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MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS
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Docker's Extended Lifecycle Support backports CVE fixes and ships signed security attestations for MinIO and other end-of-life components for up to five years past upstream abandonment.
MinIO's upstream archive on February 13, 2026 left every production deployment exposed to unpatched CVEs with no fixes coming. Docker ELS gives teams a third option beyond rushing a migration or staffing their own Go security engineering, but it is a paid add-on that defers rather than eliminates the eventual migration.
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MinIO was archived upstream on February 13, 2026, ending all releases, bug fixes, and security patches for a project with over a billion Docker pulls.
Docker ELS backports critical and high-severity CVE fixes on a 14-day SLA for up to five years past end of life, covering transitive Go dependencies at no extra cost.
ELS is a paid add-on to a Docker Hardened Images subscription, with images shipped alongside SBOMs, VEX statements, and SLSA Build Level 3 provenance.
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