Baïkal
Lightweight CalDAV and CardDAV server based on sabre/dav.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 13 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 0.13.0 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Baïkal quick facts
- Health score
- 64/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 3,352
- Last commit
- 11 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 0.13.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Head to sabre.io/baikal for information about installation, upgrading and troubleshooting."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Baïkal scores 64/100, #7 of 10 in Calendar & Contacts: 13 commits in the last 90 days earn 15.2 of 35 points, the latest release (0.13.0, 11 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,352 stars add 14.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 19.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 15.2 / 35
13 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
0.13.0 released 11 days ago
- Stars 14.1 / 20
3.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 13
- Last 90 days
- 32
- Last 12 months
- 11 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 10 tools in Calendar & Contacts by health , between Xandikos (#6) and DavMail (#8) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 0.13.0 · 11 days ago |
| Stars | 3,352 |
| Open issues | 99 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | sabre-io/Baikal ↗ |
Baïkal vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Baïkal (Calendar & Contacts), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manage My Damn Life | 91 | 644 | GPL-3.0 | 2 months ago |
| dayGLANCE | 89 | 179 | MIT | yesterday |
| Xandikos | 81 | 613 | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Baïkal (this tool) | 64 | 3.4k | GPL-3.0 | 11 days ago |
| DavMail | 57 | 774 | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| SabreDAV | 50 | 1.7k | MIT | 29 days ago |
Baïkal: common questions
Is Baïkal still maintained?
Baïkal had 13 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 11 days ago; the latest tagged release, 0.13.0, is from 11 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.