Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Security BugFix Release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก 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)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ 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)
๐ง 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)
๐ 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)