v6.5.6.052 (July 16th 2025)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

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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 ]