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Firmware Release Note

NAS326

Release V5.21(AAZF.2)C0

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NAS326
Release V5.21(AAZF.2)C0

Release Notes

Date: Jun 21 2018

Supported Platforms:
ZyXEL NAS326

Release Package:

File name Description

521AAZF2C0.bin NAS Firmware Package for standard version
521AAZF2C0.pdf Firmware release note

Modification in V5.21(AAZF.2)C0 | Jun 21 2018

[Bug fix]
 Fix sys-log issue.
 Fix NFS problem.
 Remove "Hot swapping" related information.
 Modify the schedule time issue.
 Modify default folder setting.

Modification in V5.21(AAZF.1)C0 | May 26 2017

[Enhancement]
 Enhance the API of backup planner to verify the session before
proceeding with the procedure.
 Enhance the implementation of backup planner to eliminate the risk of
command injection.

Modification in V5.21(AAZF.0)C0 | May 4 2017

[Bug fix]
 Apply the patch to fix CVE-2016-10229
 Upgrade libupnp to fix CVE-2016-6255 and CVE-2016-8863

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 Fix the filebrowser API accepts relative path as the arguments which
causes security problem.

[Enhancement]
 Upgrade ftp module for security consideration.
 Now users can play media files on Twonky GUI from remote WAN, ex.
dydns.
 Upgrade Twonky media server to 8.3.19
 Turn off TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 and revise the cipher suite to enhance the
security.
 Force the admin account to modify the password from the default value.

[Package]
 [ownCloud] Upgrade to 7.0.15
 [pyLoad] Fix “package "Pyload" won't work”

Modification in V5.20(AAZF.1)C0 | Nov 17 2016

[Bug fix]
 NAS rsync client can not see folders
 Two external HDD connected cause no HDD can detect and backup job
fail
 The portal users of information display error information when the
myZyxelCloud is installed in some volume other than system volume.
 Mac OS 10.12 fails to backup data to NAS through Time Machine.
 FileBrowser fails to restore multiple files from recycle-bin.
 Automatically summer time can’t activate
 Time Zone change issue
 User Edit / Remove / Add fail in some case after upgrading to v5.20
 Dropbox Key Login failed
 User Modify default password by admin after reboot the password can’t be set
 Time Machine is disabled after reboot
 File Browser Copy Issue
 File Browser delete cause error message
 File Browser delete something in recycle bin cause loop
 Click "Clean all recycle bin now", some of recycle bin would not clean the files
which in the recycle bin.

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 Create new share and publish to Media Server ignore the setting

Modification in V5.20(AAZF.0)C0 | Sep 6 2016

[Enhancement]
 New GUI
 New behavior of user/group/share management.
 Upgrade Twonky Media Server to 8.2
 Remove the 2 GB upload limitation of filebrowser on WebGUI.
 Twonky with HTML5 player

[Bug fix]
 Refine the mechanism to check looped folder.
 Correct the mechanism in AutoUploadr to determine if a path is a
subfolder of another path.
 Correct the mechanism in AutoUploadr to determine if a path is a
subfolder of another path.
 The privilege of shares with any ‘ or “ in its name can’t be modified.

[Package]
 [All Package] App Center on Desktop
 [DropboxClient] Support Dropbox two way sync
 [DropboxClient] Dropbox synchronization for all sub folders.
 [DropboxClient] Fix DropboxClient can not detect remote-deleted files.
 [NZBGet,PHP,SqueezeCenter,Transmission,WordPress,Gallery,ownCloud]
Rebuilt UPnP database when NAS reset to default.

Modification in V5.11(AAZF.4)C0 | Jun 3 2016

[Enhancement]
 Revise the implementation of GUI so that the behavior of clicking
myZyXEcloud button on Desktop won’t be blocked by web browser.

[Bug fix]
 Fix the NAS IP incorrect in 5 minutes after changing NAS hostname

[Package]
 [PHP] Rebuild php, because openssl be upgraded.

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 [NFS] Fixed Bug: NFS configure file does not be removed when removing
NFS.

Modification in V5.11(AAZF.3)C0 | Mar 8 2016

[Enhancement]
 Apply the patch of glibc to fix CVE-2015-7547

Modification in V5.11(AAZF.2)C0 | Feb 16 2016

[Bug fix]
 Fix FTP client can’t login issue

Modification in V5.11(AAZF.1)C0 | Feb 1 2016

[Bug fix]
 The file browser of WebGUI fails to decompress files if there exists quota
limitation of the login user.
 Sometimes the icons on desktop are gone when login.
 Revise the log “Failed unknown login attempt (incorrect password or
inexistent username)” when the Rsync task fails to authenticate.
[Enhancement]
 Enhance how the GUI determine if the email address user entered is valid.
 Apply the patch of Linux kernel to fix CVE-2016-0728.

Features
Enhancement in V5.11(AAZF.0)C0 | 01/15/2016

[Enhancement]
 Refine the algorithm of password strength determination.
 The password of 14 consecutive ‘A’ is determined as strong password
which is wrong.
 Adjust the local port range to avoid port conflicts between services.
 Let the Twonky GUI sort the files by track number in folder view.
 User searching supports cloud users.
 Updated some missing translations.
 Fine tune some GUI behavior
 Speedup the login process of WebDAV.
 Show the icons after installed package on GUI.

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 Cloud users now are represented with their email account

[Bug fix]
 Hide the group item in the session table. It’s meaningless.
 Deleting a share always turn on the media server even when it’s been
turned off.
 Time zone spelling correction. (Pitori” to “Pretoria”)
 The Music/Video/Photo icon in the desktop-style page doesn’t work on
Safari.
 The icon for cloud users is created.
 The login time displayed in the session information is negative in German.
 MAC OS X 10.11 and Safari Media Icon fails open
 Media Server activate automatic if delete share
 Half icon with smaller monitor
 Status Center File Transfer show wrong values
 After Restart admin must be login once for backup job from other NAS
 Users can’t access the external volume through WebDAV if they just
hotplug USB storage without entering the WebGUI.
 Correct the address in the link in the Webpage that helps users to link to
the device after firmware upgrading.
 Add the firmware version in the message after firmware upgrading.
 Show the IPv6 information when it’s from AUTO-IP, which means there’s no
IPv6 DHCP in the environment.
 The icons on the desktop page can’t be displayed correctly after
dragging.
 The system fails to boot up after setting the network to static
through NSU.
 The DHCP client ask for IP with model name instead of hostname.
 The folders created though WebDAV can’t be deleted through samba.

Enhancement in V5.10(AAZF.0)C0 | 10/30/2015

[Initial version]

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Known Issues:
 If FTP Encoding incompatible with FTP client, some files will have odd
file names which Media server cannot support.
 Download Service may not always be able to download 10 at a time.
It will depend on how much free memory is left on the system at that
time.
 You cannot copy or move files/folders with a name that includes any
of the following characters:
 “ (double quote)
 / (forward slash)
 \ (backslash)
 : (colon)
 | (pipe)
 < (less than)
 > (greater than)
 ; (semicolon)
 , (comma)
 ? (question mark)
 * (asterisk)
 Media Server May Not Support the following Formats:
o gif
o tif
o asf
o m2p
o dvr-ms
o ogg
 Broadcatching cannot work with YouTube RSS Feeds
 Share Name or Share Path cannot be longer 200 characters
 iTunes cannot play video published by iTunes Server
 DyDNS provider 3322 only accept IP address from China
 Twonky mediaserver related function is NOT compatible with Ipv6,
which includes streaming by Twonkey or playzone through Ipv6. The
Web page of Twonky is NOT accessible through Ipv6 either.
 Some strings would be in English when the language setting is in
Russian or French. Customers agree with that.
 Decompressed files with any file larger than 2GB inside it can’t

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be decompressed successfully.
 The external volume in HFS+ format can only be mounted as
Read-Only if the journal is enabled.
 The number of dropped packets may raise since the new
implementation of official Linux.
 HDD can’t enter hibernation mode when transmission, pyLoad,
or SqueezeCenter are installed.

Complete Features List:

 Copy/Sync for Copy Button feature
 Link
Browser Plug-in: Supports IE (for Windows) and Firefox (for all platform)
 Support IPOD web-streaming
 Menu
 Show System Information
 Show Volume Status
 Show Active Session(samba)
 Show UPS Current Capacity
 Show Temperature, CPU Loading, Memory Usage, Fan Speed
 Storage.
 RAID 1
 JBOD
 External USB Disk
(Read/write support following filesystem: NTFS, FAT16/FAT32, EXT2/3/4,
exFAT, HFS+)
(Read only support : ISO9660, UDF)
 Support 12TB volume size (with two 6TB HD installed)
 When Creating Volume, will show volume status with “Create Volume”
in the storage page and system status page.
 RAID Migration: 1disk JBOD -> 2 disk RAID1
 PTP Support (Digital Camera Support)
 Share Management
 Recycle Bin
 Create/Modify/Delete Share.
 Access control (public share/private share/advanced share).
 Support maximum 256 share.

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 Publish Share to Media Server.

 Share Browsing/Folder Browsing.
 Copy/Move/Create Folder/Delete Folder/file
 Upload File
 Rename File/Folder
 Account Management
 User Groups
 Create/Modify/Delete Account.
 Support maximum 512 user accounts.
 User Quota Support (for XFS only)
 System
 Date & Time (NTP / Manual Setting)
 Time Zone
 Manual Daylight Saving
 Auto Daylight Saving
 Network
 PPPoE Client Support (also supported in NDU client)
 No Master Browser Setting: Allow Unicode Computer Names in same
workgroup
 Setting DHCP/Static IP. (Ipv4/Ipv6)
 Setting DNS Server.
 Ftp Server.( Connection Limit range from 1~20 , Idle Timeout range
from 30 ~ 300 MINUTES, Customize Passive Mode Port Range)
 FTP Server Custom Character Encoding
 Support additional HTTP Configuration Port Number Selection
 AutoUpload
 Automatically Upload Files to Flickr or YouTube
 Having log when en-queued files, file uploaded
 FTP Uploadr
 AutoUpload
 Automatically Upload Files to Flickr or YouTube
 Having log when en-queued files, file uploaded
 Media Server. (Media Server changed Solution)
 Publish file types.
 Publish Shares.
 iTunes Server Support

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 DLNA 1.5 Support

 XBOX360 Support
 File-extension support:
 Supported format

 Audio: LPCM (not supported as a file format), MP3, WMA, M4A, M4B,
MP4, 3GP, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, MP2, AC3, MPA, MP1, AIF, ASF, FLV,
DSD
 Images: JPEG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF
 Video: WMV, MPEG2, MP1, MPG, SPTS, MP4, AVI, VOB, DivX, 3GP, VDR,
MPE, DVR-MS, Xvid, M1V, M4V, MOV, MPV, MKV, OGG, FLV, MTS

 Dropbox
 Enable dropbox
 Disable dropbox

 Printer Server
 Add / Delete Printer
 Cancel Print Job
 Download Service
 Download P2P, HTTP, or FTP files
 FTP authentication supported
 Pause, Delete, Continue Downloads
 Priority
 Max 10 items job processing
 Support Configure Maximum Number of Seeding Job
 Two Keep Seeding Criteria Support: Upload/Download Ratio and
Seeding Time
 Resume Completed Torrent Job to Do Seeding Again.
 Support Show Detail Job Information and Configure Comment for
Each Job
 Support Download Service Download Period Control
 Support IP Filter Table Management
 Support Encryption in BT Protocol
 Open Share Browser on Location of Completed Job to See

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Download Files.
 Configurable Maximum number of Connections (max is 500)
 Download Service Notification (RSS Server): Notify Downloaded File from
Download Service / Broadcatching Torrent Job
 Broadcatching
 Add RSS 2.0 Feeds with enclosures Only
 Invalid feeds will show red color
 Support encoding other than UTF-8
 DyDNS Client
 DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.com/)
 No-IP (http://www.no-ip.com/)
 3322 (http://www.3322.org/)
 zoneEdit (http://www.zoneedit.com/)
 DHS (http://www.dhs.org/)
 Thai (http://myzyxel.in.th/)
 Package Management
 Retrieve Package List (from internet server)
 Install/Upgrade package
 Uninstall package
 Enable package
 Disable package
 Cancel Install package
 Maintenance

 Configuration backup/restore.
 UPS shutdown capacity (Not supported in this version yet)
 Power Management
 Power Resume
 Power Control Schedule
 SSL: HTTPS, FTPS, Force HTTPS support, CA Management Support
 FW Upgrade:
 FW Upgrade by uploading FW file.
 On-Line FW Upgrade.
 System shutdown/restart.
 High Temperature Buzzer alert support
 Over Temperature auto-shutdown support

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 Logs
 E-mail Alert (for emergency log of selected log classes) in plain
text or HTML
 E-mail Report (for selected log classes) in plain text or HTML
 Mobile Utility
 zCloud: An iOS and Android App, which enjoy multimedia content
photo / music / video, and also provide file browser in this app
 ZyXEL Drive: allows you easy remote access to your files and media
(Photos/Videos/Musics) that stored on your ZyXEL NAS. This App
makes it simple to stream or download contents onto to your iOS
Phone/Android Phone from Internet network.
 iSCSI
 Supports file-type
 Max number of
 Lun: 10
 Target: 10
 Max size of LUN file: 8191 GB

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