Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Major Feature Release
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โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2018-10-18T00-28-58Z. Source highlight: Minio Server now supports the notion of users with attached policies. More details here and here.
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- Add missing error check (#6632) (10/17/18) <Pontus Leitzler>
- xl: Add '.CORRUPTED' prefix to corrupted objects (#6592) (10/16/18) <Anis Elleuch>
- Add canned policy support (#6637) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Add code to translate errInvalidEncryptionParameters to APIErrcode (#6625) (10/16/18) <kannappanr>
- crypto: add functions for sealing/unsealing the etag for SSE (#6618) (10/16/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
- Add ListUsers API to list all configured users in IAM (#6619) (10/13/18) <Harshavardhana>
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes in the areas of encryption, quorum, and s3 select.
- Spelling changes and fixed link (#6596) (10/17/18) <Eco>
- Fix a typo in multi-user doc (#6643) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Fix browser login with multi users (#6644) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- Fix toggling users status (#6640) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
- profiling: Fix downloading tracing profiling data (#6599) (10/15/18) <Anis Elleuch>
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
* Minio Server now supports the notion of users with attached policies. More details [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html) and [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-admin-complete-guide.html#users).
* Minio Server can be configured with external Identity Providers such as Keycloak, WSO2, Okta, Ping Identity to manage users. OPA may be used to manage policies. More details [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-sts-quickstart-guide.html).
* Minio Server now supports rotating credentials. Minio in the gateway mode works with etcd to support rotating credentials. More details [here](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-sts-quickstart-guide.html).
* Miscellaneous bug fixes in the areas of encryption, quorum, and s3 select.
## Changelog
* Treat columns with spaces inbetween [s3Select] (#6597) (10/17/18) <Praveen raj Mani>
* Add missing error check (#6632) (10/17/18) <Pontus Leitzler>
* Spelling changes and fixed link (#6596) (10/17/18) <Eco>
* Update lint installation (#6650) (10/17/18) <Pontus Leitzler>
* handle exception InvalidPart (#6649) (10/18/18) <Wenjie>
* Fix a typo in multi-user doc (#6643) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
* move SSE-C TLS enforcement into generic handler (#6639) (10/17/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
* Fix browser login with multi users (#6644) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Update config documentation (#6634) (10/17/18) <Nitish Tiwari>
* xl: Add '.CORRUPTED' prefix to corrupted objects (#6592) (10/16/18) <Anis Elleuch>
* Fix toggling users status (#6640) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Disable printing access/secrets in systemd (#6621) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Add canned policy support (#6637) (10/16/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Add code to translate errInvalidEncryptionParameters to APIErrcode (#6625) (10/16/18) <kannappanr>
* Validate user provided SSE-C key on Head Object API (#6600) (10/16/18) <kannappanr>
* crypto: add functions for sealing/unsealing the etag for SSE (#6618) (10/16/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
* cache: remove cache space constraint (#6635) (10/15/18) <poornas>
* Remove applying custom policies with STS access keys (#6626) (10/15/18) <Harshavardhana>
* profiling: Fix downloading tracing profiling data (#6599) (10/15/18) <Anis Elleuch>
* encryption: Fix copy from encrypted multipart to single part (#6604) (10/15/18) <Anis Elleuch>
* Add ListUsers API to list all configured users in IAM (#6619) (10/13/18) <Harshavardhana>
* crypto: add helper functions for unsealing object keys (#6609) (10/13/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
* Add audit logging for S3 and Web handlers (#6571) (10/12/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Add etcd support to support STS on gateway mode (#6531) (10/12/18) <Harshavardhana>
* fix travis CI build (#6620) (10/11/18) <Andreas Auernhammer>
* Docs fix for restart issue with orchestrated minio stack (#6606) (#6613) (10/11/18) <Mariska Hoogenboom>
* fix: Close cacheReader if cache entry has expired (#6610) (10/10/18) <poornas>
* Fix: Disallow requests with SSE-KMS headers (#6587) (10/09/18) <poornas>
* Optimize string processing in select (#6593) (10/09/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
* Introduce STS client grants API and OPA policy integration (#6168) (10/09/18) <Harshavardhana>
* Fix out-of-bound array access crash in select processing (#6594) (10/09/18) <Aditya Manthramurthy>
* Handle read/quorum errors when initializing all subsystems (#6585) (10/08/18) <Anis Elleuch>