Highlights

• Rebalancing pools correctly choose object sizes to calculate the final distribution #16240
• Startup improvements to support WAN-based distributed MinIO setups #16259
• Add HTTP2-only support for external policy plugin #16225
• Locks are now spread across different pools based on object affinity #16312

What's Changed

• feat: allow listening specific addrs for API port by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16223
• Refactor HTTP transports by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16222
• log: Do not interpret verbs in object names in console output by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16233
• Implement STS account info API by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16115
• Add endpoints for managing IAM policies by @taran-p in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/15897
• Add HTTP2 config option for policy plugin by @donatello in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16225
• fix: rebalance to account for object's on-disk size by @krisis in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16240
• do not log checksum mismatch error, client received the error by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16246
• Cleanup remote targets automatically on replication config removal. by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16221
• fix: support event name s3:Restore:* by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16257
• fix: remove scanner healing with unnecessary logs by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16260
• fix: remove unnecessary logs for client conn errors by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16261
• Faster startup of large distributed systems with latency by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16259
• use newDynamicTimeoutWithOpts() when appropriate by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16266
• Do not return an error when version disparity is detected by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16269
• helm: add policy to svcacct by @orblazer in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16272
• helm: Fix post job template by @mruzicka in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16236
• Add API to fetch policy user/group associations by @taran-p in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16239
• Avoid config migration on every startup by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16278
• Do not save credentials in config.json by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16275
• allow retries for transaction lock on startup by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16273
• serialize replication stats() only when needed by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16280
• trace: Add bootstrap tracing events by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16286
• Fix DeleteObject when only free versions remain by @krisis in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16289
• update console v0.22.3 by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16292
• Remove site replication config if it succeeded locally by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16279
• tier verification leaks fd, that must be closed by @jiuker in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16296
• upgrade UBI image to 8.7 by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16301
• persist replication stats with leader lock by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16282
• avoid locks for internal and invalid buckets in MakeBucket() by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16302
• helm: disallow empty containers in post job template by @chamburr in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16281
• Validate replication target update to avoid duplicate endpoints by @poornas in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16311
• debug: Add X-Amz-Request-ID to lock/unlock calls by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16309
• allow locks with object affinity to spread across pools by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16312
• metrics: Show healing info for all nodes by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16315
• helm: Make bucket existence check faster by @wokalski in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16321
• fix: DeleteObject() API with versionId under replication by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16325
• fix: a deadlock by refactoring listBuckets() under site replication by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16323
• doc: Update prometheus metrics list by @vadmeste in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16329
• add missing fields in audit logs for non-compressed handlers by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16328
• disable builds for go1.18 by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16332
• Fix misplaced write response command in DetachPolicyBuiltin by @taran-p in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16333
• fix: tweak read buffer size to reduce over-reading by @klauspost in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16338
• fix: close helmInfo file descriptor by @jiuker in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16319
• remove the startup jitter before locks() by @harshavardhana in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16340

New Contributors

• @orblazer made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16272
• @mruzicka made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16236
• @chamburr made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16281
• @wokalski made their first contribution in https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16321

Full Changelog: https://github.com/minio/minio/compare/RELEASE.2022-12-12T19-27-27Z...RELEASE.2023-01-02T09-40-09Z