# MinIO RELEASE.2020-10-18T21-54-12Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2020-10-18T21-54-12Z
- **Released:** Oct 18, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2020-10-18T21-54-12Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2020-10-18T21-54-12Z. Source highlight: Improvements to bandwidth monitoring. See (#10683, #10698) for more details.

## New Features
- Add DNS cache support to avoid DNS flooding. See (#10693) for more details.
- add DNS cache support to avoid DNS flooding (#10693) (10/16/20) (Harshavardhana)

## Improvements
- Improvements to bandwidth monitoring. See (#10683, #10698) for more details.
- Improvements to crawler. See (#10667, #10677,  ) for more details.
- Healing related improvements. See (#10686, #10687, #10688) for more details.
- Improvements to connecting to disks during startup. See (#10685, #10669) for more details.

## Bug Fixes
- update NTP package for accurate time resolution fixes. See (#10670) for more details.
- fix: Send delete marker creation event when appropriate. See (#10696) for more details.
- fix: dex getting started guide URL (#10701) (10/18/20) (Márk Sági-Kazár)
- fix comment in bucket bandwidth package (10/17/20) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: azure gateway should reject bucket names with "." (#10635) (10/16/20) (ebozduman)
- fix: keep MRF channel open to avoid random CI crash (#10686) (10/16/20) (Klaus Post)