# MinIO RELEASE.2021-01-08T21-18-21Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-01-08T21-18-21Z
- **Released:** Jan 08, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-01-08T21-18-21Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-01-08T21-18-21Z. Source highlight: Support for compression + encryption. See (#11103) for more details.

## New Features
- feat: migrate to ROOT_USER/PASSWORD from ACCESS/SECRET_KEY. See (#11185) for more details.
- Add Optimization as a type of change (#11221) (01/05/21) (Klaus Post)
- feat: migrate to ROOT_USER/PASSWORD from ACCESS/SECRET_KEY (#11185) (01/05/21) (Harshavardhana)

## Improvements
- Small file improvements. See (#11228, #11229) for more details.

## Bug Fixes
- Fix missing closure. See (#11237) for more details.
- Fix: expire stale locks when owner is down. See (#11247) for more details.
- fix: treat errVolumeNotFound as EOF error in listPathRaw. See (#11238) for more details.
- Fix: initialize IAM store early to avoid any crash. See (#11236) for more details.
- Fixes in replication . See (#11227, #11243, #11244) for more details.
- fix: healing buckets during pool expansion. See (#11224) for more details.