# MinIO RELEASE.2021-12-09T06-19-41Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2021-12-09T06-19-41Z
- **Released:** Dec 09, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2021-12-09T06-19-41Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-12-09T06-19-41Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.

## New Features
- Adds support for RoleARN for OIDC Identity Configuration. Refer #13651
- Add support for adding new site(s) to site replication. Refer #13696
- Add new `site` config sub-system intended to replace `region`
- Add role ARN support for OIDC identity provider
- add configurable 'shutdown-timeout' for HTTP server
- Add support for adding new site(s) to site replication

## Improvements
- Listing performance improvement. Refer #13723
- Improve listing consistency with version merging

## Bug Fixes
- Fixes erasure coded byte padding error fixed which leads to incorrect shard (when the shard to be replaced is the last shard) - Refer #13803.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes in Automatic Site Replication feature, S3 Compatibility improvements in delete-marker behavior on directories, Hadoop S3A regression tests support, Disk Caching.
- Fix s3zip in FS mode
- fix: totalDrives reported in speedTest for multiple-pools
- Fix panic when input cannot be parsed
- Fix dockerfile.dev to create /opt/bin first