QNAP TS-253Pro TurboNAS QTS Firmware 4.1.2.1229 Download

Posted at November 24, 2024 by PCI-DB Team

QNAP TS-253Pro TurboNAS QTS Firmware 4.1.2.1229 Description

Enhancements and New Features:

Antivirus:
- Updated the ClamAV engine to version 0.98.

App Center:
- Administrators can choose to show app icons on the main menu for all users and the login screen in the App Center.

Backup Station:
- Adds a detailed error message for unsuccessful host connection tests in Rsync.
- Adds the option to not execute backup jobs immediately.

Cloud Backup:
- Adds Elephant Drive v2.8 support.

File Station:
- Adds the thumbnail generation option to File Station.
- Adds support for subtitles in Video Station and File Station.
- Adds seeking support in video playback during on-the-fly transcoding (CodexPack v2.0 or above in HD Station is required for the TS-x70, TS-x79 and TS-x80).
- Users can switch resolutions in video playback without restarting video playback.
- Adds slideshow playback support in Media Viewer when users view photos.
- Adds an option for administrators to allows users to create shared links in File Station ("File Station" > "Options").
- Adds support for subtitles in File Station.

Firmware Update:
- Adds support for patch updates in Live Update and the installed Qfix list in Firmware Update.
- Shows firmware change log before starting the firmware update.
- Shows new features added after firmware update.

HD Station:
- Adds a "Restart" button in HD Station.

Network Services:
- Adds an option to disable guest access in Folder Aggregation (users must log in before accessing the portal folder.)

Qsync:
- Improved the Qsync folder sync performance.
- Users can create team folders in "Qsync" > "Team Folder" on the Turbo NAS.

Photo Station:
- Users can choose to download slideshow photos in either their original resolution or resized (lower resolution.)

Privilege Settings:
- User accounts can be disabled by the logged in administrator.
- Adds the permission type "No Access" to shared folders in Privilege Settings (displayed when folder privileges "RO" and "RW" and "Deny" are all unchecked.)

SNMP:
- Allows the dash (-) and underscore (_) characters in SNMP community names.

Security:
- Upgraded OpenSSL to version 1.0.1j.
- Upgraded wget to version 1.16.

Storage Manager:
- Improved iSCSI and system stability.
- Adds block-based LUN support for LUN backup. (For SMB firmware, TS-x51, x53, x69, x70, x79, x80, IS-400.)
- Adds support for multiple RAIDs in a storage pool (For TS-x51/x53 models only.)
- The system can now recognize SSD drives by their serial number.
- Adds support for creating file-based iSCSI LUNs on x79U models.
- Allows copying an iSCSI IQN from the Turbo NAS UI.
- When creating thick volumes or performing instant iSCSI allocation, the system will automatically check if the volume has exceeded the storage pool alert threshold (For SMB firmware, TS-x51, x53, x69, x70, x79, x80, IS-400.)
- Displays shared folders located on virtual disks in File Station.

Video Station:
- Adds support for subtitles in Video Station.

VPN Service:
- Adds support for PPTP and OpenVPN VPN clients (Turbo NAS can act as a VPN client.)

Misc:
- Displays the Chinese name for all major QNAP stations when users switch the QTS language to Chinese.
- Adds support for the photo wall and public app links for all Turbo NAS models.
- Improved Web Server response time.

Changes:

Power:
- The WOL option is now enabled by default.

Remote Replication:
- Removed host connection mode in the RTRR job property.

System Log and Syslog:
- Changed the log type of the "sync failed with NTP server" message to a warning.

Misc:
- Amended Russian time zones.

Bug fixes:

- The maximum volume capacity for online RAID capacity expansion is only 16TB (for TS-x31 series.)
- The iSCSI service crashes during high IO load.
- If 8 REXP-1600Us are simultaneously connected to a TS-1679U and volume expansion is in progress, the system will hang during book-up.
- Advanced NTFS permissions fail when applied from a Windows client via Samba.
- Disabling the volume system cache will cause the file system to over-allocate blocks.
- The TS-469 Pro reboots after performing LUN backups using CIFS/SMB.
- When both the "Enable Advanced Folder Permissions" and "Enable Windows ACL support" options are checked, the USB shared folders will become inaccessible using Samba.
- Fails to back up the Q-RAID 1 volume to external devices.
- For firmware version 4.0.7, when "Live Update" and "App Update" are both running at the same time, the firmware update will fail.
- Cannot expand the RAID configuration to 6TB using superblock version 0.9.
- Only 8TB are detected from a linear disk volume created using two 6TB hard disk drives.
- Fails to upload new files using WebDAV.
- Fails to play .m4v files in File Station during on-the-fly transcoding.
- Numbers (iPad App) cannot detect excel files or folders that contain empty spaces using WebDAV.
- Fails to apply the updated NAS-NAS backup schedule settings after the destination NAS is powered down.
- It takes a very long time to move a large number of folders and files to another shared folder on the same NAS via File Station.
- Fails to detect the home folder using a web browser via FTP.
- The performance deteriorates after attempting the /sbin/vs_refresh command.
- The Video Station player fails to play .mov files using the on-the-fly transcoding option.
- The UI layout becomes inconsistent in different languages on the Remote Replication wizard page.
- Fails to set permissions for shared folders if they contain a large number of sub folders and files.
- Fails to disable or remove DeaDBeeF from HD Station
- The "Initialize LDAP database" string in LDAP Server remains in English after switching the QTS language to Chinese.
- Fails to display photos that have been edited using Lightroom 5.5 in Photo Station
- Fails to detect and log the HDD temperature when HDDs (on REXP) are overheated and shutdown.
- Fails to filter and detect HTML tags in playlist names in Music Station
- If the group name exceeds 50 characters, the users from that group will fail to launch File Station.
- After a system reboot, a modified USB external storage configuration will be reset to default.
- Syslogs Server fails to display logs if they are too long.
- After logging into Photo Station using the following URL (xx.xx.xx.xx/photo) and enlarging the browser page to larger than 175%, the browser cannot switch to the second page if there are more than 60 photos in total.
- Fails to display Chinese folder or file names correctly if the NAS is accessed using a Mac via WebDAV.
- Guests cannot download photos from a public, shared album (a 401 unauthorized error message will appear.)
- When uploading a large number of files to an iSCSI volume, the iSCSI connection will fail.
- The NAS will reboot automatically after large files (larger than 850G) are removed in File Station.
- The time on the QTS desktop freezes after the user-defined daylight saving time.
- The system fails to wake from S3 sleep mode.
- The Check File System function fails after CloudLink is installed.
- The title bar of the QTS window will disappear if the Turbo NAS is configured for a specific time zone (GMT+1)

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