MinIO RELEASE.2021-12-18T04-42-33Zstable Released Dec 19, 2021
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โœจ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • New feature supporting AWS S3 Compatible NewerNonCurrentVersions implementation for ILM. Refer #13815, #13944 for more details.
  • Add policy creation and modification timestamps
  • add code to parse secrets natively instead of shell scripts
  • select: Add IS (NOT) operators
  • Add IsKubernetes and IsDocker to health data
  • Add docs for NewerNoncurrentVersions

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • Bug fixes in Site Replication, Bucket Replication of Delete Markers.
  • Fix: non-existent policy cannot be set on a user/group
  • fix: error handling cases in site-replication
  • add hash-set debugging currently supports SIPMOD
  • update selfupdate dependency to fix signature verification
  • Fix healing of replication delete markers
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## 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. - New feature supporting AWS S3 Compatible NewerNonCurrentVersions implementation for ILM. Refer #13815, #13944 for more details. - Bug fixes in Site Replication, Bucket Replication of Delete Markers. - IAM policy now supports create/mod timestamps, refer #13796 - S3 Select now supports `IS (NOT)` operators, refer #13906 - Optimization of prometheus metrics endpoint, refer #13922 ## What's Changed * Add policy creation and modification timestamps by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13796 * update heal object unit test by @jiangfucheng in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13886 * check for update in the background by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13889 * Fix: non-existent policy cannot be set on a user/group by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13898 * replication: warn if insufficient workers by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13899 * update: keycloak binding documentation by @fpaupier in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13894 * add code to parse secrets natively instead of shell scripts by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13883 * Newer noncurrent versions by @krisis in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13815 * select: Add IS (NOT) operators by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13906 * fix: error handling cases in site-replication by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13901 * copy bucket slice to avoid skipping .minio.sys/buckets by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13912 * Check for nil RPC by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13917 * Disallow versioning/replication change in cluster replication setup by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13910 * add hash-set debugging currently supports SIPMOD by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13911 * Helm gcs gateway support by @dhughesni in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13810 * update selfupdate dependency to fix signature verification by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13919 * select: Return early from bool AND, OR by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13914 * Deprecate caching for erasure/distributed mode by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13909 * Run the data scanner routine in a loop by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13928 * Fix healing of replication delete markers by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13933 * Map policy to parent for STS by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13884 * re-implement prometheus metrics endpoint to be simpler by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13922 * cache only metrics served from the disks by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13940 * Add IsKubernetes and IsDocker to health data by @anjalshireesh in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13936 * Fix race in bucket replication stats by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13942 * Add docs for NewerNoncurrentVersions by @krisis in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13944 ## New Contributors * @fpaupier made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13894 * @dhughesni made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/13810 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/minio/minio/compare/RELEASE.2021-12-10T23-03-39Z...RELEASE.2021-12-18T04-42-33Z