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MinIO: Bugfix Release
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โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2021-12-18T04-42-33Z. Source highlight: Click here to download the latest version of MinIO.
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โจ 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
๐ง 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
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.
- 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