Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Major Feature Release
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โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2020-07-11T06-07-16Z. Source highlight: This is a major release with **object versioning** support. Please upgrade only if you must.
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (5)
- Introduction of versioning in MinIO.
- New backend metadata format is introduced to support versioning.
- Add Grafana dashboard. See (#10000) for more details.
- Added bucket name param to ToJSONError call (#9961) (07/10/20) (Benjamin Sodenkamp)
- Add Grafana dashboard (#10000) (07/10/20) (Nitish Tiwari)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix introduced by gorill/mux related to virtual host style. See (#10010) for more details.
- Fix threadwalk lockup under high load. See (#9992) for more details.
- fix: make sure to honor versioning from browser UI deletes (#10016) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: add virtual host style workaround for gorilla/mux issue (#10010) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: extract array type for policy claim if present (#10014) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: threadwalk lockup under high load (#9992) (07/09/20) (Klaus Post)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
- This is a major release with **object versioning** support. Please upgrade only if you must.
- Introduction of versioning in MinIO.
- New backend metadata format is introduced to support versioning.
- existing backend metadata will be moved to the new format when the corresponding object is accessed.
- Here is the [link](https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-bucket-versioning-guide.html) to the documentation on versioning.
- Reroute requests based token heal/listing (#9939) (07/03/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- Tune tcp keep-alives with new kernel timeout options. See (#9963) for more details.
- New admin API to create KMS master keys. See (#9982) for more details.
- Remove usage of go-ieproxy for windows. See (#10009) for more details.
- Fix introduced by gorill/mux related to virtual host style. See (#10010) for more details.
- Add Grafana dashboard. See (#10000) for more details.
- Remove timeouts for put, list objects and forwarder. See (#9986, #9994) for more details.
- support bootstrap client to use healthcheck restClient. See (#10004) for more details.
- Fix threadwalk lockup under high load. See (#9992) for more details.
- support proper values for listMultipartUploads/listParts. See (#9970) for more details.
## Changelog
- fix: make sure to honor versioning from browser UI deletes (#10016) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- Update dockerfiles for the release (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: add virtual host style workaround for gorilla/mux issue (#10010) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: extract array type for policy claim if present (#10014) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- Added bucket name param to ToJSONError call (#9961) (07/10/20) (Benjamin Sodenkamp)
- Remove usage of go-ieproxy for windows (#10009) (07/10/20) (Klaus Post)
- support bootstrap client to use healthcheck restClient (#10004) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- cleanup STS docs (#10003) (07/10/20) (Harshavardhana)
- azure: Return success when deleting non-existent object (#9981) (07/10/20) (kannappanr)
- Add Grafana dashboard (#10000) (07/10/20) (Nitish Tiwari)
- fix: threadwalk lockup under high load (#9992) (07/09/20) (Klaus Post)
- admin: new API for creating KMS master keys (#9982) (07/09/20) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- Remove dead link related to DC/OS Deployment Guide (#9996) (07/08/20) (Ravind Kumar)
- fix: Add support for preserving mtime for replication (#9995) (07/08/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: bump the response header timeout for forwarder as well (#9994) (07/08/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: the versioning/object lock documentation appropriately (#9988) (07/08/20) (Harshavardhana)
- heal: Fix healing delete markers (#9989) (07/08/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- fix: migrate to go.etcd.io import path (#9987) (07/07/20) (Harshavardhana)
- Remove timeout from putobject and listobjects (#9986) (07/07/20) (Klaus Post)
- fix: cors handling after gorilla mux update (#9980) (07/06/20) (Harshavardhana)
- Consider errFileVersionNotFound during healing assessment (#9977) (07/06/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- fix: documentation fixes for docker ENV settings (#9975) (07/06/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: lifecycle XML parsing errors with Versioning (#9974) (07/05/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- lifecycle: Expiry should not delete versions (#9972) (07/05/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- fix: simplify data structure before release (#9968) (07/04/20) (Harshavardhana)
- support proper values for listMultipartUploads/listParts (#9970) (07/03/20) (Harshavardhana)
- auto enable versioning with object locking (#9967) (07/03/20) (Harshavardhana)
- Reroute requests based token heal/listing (#9939) (07/03/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- Tune tcp keep-alives with new kernel timeout options (#9963) (07/03/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: ListObjectVersions should return ordered Version & DeleteMarker (#9959) (07/03/20) (Anis Elleuch)
- fix: return proper errors Get/HeadObject for deleteMarkers (#9957) (07/02/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: proxy ListObjects request to one of the server based on hash(bucket) (#9881) (07/02/20) (Krishna Srinivas)
- fix: list object versions in distributed setup (#9958) (07/02/20) (Klaus Post)