Ferron
Fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust.
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Still maintained? Yes: 948 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.8.1 (Jun 2026).
At a glance
Ferron quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 2,188
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.8.1, Jun 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Built to set up quickly, behave predictably, and hold up reliably in production."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Ferron scores 93/100, #13 of 19 in Web Servers: 948 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.8.1, 5 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,188 stars add 13.4 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 6.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
948 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.8.1 released 5 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.4 / 20
2.2k 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
- 948
- Last 90 days
- 1,411
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) (#12) and Static Web Server (#14) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Rust, Docker, deb |
| Latest release | 2.8.1 · 5 months ago |
| Stars | 2,188 |
| Open issues | 56 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | ferronweb/ferron ↗ |
Ferron vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Ferron (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy | 100 | 79k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Traefik | 99 | 65k | MIT | today |
| NGINX | 98 | 32k | BSD-2-Clause | yesterday |
| Nginx Proxy Manager | 98 | 35k | MIT | 10 days ago |
| Pangolin | 97 | 23k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Ferron (this tool) | 93 | 2.2k | MIT | 2 days ago |
Ferron: common questions
Is Ferron still maintained?
Ferron had 948 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, 2.8.1, is from 5 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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