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Buurst® SoftNAS 5 Release Notes

Buurst® SoftNAS 5 Release Notes

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Last updated: Jun 13, 2025 by Arlene Ogden

SoftNAS® 5.6.5 Release Notes - March, 2025 

SoftNAS 5.6.3 is a maintenance release focused on critical security updates and stability improvements. This update ensures compliance with the latest security standards and enhances system reliability for cloud and on-premises deployments.  

SoftNAS® 5.6.2 Release Notes - February, 2025 

SoftNAS® 5.6.3 Release Notes - March, 2025 

SoftNAS 5.6.3 is a maintenance release focused on critical security updates and stability improvements. This update ensures compliance with the latest security standards and enhances system reliability for cloud and on-premises deployments.  

SoftNAS® 5.6.2 Release Notes - February, 2025 

SoftNAS 5.6.2 delivers critical bug fixes, security enhancements, and platform improvements to ensure stability, security, and usability across cloud and on-premises environments. This release focuses on resolving high-priority customer-reported issues, hardening HA (High Availability) configurations, and addressing cloud-specific challenges 

SoftNAS® 5.6.1 Release Notes - November, 2024 

SoftNAS 5.6.1 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

SoftNAS® 5.5.5 Release Notes - August, 2024 

SoftNAS 5.5.5 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

SoftNAS® 5.5.4 Release Notes - August, 2024 

SoftNAS 5.5.4 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

SoftNAS® 5.5.3 Release Notes - June, 2024 

SoftNAS 5.5.3 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

SoftNAS® 5.5.2 Release Notes - May, 2024 

SoftNAS 5.5.2 is a maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

SoftNAS® 5.5.0 Release Notes - January, 2024 

Buurst SoftNAS 5.5.0 is a new feature and maintenance release containing the improvements below along with other important changes.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

Note

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.

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.

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.

Important Details Regarding This Release

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.

 

New Registration and Support Portal

With this release we have migrated to a new service desk platform.  The new service desk can be reached at https://support.buurst.com/.

 

New AWS Instance Type/Sizes Added to Support Matrix

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® 5.1.3 Release Notes - September 9, 2021

Buurst SoftNAS 5.1.3 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.

 

 

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

 

SoftNAS® 5.1.1 Release Notes - July 8th, 2021

Buurst's SoftNAS 5.1.1 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.

 

 

SoftNAS® 5.1.0 Release - April 21st, 2021

Buurst's SoftNAS 5.1 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.

 

 

 

SoftNAS® 5.02 Release - Feb 25th, 2021

Buurst's SoftNAS 5.02 is a maintenance release containing the below improvements.

 

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.

 

SoftNAS® 5.0 Release - January 8th, 2021

Buurst's SoftNAS 5.0 is a feature release containing new features and improvements.

 

 

 

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.

Important Information About Updating to This Version

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.

 

Buurst Best Practice Recommendation

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.

 

Changes in Support of Object Storage

With the release of SoftNAS 5.2.0, the support of Object Storage is now being transitioned into Support Only mode for existing deployments.  

 

Changes in Support of SmartTiers

With the release of SoftNAS 5.2.0 the support of SmartTiers is now being transitioned into Support Only mode for existing deployments.