Cloud Block Store 6.2.x Release Notes

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Cloud Block Store releases follow Purity//FA releases and use the same code. This page only documents CBS-specific changes and features. For full release note information please refer to the Purity release notes here.

Purity//FA 6.2.x Release Notes

Prior to Purity 6.x, CBS did have a separate code branch and specific release notes for those versions can be found here:

Cloud Block Store 5.3.x Release Notes

If a specific Purity release is NOT noted here it means that there were no CBS-specific changes in the release.

Release Timeline

The following table outlines the release status and release date for the most recent releases.

Release	Release Date*	Release Status	Supported Platforms
6.2.6	February 4, 2022	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure
6.2.5	January 24, 2022	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure
6.2.4	December 21, 2021	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure
6.2.3	December 15, 2021	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure
6.2.1	October 21, 2021	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure
6.2.0	September 16, 2021	General Availability	Cloud Block Store on AWS, Cloud Block Store on Azure

^{*Note that Release Date indicates the time of the GA of the code release. Posting to the AWS or Azure marketplace(s) can take 1-4 weeks depending on the changes.}

6.2.6 Release Notes

Release: February 4, 2022

Security Updates

Hardens Purity's security infrastructure: Upgrades the log4j library to version 2.17.1 (PURE-245253, PURE-245236, PURE-245234, PURE-245229).
Addresses a potential XML entity expansion vulnerability (CWE-776) found during internal testing (PURE-243417).
Addresses CVE-2021-44832 and CVE-2022-0185 (PURE-246084, PURE-246876).
See the Pure Knowledge article CVE Security Fixes per Purity Release for CVEs in Purity//FA releases.

6.2.5 Release Notes

Release: January 24, 2022

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

6.2.4 Release Notes

Release: December 21, 2021

Security Update

Hardens Purity's security infrastructure (PURE-244007, PURE-243951, PURE-243764, PURE-243760, PURE-243753)

Upgrades the log4j library to version 2.16.0 to address CVE-2021-44228 (log4j).
Please note that Purity//FA is not exploitable by CVE-2021-45046 or CVE-2021-45105 (also log4j).
See the Pure Knowledge article CVE Security Fixes per Purity Release for CVEs in Purity//FA releases.

6.2.3 Release Notes

Release: December 15, 2021

Enhancements

Adds support for Azure Accelerated Networking (PURE-243465): Performance improvement for CBS on Azure by supporting Azure Accelerated Networking.
AWS SDK for offload (PURE-231780): By default, offload now uses the AWS SDK.
Adds support for multi-factor authentication with SAML2 single-sign-on (PURE-231214): Adds support for SAML2-based single sign-on (SSO) integration with the Microsoft® Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for logins to the Purity//FA management GUI. When SSO is configured and enabled, users are redirected to AD FS for authentication, instead of the previous authentication on the array. SSO integration can optionally include multi-factor authentication (MFA) such as through a certificate or Microsoft Azure™ authentication.
Introduces support for replicating to two homogenous cloud targets (PURE-161423): Offload targets are used as async replication targets by protection groups as well as the purevol send feature. Currently, offload has a connection limit of one target defined per array. This is now increased to two homogenous cloud targets at the same time: two AWS S3 buckets or two Azure blobs. Both targets must belong to the same endpoint type.

6.2.1 Release Notes

Release: October 21, 2021

Full 6.2.0 release notes.

Security Updates

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

New Features

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

Enhancements

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

Fixes

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

6.2.0 Release Notes

Release: September 16, 2021

Security Updates

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

New Features

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

Enhancements

Fixes

Nothing specific to Cloud Block Store. See full release notes for general Purity changes.

Reduces AWS costs (PURE-206497): Reduces AWS costs for Cloud Block Store for AWS by optimizing for S3 strong consistency.