OpenMaxIO
Initial community fork of [MinIO](/node/minio) created in May 2025 to restore the management UI and admin features that MinIO Inc. removed from the open-source community edition. Was attempted as the open-source landing zone for operators left behind when MinIO Inc. pivoted to AIStor commercial product. **Status as of late 2025: abandoned.** The community fork that actually carries the ongoing MinIO-without-the-company workload is [pgsty/minio](/node/pgsty-minio-fork) instead.
Definition
Initial community fork of [MinIO](/node/minio) created in May 2025 to restore the management UI and admin features that MinIO Inc. removed from the open-source community edition. Was attempted as the open-source landing zone for operators left behind when MinIO Inc. pivoted to AIStor commercial product. **Status as of late 2025: abandoned.** The community fork that actually carries the ongoing MinIO-without-the-company workload is [pgsty/minio](/node/pgsty-minio-fork) instead.
None — the project is abandoned. Operators previously interested in OpenMaxIO should evaluate [pgsty/minio fork](/node/pgsty-minio-fork) (active CVE patching, builds shipped through April 2026), [SeaweedFS](/node/seaweedfs), [Garage](/node/garage), [Ceph](/node/ceph), or [RustFS](/node/rustfs) as live alternatives — see `Self-Hosted S3 after MinIO` for the broader landscape.
Recent developments
OpenMaxIO is abandoned. Per community discussions and 2026 retrospectives, the OpenMaxIO fork stalled within months of its May 2025 launch and is no longer maintained. Per Linuxiac — Open-Source Community Launches MinIO Fork.
pgsty/minio is the active community successor. Created October 25, 2025 in response to MinIO Inc.'s binary distribution halt; packages the last known-good MinIO source, applies CVE patches, last build April 17, 2026. Per InfoQ — MinIO GitHub Maintenance Mode.
MinIO Inc. archived the GitHub repository February 14, 2026. Read-only since; all active development moved to MinIO AIStor under proprietary license. Per MinIO Download — AIStor.
Recommended replacements in the post-MinIO 2026 landscape. Operators outgrowing single-node deployments are advised to look at RustFS, SeaweedFS, Garage, or Ceph rather than OpenMaxIO. Per Rilavek — Self-Hosted S3 in 2026 and Product Impossible — Self-hosted S3 after MinIO.
Proxmox community thread on MinIO's death and what's next. Documents the community sentiment around MinIO Inc.'s strategy and the search for alternatives — OpenMaxIO is mentioned in passing as one of the failed alternatives. Per Proxmox forum thread.
MinIO's archive was staged: a February 14 "read-only" freeze became a permanent re-archive on April 25, 2026. By June 2026, independent retrospectives confirm no new releases or patches followed the April re-archival — the practical alternatives cited are Garage or commercial MinIO AIStor, with OpenMaxIO still listed only as a stalled attempt from the same response wave. Per Storm Developments — MinIO's community edition is archived. What still runs in 2026. Sources: Linuxiac — community MinIO fork · InfoQ — MinIO GitHub Maintenance Mode · Rilavek — Self-hosted S3 2026 · Product Impossible — Self-hosted S3 after MinIO · Proxmox forum — MinIO is dead, what's next
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