MinIO’s open-source repository has been officially archived, marking the end of the project after years of gradual feature restrictions and license changes. The once-popular S3-compatible object storage solution with 60k GitHub stars and over a billion Docker pulls is now read-only with no further maintenance. Peter Zaitsev and the community have declared it officially done.

This wasn’t a sudden collapse but a methodical dismantling over 18 months, including license changes from Apache 2.0 to AGPL v3, legal actions against competitors, removal of the admin console from the community edition, and eventually stopping binary distributions. The company had raised $126 million at a billion-dollar valuation before systematically cutting off the open-source ecosystem it built.

However, the AGPL license ensures the code lives on. Developer pgsty has forked the project, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought it back as pgsty/minio. The fork maintains production stability with automated CI/CD builds, CVE patches, and ongoing maintenance. Users can simply swap minio/minio for pgsty/minio in their deployments. The community fork focuses on supply chain continuity rather than new features, ensuring this production-ready object storage remains available despite the original project’s demise.