โ ๏ธ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
MinIO: Major Feature Release
Source available โ automated, not human-reviewed
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
- **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.
โก 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)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โ ๏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.
โจ 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>
โก 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>
๐ง 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>
๐ 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>