# MinIO RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z
- **Released:** Dec 09, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2023-12-09T18-17-51Z. Source highlight: MinIO supports starting the server arguments and configuration via a YAML configuration file. This YAML configuration

## New Features
- Add support of conf file to pass arguments and options
- feat: add events_errors_total metric
- add configuration to limit replication workers
- yml-config: Add support of rootUser and rootPassword

## Bug Fixes
- fix: remove ODirectReader entirely since we do not need it anymore