This section lists the most important features from each release.

Qumulo Core 7.9.0.1 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • Audit Logging
    • Upgraded the audit log pipeline with a unified routing engine
    • Added the ability to configure up to 20 custom audit log destinations
    • Added the following functionality for every audit log destination:
      • Unique, reusable numerical IDs
      • Independent buffering
      • Automatic retry
      • Status monitoring
  • Authentication
    • Added support for one-to-one mode, in which all LDAP usernames map to identical names within a specified Active Directory domain
  • Cloud Data Fabric (CDF)
    • Changed how NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and SMB report disk usage for files on spoke portals
    • Improved the availability of hub portal host clusters and spoke portal hub clusters when spoke portals are disconnected
    • Improved the speed at which portal quorums reform and background CDF processes recover
  • Protocols
    • Changed NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 disk space calculations to display more accurate (slightly smaller) sizes for certain files and directories
    • Changed case-insensitive SMB lookups to behave the way they do on a Windows server, making it possible for files such as Straße and Strasse to exist in the same directory
    • Added support for conditional writes to the CompleteMultipartUpload and PutObject S3 API actions by using the If-Match and If-None-Match headers
  • General Improvements
    • Improved IOPS performance for certain metadata-heavy workloads
    • Revised analytics, audit, files, and snapshots REST APIs
    • Added the qsnap standalone CLI tool to replace the capacity-related functionality of /v1/snapshots
    • Removed a number of outdated qq CLI commands pertaining to retrieving and configuring syslog and CloudWatch status and configuration
  • Bug Fixes
    • Resolved an issue with opening a TCP socket to the Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
    • Resolved an issue with restarting systemd-networkd
    • Resolved an issue with the qq fs_list_locks --protocol smb --lock-type share-mode command

Change Log

Qumulo Core 7.8.4.3

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • Improved the performance of NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 workloads
  • Added support for unstable writes to all hub portals and spoke portals, including data in Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), significantly improving application workflows
  • Added support for configuring NTP servers on Cloud Native Qumulo on Azure nodes
    • Replaced deprecated /v1/time REST API endpoints with their /v2/time counterparts
    • Updated and added new REST API endpoints
  • Resolved an issue with NFS export names when modifying a tenant

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Qumulo Core 7.8.3.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • Added SMB share-mode lock functionality across Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) portals
  • Added the ability to use caching without requiring clients to match the throughput of any Qumulo cluster type—and the corresponding REST API endpoint and qq CLI command
  • Added the ability to restart the container on every node (rather than only on the specified node) in a cluster—and the corresponding REST API endpoint and qq CLI commands

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Qumulo Core 7.8.2.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • Improved the stability and connectivity of portal relationships when multiple peer portal addresses
  • Improved the read performance for scenarios with intermittent connectivity issues that can cause a portal quorum event

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Qumulo Core 7.8.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • Enabled Try it out functionality on the APIs & Tools Web UI page to work with POST, PUT, and PATCH requests after clicking Use current session
  • Deprecated some /v1/portal REST API endpoints and replaced others with /v2/portal endpoints that let you retrieve information about and create portals with multiple root directories

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Qumulo Core 7.8.0.4 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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 7.8.0.4 (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

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Qumulo Core 7.7.5.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.7.4.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.7.3

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

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

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Qumulo Core 7.7.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

Significantly improved the performance of the incremental replication process for directories

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Qumulo Core 7.7.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.7.0.3 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.6.4.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.6.3.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.6.2

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.6.1.1

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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

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Qumulo Core 7.6.0.2 (Quarterly)

Downloads and Release Notes🔒

Features and Improvements

  • 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