HBS3 26.4.5.115: Airgap+ fails with "Missing Authority Key Identifier" when connecting to QHora-321 (After HBS3 update, Airgap+ fails to connect to QHora-321)

Hello.

After updating HBS3 from 26.4.4.788 to 26.4.5.115,
all sync jobs using Airgap+ have started to fail.
It seems that the new HBS3 is rejecting the SSL certificate of the QHora router.
Is anyone else experiencing the same issue or knows of a workaround?

[Environment]

  • NAS: TS-873AeU-RP
  • HBS3: 26.4.4.788 → 26.4.5.115
  • Router: QHora-321 (used with Airgap+)
  • Jobs: Three one-way sync jobs to a remote NAS via Airgap+ (scheduled twice daily)

[Symptoms]
Since the update, every time the scheduled jobs run, I receive the following error: “[Airgap+] The Ethernet port on the router did not link up %V217.”
After that, the sync jobs fail with error code -113 (please see the English section below for the original error messages and log).
In the HBS diagnostic report, there’s a certificate verification error on SSL connection to the QHora: “certificate verify failed: Missing Authority Key Identifier.”

[What I know]

  • This error never appeared before the update, and now happens every time after updating.
  • The stack trace shows that HBS3’s runtime has changed from Python 3.11 to 3.14.
  • From Python 3.13 onward, VERIFY_X509_STRICT is enabled by default, which rejects certificates without an Authority Key Identifier extension. I believe the QHora’s default (self-signed) certificate lacks this extension.
  • There are no issues with the NAS network side. The authentication failure seems to prevent the router from opening the Airgap+ port.

[Questions]

  1. Is this a known issue with HBS3 26.4.5.115? Is there a planned fix?
  2. Will re-registering the storage space (re-entering QuRouter authentication information) solve the problem?
  3. Has anyone worked around this by replacing the QHora certificate with one including the AKI, or by downgrading HBS3 to 26.4.4.788? If you downgraded, did your Airgap+ settings remain?

Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you.