The developers of the MinIO project, which develops high-performance object storage compatible with the Amazon S3 API, announcedthe transfer of the repository to maintenance mode. From now on, only fixes for critical vulnerabilities will be included in the open codebase, and changes related to new functionality and bug fixes will remain in a closed repository, on the basis of which the commercial version is developed. Users who require support or an actively maintained version are advised to switch to the proprietary product MinIO AIStor.
Previously, the developers of MinIO expressed dissatisfaction with the use of their developments in third-party proprietary products without complying with the terms of the AGPL license and without attribution (for example, one company tried to sell a complete clone of MinIO, advertising it as more productive than MinIO). The current code base remains under the AGPL 3.0 license and, if desired, interested participants can create a fork and develop it on their own. Among the existing open alternatives, we can note AIStore, Garage, Ambry, SeaweedFS, RustFS, hs5 and Versity S3 Gateway.