Advanced Content Management System (CMS).
Joomla! is an open-source content management systems (cms) project, with 5.1k GitHub stars and a health score of 86/100. It committed 445 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-2.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-15 |
| Days since last commit | 2 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 74 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 445 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-15 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Category | Content Management Systems (CMS) |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Joomla! is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Actively maintained. Joomla! recorded 445 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 74 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-15. Committed within the last 45 days.
Joomla! is published under GPL-2.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
44 open-source implementations, 29 of them actively maintained, led by Strapi at 73k stars. Saturation score 75/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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