Stable release bug fixes and new features.

• Listobjects optimization, in terms of reducing number
  of Stat() calls.
• SHA256 optimization to use processor extensions for
  signature v4 verification.
• Support for AWS S3 Streaming Signature V4 support.
• Introduction of AWS S3 compatible Bucket Notification feature.
• Introduction of Bucket notification extension feature for continuous replication
• Graceful HTTP server shutdown.

First Stable Release of Minio

• Amazon S3 API compatible.
• Single disk support over a plain file system backend.
• Multi-disk support with Erasure Code and Bit Rot protection.
• Embedded Object Browser console using React framework.
• Built for Cloud-Native applications.

Modular architecture, Erasure code and Bitrot protection

• Erasure coded backend with SHA512 based bit-rot protection.
• Full rewrite of server to be more modular.
• Support Amazon S3 ListObjects v2.

Bug fix release

RELEASE.2016-04-17T22-09-24Z

fs: fix XFS and other FS related issue due to missing d_type.

Major re-write release

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Highlights

• Multipart code re-written, with new backend format.
• List objects and multipart listing re-written faster listing based on syscall approach.
• Reset access and secret keys through Minio browser.
• Removal of minio-go dependency, making SSL transparent.
• New operating system support FreeBSD amd64.
• Enhanced signature handling, better error messages.
• Bucket policy related fixes.
• More unittests :)

Minio server bug fix release

• Fixes bug on windows during server initialization 🍰
• Fixes bug on docker during server initialization 🍰
• Bucket policy is now more stricter avoiding nested rules 🍰
• ListObjects bug fix for 'max-keys=0' response 🍰
• Print env access and secret keys after server initialization to be consistent 🍰
• Other cleanups and minor perf improvements. 🍰

This release has no changes related to WebUI.

Minio server release with new improvements.

Browser improvements: 🍰

• History based UI, remembers your previous URLs
• Transformations and reload animations
• Asset size reduction from 4MB to 650KB
• Adding new icons for more file types
• Notification improvements

Server side: 🍰

• Rewrite of ListObjects, major performance improvements and simple code base
• Implements new APIs - CopyObject (server side copy), Multiple Object Deletes (1000)
• Ports merged browser and server are both on port 9000 by default.
• Docker registry support
• Re-write of signature v4 and cleanups.
• Use MINIO_ACCESS_KEY, MINIO_SECRET_KEY to override access and secret keys.
• Now GetObject and HeadObject both support more request headers.
  • If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since
  • If-Match, If-None-Match
• Implements support for basic Bucket Access Policy

Minio server release with minio browser

This minio server release is an interim release

• To get community feedback on the new minio browser.
• Code and performance improvements for multipart
• Simple granular locking.
• Clean cross platform support on windows paths.
• And all other major fixes related to aws-sdk, s3cmd and aws cli compatibility.