# Introduction

This document outlines how to make hotfix binaries and containers for MinIO?. The main focus in this article is about how to backport patches to a specific branch and finally building binaries/containers.

## 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

	@scp -q -r minio-release/$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)/* ******@****.***:~/releases/server/minio/hotfixes/linux-amd64/archive
	@echo "Published new hotfix binaries at https://dl.min.io/server/minio/hotfixes/linux-amd64/archive/minio.$(VERSION)"

docker-hotfix-push: docker-hotfix
	@docker push -q $(TAG) && echo "Published new container $(TAG)"