gitbucket
Git platform powered with easy installation, high extensibility & GitHub API compatibility (alternative to GitHub).
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Still maintained? Yes: 57 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 4.48.0 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to GitHub.
At a glance
gitbucket quick facts
- Health score
- 86/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 9,419
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 4.48.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "You can also deploy gitbucket.war to a servlet container which supports Servlet 3.0 (like Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, etc). Note that GitBucket doesn't support Jakarta EE yet."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
gitbucket scores 86/100, #14 of 45 in Software Development - Project Management: 57 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (4.48.0, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 9,419 stars add 15.9 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.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
57 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
4.48.0 released 1 month ago
- Stars 15.9 / 20
9.4k 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
- 57
- Last 90 days
- 244
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 45 tools in Software Development - Project Management by health , between 4ga Boards (#13) and Ideon (#15) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Scala, Java |
| Latest release | 4.48.0 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 9,419 |
| Open issues | 297 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | gitbucket/gitbucket ↗ |
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gitbucket: common questions
What does gitbucket replace?
Repoly lists gitbucket as an open-source alternative to GitHub. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where gitbucket stands against the others.
Is gitbucket still maintained?
gitbucket had 57 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 4.48.0, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.