Bugfix Release

Highlights

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• Similar to release 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 #13796
• update heal object unit test by @jiangfucheng in #13886
• check for update in the background by @harshavardhana in #13889
• Fix: non-existent policy cannot be set on a user/group by @donatello in #13898
• replication: warn if insufficient workers by @poornas in #13899
• update: keycloak binding documentation by @fpaupier in #13894
• add code to parse secrets natively instead of shell scripts by @harshavardhana in #13883
• Newer noncurrent versions by @krisis in #13815
• select: Add IS (NOT) operators by @klauspost in #13906
• fix: error handling cases in site-replication by @harshavardhana in #13901
• copy bucket slice to avoid skipping .minio.sys/buckets by @harshavardhana in #13912
• Check for nil RPC by @klauspost in #13917
• Disallow versioning/replication change in cluster replication setup by @poornas in #13910
• add hash-set debugging currently supports SIPMOD by @harshavardhana in #13911
• Helm gcs gateway support by @dhughesni in #13810
• update selfupdate dependency to fix signature verification by @harshavardhana in #13919
• select: Return early from bool AND, OR by @klauspost in #13914
• Deprecate caching for erasure/distributed mode by @poornas in #13909
• Run the data scanner routine in a loop by @vadmeste in #13928
• Fix healing of replication delete markers by @poornas in #13933
• Map policy to parent for STS by @donatello in #13884
• re-implement prometheus metrics endpoint to be simpler by @harshavardhana in #13922
• cache only metrics served from the disks by @harshavardhana in #13940
• Add IsKubernetes and IsDocker to health data by @anjalshireesh in #13936
• Fix race in bucket replication stats by @donatello in #13942
• Add docs for NewerNoncurrentVersions by @krisis in #13944

New Contributors

• @fpaupier made their first contribution in #13894
• @dhughesni made their first contribution in #13810

Full Changelog: RELEASE.2021-12-10T23-03-39Z...RELEASE.2021-12-18T04-42-33Z