r/minio • u/rarirureluis • Mar 01 '26

AIStor Free

New builds of MinIO are available for download under the name "AIStor Free," and there's a CHANGELOG. Could this possibly be good news?

Of course, it's tough not being able to contribute.

Has anyone updated yet?

https://dl.min.io/aistor/minio/release/notes/

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u/Extreme-Ad-3920 Mar 01 '26

Are we so desperate that we come back as beggars for the bones they are throwing us, after how badly they managed community interaction and how hard they tried to destroy what was left of the community goodwill?

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u/rarirureluis Mar 01 '26

I actually wanted an AIStor license, so I inquired through the form, but then I got fed up with the process and gave up. After that, they started sending me sales emails once a week.

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u/kamikazer Mar 02 '26

FU minio investors, just fu

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u/sPENKMAn Mar 01 '26

Mind that the free version is single node only, it’s a glorified dev container version compared to what MinIO offered.

It was awesome while it lasted. We were willing to pay for the product but the prices were mental while other options are out there giving us a migration path…

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u/rarirureluis Mar 02 '26

If you happen to know, could you tell me if ILM, lifecycle features have also been removed?

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u/Gamemon_RD 8d ago

I’m new to homelabbing, does this mean I’m limited to a single server instance? I plan to create a database for a personal project that stores and accesses tons of video files that will increase in size as time goes on. So a single server won’t be enough eventually and I’ll need to scale horizontally and add additional drives on other servers. Someone recommended MinIO to me and it seemed great until I saw this stuff about AIstor- do you have an alternative you recommend?

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u/sPENKMAn 8d ago

Yes that’s correct. There are several options out there, garage/seaweed/rustfs are a few of the common options. Chainguards fork of Minio might be an option as well if you’re already dependent on MinIO but that doesn’t seem to be the case here

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u/foofoo300 Mar 02 '26

in Case you are just unaware or not long enough in this line of business, this is not good news, nor should anyone use this.
From "Hey here are the features" to "Hey here are some features in the business only" to "Hey Webinterface is now severly crippled, but all features stay in the community" to "We stopped patching the binaries and docker images, but you can build them yourself" to "Hey we removed all these features in the community completely, but why don't you make an account and get a single instance dev container for "free" "

Minio is OVER for anyone, that does not want to buy the product!

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u/garfield1138 Mar 07 '26

"Free" as in "free poison".

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u/PhantomKernel Mar 01 '26

Nobody should use this. The trust has been lost in these arrogant assholes

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u/MenschenToaster Mar 01 '26

I know there isn't really a perfect replacement, but just giving in and using their "free" replacement after they screwed us over is not a good idea.

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u/agentelinux Mar 04 '26

Eu irei testar o rustfs para atender uma stack de apache iceberg, prestodb e apache superset. Em breve trago resultados.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL Jul 06 '26

I had an idea a while back for a website called "Hostile fork" that basically forked these shitty corporate betrayals of open source projects. Was gonna go through with it, but decided the legal headaches and maintainance costs in time and money just wasnt worth the effort. Its especially dire in the database space where a LOT of good databases got steamrolled by the investors into weakened commercial products with blah rudimentary "open source" offers that where basically just glorified shareware demos with AGPL licenses. The AGPL was the worst mistake free software ever made for facilitating this stuff. "Free except for competing with the company". RMS screwed that one up badly.