  • Fixed an issue with wal journal device discovery and association with osds. [ QSTOR-10751 ]

  • Deprecated replica=2 as a creation option from Ceph Scale-out storage. Replica=2 did not provide enough redundancy for consistent normal storage operations in the event of an osd or storage system outage. [ QSTOR-10748 ]

  • Added the force flag checkbox to the Create S3 Storage Class dialog. [ QSTOR-10734 ]

  • Fixed bugs in Ceph upgrade stage completion and failure alerting. [ QSTOR-10730 ]

  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10717 ]

  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10716 ]

  • Fixed an OSD discovery issue on large Scale-out configurations. [ QSTOR-10708 ]

  • Improve ceph discovery. [ QSTOR-10675 ]

  • Add metadata pool utilization for Ceph Object Pool Group and Ceph File System [ QSTOR-10650 ]

  • Disabled OSD auto restart. auto restart can be activated using the touchfile '/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf\_ceph\_osd\_auto\_start.enable' [ QSTOR-10632 ]

  • Ensure the Tenant and User grid's bucket count column is updated after the delete bucket operation via events. [ QSTOR-10610 ]

  • Fixed a bug with Ceph OSD 'Last Rekey Date' field not being updated properly. [ QSTOR-10509 ]

  • Updated default Ceph version to Reef 18.2.4 for new Focal and Jammy platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10415 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add a new Ceph Member selection combo to the Ceph Pool dashboard. [ QSTOR-10798 ]

  • Add Tenant and Owner usage dashboards to the Bucket menu area. [ QSTOR-10698 ]

  • Add CPU Temp and Power Usage to the Grid Dashboard's System Tiles. [ QSTOR-10427 ]

  • Change the grid CPU metric to use system\_usage which matches the metric used in the System dashboard. The overlapping text issue is no longer an issue as Highcharts has been replaced with Chart.js. [ QSTOR-10263 ]

  • Add power usage and average CPU temp sparklines to the System Tile dashboards in the grid view. [ QSTOR-10013 ]

  • Removed resource column from Health Checker/Config Analyzer. [ QSTOR-5515 ]

Disk Management

  • Removed the multipath autoconf touchfile support which fixes issues where disabling multipath autoconfig would not apply. [ QSTOR-10706 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Addes enclosure layour for Supermicro Server SYS-F629P3-RC1B FatTwin 4-Node 24+12 bay [ QSTOR-10853 ]

  • Fixed an issue with disk discovery when a CORVAULT is attached. [ QSTOR-10664 ]

  • Added the ability to blink empty slots on jbod hardware that supports that feature. This action is accomplished using sg\_ses commands. [ QSTOR-10618 ]

  • Added functionality to treat enclosures accidentally unplugged as MISSING, so that when reconnected their user-set properties are not lost . [ QSTOR-10542 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with post failover storage pool update tasks being stuck in a running state for nodes where the HA storage pool was previously evicted from due to an automatically triggered failover event. [ QSTOR-10485 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated ZFS driver version to 2.2.6 [ QSTOR-10647 ]

  • Updated scst iSCSI/FC Target driver to 3.9.0 [ QSTOR-10534 ]

Licensing

  • Fixup old license keys to work with new format. [ QSTOR-10788 ]

  • Added Express Edition Licenses [ QSTOR-10619 ]

  • Show TB Utilized in the License grid and property view. [ QSTOR-8009 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fix wrap and truncation issues in the Cloud Add Credential dialog for Spanish. [ QSTOR-10792 ]

Network Shares

  • Retain include line position in smb.conf [ QSTOR-10800 ]

  • Minor fix to retain the share description when creating a Network Share. [ QSTOR-10793 ]

  • Enhance the network share CLI search to support paging (similar to buckets). [ QSTOR-10757 ]

  • Fix minor share name and snapshot name validation. [ QSTOR-10520 ]

  • Added additional share name validation to share modify cli and API calls. [ QSTOR-10519 ]

  • Add SSSD support [ QSTOR-10445 ]

  • Implemented ransomware detection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10391 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed qs cli disk-list filters for ssd, and nvme disk types. [ QSTOR-10515 ]

  • Fixed the filtering for qs cli disk-list --filter="\[unused\]" and --filter="\[used\]" commands [ QSTOR-10482 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Remove SSH keys after replication links are deleted [ QSTOR-10782 ]

  • Fix minor argument validation for replication schedule create and snapshot schedule create. [ QSTOR-10732 ]

  • Added monitoring for file modify events to enable continuous data protection on modified files. [ QSTOR-10557 ]

  • Added ability for Snapshot Schedules and Replication Schedules to absorb old snapshots. [ QSTOR-10524 ]

  • Create local delta Snapshot on source when Replication Schedule is skipped. [ QSTOR-10357 ]

  • Change the control in the 'Update Selections for Replication Schedule' dialog to be a dual chooser. [ QSTOR-10351 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added a remote Fibre Channel port list to the fc target port section of the UI and 'qs fc-remote-port-enum' CLI command. [ QSTOR-10541 ]

  • Added the Fiber Channel Issue LIP dialog to the UI that can be used to issue a lip on a specific FC port. [ QSTOR-10226 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10847 ]

Security

  • Fixed a bug in the 2FA login process. [ QSTOR-10841 ]

  • Added support for a custom iptables include script under

/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/iptables.qscustom [ QSTOR-10794 ]

  • Updated tomcat package version to 9.0.96.0 [ QSTOR-10691 ]

Service Core

  • Fix a small memory leak [ QSTOR-10778 ]

  • Revise the server S3 modify API to accept spaces for the Display Name property. [ QSTOR-10724 ]

  • Fixed some issues with writing the Chrony conf file on platforms that have chrony installed (like Jammy) [ QSTOR-10293 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Allow trim schedule to run nightly. [ QSTOR-10652 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Allow minimum of <4MB for Storage Volume QoS Control limits. [ QSTOR-10765 ]

  • Updated Storage Volume QoS controls to use cGroups v2 for modern linux kernels/platforms. [ QSTOR-10529 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added logic to temporarily disable the upmap balancer during ceph upgrade. [ QSTOR-10702 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Storage System Upgrade tasks were showing 25% progress but transitioned to the 'Completed' stage. [ QSTOR-10673 ]

  • Install sssd packages by default on focal and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10549 ]

  • chrony is now the default time daemon for ubuntu 22.04 jammy and newer platforms. [ QSTOR-10273 ]

  • Added 22.04 Jammy as a new Platform for QuantaStor [ QSTOR-10225 ]

Web Manager

  • Disable the 'Start Upgrade' button in the Upgrade dialog until the system update check is complete. [ QSTOR-10776 ]

  • Show the Tag/Alt Name value along with the Controller name in the identify dialog if provided. [ QSTOR-10775 ]

  • Decrease the replication detail chart update frequency. [ QSTOR-10753 ]

  • Added email validation check for the Alert Manager dialog [ QSTOR-10590 ]

  • Added Timezone configuration as a step in the getting started guide. [ QSTOR-10502 ]