## Creating a hotfix branch

Customers in MinIO are allowed LTS on any release they choose to standardize. Production setups seldom change and require maintenance. Hotfix branches are such maintenance branches that allow customers to operate a production cluster without drastic changes to their deployment.

## Backporting a fix

Developer is advised to clone the MinIO source and checkout the MinIO release tag customer is currently on.

$ git fetch upstream
$ git merge upstream/master
...
```

### Create your feature branch

Before making code changes, make sure you create a separate branch for these changes

```
git checkout -b my-new-feature
```

### Test MinIO server changes

After your code changes, make sure

## Motivation and Context


## How to test this PR?


## Types of changes
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Optimization (provides speedup with no functional changes)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

## Checklist:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects
- Creation and deletion of all IAM users, groups, policies and their mappings to users or groups
- Creation of STS credentials
- Creation and deletion of service accounts (except those owned by the root user)
- Changes to Bucket features such as:
  - Bucket Policies
  - Bucket Tags

// to  be  correctly  handled.   For example, changes to st_atime or st_mtime
// (respectively, time of last access and time of last modification; see inode(7))
// do not require flushing because they are not necessary for a subsequent data
// read to be handled correctly. On the other hand, a change to the file size
// (st_size, as made by say ftruncate(2)), would require a metadata flush.
//

	// Current version being written.
	xlVersionCurrent [4]byte
)

const (
	// Breaking changes.
	// Newer versions cannot be read by older software.
	// This will prevent downgrades to incompatible versions.
	xlVersionMajor = 1

	// Non breaking changes.
	// Bumping this is informational, but should be done
	// if any change is made to the data stored, bumping this
	// will allow to detect the exact version later.

sftp>
```

## Advanced options

### Change default FTP port

Default port '8021' can be changed via

```
--ftp="address=:3021"
```

### Change FTP passive port range

By default FTP requests OS to give a free port automatically, however you may want to restrict

          "etag": "20000f00f58c508b40720270929bd90e9f07b9bd78fb605e5432a67635fc34722e4fc53b1d5fab9ff8400eb9ded4fba2"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### v1.3+ versions

Version 1.3 introduces changes to help with [faster metadata reads and updates](https://blog.min.io/minio-versioning-metadata-deep-dive/)

| Entry           | Encoding                    | Content

	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/pubsub"
	"github.com/minio/mux"
)

const (
	// apiVersion is a major version of the entire api.
	// Bumping this should only be done when overall,
	// incompatible changes are made, not when adding a new handler
	// or changing an existing handler.
	apiVersion = "v1"

	// RoutePath is the remote path to connect to.
	RoutePath = "/minio/grid/" + apiVersion
)

package cmd

import "strconv"

func _() {
	// An "invalid array index" compiler error signifies that the constant values have changed.
	// Re-run the stringer command to generate them again.
	var x [1]struct{}
	_ = x[invalidVersionType-0]
	_ = x[ObjectType-1]
	_ = x[DeleteType-2]
	_ = x[LegacyType-3]
	_ = x[lastVersionType-4]
}