## Pre-pre requisite

- A working knowledge of MinIO codebase and its various components.
- A working knowledge of AWS S3 API behaviors and corner cases.

## Pre-requisite for backporting any fixes

Fixes that are allowed a backport must satisfy any of the following criteria's:

- A fix must not be a feature, for example.

```

```
sftp -P 8022 minioadmin@localhost
minioadmin@localhost's password:
Connected to localhost.
sftp> ls runner/
chunkdocs  testdir
```

Following example shows how to download an object locally via `sftp` client:

```
sftp> get runner/chunkdocs/metadata metadata
Fetching /runner/chunkdocs/metadata to metadata

replication required the root credentials of peer sites to be identical. This is no longer necessary because STS tokens are now signed with the site replicator service account credentials, thus allowing flexibility in the independent management of root accounts across sites and the ability to disable root accounts eventually.

However, this means that STS tokens signed previously by root credentials will no longer be valid upon upgrading to the latest version with this change. Please re-generate...

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supported anymore. KES is now mandatory if a third-party KMS should be used.

Further, since the configuration data is encrypted with the KMS, the KMS
configuration itself can no longer be stored in the MinIO config file and
instead must be provided via environment variables. If you have set your KMS
configuration using e.g. the `mc admin config` commands you will need to adjust
your deployment.

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