Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
Red Hat has released Stratis Storage 3.9, introducing significant updates to its storage management system. The new version supports online encryption, decryption, and re-encryption of storage pools, allowing for greater flexibility after initial pool creation. Additionally, Stratis 3.9 includes improvements to its D-Bus layer and various dependency updates.
- ▪Stratis Storage 3.9 was released on April 27, 2026.
- ▪The new version allows online encryption, decryption, and re-encryption of storage pools.
- ▪Stratis 3.9 also includes updates to its D-Bus layer and various dependencies.
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Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 27 April 2026 at 08:21 PM EDT. 19 Comments It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3.9 released today. Stratis 3.8 debuted in March 2025 and since then were various point releases while today was marked by the release of Stratis 3.9.
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