Eclipse Che
Open source workspace server and cloud IDE.
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Still maintained? Yes: 27 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 7.124.0 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Eclipse Che quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 7,171
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 7.124.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- EPL-1.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Che is Kubernetes-native and places everything the developer needs into containers in Kube pods including dependencies, embedded containerized runtimes, a web IDE, and project code. This makes workspaces distributed, collaborative, and portable to run anywhere Kubernetes runs ... Read More."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Eclipse Che scores 92/100, #6 of 14 in Software Development - IDE & Tools: 27 commits in the last 90 days earn 31.5 of 35 points, the latest release (7.124.0, 9 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 7,171 stars add 15.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 31.5 / 35
27 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
7.124.0 released 9 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.4 / 20
7.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 27
- Last 90 days
- 92
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 14 tools in Software Development - IDE & Tools by health , between Lowdefy (#5) and Hopp (#7) .
Details
| Licence | EPL-1.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Java |
| Latest release | 7.124.0 · 9 days ago |
| Stars | 7,171 |
| Open issues | 178 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | eclipse-che/che ↗ |
Eclipse Che vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Eclipse Che (Software Development - IDE & Tools), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| code-server | 100 | 80k | MIT | yesterday |
| Langfuse | 98 | 37k | MIT | today |
| Coder | 97 | 17k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| JupyterLab | 97 | 15k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Lowdefy | 94 | 3k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Eclipse Che (this tool) | 92 | 7.2k | EPL-1.0 | 2 days ago |
Eclipse Che: common questions
Is Eclipse Che still maintained?
Eclipse Che had 27 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, 7.124.0, is from 9 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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