BrickStor Release Notes

Thank you for choosing BrickStor SP. The RackTop team is pleased to announce the availability of BrickStor SP 23.4.

About the Release Notes

The release notes provide critical and release-specific information for BrickStor SP 23.4 behavioral changes.

Improvements and Functionality

23.4.11

  • Fixed race condition with SMB close and oplock lease break

  • Fixed race condition with SMB cancel and SMB request

  • Fixed race condition with SMB read and SMB truncate

  • Improved SMB performance and reliability

23.4.10

  • Improved SMB metadata lookup performance

  • Added file name to SMB opportunistic lock (oplock) break timeout messages

  • hiavd and confd services now run at a higher priority

  • Improved SMB taskq backlog efficiency

23.4.8

  • Added support for Dell iDRAC interfaces

  • Resolved issue with incorrect cache file setting for HA pool

  • Improved stability when cloning encrypted datasets

  • Fixed secadm issue exporting all keys from command line

  • Improvements to SMB performance

23.4.7

  • Improved hwd support for SP-L systems

  • Added HA administration to CLI

  • Improvements to stability and performance of SMB

  • Fixed a bug resulting in IP address validation error

  • Hardened systems to better support DNS outage

23.4.6

  • Added support for SMB RPC sealing (MS KB5021130)

  • Improved resource group failover when using i40e network adapters

  • Improved hwd support for SP-L systems

23.4.5

  • Resolved buffer overflow with network device link

  • Improved performance for user behavior backlog processing

23.4.4

  • Resolved I/O error when deleting VMware snapshots

  • Resolved SMB sharing violation with zombie open file

  • Resolved issue with Linux SMB client causing an overflow on a virtual BrickStor SP

23.4.3

  • Resolved issue where HA auto-failover disabled flag could be ignored if peer node become unresponsive

  • Resolved specific 23.4 issue where an unresponsive HA node using a pool cache file could trigger an erroneous import

  • Resolved issue where kernel module unload during early boot could cause a device tree deadlock when failing hardware is present

23.4.2

HA

  • Resolved a "VNIC has alternate setting error" causing HA fault

  • Resolved unexpected transition when using cache files

SMB

Resolved SMB server issues regarding data imports involving HyperV

23.4.1

Resolved Issues

HA

  • Resolved a "VNIC has alternate setting" error

SMB

  • Resolved SMB server issues regarding data imports involving Hyper-V

Licensing

  • Fixed an issue causing license capacity check failure on TiB formatted disks

23.4

Active Defense

  • Open Incident report improvements

  • Now displays Open Security and Unusual Activity incidents

  • Displays a summary of Closed incidents within the reporting period

  • Incident notification improvements

  • Threat and Impacted Data now listed in Incident notifications

  • Split Security and Unusual Access incidents into separate webhook notifications

  • Red Alerts will only trigger for Security Incidents

  • Administrators subscribed only to Security notifications will no longer receive Unusual Activity notifications

Replication

  • Extraneous snapshots now automatically removed between source and destination

  • Fixed a bug causing incompatible embedded data stream when replicating to a destination

  • Fixed a bug resulting in properties not set on replicas after successful snapshot transfer

Confd

  • HA Clustered nodes now auto-join the confd cluster

  • Client and Peer IP addresses are now dynamically set by the confd service

  • Joining a witness to a cluster no longer requires setting the peer IP address

  • Joining a witness to a cluster is now wizard driven (confadm join)

  • All confd nodes now maintains state of each node within the cluster (confadm member state)

SMB

  • Large MTU support (max 256K)

  • NULL DACL support

  • Fixed Invalid MAC issue with Win2012R2 and 256Bit Encryption

HA

  • i40e virtual NIC creation times improved

Installer

  • Improvements to Installer performance and stability on multiple browser interfaces.

HA

  • HA failover performance improvements

BrickStor SP Manager

  • Fixed a bug hindering SID resolution on the UI