Files 5.4 leans on security and cloud flexibility. Azure Trusted Launch protects cloud-based file servers with a hardware root of trust, NFS shares can be encrypted with TLS and mTLS certificate authentication without dragging Active Directory into it, and AMD-based VMs are now supported on both AWS and Azure. Administrators can restrict command-line access to file server VMs or turn SSH off entirely, configure authenticated NTP, and let legacy clusters adopt asymmetrical disaster recovery automatically on upgrade. The fix list is long: premature out-of-space warnings on SMB shares, latency during heavy file creation and auditing, skipped service principal names during failover, and stalled NearSync replication all get attention.
Read the full announcement on the Nutanix community site: Nutanix Files 5.4.