Impact Score: 5/10
MinIO: Minor Bugfix Release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-12-10T23-03-39Z. 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 (4)
- add test to expect prefix without a directory object
- add more tests to cover areas for weird object names
- Add tests to ensure that OIDC user can create IAM users
- xl-meta: Add header titles
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- add more directory marker tests and fix a bug
- Fix user listing with LDAP
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.
- Similar to release [RELEASE.2021-11-24T23-19-33Z](https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/RELEASE.2021-11-24T23-19-33Z). **Downgrades are not supported in this release** for erasure-coded clusters, due to on-disk data format version bump - once upgraded erasure-coded clusters cannot be downgraded to the previous release. Please upgrade **staging** or **testing** environments first.
- Allows STS credentials to be able to create static users on MinIO. Refer #13882, #13874
- Allow creation of objects with some weird characters such as newline. Refer #13858, #13873
- Make sure to ListObjectVersions lists DeleteMarked folders. Refer #13871
## What's Changed
* add test to expect prefix without a directory object by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13865
* storage: Use request.Form and avoid mux matching by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13858
* add more directory marker tests and fix a bug by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13871
* Fix user listing with LDAP by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13872
* ignore if volume exists in MakeVolBulk, return other errors by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13866
* Allow STS credentials to create users by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13874
* add more tests to cover areas for weird object names by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13873
* Clarify example for Standalone Docker instructions by @ravindk89 in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13879
* Add tests to ensure that OIDC user can create IAM users by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13881
* Don't zero buffer if big enough by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13877
* xl-meta: Add header titles by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13880
* Allow OIDC user to query user info if policies permit by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13882
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/minio/minio/compare/RELEASE.2021-12-09T06-19-41Z...RELEASE.2021-12-10T23-03-39Z