# MinIO RELEASE.2021-02-24T18-44-45Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-02-24T18-44-45Z
- **Released:** Feb 24, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-02-24T18-44-45Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-02-24T18-44-45Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO

## New Features
- [feat]: use DSYNC for xl.meta writes and NOATIME for reads (#11615) (02/24/21) (Harshavardhana)
- pkg/etag: add new package for S3 ETag handling (#11577) (02/23/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)

## Bug Fixes
- fix: Ensure cache has finished deserializing. See (#11620) for more details.
- fix: do not ignore CREDITS file (02/23/21) (Harshavardhana)