This section lists the most important features from each release.

For information about upgrade types for each release, see Qumulo Core Upgrade Mode Reference.

Qumulo Core 7.8.0.1 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Improved the performance of Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) writes from the hub portal to a spoke portal
  • Added Host-Managed Networking Mode for all Qumulo Core Product Package installations of Qumulo Core 7.8.0.1 (and higher)
  • Added support for the STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD and STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD-TRAILER authentication types to the S3 API
  • Changed Authoritative DNS (QDNS) configuration to:
    • Serve A records for the first Qumulo network on the cluster’s base domain
    • Provide improved support for Windows Server DNS and stricter DNS resolvers
  • Added support for accepting and returning security identifiers (SIDs) with the IdentifierAuthority value larger than 255

Qumulo Core 7.7.5.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added expansion of the placeholder %U to a username for SMB shares
  • Added the ability to handle NFSv4.1 user identities in the <principal>@<domain> format when a domain name is different from the Active Directory domain to which your Qumulo cluster is joined
  • Made additions and revisions associated with these changes to qq CLI commands and REST API endpoints
  • Resolved an issue with creating new files and then writing them to a spoke portal over SMB
  • Resolved an issue with the NFSv4.1 server not presenting the INHERITED flag on an Access Control Entry if the entry was inherited from a parent directory

Qumulo Core 7.7.4.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • The majority of functionality and stability improvements in this Qumulo Core release are internal.
  • Added the /v1/portal/ping REST API endpoint and the qq portal_ping command
  • Changed how the qq ad_cancel, ad_join, ad_leave, and ad_reconfigure commands return the status of in-progress background operations

Qumulo Core 7.7.3

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Updated the /v3/smb/share/ REST API endpoint
  • Made Nexus security improvements

Qumulo Core 7.7.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Significantly improved the performance of the incremental replication process for directories

Qumulo Core 7.7.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Changed how NFS export host restrictions use KRB* keywords in Qumulo Core by allowing an additional match for hosts that authenticate by using a specific Kerberos flavor
  • Added REST API endpoints and qq CLI commands to support specifying a registration key that associates your Qumulo cluster with your Qumulo Nexus account
  • Changed qq CLI error messages to write to stderr instead of stdout
  • Resolved an S3 API issue with applications placing a trailing whitespace in the signed header field

Qumulo Core 7.7.0.2 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added Non-VPN Remote Support for self-managed Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) and on-premises clusters
  • Removed and replaced qq CLI commands related to Snapshots functionality
  • Resolved an issue with case sensitivity in Domain Controller lists

Qumulo Core 7.6.4.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Improved Cloud Data Fabric portal data synchronization speeds
  • Made improvements to the Network Configuration V3 REST APIs:
    • Moved a number of /v3/network/* REST APIs out of preview status
    • Added a number qq network_*, qq portal_authorize_hub, and qq_snapshot_* CLI commands

Qumulo Core 7.6.3.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made EdgeConnect (unprotected, single-node edge) clusters publicly available as bare-metal and VM deployments
    • Added the cluster_type metric to the Qumulo OpenMetrics API Specification
  • Improved Cloud Data Fabric (CDF):
    • Increased portal data synchronization IOPS and throughput for many CDF workloads
    • Added full support for SMB Read Lease and Write Lease functionality to CDF
    • Resolved an issue related to audit logging and spoke portal file path resolution
  • Improved the S3 API:
    • Added support for the STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER authentication type with the CRC64-NVME and SHA-256 checksum formats
    • Added Qumulo Core support for the default authentication type that the AWS CLI uses for the PutObject and UploadPart API actions
  • Added the ability to specify a list of Active Directory domain controllers that overrides the default auto-discovery process
  • Limited the number of bind_uri entries to 3 for standalone LDAP queries
  • Made qq CLI and REST API changes to support the new EdgeConnect, CDF, S3 API, Active Directory, and LDAP functionality

Qumulo Core 7.6.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made improvements to Cloud Data Fabric:
    • Added the ability to configure up to 32 spoke portal root directories for each portal relationship
    • Made corresponding /v2/portal/* REST API and qq portal_* CLI changes
    • Changed some of the terminology concerning portal relationship states and portal root directory states
  • Ensured that the ListObjectsV2 S3 API action supports the start-after parameter

Qumulo Core 7.6.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added the ability to apply the private policy to an S3 bucket at creation time
  • For Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ), replaced two OpenMetrics metrics for node and drive failure
  • Resolved an issue with the REST API endpoint for unconfigured nodes

Qumulo Core 7.6.0.2 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • The majority of functionality and stability improvements in this Qumulo Core release are internal.
  • Resolved an issue with the location of S3 buckets created from the Qumulo Core Web UI

Qumulo Core 7.5.5.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added the ability to specify a comma-separated list of bind URIs when configuring LDAP
  • Changed the error message when a user attempts to write to a read-only S3 bucket on a spoke portal
  • Resolved an issue with unexpected SAS controller behavior on hardware nodes
  • Added the ability for CNQ clusters to use the REST API and qq CLI to modify cloud monitoring settings

Qumulo Core 7.5.4.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Improved the efficiency of parallel operations for workloads that perform a high number of small transactions on the spoke portal
  • Modified the PutObject S3 API action to accept the x-amz-tagging header that contains properly encoded key-value pairs

Qumulo Core 7.5.3

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made improvements to the S3 API:
    • Added the ability for the S3 API to access spoke portal data
    • Removed the requirement to have the ObjectLockEnabled setting for an S3 bucket from the GetObjectRetention and GetObjectLegalHold S3 API actions
  • Made significant improvements to NFSv4.1 readdir operation performance for:
    • Clusters with numerous export host restrictions
    • Active Directory for POSIX attributes where files have AD owners with numerous group memberships
  • Added an OpenMetrics metric for tracking shared data for a hub portal root directory

Qumulo Core 7.5.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added the ability to upgrade NeuralCache on Azure Native Qumulo (ANQ) and Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) instances deployed on Qumulo Core versions lower than 7.4.1
  • Added the ability to configure up to 32 hub portals and up to 32 spoke portals on the same cluster at the same time
  • Made improvements to the S3 API:
    • Extended the expiration of presigned S3 URLs
    • Changed the PutObject S3 API action to accept all valid HTTP header keys
    • Resolved issues with the CopyObject S3 API action
  • Added OpenMetrics for self-managed, on-premises clusters and CNQ instances
  • Added support for latest Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN640 SSD firmware

Qumulo Core 7.5.1.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • For CNQ on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), added support for Cold clusters with an object tier for infrequent access to files and directories
  • Made improvements to the S3 API:
    • Resolved an issue with S3 directory deletion
    • Modified the XML response bodies for S3 API actions to return the canonical XML header
  • Modified files REST APIs to return entity tag (ETag) values correctly
  • Added support for latest Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN640 SSD firmware

  • Qumulo Core 7.5.0.3 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made improvements to Cloud Data Fabric:
    • Enabled the creation of up to 32 spoke portals on a single Qumulo cluster
    • Improved file creation latency and throughput for spoke portals
    • Added the Priority Sync feature for read-write spoke portals
  • Added the Qumulo Authoritative DNS (QDNS) to Qumulo Core
  • Added support for latest Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN640 SSD firmware
  • Resolved an issue with incorrect drive types for nodes in on-premises clusters
  • Modified the ListBuckets S3 API action to use the BucketPolicy permission together with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Qumulo Core

Qumulo Core 7.4.4

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made improvements to Cloud Data Fabric:
    • Added the ability to enable the S3 protocol for a spoke portal host cluster
    • Removed previous restrictions from the placement of replication targets
    • Enabled compression for data transferred between clusters in a portal relationship
    • Made significant performance improvements for small-I/O workloads on the hub portal and for locally cached files on the spoke portal
  • Added Qumulo Core Web UI notifications about SSD endurance levels and a corresponding REST API endpoint
  • Resolved an issue that previously affected read leases in the hub portal root directory

Qumulo Core 7.4.3.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added the ability to use the NFSv4.1 protocol with spoke portals
  • Added the ability to perform punch hole operations on spoke portals by using the qq CLI and REST API
  • Added automatic functionality that cleans up portal relationships after synchronizing spoke portal changes
  • Improved NeuralCache (formerly Predictive Read Cache) intelligent data ingestion and retention policy
  • Added support for using EBS volumes for NeuralCache in AWS Local Zones
  • Resolved an issue with NTLM authentication for certain image scanning devices and SMB shares
  • Resolved an issue with the SMB server and showing previous versions for files and directories

Qumulo Core 7.4.2.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added support for Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) clusters with 1, 3, or more nodes
  • Made improvements to Cloud Data Fabric:
    • Moved the REST APIs out of preview
    • Removed a qq CLI command in favor of automatic clean-up of partially configured portal relationships
    • Added support for FTP communications for spoke portals
    • Changed the names of portal states, which indicate the stages of the spoke portal creation process and the proposal or deletion of a portal relationship
    • Added new portal statuses, which indicate the accessibility of a spoke portal or a hub portal
  • Updated the default configuration for new NFS exports
  • Added a REST API and qq CLI command to facilitate deleting files from directories without constructing full paths

Qumulo Core 7.4.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made read-write spoke portals available by default
  • Eliminated the REST APIs for manual removal of cached data from spoke portals (no changes to automatic cached data removal)
  • Improved file identifiers to distinguish between cluster-local and spoke-cached data
  • Implemented NeuralCache architecture for new cloud clusters
  • Renamed the designation preview (previously, beta) which marks REST APIs under development
  • Made public the REST API endpoints and qq CLI commands that manage a cluster’s DNS configuration

Qumulo Core 7.4.0.4 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added support for latest Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN640 SSD firmware
  • Improved UID and GID sorting in the Qumulo Core Web UI
  • Resolved an issue with PutObject and CopyObject S3 API actions

Qumulo Core 7.3.2.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Removed the limit from the number of floating IP addresses per cluster
  • Added support for sharing S3 objects with presigned URLs to additional S3 API actions

Qumulo Core 7.3.1.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made it easier to authorize hub portals from the hub portal host cluster by adding information to REST APIs and qq CLI commands
  • Improved the behavior of NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 ACCESS commands
  • Increased the S3 connection limit
  • Configured Qumulo Core to permit (but ignore) out-of-spec query parameters for S3 API actions
  • Reverted floating IP assignment to Qumulo Core functionality prior to version 7.1.0
  • Added a REST API and a qq CLI command for querying the current fault tolerance of an object-backed cluster
  • Resolved an issue with NLM connections
  • Resolved an issue with tree deletion operations

Qumulo Core 7.3.0.3 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Added the self-service permission model to Qumulo REST API access tokens and made changes to corresponding qq CLI commands
  • Made it possible for a user to perform operations on their own access keys without having RBAC privileges
  • Resolved issues concerning cached data on a spoke portal host cluster, directory metadata block updates made by S3 API actions, and the GetObject S3 API action with the Veeam client

Qumulo Core 7.2.3.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Made CNQ on Azure available on Qumulo Nexus.
  • Added support for read-only Cloud Data Fabric functionality between two or more Qumulo clusters.
  • Added support for three-node clusters to CNQ on Azure and CNQ on AWS.
  • Added support for CNQ clusters that adjust to multi-AZ configurations automatically.
  • Improved S3 Object Lock functionality and made changes to corresponding S3 API actions.
  • Made improvements in S3 Versioning API actions and the CopyObject S3 API action.
  • Allowed users without administrative role-based access control (RBAC) roles to modify S3 access keys and made changes to corresponding qq CLI commands.
  • Updated some of the error types and HTTP status codes that appear during cluster membership operations.
  • Added REST API resources and qq CLI commands for creation and membership change of CNQ clusters.
  • Resolved an issue with an SSL configuration change while the S3 server is in plaintext mode.

Qumulo Core 7.2.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Configured Qumulo Core to permit more than 10 floating IP addresses for each node
  • Added support for floating IP addresses to Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS
  • Made improvements to the S3 API
  • Added two REST API resources for controlling SSL ciphers

Qumulo Core 7.2.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • Released the Qumulo Core Product Package in .deb and .rpm formats
  • Allowed Object Lock to be enabled to for newly created S3 buckets
  • Added support for resuming TLS sessions over FTP
  • Made improvements in SMB session handling
  • Made improvements in audit logging

Qumulo Core 7.2.0.4 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

  • The majority of functionality and stability improvements in this Qumulo Core release are internal.
  • Made CNQ on AWS available on Qumulo Nexus
  • Resolved an issue with the APIs & Tools page in the Qumulo Core Web UI not showing certain REST endpoints correctly