## 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

import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Spliterator;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link Multimap} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties
 * detailed at {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> avoid <i>direct</i> usage of {@link ImmutableMultimap} as a type (as with

In many cases your application could need some external settings or configurations, for example secret keys, database credentials, credentials for email services, etc.

Most of these settings are variable (can change), like database URLs. And many could be sensitive, like secrets.

For this reason it's common to provide them in environment variables that are read by the application.

/// tip

import java.util.function.BinaryOperator;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link Table} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties detailed
 * at {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=

        // Test with various international characters
        assertEquals("äöü", queryCommand.toLowercaseWildcard("ÄÖÜ"));
        assertEquals("日本語", queryCommand.toLowercaseWildcard("日本語")); // Japanese doesn't change
        assertEquals("test日本語", queryCommand.toLowercaseWildcard("TEST日本語"));
    }

    public void test_getQueryClassName() {
        assertEquals("WildcardQuery", queryCommand.getQueryClassName());
    }

 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingList} forward <b>indiscriminately</b> to the
 * methods of the delegate. For example, overriding {@link #add} alone <b>will not</b> change the
 * behavior of {@link #addAll}, which can lead to unexpected behavior. In this case, you should
 * override {@code addAll} as well, either providing your own implementation, or delegating to the

 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The methods of {@code ForwardingSortedMultiset} forward
 * <b>indiscriminately</b> to the methods of the delegate. For example, overriding {@link
 * #add(Object, int)} alone <b>will not</b> change the behavior of {@link #add(Object)}, which can
 * lead to unexpected behavior. In this case, you should override {@code add(Object)} as well,
 * either providing your own implementation, or delegating to the provided {@code standardAdd}

       * pass.
       *
       * 2. We would probably choose to compare exceptions using == instead of equals() (for
       * consistency with how weak references are cleared). That's a behavior change -- arguably the
       * removal of a feature.
       *
       * Fortunately, exceptions rarely contain references to expensive resources.
       */

      //
      seenExceptionsLocal = newConcurrentHashSet();

   */
  public static List<String> readLines(URL url, Charset charset) throws IOException {
    // don't use asCharSource(url, charset).readLines() because that returns
    // an immutable list, which would change the behavior of this method
    return readLines(
        url,
        charset,
        new LineProcessor<List<String>>() {
          final List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();

          @Override

# ----------------------------------------------------------
# Application Exception
# ---------------------
# /- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
# five framework-embedded messages (don't change key names)
# - - - - - - - - - -/
errors.login.failure = Inloggen mislukt.
errors.app.illegal.transition = Illegale overgang. Probeer het opnieuw.