Important Notes

• For instructions on updating QES to the latest version, open the following link. https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/article/my-nas-is-running-an-older-version-of-qes-can-i-update-to-the-latest-version-directly-what-sequence-should-i-follow-when-updating-qes
• For release note history, open the following link. https://www.qnap.com/en/releasenotes_qes/

New Features

• Users can now expand the capacity of a storage pool by replacing disks with larger capacity disks. When conditions are met, the Storage Pool Management screen displays the approximate expandable size and a button for expanding the pool.

Enhancements

• Added event logs related to skipping and stopping storage pool scrubbing and deduplication table cleaning due to concurrent pool operations.
• Added a checking mechanism which alerts users when they create a NAS-to-NAS or rsync backup job, that the encryption feature is incompatible with destination shared folders containing certain special characters.

Security Updates

• Fixed a security issue (CVE-2022-0778).

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue that erroneously triggered backup battery unit error logs.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused the system to reboot abnormally.
• Addressed an issue that caused the system to display a growing negative value for the free space size in a storage pool when the pool contained only one thick LUN.
• Several minor bug fixes.