# MinIO RELEASE.2021-04-18T19-26-29Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-04-18T19-26-29Z
- **Released:** Apr 18, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-04-18T19-26-29Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-04-18T19-26-29Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.

## New Features
- Add runtime mem stats to server info. See (#11995) for more details.
- introduce new package pkg/kms (#12019) (04/15/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- add new pkg/fips for FIPS 140-2 (#12051) (04/14/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- Add metadata checksum (#12017) (04/09/21) (Klaus Post)
- Add runtime mem stats to server info (#11995) (04/07/21) (Klaus Post)

## Improvements
- Improve replication performance. See (#12080, #12054, #12009) for more details.
- Minor improvements in Lifecycle. See (#12077, #12039) for more details.
- Minor improvements to healing. See (#12004) for more details.

## Bug Fixes
- fix: calculate correct content range with partNumber query. See (#11992) for more details.
- fix: crash in single drive mode for lifecycle (#12077) (04/16/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: add helper for an expected path.Clean behavior (#12068) (04/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: do not return an error on expired credentials (#12057) (04/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: preserve shared dataDir during suspend overwrites (#12058) (04/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: pre-allocate certain slices with expected capacity (#12044) (04/12/21) (Harshavardhana)
