# MinIO RELEASE.2018-09-11T01-39-21Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2018-09-11T01-39-21Z
- **Released:** Sep 11, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2018-09-11T01-39-21Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2018-09-11T01-39-21Z. Source highlight: Bugfixes to improve in the areas of memory and performance.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking Change:** config.json will be renamed to config.json.deprecated. Entries in config.json.deprecated will be continued to be honored until this PR is merged. Config changes documentation is available [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/config/README.md).
- Breaking Change:** Distributed Minio Server nodes require access and secret key as environment variables. Additonally if a domain needs to be set, MINIO_DOMAIN env variable needs to be set explicitly. Config.json entries will be deprecated next release. See [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide.html) for more details.
- Remove double backtick that was breaking docs (#6410) (09/04/18) <Barnaby Keene>

## New Features
- Add ObjectOptions to ObjectLayer calls (#6382) (09/10/18) <poornas>
- Add admin get/set config keys API (#6113) (09/06/18) <Anis Elleuch>

## Bug Fixes
- Bugfixes to improve in the areas of memory and performance.
- Better log messages, documentation fixes and other miscellaneous fixes.
- Redis documentation Fix (#6378) (09/07/18) <Praveen raj Mani>
- Fix Manta gateway client creation flow (#6425) (09/07/18) <Nitish Tiwari>
- xl: Fix removing an empty directory (#6421) (09/06/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Fix config subsystem to wait on quorum number of formatted disks (#6407) (09/05/18) <Harshavardhana>