# MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z
- **Released:** Mar 17, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.

## New Features
- 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)

## Bug Fixes
- 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)