v6.5.1.058 (February 12th 2025)
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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 ]