MinIO: Major Feature Release

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✨ Features 3 ⚡ Improvements 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

MinIO RELEASE.2018-10-05T01-03-03Z. Source highlight: Minio server allows streaming compression to ensure efficient disk space usage. Compression happens inflight, i.e objects are compressed before being written to disk(s). For more details, see here.

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)

Add Vault support for custom CAs directory (#6527) (10/01/18) <Harshavardhana>
Add object compression support (#6292) (09/28/18) <Praveen raj Mani>
Add ObjectOptions to GetObjectNInfo (#6533) (09/27/18) <poornas>

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)

Major performance & memory usage improvements. For more details, see here.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

Regression fix in bitrot read functionality.
Regression fix in PutObject functionality in Minio Server and Gateway.
Major bugfixes in the healing, worm mode, idle clients, range requests and multipart upload.
xl: Fix typo in PutObject when uploading a 10Mb file (#6567) (10/04/18) <Anis Elleuch>
Fix go1.11 vet shadow errors (#6555) (10/03/18) <Pontus Leitzler>
Fix a crash due to race between Abort/CompleteMultipart (#6544) (10/01/18) <Harshavardhana>

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## Highlights * Minio server allows streaming compression to ensure efficient disk space usage. Compression happens inflight, i.e objects are compressed before being written to disk(s). For more details, see [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-compression-guide.html). * Major performance & memory usage improvements. For more details, see [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/6464). * Regression fix in bitrot read functionality. * Regression fix in PutObject functionality in Minio Server and Gateway. * Major bugfixes in the healing, worm mode, idle clients, range requests and multipart upload. ## Changelog * xl: Fix typo in PutObject when uploading a 10Mb file (#6567) (10/04/18) <Anis Elleuch> * Verify bitrot in ReadFile correctly when verifier is set (#6563) (10/04/18) <Harshavardhana> * Avoid unsolicited response over idle http client (#6562) (10/04/18) <Harshavardhana> * worm: when enabled, avoid renaming the existing object in tmp directory (#6560) (10/04/18) <Anis Elleuch> * Use GetObjectInfo instead of GetObjectNInfo before cache decision (#6553) (10/03/18) <Pontus Leitzler> * gateway/azure: allow putObject to support block based upload (#6552) (10/02/18) <Harshavardhana> * Return always a default heal item upon unexpected error (#6556) (10/02/18) <Harshavardhana> * Fix go1.11 vet shadow errors (#6555) (10/03/18) <Pontus Leitzler> * Handle Range requests on empty objects (#6557) (10/02/18) <Harshavardhana> * Simplify pkg mimedb (#6549) (10/02/18) <Praveen raj Mani> * Add Vault support for custom CAs directory (#6527) (10/01/18) <Harshavardhana> * Heal recursively all entries in config/ prefix (#6545) (10/01/18) <Harshavardhana> * Fix a crash due to race between Abort/CompleteMultipart (#6544) (10/01/18) <Harshavardhana> * Heal backend configuration file (#6532) (09/29/18) <Harshavardhana> * Disable restarting server after setting a new config (#6521) (09/28/18) <Anis Elleuch> * Fix racy error communication inside go-routine (#6539) (09/28/18) <Harshavardhana> * Add object compression support (#6292) (09/28/18) <Praveen raj Mani> * Fix one possible data race in admin tests (#6537) (09/28/18) <Anis Elleuch> * profiler: Download API returns error when all nodes fail (#6525) (09/27/18) <Anis Elleuch> * Add ObjectOptions to GetObjectNInfo (#6533) (09/27/18) <poornas> * Remove unused range parsing code and update tests (#6530) (09/27/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy> * Add debugging for mutex, tracing (#6522) (09/26/18) <Harshavardhana> * madmin: close http response when returning an error (#6526) (09/26/18) <Anis Elleuch> * Removed unused vendored dependencies (#6520) (09/25/18) <Pontus Leitzler>

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