Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Major Feature & Bugfix Release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2018-08-18T03-49-57Z. Source highlight: Minio Server supports SQL Select API with CSV objects. See documentation here.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- Use new listener which implements enhanced tcp features (#6289) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add support for SSE-S3 server side encryption with vault (#6192) (08/17/18) <poornas>
- crypto: add SSE-KMS HTTP header detection (#6228) (08/09/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Add s390x support (#6263) (08/09/18) <Durgadas Kamath>
- Add tracing capabilities for internode rpc Servers (#6254) (08/07/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add reliable RemoveAll to handle racy situations (#6227) (08/05/18) <Harshavardhana>
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Enhance picking valid xlMeta based on quorum (#6297) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- Various fixes available in the areas of garbage collection, memory/lock management, simplification of erasure code, error logging, documentation and regressions in bucket policy and listings.
- Add select docs and fix return values for Select API (#6300) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Fix bug in Share Object Modal (#6257) (08/09/18) <Sanat Mouli>
- Fix output path for go-bindata-assetfs (#6253) (08/07/18) <Sanat Mouli>
- nas gateway: fix regression in global bucket policy initialization (#6243) (08/03/18) <poornas>
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
- Minio Server supports SQL Select API with CSV objects. See documentation [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-select-api-quickstart-guide.html).
- Minio Server supports SSE-S3 encryption with HashiCorp's Vault. See documentation [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-kms-quickstart-guide.html).
- Various fixes available in the areas of garbage collection, memory/lock management, simplification of erasure code, error logging, documentation and regressions in bucket policy and listings.
## Changelog
- Ensure that setConfig uses latest functionality (#6302) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Use new listener which implements enhanced tcp features (#6289) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add select docs and fix return values for Select API (#6300) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Enhance picking valid xlMeta based on quorum (#6297) (08/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Correct link paths in Chinese documentation (#6299) (08/17/18) <Kaan Kabalak>
- Add support for SSE-S3 server side encryption with vault (#6192) (08/17/18) <poornas>
- Modify several translation errors (#6038) (08/17/18) <junpeng liu>
- Allow for proper garbage collection pooling bytes.Buffer (#6266) (08/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Watch for symlinked certs in container envs (#6282) (08/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Make sure to update modTime in erasure metadata (#6296) (08/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Validate prefixes on all sets (#6294) (08/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Remove unnecessary error log messages (#6186) (08/16/18) <kannappanr>
- Remove select docs (#6287) (08/15/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Support supplying custom drives per set count (#6261) (08/15/18) <Harshavardhana>
- S3 Select API Support for CSV (#6127) (08/15/18) <Arjun Mishra>
- Migrate config.json from config-dir to backend (#6195) (08/14/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Unlock read lock on uploadID upon errors (#6283) (08/14/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Log disk not found error just once (#6059) (08/14/18) <kannappanr>
- gcs: Translate S3 user-defined metadata prefix to/from GCS custom metadata prefix (#6270) (08/15/18) <wd256>
- Implement memory efficient readdir for windows (#6247) (08/09/18) <Harshavardhana>
- crypto: add SSE-KMS HTTP header detection (#6228) (08/09/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Fix bug in Share Object Modal (#6257) (08/09/18) <Sanat Mouli>
- Add s390x support (#6263) (08/09/18) <Durgadas Kamath>
- Avoid sending an error after 206 HTTP code (#6264) (08/08/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Avoid logging the body of the http 206 response (#6258) (08/08/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Fix output path for go-bindata-assetfs (#6253) (08/07/18) <Sanat Mouli>
- Add tracing capabilities for internode rpc Servers (#6254) (08/07/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Use sha256-simd instead of crypto/sha256 (#6252) (08/06/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Simplify erasure code by separating bitrot from erasure code (#5959) (08/06/18) <Krishna Srinivas>
- simplifying if-else chains to switches (#6208) (08/06/18) <Oleg Kovalov>
- Support dumb terminals by turning off color (#6246) (08/06/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add reliable RemoveAll to handle racy situations (#6227) (08/05/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Hold locks granularly in nslockMap (#6242) (08/05/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add granular locking in retryTicker (#6236) (08/03/18) <Harshavardhana>
- catch crypto.* errors and add SSE-S3 invalid algorithm err (#6229) (08/04/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Increase max idle connections from 100 to 4096 (#6244) (08/03/18) <Harshavardhana>
- nas gateway: fix regression in global bucket policy initialization (#6243) (08/03/18) <poornas>