# MinIO RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** MinIO (https://min.io)
- **Version:** RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z
- **Released:** Mar 03, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/minio/updates/RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
MinIO RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z. Source highlight: Major performance improvement on total connection usage and de-duplicate ILM entries refer #18926

## New Features
- feat: add userCredentials for nats
- heal: Add skipped objects to the heal summary
- add retry logic upto 3 times for policy map and policy
- for root disks add additional information in the error log

## Improvements
- Major performance improvement on total connection usage and de-duplicate ILM entries refer #18926
- Major performance improvement for Listing() to avoid readdir() under situations for directory lookups refer #19100
- Improve caching
- Improve expiration of tiered objects

## Bug Fixes
- fix: allow DNS disconnection events to happen in k8s
- Mux: Send async mux ack and fix stream error responses
- Fix parsing v2 and v1 cgroup memory limit
- debug: Add --search to print only specific goroutines
- fix: make sure maintenance=true is honored properly
- fix: relax metadata checks for healing