# MinIO RELEASE.2019-04-18T01-15-57Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2019-04-18T01-15-57Z
- **Released:** Apr 18, 2019
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2019-04-18T01-15-57Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2019-04-18T01-15-57Z. Source highlight: Experimental HDFS gateway support with known limitations. See documentation and (#7440) for more details.

## New Features
- crypto: add unit test for vault config verification (#7413) (04/10/19)

## Improvements
- Enhance the event store interface to support channeling (#7343) (04/10/19)

## Bug Fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes in etcd, caching, background append in standalone mode.
- Fix healthcheck script to check for BadRequest Status (#7537) (04/12/19)
- Fix SimpleCI to use different data directory than mint (#7520) (04/12/19)