MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

Posted by hajtom 12/3/2025

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode(github.com)

511 points | 322 commentspage 5

ibgeek 12/3/2025|

Time to fork and bring back removed features. :). An advantage of it being AGPL licensed.

vanschelven 12/3/2025||

Is there a good overview of recent Open Source Rugpulls in the vein of killedbygoogle.com somewhere?

positisop 12/3/2025||

Raising 100 mil at 1 B valuation and then trying for an exit is a bitch!

zerofor_conduct 12/3/2025||

“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.” ― Jean Renoir

bouk 12/3/2025||

big L for all the cloud providers that made the mistake of using it instead of forging their own path, they're kind of screwed now

tehjoker 12/3/2025|

How are they screwed if they can adopt the source and continue patching it? Writing their own would incur a greater cost.

dardeaup 12/3/2025||

Hopefully no one is shocked or surprised.

giancarlostoro 12/3/2025|

I'm both shocked and not surprised. Lots of questions: Are they doing that bad from the outcry? Or are they just keeping a private version and going completely commercial only? If so, how do they bypass the AGPL in doing so, I assume they had contributions under the AGPL.

0x073 12/3/2025||

"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor."

Commercial only, they will replace the agpl contributions from external people. (Or at least they will say that)

bogomipz 12/4/2025|||

It's worth noting their enterprise support is a joke. As is their whole pivot to "AI." Their pitch is that they are an AI company now. Good riddance. I look forward to a good community fork.

Kerrick 12/3/2025|||

I don't understand. They've seen the contributions. How can they possibly do a clean-room implementation to avoid copyright infringement? (Let alone how tangled up in the history of the codebase they must be...)

giancarlostoro 12/3/2025|||

I hope some contributors get together and sue. ;)

tempest_ 12/3/2025|||

It doesnt matter unless someone takes them to court over it.

adriatp 12/3/2025||

I had a minio server in my homelab and I have to replace it after the 15v because they capped almost all settings. So sad...

dbacar 12/3/2025||

Disgusting. Build a product, make it open-source to gain traction, and when you are done completely abandon it. Shame on me that I have put this ^%^$hit on a project and advocated it.

stronglikedan 12/3/2025|

That can happen to any project, hence why Plan B should be implemented right alongside Plan A whenever humanly possible.

Aurornis 12/3/2025||

> For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see [MinIO AIStor]

Naming the product “AIStor” is one of the most blatant forced AI branding pivots I’ve seen.

evil-olive 12/3/2025||

for maximum performance with MinIO AIStor, make sure to use one of Seagate's "AI hard drives":

https://www.seagate.com/products/video-analytics/skyhawk-ai-...

bityard 12/3/2025|||

And the naming conflicts with NVidia's AIStore (https://github.com/NVIDIA/aistore). The two products are extremely similar. I don't know which came first, but Minio is going to want to do another pivot very soon if they want to survive. I doubt they have the resources to stand up to NVidia's army of extremely well-paid IP lawyers.

Natfan 12/3/2025||

this is no different than grok vs groq imo. aistor and aistore are different names, even if they're pronounced similarly.

positisop 12/3/2025||

Raising 100 mil at 1 B valuation and then trying for an exit is a bitch!

0x1ch 12/3/2025|

> Kill open source features.

> Gaslight community when rightfully annoyed

> Kill off primary product

> Offer same product with AI slapped on the name to enterprise customers.

Good riddance Minio, and goodbye!

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