v6.5.11.029 (August 28th 2025)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.11.

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 ]