Qumulo Core Feature Log

This section lists the most important features from each release.

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

Related Topics

• Performing Upgrades
• Replication Version Requirements and Upgrade Recommendations