MinIO RELEASE.2019-08-14T20-37-41Zstable Released Aug 14, 2019
โš ๏ธ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

MinIO: Major Feature Release

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • - **Breaking change** - MinIO users can be part of groups with multiple policies. Existing users of `mc` should upgrade to [latest](https://github.com/minio/mc/releases/tag/RELEASE.2019-08-14T20-49-49Z) using `mc update` - refer [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/multi-user) for command line changes.
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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

MinIO RELEASE.2019-08-14T20-37-41Z. Source highlight: **Rolling upgrade is not recommended for this release**

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.

๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.

โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.

โš ๏ธ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • - **Breaking change** - MinIO users can be part of groups with multiple policies. Existing users of `mc` should upgrade to [latest](https://github.com/minio/mc/releases/tag/RELEASE.2019-08-14T20-49-49Z) using `mc update` - refer [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/multi-user) for command line changes.

โœจ New Features & Capabilities (4)

  • BucketLifecycle feature added to expire objects automatically refer here
  • Add User-Agent header with MinIO release details in http logs (#7843) (08/14/19) <Krishnan Parthasarathi>
  • browser: Add user-agent header filter to gorilla mux route (#8040) (08/13/19) <Anis Elleuch>
  • Add bucket lifecycle expiry feature (#7834) (08/09/19) <Anis Elleuch>

โšก Performance & Enhancements (2)

  • A full rewrite of Cache implementation for higher performance and bit-rot protection. Existing users of cache will be automatically migrated to newer format.
  • Enhance audit logging to capture responseTimes (#8067) (08/12/19) <Harshavardhana>

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • Other misc bug fixes in federation, deletion of objects etc.
  • Fix DeleteObjects() to remove renamed objects inside (#8072) (08/14/19) <Nitish Tiwari>
  • Doc: Fix PutObject API known limitations text (#7704) (08/13/19) <kannappanr>
  • fix: #8051 so that stale DNS entries are cleaned-up (#8053) (08/13/19) <maihde>
  • fix type conversion in `UpdateKey` for Vault (#8058) (08/11/19) <Andreas Auernhammer>
  • Fix healthcheck to look for entry of all IPv4 addresses (0.0.0.0) (#8046) (08/09/19) <Nitish Tiwari>
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights - **Rolling upgrade is not recommended for this release** - A full rewrite of Cache implementation for higher performance and bit-rot protection. Existing users of cache will be automatically migrated to newer format. - BucketLifecycle feature added to expire objects automatically refer [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/lifecycle) - **Breaking change** - MinIO users can be part of groups with multiple policies. Existing users of `mc` should upgrade to [latest](https://github.com/minio/mc/releases/tag/RELEASE.2019-08-14T20-49-49Z) using `mc update` - refer [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/multi-user) for command line changes. - MinIO browser now supports creating directories conveniently from the UI. - Other misc bug fixes in federation, deletion of objects etc. ## Changelog - Add User-Agent header with MinIO release details in http logs (#7843) (08/14/19) <Krishnan Parthasarathi> - Fix DeleteObjects() to remove renamed objects inside (#8072) (08/14/19) <Nitish Tiwari> - Set the policy mapping for a user or group (#8036) (08/13/19) <Aditya Manthramurthy> - Doc: Fix PutObject API known limitations text (#7704) (08/13/19) <kannappanr> - fix: #8051 so that stale DNS entries are cleaned-up (#8053) (08/13/19) <maihde> - Use default ports for the schemes when dialing (#7960) (08/13/19) <Praveen raj Mani> - Fail for disks which overflow upon usage calculation (#8056) (08/13/19) <Harshavardhana> - Make directory path in the header editable (#8018) (08/12/19) <Kaan Kabalak> - Cleanup ui-errors and print proper error messages (#8068) (08/12/19) <Harshavardhana> - Enhance audit logging to capture responseTimes (#8067) (08/12/19) <Harshavardhana> - browser: Add user-agent header filter to gorilla mux route (#8040) (08/13/19) <Anis Elleuch> - With ListBuckets() access-list only buckets the user has access (#8037) (08/12/19) <Harshavardhana> - [web-router] update the white list for favicons (#8024) (08/12/19) <Jakob Ackermann> - fix type conversion in `UpdateKey` for Vault (#8058) (08/11/19) <Andreas Auernhammer> - Adding Notes on Swarm Network Aliases (#8054) (08/10/19) <Cary FitzHugh> - Bump readiness check upto 10000 go-routines (#8057) (08/10/19) <Harshavardhana> - Rewrite cache implementation to cache only on GET (#7694) (08/09/19) <poornas> - Add bucket lifecycle expiry feature (#7834) (08/09/19) <Anis Elleuch> - Safely use unsafe.Pointer to avoid crashes on ARM (#8027) (08/09/19) <Harshavardhana> - Fix healthcheck to look for entry of all IPv4 addresses (0.0.0.0) (#8046) (08/09/19) <Nitish Tiwari> - Fix time formatting of Expiration field in STS (#8043) (08/08/19) <Harshavardhana> - Refactor IAM to use new IAMStorageAPI (#7999) (08/08/19) <Aditya Manthramurthy> - Remove deprecated ENVs (08/07/19) <Harshavardhana>