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Release Notes

Here, at StarWind, we don’t have broken things. But perfection has no limits, which is why we continue to build upon our existing solutions and develop them to be up-to-date. We listen to customer feedback, conduct periodic tests, and follow trends in business and technology to keep delivering what hyperconvergence can offer best.

You can find the latest updates regarding the product of your interest below.

Virtual SAN (VSAN)
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ANNALS OF DEVELOPMENT

Virtual SAN (VSAN) Release Notes

CVM Version 20231016
Version V8 (build 15260)
16 October 2023

VM

  • StarWind Controller Virtual Machine has got new Web and Text-based user interfaces.
  • Software RAID and ZFS web-based management have been added.
  • Web-based management for Standalone and Highly available iSCSI LUNs has been added.
  • Web-based management for SMB and NFS file sharing has been added.
  • VMware vCenter Plugin has been added.
  • Latest security updates installed (More info you can find here)
  • Linux Kernel has been updated to the latest HWE version.
OVF Version 20230901
Version V8 (build 15260)
01 September 2023

VM

  • Linux Kernel has been updated.
  • Additional services have been updated.

Synchronous Replication

  • Fixed an issue with synchronization/heartbeat channels unable to restore the connection when performance degradation occurs on the underline storage and VAAI is enabled for StarWind HA Devices.
OVF Version 20230602
Version V8 (build 15159)
02 June 2023

VM

  • Linux Kernel has been updated.
  • Additional services have been updated.

Synchronous Replication

  • Fixed deadlock when a partner device is removed during full or fast synchronization.
  • Fixed crash when updating StarWind service with mutual CHAP configured on StarWind HA devices.
  • Fixed failure when extending StarWind HA device with disk-based synchronization journal.
  • Fixed deadlock when a partner device is added.
  • Fixed false fast synchronization when the first partner is added with a node majority failover policy.
OVF Version 20230320
Version V8 (build 15020)
20 March 2023

VM

  • Linux Kernel has been updated.
  • Additional services have been updated.

Synchronous Replication

  • Fixed spurious replication failure.
OVF Version 20230208
Version V8 (build 14947)
08 February 2023

VM

  • Linux Kernel has been updated.
  • Additional services have been updated.

Synchronous Replication

  • Fixed the slow full synchronization issue.
OVF Version 20230117
Version V8 (build 14869)
28 December 2022

VM

  • Linux Kernel has been updated.
  • Additional services have been updated.
  • Fixed an issue where rescan script couldn't start.

Core

  • Excluded asynchronous replicas, LSFS and LWC from the project.
  • Encrypted secret passwords for chap authentications.
  • Fixed the crash during the creation of the replica.
  • Fixed the crash for time-outed I/O requests.
  • Fixed the spurious lost connection.
  • Updated the TLS version to 1.2 (used for email notifications).
  • Minor fixes and updates.

Synchronous Replication

  • Added synchronization journal places on a disk with two working strategies:

    Best Performance: The strategy provides better I/O performance while all device nodes are in a healthy state. But it can't guarantee fast synchronization in all cases

    Fast Recovery: The strategy provides faster recovery in all cases but requires an I/O overhead for each write operation.
  • Fixed the node majority logic during storage degradation.
OVF Version 20211124
Version V8 (build 14398)
25 November 2021

VM

  • Linux Kernel updated.
  • Collect logs script was updated. It generates a random archive name in case the archive name was not indicated.
  • Log watcher script was updated to avoid multiple HBA rescan triggers from occurring. It stops on the last succ essful synchronization event.
  • Additional services were updated.

Core

  • Fixed the memory leak in the VSA-based version that could be caused by changing the time on the VM.
OVF Version 20211012
Version V8 (build 14338)
13 October 2021

StarWind Health Service was updated in this new build.

Core

  • Fixed the crash for client write request handling.
  • Fixed the deadlock for the processing of SCSI persistent reservation during client session registration.
  • Fixed the issue with the service getting stuck when the log file would be located on the storage that had degrading performance.

StarWindX PowerShell Module

  • Fixed memory leak on getting information for HA devices.
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