"According to the latest commit in the public GitHub repository, no new features, enhancements, or pull requests will be accepted in the MinIO community edition, and critical security fixes will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Existing issues and pull requests will not be actively reviewed, with community support continuing on Slack on a best-effort basis, and the company encouraging users to migrate to MinIO Enterprise."
"Started over a decade ago, MinIO gained popularity among developers thanks to its full compatibility with the Amazon S3 APIs, which are the de facto standard for object storage. Developers could use existing S3 SDKs, tools, and libraries, with easy migration from AWS S3 or multi-cloud setups. Compared to other solutions, including Ceph and traditional SAN/NAS, MinIO is known for its simplicity, as it runs as a single binary with minimal dependencies."
"A silent README update just ended the era of MinIO as the default open-source S3 engine (...) No announcement. No migration guidance. Just switched off (...) Why This Matters: security non-compliance for SOC2/ISO/PCI/HIPAA, architectural risk at the storage layer, zero community contribution path, forced move to commercial licensing or migration. This is a major open-source infrastr"
MinIO community edition has entered maintenance mode with no new features, enhancements, or pull requests to be accepted; critical security fixes will be evaluated case-by-case. Existing issues and pull requests will not be actively reviewed, and community support will continue on Slack on a best-effort basis. The company is encouraging users to migrate to MinIO Enterprise. MinIO gained adoption for full Amazon S3 API compatibility, simplicity as a single-binary deployment, and integrations with tools like Terraform, Spark, Kafka, Velero, and ML frameworks. The change raises concerns about security compliance, architectural risk, forced commercial migration, and potential forks or alternatives.
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