This release accelerates data transfers with HTTP/3 support, enhances data resilience through more efficient healing processes, and strengthens security for Web Identity authentication. These updates improve performance, reduce resource consumption during recovery operations, and harden critical access controls.

### New Features

*   **Accelerate S3 data transfers with new HTTP/3 support**, reducing latency and improving performance over unreliable networks. Administrators can enable this feature via the `--http3-address` flag for compatible S3 clients. (#281)

### Improvements

*   **Increase data recovery speed with more efficient healing** that retries only failed objects, reducing unnecessary processing and resource consumption. (#273)
*   **Improve automation and compatibility checks** by including a server 'edition' field in diagnostic reports. This allows client tools and scripts to easily identify the server distribution. (#282)
*   **Improve overall system responsiveness** by incorporating a more efficient random number generation source, with notable performance gains on BF3 arm64 hardware. (#283)

### Bug Fixes

*   **Prevented misconfigured site replication policies from halting the entire data healing process** for other valid configurations. Enhanced error logging also simplifies troubleshooting. (#265)
*   **Resolved an issue causing incorrect endpoint URL formatting** in `Netperf()` tool output, improving the clarity of network performance reports. (#279)
*   **Corrected a typographical error in a Prometheus metric name** for drive cache capacity. **Action Required:** Monitoring dashboards must be updated from `minio_system_drive_drive_cache_capacity` to `minio_system_drive_cache_capacity`. (#280)

### Security

*   **Strengthened Web Identity API authentication** with stricter access token validation to prevent potential unauthorized privilege escalation. (#147)