Impact Score: 5/10
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-05-16T05-32-34Z. Source highlight: Dynamic usage cache with major memory usage optimizations #12229
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)
- Add support for replication syncing metadata changes #11104
- sse: add support for SSE-KMS bucket configurations (#12295) (05/14/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- Add support for syncing replica modifications (#11104) (05/13/21) (Poorna Krishnamoorthy)
- feat: add dynamic usage cache (#12229) (05/12/21) (Klaus Post)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- fix: do not fail upon faulty/non-writable drives (05/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: ensure proper usage of DataDir (#12300) (05/14/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: for deleteBucket delete on dnsStore first (#12298) (05/14/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: parentUser mapped policy for OIDC creds (#12293) (05/13/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: LDAP authentication with groups only (#12283) (05/12/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix the dashboard to use $rate_interval (#12277) (05/12/21) (Nitish Tiwari)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
- Dynamic usage cache with major memory usage optimizations #12229
- Add support for replication syncing metadata changes #11104
- Healing changes to handle new corner cases #12300
- Support for service accounts with OIDC SSO #12293
## Changelog
- do not update bloomFilters for temporary objects (05/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: do not fail upon faulty/non-writable drives (05/15/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: ensure proper usage of DataDir (#12300) (05/14/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix: for deleteBucket delete on dnsStore first (#12298) (05/14/21) (Harshavardhana)
- update docs about NFS consistency model (05/14/21) (Harshavardhana)
- sse: add support for SSE-KMS bucket configurations (#12295) (05/14/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- Add support for syncing replica modifications (#11104) (05/13/21) (Poorna Krishnamoorthy)
- fix: parentUser mapped policy for OIDC creds (#12293) (05/13/21) (Harshavardhana)
- check that we can reach KES server and that the default key exists (#12291) (05/13/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- kms: KES client should return non-nil error when GenerateKey fails (#12290) (05/13/21) (Andreas Auernhammer)
- fix: LDAP authentication with groups only (#12283) (05/12/21) (Harshavardhana)
- do not return error for usage-cache version v4 (#12276) (05/12/21) (Harshavardhana)
- fix the dashboard to use $rate_interval (#12277) (05/12/21) (Nitish Tiwari)
- feat: add dynamic usage cache (#12229) (05/12/21) (Klaus Post)