MinIO’s open-source repo has been officially archived. No more maintenance. End of an era — but open source doesn’t die that easily.
I forked MinIO, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought it back to life.
If you’re running MinIO, swap minio/minio for pgsty/minio . Everything else stays the same. (CVE fixed, and the console GUI is back!)
The Death Certificate #
On December 3, 2025, MinIO announced “maintenance mode” on GitHub. I wrote about it in MinIO Is Dead.
On February 12, 2026, MinIO updated the repo status from “maintenance mode” to “no longer maintained”, then officially archived the repository. Read-only. No PRs, no issues, no contributions accepted. A project with 60k stars and over a billion Docker pulls became a digital tombstone.
If December was the clinical death, this February commit was the death certificate.
Today (Feb 14), a widely circulated article titled How MinIO went from open source darling to cautionary tale laid out the full timeline.
Percona founder Peter Zaitsev also raised concerns about open-source infrastructure sustainability on LinkedIn. The consensus in the international community is clear: MinIO is done.
Not “unmaintained” — officially, irreversibly, done.
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