Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Bug fix release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2018-03-16T22-52-12Z. Source highlight: Flat & lock free multipart support for erasure backend is now available.
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)
- Adds context support for nas, oss and s3 <Ersan>
- Add context support for gateway b2, manta, gcs <kannappanr>
- Add context to the object-interface methods. Make necessary changes to xl fs azure sia <Krishna Srinivas>
- Update healthcheck related examples and add head support (#5650) <Nitish Tiwari>
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fixes a regression in Heal() implementation due to lock contention.
- Fix heal bucket deadlock after replacing disks (#5661) <Harshavardhana>
- fix spelling (#5643) <Yueh-Ting Chen>
- Swap max_hw_sectors_kb for max_sectors_kb. Fixes #5633. (#5638) <Alexander Stuart-Kregor>
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
- Flat & lock free multipart support for erasure backend is now available.
- Fixes a regression in Heal() implementation due to lock contention.
- Major cleanup of **notification** sub-system.
## Changelog
- Fix heal bucket deadlock after replacing disks (#5661) <Harshavardhana>
- Return InvalidDigest when md5 sent by client is invalid (#5654) <Harshavardhana>
- Use context.Background() instead of nil Rename Context[Get|Set] -> [Get|Set]Context <Krishna Srinivas>
- Adds context support for nas, oss and s3 <Ersan>
- Add context support for gateway b2, manta, gcs <kannappanr>
- Add context to the object-interface methods. Make necessary changes to xl fs azure sia <Krishna Srinivas>
- Flat multipart backend implementation for Erasure backend (#5447) <Krishna Srinivas>
- make notification as separate package (#5294) <Bala FA>
- Update healthcheck related examples and add head support (#5650) <Nitish Tiwari>
- Cleanup large bucket support documents (#5641) <Nitish Tiwari>
- Update minio-go dependencies to latest 5.0.0 release (#5640) <Harshavardhana>
- Support content-language header (#5648) <Harshavardhana>
- Updated healthcheck file (#5647) <tparker00>
- Update volume in Dockerfiles (#5646) <Nitish Tiwari>
- fix spelling (#5643) <Yueh-Ting Chen>
- Swap max_hw_sectors_kb for max_sectors_kb. Fixes #5633. (#5638) <Alexander Stuart-Kregor>