# MinIO RELEASE.2023-01-02T09-40-09Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2023-01-02T09-40-09Z
- **Released:** Jan 03, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2023-01-02T09-40-09Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2023-01-02T09-40-09Z. Source highlight: Rebalancing pools correctly choose object sizes to calculate the final distribution #16240

## New Features
- Add HTTP2-only support for external policy plugin #16225
- feat: allow listening specific addrs for API port
- Add endpoints for managing IAM policies
- Add HTTP2 config option for policy plugin
- helm: add policy to svcacct
- Add API to fetch policy user/group associations

## Improvements
- Startup improvements to support WAN-based distributed MinIO setups #16259

## Bug Fixes
- fix: rebalance to account for object's on-disk size
- fix: support event name s3:Restore:*
- fix: remove scanner healing with unnecessary logs
- fix: remove unnecessary logs for client conn errors
- helm: Fix post job template
- Fix DeleteObject when only free versions remain