โ ๏ธ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
MinIO: Major bug fix release
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Component: minio ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- <b>Breaking Change:</b> Config entries for Domain and Browser are no longer supported in config.json. Details [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/6498).
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2018-09-25T21-34-43Z. Source highlight: Bugfixes to GetObject and CopyObject APIs to avoid race conditions when concurrent object operations are performed.
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โ ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- - <b>Breaking Change:</b> Config entries for Domain and Browser are no longer supported in config.json. Details [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/6498).
โจ New Features & Capabilities (4)
- add functions to remove confidential information (#6516) (09/24/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Add GetObjectNInfo to object layer (#6449) (09/20/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
- Add Profiler Admin API (#6463) (09/19/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Add 'disk' tag to log output to enhance 'disk not found' errors (#6460) (09/13/18) <Harshavardhana>
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Miscellaneous improvements to performance, error handling, retry mechanisms, s3select, profiling, healing and browser.
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- Bugfixes to GetObject and CopyObject APIs to avoid race conditions when concurrent object operations are performed.
- Fix cleanup of pipe in GetObjectNInfo handlers (#6509) (09/21/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
- fix success alert not shown after object is uploaded (#6500) (09/20/18) <Kanagaraj M>
- fix: UploadPart,CopyObjectPart does not need sse-s3 header (#6386) (09/13/18) <poornas>
- fix public directory listing not working in browser (#6466) (09/14/18) <Kanagaraj M>
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
- Bugfixes to GetObject and CopyObject APIs to avoid race conditions when concurrent object operations are performed.
- <b>Breaking Change:</b> Config entries for Domain and Browser are no longer supported in config.json. Details [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/6498).
- Community Contribution (from @jaym) : Allow s3 gateway honor different AWS auth mechanisms. Details [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/6422).
- Miscellaneous improvements to performance, error handling, retry mechanisms, s3select, profiling, healing and browser.
## Changelog
- Use GetObjectNInfo in CopyObject and CopyObjectPart (#6489) (09/25/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Return HTTP response error for malformed requests (#6517) (09/25/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Quickly build dev docker images using 'make docker' (#6505) (09/25/18) <Harshavardhana>
- add functions to remove confidential information (#6516) (09/24/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- HEAD on an object should mimic GET without body (#6508) (09/23/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Remove unnecessary contexts passed as data to FatalIf. No need to log an empty context. (#6487) (09/22/18) <Pontus Leitzler>
- Switch back to GetObjectInfo for HEAD requests (#6513) (09/21/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
- Update GCS storage library to support GetObject API on gzipped objects (#6506) (09/21/18) <kannappanr>
- Fix cleanup of pipe in GetObjectNInfo handlers (#6509) (09/21/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
- Add GetObjectNInfo to object layer (#6449) (09/20/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
- Deprecate domain, browser as config entries (#6498) (09/20/18) <Harshavardhana>
- fix success alert not shown after object is uploaded (#6500) (09/20/18) <Kanagaraj M>
- select API CSV may not be specified (#6493) (09/20/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Avoid changing creds in streaming signature (#6495) (09/19/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Peer/rpc should never honor RPC calls without object-layer (#6486) (09/19/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Allow minio s3 gateway to use different AWS auth mechanisms (#6422) (09/19/18) <Jay Mundrawala>
- Add Profiler Admin API (#6463) (09/19/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Prioritize HTTP requests over Heal (#6468) (09/17/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Remove brittle TestServerTLSCiphers unit test (#5982) (09/17/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Send progress only when requested by client in SelectObject (#6467) (09/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Use retry mechanism when initializing configuration (#6475) (09/16/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Add 'disk' tag to log output to enhance 'disk not found' errors (#6460) (09/13/18) <Harshavardhana>
- fix: UploadPart,CopyObjectPart does not need sse-s3 header (#6386) (09/13/18) <poornas>
- fix public directory listing not working in browser (#6466) (09/14/18) <Kanagaraj M>
- Combine obtaining resource, host, method into one operation (#6465) (09/13/18) <Harshavardhana>