# MinIO RELEASE.2021-01-16T02-19-44Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-01-16T02-19-44Z
- **Released:** Jan 16, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-01-16T02-19-44Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-01-16T02-19-44Z. Source highlight: Replication fixes and improvements See (#11273, #11165, #11257, #11267) for more details.

## Improvements
- Update README for cleaner navigation, improved quickstart experience (#11277) (01/15/21) (Ravind Kumar)

## Bug Fixes
- Replication fixes and improvements See (#11273, #11165, #11257, #11267) for more details.
- fix: preserve cache calculated previously while moving from v2 to v3. See (#11269) for more details.
- fix: enable xl.json to xl.meta only if legacy drive is found. See (#11255)  for more details.
- fix: doc links and delete replication permissions enforcement (#11285) (01/15/21) (Poorna Krishnamoorthy)
- fix: use common logging implementation for DNSCache (#11284) (01/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix broken URL to k8s operator (01/15/21) (Harshavardhana)