Applicable Models

• TS-h2490FU
• TVS-h1288X/TVS-h1688X
• TS-h686/TS-h886
• TS-h1283XU/TS-h1683XU
• TNS-h1083X
• TS-h977XU-RP/TS-h1277XU-RP/TS-h1677XU-RP
• TS-h973AX/TS-473A/TS-673A/TS873A
• TS-873AU/TS-873AU-RP/TS-1273AU-RP/TS-1673AU-RP
• TVS-672X/TVS872X/TVS-472XT/TVS-672XT/TVS-872XT/TVS-672N/TVS-872N

New Features

App Center

• QuTS hero administrators can now purchase and activate app licenses in the App Center.

Control Panel

• QuTS hero now supports TLS 1.3 for HTTPS secure connection.
• Users can now configure reverse proxy rules to hide the sensitive information on the server from clients and to enhance the security of data transmission over the network.
• Users can now import custom root certificates to certify the SSL certificate of a server that the NAS needs to access.

Desktop

• QuTS hero now supports Desktop Notice Board, which provides notifications for various events and announcements.

File Station

• Users can now choose to keep file attributes for files uploaded to File Station via SMB.

Firmware

• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1.

Network & Virtual Switch

• Added support for Forward Error Correction (FEC) for error detection and error correction in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.
• Starting from QuTS hero h5.0.0, Advanced Network Driver is no longer a built-in component. Nevertheless, QuTS hero automatically downloads the driver if the NAS is connected to the Internet. To install the driver, go to Network & Virtual Switch and follow the on-screen instructions. You can also manually download the driver from the QNAP website.
• Added support for the Intel E810 network adapter and for switching between the following modes: 4x25GbE, 2x25GbE + 2x25GbE, 4x10GbE + 4x10GbE, and 100GbE + 100GbE.

QVPN

• QVPN now supports WireGuard.

Storage & Snapshots

• Users can now set scrubbing schedules more flexibly to reduce impact on system performance.
• QuTS hero now supports creating instant clones for snapshots, which allow users to instantly clone shared folders from snapshots.

Enhancements

Control Panel

• Users can now use port 443 for Let's Encrypt domain validation challenges.
• WebDAV settings are now located in Control Panel > Network & File Services > Win/Mac/NFS/WebDAV. Users can now access the NAS root path by using a dedicated port number for WebDAV service.
• Shortened the default interval of automatic synchronization with the time server from 7 days to 1 day.
• Added an option to choose whether to redirect users to the NAS login screen when connecting to the NAS IP address without the system port. To enhance device security, this option is disabled by default.
• Users in the administrator group now have read/write access permissions for default shared folders, except the "homes" shared folder.
• To enhance device security, UPnP Discovery Service is now disabled by default.
• Added support for Content Security Policy HTTP header.
• Added the option to enable or disable strong cipher suites.

Desktop

• Added a notification message that reminds users to install Multimedia Console to enable media features.
• Added support for removing certain notifications from the Notice Board.
• QuTS hero now enables dynamic wallpapers by default.

File Station

• Modified the naming rules for duplicate folders to enhance usability.
• Added search tips and timeout messages in File Station in the event of searching through a large amount of data.

Local display Initialization

• To ensure device security, QTS now reminds users to disable the default "admin" account and to create another administrator account during HDMI Installation.
• To enhance system security, users are now required to create a new administrator account to replace the "admin" account during HDMI Installation.

Mustang User driver

• QuTS hero now supports Mustang User Driver 3.1.1.

Qulog Center

• Improved the user interface of Advanced Search in QuLog Center.

Security

• To ensure device security, QuTS hero now displays a message to remind users to disable the default "admin" account and to create another administrator account.
• QuTS hero now displays a message to remind users to enable 2-step verification to ensure account security.

Storage & Snapshots

• Added support for Seagate IronWolf Health Management 1.3.12, which supports more Seagate IronWolf drive models.

Web Initialization

• QTS Smart Installation Guide now requires users to create a new administrator account. The default "admin" account is disabled after initialization.

Known Issues

• QTS and QuTS hero with newer kernel versions do not support ATTO Fibre Channel adapters. If you have already installed an ATTO Fibre Channel adapter on your device, we do not recommend updating the firmware to QTS 5.0.0 or QuTS hero h5.0.0 for the time being.

Other Changes

Control Panel

• Replaced SQL Server with MariaDB 5/MariaDB 10, which can be installed in the App Center.
• Removed iSCSI Service from Service Binding in Control Panel. Users can now configure iSCSI service binding settings in iSCSI & Fibre Channel.
• Removed support for USB printers.

File Station

• Users can now use exFAT without purchasing an exFAT license.

Qboost

• Qboost is no longer a built-in application in QuTS hero. Users can choose to install Qboost in the App Center.

Storage & Snapshots

• To ensure data security, system stability, and storage performance, the maximum number of drives for a single RAID group is now 16 (applicable to RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID TP, and subgroups of RAID 50 and RAID 60). Nevertheless, users can combine multiple RAID groups into a large storage pool that contains more than 16 drives, using RAID 50, RAID 60, or RAID 10 as the RAID configuration. This enhancement will only be applied to new RAID groups. All existing RAID groups and storage systems will not be affected.