Enhancements in 5.0.0-SP40

Updated on Jan 30, 2026
Published on Jan 28, 2026

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SMB

ORION-175831: Added an ability to disable SMB leases (client cache) per lease type: read leases, write leases, handle leases.
You can disable SMB leases in view policy settings. The following user controls have been added for this feature:
- In VAST Web UI, in the SMB tab of view policy settings (Element Store -> View Policies -> choose to create or edit a view policy):
  - Disable client leases pane lets you disable Handle leases, Read leases and/or Write leases
- In VAST CLI, the following options on viewpolicy create and viewpolicy modify commands:
  - --disable-read-lease
  - --enable-read-lease
  - --disable-write-lease
  - --enable-write-lease
  - --disable-handle-lease
  - --enable-handle-lease
- In VAST REST API, the following parameters (boolean) for the /viewpolicy/ endpoint:
  - disable_read_lease
  - disable_write_lease
  - disable_handle_lease

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