SoftNAS® 5.4.3 Release Notes - September, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.4.3 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.4.2 Release Notes - August, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.4.2 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.4.1 Release Notes - June, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.4.1 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.4.0 Release Notes - June, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.4.0 is a new feature and maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.3.0 Release Notes - March, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.3.0 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.2.9 Release Notes - January, 2023
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.9 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.2.8 Release Notes - November, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.8 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.2.7 Release Notes - September, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.7 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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SoftNAS® 5.2.6 Release Notes - August, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.6 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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Known Issues 5.2.6 Deltasync snapshot - when a deltasync operation is performed you may encounter an error event for the message "Remote Delta Snapshot created successfully". The error can be ignored and will be resolved in a future release. |
If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal.
SoftNAS® 5.2.5 Release Notes - June, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.5 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
SNAP HA - added support for AWS GovCloud US-Gov-East region.
If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal.
SoftNAS® 5.2.4 Release Notes - June, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.4 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
License Update - minor change to correct an error identified after the release of 5.2.3.
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BYOL Users: If you have already upgraded to SoftNAS 5.2.3, it is not necessary to upgrade to this version because the specific change does not impact the BYOL licensing scheme. |
If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal.
SoftNAS® 5.2.3 Release Notes - May, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.3 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal.
SoftNAS® 5.2.2 Release Notes - March, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.2 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal.
SoftNAS® 5.2.1 Release Notes - January, 2022
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.1 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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All identified CVEs critical to be addressed are part of SoftNAS 5.2.1 including a vulnerability identified within nginx (CVE-2021-23017). If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal. |
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With this release we have migrated to a new service desk platform. The new service desk can be reached at https://support.buurst.com/. |
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Added new EC2 Instance Types and Sizes based on their performance characteristics and price points to enable customers to get even more value when deployed on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform. |
SoftNAS® 5.2.0 Release Notes - November, 2021
Buurst SoftNAS 5.2.0 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements along with other important changes.
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Previous version of SoftNAS were deployed using the CentOS version of Linux. As of the end of November 2021, IBM has discontinued support of the CentOS Linux which has resulted in Buurst's decision to migrate to Rocky Linux 8.5. Rocky Linux 8.5 provides a wealth of enhancements and is a logical follow on to the CentOS 8.4 Linux operating system. It is important to understand the upgrade process from 5.x.x does take a bit longer than normal. The actual process updates CentOS 8.2 to CentOS 8.4 and then proceeds with the transition to Rocky Linux 8.5. All identified CVEs critical to be addressed are part of SoftNAS 5.2.0. The move to Rocky 8.5 will also permit the ability to continue to address any newly discovered vulnerabilities in the future as part of this Linux operating system. If you need additional assistance, don't forget we are here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us through your Gold Support or through Buurst Support Portal. |
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Updating the SoftNAS kernel outside of updates provided by Buurst will violate and void the End User Agreement License for SoftNAS and may result in additional costs incurred to resolve issues resulting from such actions. Please contact Buurst Support if you have any additional questions or before considering such actions in order to protect the integrity of your SoftNAS deployment. |
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With the release of SoftNAS 5.2.0, the support of Object Storage is now being transitioned into Support Only mode for existing deployments. |
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With the release of SoftNAS 5.2.0 the support of SmartTiers is now being transitioned into Support Only mode for existing deployments. |
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SoftNAS® 5.1.3 Release Notes - September 9, 2021
Buurst SoftNAS 5.1.3 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.
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Known Issues 5.1.3 Yum update - it has been observed occasionally when running a "yum update" from the command line you may experience an error message when the kernel debug package is installed. This is contributed to the fact SoftNAS uses a custom kernel package. The error can be ignored and will be resolved in a future release. winbindd log message - There are some situations where RPC functions return RPC faults and this is not a fatal condition. In that situation a dcesrv_call_dispatch_local: DCE/RPC fault in call lsarpc:32 - DCERPC_NCA_S_OP_RNG_ERROR message will be observed in the /var/log/messages file. |
SoftNAS® 5.1.2 Custom Update Release Notes - August 12, 2021
To apply this custom update, launch the StorageCenter UI and enter the SoftNAS version 5.1.2 custom update URL replacing the <SOFTNAS_IP> with your current instance IP address: https://<SOFTNAS_IP>/softnas/applets/update/?customupdate=5.1.2.3452
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SoftNAS® 5.1.1 Release Notes - July 8th, 2021
Buurst's SoftNAS 5.1.1 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.
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SmartTiers Pools/Volumes/SnapClones not remounted issue - An issue occurring in some SmartTiers deployments, where pools, volumes, and associated SnapClones were not mounting after a reboot has been resolved. HA installation failure issue - Resolved an issue where high availability (SNAP HA) would fail to install due to an assumption that the two VMs were in the same resource group. Logic added to ensure that subnet info is consulted prior to connection attempt. RHEL Root Corruption and Disk Unmountable issue - A known RHEL issue related to THP (transparent huge pages) default setting resulted in metadata expanding beyond memory capacity, resulting in data corruption. THP is now disabled at boot by default to prevent this issue re-occurring. Unable to create Azure Blob (object) Storage - An issue in which creation of blob storage on Azure would result in "unknown error" has been resolved. Invalid Help Link when connecting with SSH - Updated support link displayed when connecting by SSH to your SoftNAS instance/VM to ensure customers have easy access to support. Updated video links and content for in-app help - Updated or added video links to in-app help items, and added new help content to app features. Lift and Shift Azure Storage Type Selection issue - An issue in which the customer could not select disk type for Lift and Shift flows on Azure instances has been resolved. Failed takeover from UI - A race condition that could result from manual takeover/giveback operations that could result in takeover failure due to instance/VM roles switching places too quickly has been resolved. Failed error reporting issue - In some isolated cases, SnapReplication would not report failure if previous cycle completed successfully, and the next cycle was unable to start due to target node being down. This could result in replication showing as functional when it was not. This has now been resolved. Lift and Shift Home (Flexfiles) Repository available mappable target - An issue in which the home repository for Lift and Shift was listed as available as a target for mapping (Lift and Shift should not target the home directory) has been resolved. Lift and Shift Failure to Create Repository - An issue in which attempts to create a Lift and Shift repository has been resolved. (19181) SSL Certificate Issue between VMware and AWS Lift and Shift operations - Necessary communication between VMware and AWS instances for Lift and Shift operations were being blocked by certificate configurations. This has now been resolved. SnapReplicate Throttling issue - An issue where throttling command was not installed by default, resulting in potential poor performance, has now been resolved. Nginx comment line issue - An issue where a SED REGEXP would constantly add # to the nginx registry file whether commented already or not, potentially resulting in large files sizes over time, has now been resolved. Nginx SSL certification corruption issue - An issue in which failover for HA would not work due to Nginx SSL Cert corruption has now been resolved. Custom NFS IDmapping configuration issue - An issue with a custom script in a client environment has been connected to an unsupported NFS setting. NFS IDmapping has been disabled in SoftNAS 5.1.1 for security reasons. Enabling NFS IDmapping is not a recommended configuration. |
SoftNAS® 5.1.0 Release - April 21st, 2021
Buurst's SoftNAS 5.1 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.
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The installer and documentation can be found at: RHEL SoftNAS Installation Steps
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Failover Issue when using custom SSL certifications - An issue in which custom SSL certifications would be over-written during a failover operation, resulting in loss of high availability, has been resolved. The custom SSL certifications will no longer be over-written. Error when modifying NFS shares from UI - An issue in which attempts to modify an NFS share from the Create an NFS Share section of the UI would result in failure and an error message have been resolved. Security Fixes - The following fixes have been made to secure SoftNAS 5.1.0:
Yum Update Issue - An issue preventing yum updates from completing has been resolved. |
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Benign Log Error - Log errors of a specific type seen occasionally on install has proven to be benign. The error reads "Job for <service name> failed because the control process exited with error code" Service names that have been seen for this error include:
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SoftNAS® 5.02 Release - Feb 25th, 2021
Buurst's SoftNAS 5.02 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.
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SoftNAS® 5.0.1 Release - Jan 13th, 2021
Buurst's SoftNAS 5.0.1 is a feature release containing new features, improvements and bug fixes.
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Build Packaging Fix - Fixed the build packaging for platform publishing. |
SoftNAS® 5.0 Release - January 8th, 2021
Buurst's SoftNAS 5.0 is a feature release containing new features and improvements.
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License enforcement - As of 5.0, license enforcement will be applied to only allow SoftNAS servers to operate that are within the license entitlement performance level. Linux version change - SoftNAS is now based on a CentOS 8.2 Linux deployment. Kernel update - SoftNAS' kernel has been updated to version 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64 Samba update - Samba has been updated to version 4.12-10-15 AWS EIP Support - SoftNAS no longer supports the use of Elastic IP addresses on versions 5.0 and later Apple File Protocol (AFP) Support - AFP is no longer supported as of versions 5.0 and later Upgrade process improvements - SoftNAS no longer checks and interrupts the upgrade process if the version of paired instances with SnapReplicate is different. The upgrade process will proceed without issue. Firewall default settings change -To improve the baseline security of SoftNAS, Firewalld default settings have been changed. All ports not required for use of SoftNAS will now be closed. If any services connect with SoftNAS through extraneous ports in your existing deployment, you will need to open these ports in SoftNAS's firewall. Azure OMS Agent Support - Azure ASM and OMS Azure Extensions are now supported. Improved performance - Performance improvements of up to 60% have been benchmarked for certain workflows with SoftNAS 5.0 SSH User change - With the update to the latest CentOS build, the centos user is now used for SSH connections to the virtual machine, rather than the ec2-user. |
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Snapshots are now time zone aware - Snapshots have now been changed to use UTC when naming snapshots and will display according to the local time zone regardless of the location and time zone of the snapshot datastore. Common User Configurable NTP settings - Fixed an issue in which some SoftNAS Services prioritized a hard-coded time server over user configured time server settings. Enable custom data for Azure - In order to allow automation of deployments and allow images to self-configure and bootstrap with predetermined values, SoftNAS now supports custom data. Azure L2ARC Boot Hang issue - Fixed an issue where Azure instances without ephemeral drives could hang for up to 15 minutes during boot. This would typically manifest itself with the inability to login to to the instance via the UI or SSH. CLI License Activation Issue - An issue in which license activation via the CLI would not function has been resolved. Unable to edit snapshot schedule via CLI - An issue in which edits to snapshot schedule using the CLI would not be recognized as valid, resulting in a null value, has been resolved. Max Threads Cleared issue - An issue in which :SoftNAS.ini" script would not retain the max threads count, necessary for Lift and Shift setup, has been resolved. Azure Storage Expansion issue - An issue in which storage expansion operations on Azure virtual machines with attached read/write logs (L2ARC or ZIL) would fail has been resolved. Inconsistent HA State issue - Fixed an issue where the displayed HA state between two SoftNAS nodes could be inconsistent. SmartTiers Resize issue - Fixed an issue where the UI could hang if resizing a SmartTiers tier. Occasionally this issue could result in an invalid license alert. Lift and Shift Fixes Lift and Shift EFS Source selection issue - An issue in which the EFS source could not be selected from the UI in order to be mounted (but could be mounted from the CLI) has been resolved. Miscellaneous Fixes Update related bucket error - An issue in which after an update would occasionally result in an InvalidBucketName error when using CEPH based storage has been resolved. If using CEPH based object buckets please contact support prior to the upgrade for assistance. |
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Notification Email issue - If the email notification is not configured it is logged as an ERROR, but should display as an INFO status in logs. This will be resolved in an upcoming release. NiFi Monit Alerts without NiFi enabled - NiFi Monit alerts may appear in your logs even if NiFi has not been enabled on your SoftNAS VM. BYOL License Email not sent - Email alerts for SoftNAS BYOL performance level violations are not sent for Azure VMs. BYOL performance level violations are detected and displayed in the UI. SnapReplicate/SNAP HA un-synched volume issue - A volume or volumes added while an HA pairing is deactivated will not replicate to the secondary node upon reactivation of HA. CIFS/SMB import issue - When importing an S3 device with CIFS/SMB enabled to a new instance, the existing CIFS/SMB volume(s) are not automatically imported to the new instance. yum update issue - yum updates on version 5.01 are erroring out with no action taken. This will be resolved in an upcoming release. |