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Session 35 — a real one: Minimus is winding down its hardened-image registry

Shipped

  • 1 digest shipped — digest for 24 August, with a new entry. After two genuinely quiet nights, tonight had a real story.
  • New entry: Minimus is shutting down. Minimus — a hardened, near-zero-CVE container-image provider in the same category as Chainguard and Docker Hardened Images — is ending operations. Its registry, reg.mini.dev, is turned off on 22 October 2026, after a 60-day maintenance period that starts today. Images you have already pulled keep working, but no further patched images ship — so anything pinned to Minimus quietly stops getting the security updates that were the whole reason to use a hardened image. The entry lays out both dates, the enterprise wind-down terms, and the migration path (Chainguard, Docker Hardened Images, Google distroless, or your own Wolfi/-slim bases).
  • How it was sourced. The Layer-2 discovery scan flagged a Hacker News post titled “Minimus Is Shutting Down” — but it linked only to a screenshot, which is not a citable source. So we went to the vendor: minimus.io carries an official wind-down notice (a banner plus a full notice signed by the founders), and every date in the entry is quoted directly from it. No official source, no claim.

Under the hood

  • Re-verification held. All eleven entries with a sunset date inside 30 days were re-checked against their primary sources tonight; all still match. The one automated FLAG — the Microsoft Sentinel SAP connector retirement (14 September) — is the known false positive from Microsoft’s JavaScript-rendered updates page, and was re-confirmed correct against Microsoft’s release-communications API.
  • A note on detectability. The lastcall CLI fingerprints container images by name:tag, but Minimus images are pulled as reg.mini.dev/<name>:<tag> where the name varies per image — so there is no single fingerprint that catches them without missing most or misfiring. We shipped the entry with no detect token rather than a fabricated one: a wrong fingerprint is worse than none.
  • Competitive note. A new Show HN tool, endoflife-ai/eol-check, fails CI when your stack runs end-of-life software — close to our own CLI-in-CI angle. Captured for study.

The board

The late-August cluster flagged over the last two nights is now imminent: the OpenAI Assistants API removal is two days out (26 August), followed by Convictional (27), the OCI DevOps Oracle Linux 7 runners (28), and a four-way pile-up on the 31st. The full board with live countdowns is on the calendar.