BrickStor Release Notes

Thank you for choosing BrickStor SP. The RackTop team is pleased to announce the availability of BrickStor SP 23.6.

About the Release Notes

The release notes provide critical and release-specific information for BrickStor SP 23.6 behavioral changes.

23.6.1.378

Security

  • Addresses OpenSSH CVE-2023-51385

23.6.1.263

Breaking Changes

TDM
Upgrading to 23.6 will result in all TDM enabled datasets to be in an error state and inaccessible until the manual conversion is done. See the Upgrading section of the 23.6.0 BrickStor SP User Guide to find out if this affects you and how to perform this conversion.

Improvements and Functionality

TDM

  • Improved handling of disabled datasets

  • Vault functionality disabled for TDM datasets

Hub

  • Hub Local will now automatically select the appliance on upgrade

Health

  • Fixed false Health alert for S2600WFT hardware

SMB

  • More restrictive SMB Windows admin share permissions

Installer

  • Fixed a visual bug causing duplicate UI prompts

OS

  • Resolved an issue that sent VNIC warnings during an upgrade to 23.6

  • Fixed a bug hindering name resolution related to local users

  • Fixed a bug in keymgr causing invalid key sync sources

  • The Support utility will select a Bundle by default when only one is available

  • Performance and stability improvements to VMXNET3 driver on VM based systems

  • Improved tolerance of storage latency on VM based systems

  • Optimizations of system memory management

23.6.0

Improvements and Functionality

Active Security

  • ImmutaVault cyber vaulting feature

  • UB dynamic congestion control for SMB

  • Added configurable file path ignore patterns to ub-analyze

  • Improved ub store backlog performance and resource utilization

  • Added ub-store support for querying activity by status code

  • Performance improvements to 'ubadm store records' when retrieving non-truncated data

SMB

  • Improved efficiency of several SMB meta-data operations

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

  • Improved taskq backlog efficiency

  • Improvements to SMB command-line management utilities

HA

  • Hiavadm extended to support all HA management functions

  • Improved HA performance when a node or auto-failover is disabled

SP-L

  • Improved hwd support for SP-L systems

OS

  • The default admin user is now 'bsradmin'

  • Functionality improvements and updates to TDM stability and performance

  • Services default to structured JSON logging

  • Improved log viewing and management with logjam(8)

  • Added logjam CLI to support the updated logging framework

  • Structure summary added to pool display layout

  • Improvements to confd performance and stability

  • Improvements to logging/support bundle stability and performance

  • Licensing fix for disks that use TiB format

  • Fixed bug resulting in Pools showing modify properties after migrating to new OS or moving a Pool

  • Fixed a bug resulting in modify/repair AD appearing in HA setup/repair

BrickStor SP Manager

  • Streamlined user experience when initiating a shutdown/restart from the BrickStor SP Manager

  • Can now configure implicit owner rights for a given dataset

  • Added a health alert reminding users to backup their keys

Hub

  • The Hub Local management platform for BrickStor SP devices is now available