QTS 5.1 シリーズ | リリースノート

QTS 5.1.0 brings many important new features to further enhance security, improve performance, and boost productivity for your QNAP NAS. You can now log in with more secure verification methods, delegate administrative tasks to general users, and centrally manage NAS devices via AMIZ Cloud. You can also benefit from smarter disk migration, smoother file browsing and search in File Station, more powerful SMB signing and file sharing, and much more. See What's New to learn about main features and Other Changes to learn about other features, enhancements, and changes.

Support for SMB multichannel

Users can now allow SMB 3.x clients to establish multiple network connections simultaneously to an SMB file share. Multichannel can increase the network performance by aggregating network bandwidth over multiple NICs and mitigating network disruption by increasing network fault tolerance.

• Windows 8.1 and later

• Windows Server 2012 and later

• macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 and later

AES-128-GMAC algorithm support for SMB signing

QTS 5.1.0 now supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Galois Message Authentication Code (GMAC) cipher suite for SMB signing. SMB signing can use this algorithm to encode and decode using 128-bit keys and can automatically negotiate this method when connecting to a client device that also supports the same algorithm standard.

Delegated Administration for better organization flexibility and productivity

In modern organizations, IT administrators are often overwhelmed by a sheer number of tasks and responsibilities. QTS 5.1.0 now supports Delegated Administration, which allows administrators to delegate various roles to general users, so that they can perform routine tasks, control their data, manage system resources, and monitor device status even when IT administrators are not available. You can choose from a wide range of roles, including System Management, Application Management, Backup Management, Shared Folder Management, and many more. To ensure system security, we recommend only granting permissions that are essential for performing required tasks.

2-step verification and passwordless login for enhanced account security

QTS now supports passwordless login, which replaces your password with a more secure verification method. Instead of entering a password, you can scan a QR code or approve a login request with your mobile device to verify your identify. QTS now also supports more verification methods for 2-step verification. In addition to a security code (TOTP), you can also choose to scan a QR code, approve a login request, or enter an online verification code to add an extra layer of security to protect your NAS account.

Centralized NAS management with AMIZ Cloud

You can now add the NAS to an organization when setting up the myQNAPcloud service for your NAS. This allows organization administrators to remotely access, manage, and monitor various system resources on the NAS via AMIZ Cloud, a central cloud management platform designed for QNAP devices.

Automatic disk replacement with Predictive Migration before potential failure

Predictive Migration is a major improvement over the original Predictive S.M.A.R.T. Migration feature in Storage & Snapshots. This upgrade now allows users to specify multiple trigger events that prompt the system to automatically replace a disk before it fails.

Lists of recent files in File Station for easier file browsing

With the new Recent Files feature in File Station, you can now easily locate files that were recently uploaded, opened, or deleted. These three folders are conveniently grouped together under the Recent File folder at the upper left portion of File Station.

File content search in File Station with Qsirch integration

The original search function in File Station could only search for file names of a specific file type. With the integration of Qsirch into File Station, you can now search for file content using keywords, and also search for multiple file types using these keywords at the same time. To use this feature, you need to install Qsirch, an app that can index the files on your device and greatly facilitate your file search.

Other Changes

• Users can now configure a schedule for automatic installations of app updates.

• Added the client umask feature to assigns default permissions for existing and new files and folders.

• Added the Qfinder discovery service that allows the Qfinder Pro utility to discover your QNAP device.

• You can now specify a custom unique identifier (UID) for a new user and edit the UID of an existing user. Note: Arbitrarily changing UIDs may cause access issues for a user.

• The time interval for observing successive failed login attempts can now be configured to be between 0 and 600 minutes. Moreover, a time interval of 0 minutes means that failed login attempts are never reset.

• Changed the behavior and the description of certain permission settings as we do not recommend using the default administrator account "admin".

• You can now include more information from account profiles when importing and exporting user accounts.

• Added additional specification information for memory slots in Control Panel > System Status > Hardware Information.

• You can now select the direction to append the custom header for the reverse proxy rule.

• Optimized the process of restoring the LDAP database.

• The automatic firmware update settings have been streamlined with the following changes: (1) The selectable options for automatic firmware updates have been greatly simplified. Users now select one of three firmware types to automatically update their system with: quality updates, critical updates, or latest updates. (2) "Security updates" are now "critical updates". Critical updates include security fixes as well as critical system issue fixes. (3) "Quality updates" now include security fixes and critical issue fixes in addition to bug fixes. (4) "Feature updates" are now "latest updates" and include quality and critical updates in addition to new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. (5) Update notifications no longer need to be enabled separately for each firmware type. Notifications are now either enabled or disabled for all firmware types.

• Moved DLNA Media Server settings from Control Panel to Multimedia Streaming Add-on, which can be installed in the App Center.

• The "Network Recycle Bin" feature has been renamed to "Recycle Bin" in Network & File Services.

• You can now log out of your account on all devices, browsers, and applications at once. To use this feature, go to the desktop, click your username on the taskbar, and then go to Login and Security > Password.

• Added an icon on the top-right corner of the desktop to indicate whether the device has enabled myQNAPcloud and been associated with a QNAP ID or whether the device has joined AMIZ Cloud.

• Added prompt banners to remind users to turn on related browsing functions for multimedia files.

• Improved File Station performance and enhanced file browsing experience.

• Enhanced the Background Tasks display UI.

• Redesigned the user interface of Help Center for a better user experience.

• You can now purchase licenses during QuTScloud installation.

• Added support for enabling async IO for block-based LUNs, which can improve the performance of a LUN over an iSCSI connection particularly when the LUN contains dual-actuator HDDs. To find this setting, go to iSCSI & Fibre Channel > iSCSI Storage, select a block-based LUN, and click Action > Modify.

• Added a new settings page for managing default iSCSI CHAP authentication settings, which you can use for multiple iSCSI targets. You can find these settings in iSCSI & Fibre Channel > Global Settings > Default iSCSI CHAP. When creating or editing a target, you can choose to use the default CHAP settings or configure unique settings for the target.

• When creating an iSCSI target, you can now select the network interfaces that an iSCSI target will use for data transmission. Previously, users could only do so after the target was created.

• Network & Virtual Switch can now record event logs when the system identifies conflicting IP addresses between the local device and another device on the same network.

• When selecting the system default gateway automatically, you can now configure the checking target by specifying the domain name or IP address.

• Users can now configure the MAC address when creating or modifying a virtual switch.

• Users can now set the rcpbind to assign fixed ports to RPC services. Make sure that you configure the firewall rules accordingly to allow connections only on the fixed ports.

• NFS service now supports both NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols.

• Updated the built-in PHP version to 8.2.0.

• Resource Monitor now displays the space used by files created from Qsync file versioning.

• You can now aggregate up to 50 shared folders on a Windows network.

• Updated Samba to version 4.15.

• The kernel-mode SMB daemon is now enabled by default.

• Added a new window that automatically appears when you insert new disks and helps you decide what to do with them. You can also access this window any time by going to Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks > More > Manage Free Disks.

• Added support for enabling Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which improves the read and write performance of SATA disks.

• Added support for disk failure prediction from ULINK's DA Drive Analyzer. Registered users of DA Drive Analyzer can now also monitor disk failure prediction statuses in Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks.

• Added support for Western Digital Device Analytics (WDDA) for Western Digital (WD) disks. To view WDDA information, go to Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks, select a WD disk, and click Health > View Details.

• When adding a remote disk, more information is now provided on each LUN in the LUN list to help users identify which one to select.

• After rebuilding a RAID group with a spare disk, the failed disk's slot becomes reserved for a spare disk. To free up this slot for other purposes, go to Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks, select the disk slot, and click Action > Free Up Spare Disk Slot.

• You can now select and configure multiple spare disks when creating a storage pool.

• Redesigned the presentation of disk information into tabular format for enhanced user experience, now viewable in Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks.

• Users can now see disk error logs in QuLog Center.

• Redesigned the presentation of NAS and enclosure information into tabular format for enhanced user experience, now viewable in Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > NAS & Enclosure.

• Qtier now supports more flexible tier configurations with NVMe and SATA SSDs.

• In Storage & Snapshots > Storage > Disks/VJBOD > Disks, information on each disk's slot number, form factor, interface, and disk type are now presented together and enhanced with colored tags so that users can more easily identify each unique disk and disk slot.

• Updated the UI design of various snapshot-related screens to improve user experience in finding relevant information and functions.

• Added support for 2-step verification when connecting to a remote NAS in the Create Virtual JBOD Disk Wizard.

• Renamed the function "Replace & Detach" to "Replace" and added the option for users to choose whether to designate the replaced disk as a spare disk or to detach it from the system.

• After creating a SED secure static volume or SED secure storage pool, the encryption key file is now automatically downloaded to help users unlock the volume or pool in case they forget the encryption password.

• Improved SED-related UI strings for clarity.

• Users can now change the destination of an existing Snapshot Replica job.

• You now need to enter a verification code when resetting your password if you forgot your password. This extra step helps enhance your account security.

Important Notes

• In QTS 5.0.1 or earlier, users can no longer create new VJBOD disks from a remote NAS if the remote NAS is running QTS 5.1.0 or later. If there are existing VJBOD disks connections to the remote NAS before it is updated to QTS 5.1.0 or later, these VJBOD disks are unaffected and remain operational after the update. In QTS 5.1.0 or later, users can still create VJBOD disks from a remote NAS running QTS 5.0.1 or earlier.

• Removed support for CO Video.