MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Zstable Released Mar 17, 2021
Impact Score: 5/10

MinIO: Security BugFix Release

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

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โœจ New Features & Capabilities (3)

  • policy: Add Merge API (#11793) (03/16/21) (Anis Elleuch)
  • add missing principalId in web notifications (#11777) (03/13/21) (Harshavardhana)
  • Add consoleAdmin as a default canned policy (#11770) (03/13/21) (Nitish Tiwari)

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • This release fixes a MITM attack in aws-chunked signature v4 encoding, for more information please read
  • Other miscellaneous fixes include
  • Fix `STANDARD` defaults, point to new docs site. (#11800) (03/16/21) (Ravind Kumar)
  • fix: erasure index based reading based on actual ParityBlocks (#11792) (03/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
  • s3 select: fix date_diff behavior (#11786) (03/15/21) (Klaus Post)
  • fix: runtime issue on FreeBSD due to missing O_NOATIME/O_DSYNC support (#11790) (03/15/21) (Steve Wills)
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights - Click [here](https://min.io/download) to download the latest version of MinIO. - Click [here](https://min.io/pricing) for production support. - This release fixes a MITM attack in aws-chunked signature v4 encoding, for more information please read our security advisory [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-xr7r-7gpj-5pgp) - Other miscellaneous fixes include - r/w failure regression on FreeBSD operating system due to unexpected file open flags. - browser now supports QR code with presigned URLs. - Support DeleteMarker disable setting in replication configuration. ## Changelog - s3v4: read and verify S3 signature v4 chunks separately (#11801) (03/16/21) (Andreas Auernhammer) - Fix `STANDARD` defaults, point to new docs site. (#11800) (03/16/21) (Ravind Kumar) - erasure pools enable faster checks for file not found (#11799) (03/16/21) (Klaus Post) - policy: Add Merge API (#11793) (03/16/21) (Anis Elleuch) - fix: erasure index based reading based on actual ParityBlocks (#11792) (03/15/21) (Harshavardhana) - s3 select: fix date_diff behavior (#11786) (03/15/21) (Klaus Post) - fix: runtime issue on FreeBSD due to missing O_NOATIME/O_DSYNC support (#11790) (03/15/21) (Steve Wills) - fix: mips 32bit compilation issue (#11775) (03/15/21) (Harshavardhana) - add missing principalId in web notifications (#11777) (03/13/21) (Harshavardhana) - Replication: Enforce DeleteMarker disable setting (#11720) (03/13/21) (Poorna Krishnamoorthy) - Add consoleAdmin as a default canned policy (#11770) (03/13/21) (Nitish Tiwari) - cmd/os-readdir_other.go - return nil with err (#11772) (03/12/21) (Philip Brown) - update browser assets for react-qr-code (03/11/21) (Harshavardhana)