Bolt CMS
Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible.
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Still maintained? Yes: 95 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 6.1.10 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Bolt CMS quick facts
- Health score
- 81/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 592
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 6.1.10, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Bolt is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. It's built on PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, API-Platform and more. Bolt can be used as a traditional CMS or headless/decoupled. It is fully multilingual, and extensible using custom code in your projects, or through extensions installed from the Composer ecosystem."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Bolt CMS scores 81/100, #23 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS): 95 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (6.1.10, 6 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 592 stars add 11.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
95 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
6.1.10 released 6 days ago
- Stars 11.1 / 20
592 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 95
- Last 90 days
- 386
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #23 of 48 tools in Content Management Systems (CMS) by health , between Concrete 5 CMS (#22) and Omeka (#24) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 6.1.10 · 6 days ago |
| Stars | 592 |
| Open issues | 41 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | bolt/core ↗ |
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Bolt CMS: common questions
Is Bolt CMS still maintained?
Bolt CMS had 95 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, 6.1.10, is from 6 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.