# MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS

DevFeed: [MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/minio-end-of-life-how-to-stay-patched-and-audit-ready-with-docker-els-4589.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.docker.com/blog/minio-end-of-life-how-to-stay-patched-and-audit-ready-with-docker-els/>)

Author: Vishrut Iyengar

Published: 2026-08-24T13:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/docker.md>)

Topics: [Docker Hardened Images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-hardened-images.md>), [open-source-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-security.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>)

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## AI overview

Docker's Extended Lifecycle Support keeps MinIO patched and audit-ready after the project's upstream end of life. The article explains how Docker maintains hardened images, tracks CVEs across MinIO and its Go dependencies, backports fixes, and supports teams that cannot immediately migrate their production object storage.

## Source excerpt

MinIO reached end of life in February 2026. Docker Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) keeps end-of-life software like it patched, compliant, and audit-ready for up to five years, covering versions upstream no longer supports all the way up to entire projects.