Highlights

• Major performance improvement on total connection usage and de-duplicate ILM entries refer #18926
• More robust behavior on k8s with relaxed handling of DNS lookup failures refer #19145
• Major performance improvement for Listing() to avoid readdir() under situations for directory lookups refer #19100

What's Changed

• Improve caching by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19130
• Read drive IO stats from sysfs instead of procfs by @Praveenrajmani in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19131
• ilm: Select an object when all AND tags are satisfied by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19134
• remove unnecessary 'recreate' code by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19136
• feat: add userCredentials for nats by @jiuker in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19139
• initialize the disk healer early on by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19143
• heal: Add skipped objects to the heal summary by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19142
• cachevalue: simplified exported interface by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19137
• fix: allow DNS disconnection events to happen in k8s by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19145
• Mux: Send async mux ack and fix stream error responses by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19149
• Fix parsing v2 and v1 cgroup memory limit by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19153
• ignore x-amz-storage-class when its set to STANDARD by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19154
• debug: Add --search to print only specific goroutines by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19158
• allow creating missing parent folders during moveToTrash() by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19155
• fix: make sure maintenance=true is honored properly by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19156
• Re-organized grafana dashboards by @shtripat in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19157
• Update metrics list.md with new metrics from RELEASE.2024-01-05 by @ravindk89 in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19161
• Update API label names for metrics by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19162
• Updated Console to v1.0.0 by @bexsoft in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19164
• fix: relax metadata checks for healing by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19165
• debug: introduce support for configuring client connect WRITE deadline by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19170
• xl: Avoid called getdents for folders in listing by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19100
• automatically generate root credentials with KMS by @aead in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19025
• add retry logic upto 3 times for policy map and policy by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19173
• Improve expiration of tiered objects by @krisis in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/18926
• for root disks add additional information in the error log by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/19177

Full Changelog: https://github.com/minio/minio/compare/RELEASE.2024-02-26T09-33-48Z...RELEASE.2024-03-03T17-50-39Z