# MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-10T05-11-33Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-03-10T05-11-33Z
- **Released:** Mar 10, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-03-10T05-11-33Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-10T05-11-33Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.

## New Features
- Add Refresh for better locking management. See (#11535) for more details.
- feat: remove go-bindata-assetfs in favor of embed by upgrading to go1.16 (#11733) (03/09/21) (Max Xu)
- [feat]: change erasure coding default block size from 10MiB to 1MiB (#11721) (03/06/21) (Harshavardhana)
- Add mint versioning tests (#11500) (03/06/21) (Anis Elleuch)
- locking: Add Refresh for better locking cleanup (#11535) (03/04/21) (Anis Elleuch)

## Improvements
- Healing improvements. See (#11734, #11725, #11312, #11675) for more details.
- fips related improvements. See (#11710, #11732) for more details.
- ILM transition related improvements. See (#11692, #11717) for more details.

## Bug Fixes
- IAM related fixes. See (#11701, #11722) for more details.
- fix: normalize object layer inputs. See (#11534) for more details.
- fix: normalize object layer inputs (#11534) (03/09/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: Remove repetitive IAM ready message (#11723) (03/06/21) (Anis Elleuch)
- fix: Merge() should merge and return a copy (#11714) (03/05/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix : IAM Intialization failing with a large number of users/policies (#11701) (03/05/21) (sgandon)