Islandora
Drupal module for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories.
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Still maintained? Yes: 4 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.19.0 (Sep 2026).
At a glance
Islandora quick facts
- Health score
- 48/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 158
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.19.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "This is the core module of Islandora's digital repository ecosystem. The islandora module provides: - Fedora 5 integration via the flysystem module - Integration with the context module to control your digital repository's behaviour - Publishing messages to a queue so they can be processed in the background."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Islandora scores 48/100, #5 of 6 in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software: 4 commits in the last 90 days earn 4.7 of 35 points, the latest release (2.19.0, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 158 stars add 8.8 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 30.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 4.7 / 35
4 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.19.0 released 2 months ago
- Stars 8.8 / 20
158 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 4
- Last 90 days
- 17
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 6 tools in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software by health , between InvenioRDM (#4) and EPrints (#6) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 2.19.0 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 158 |
| Open issues | 7 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Islandora/islandora ↗ |
Islandora vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Islandora (Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSpace | 82 | 1.1k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Samvera Hyrax | 79 | 201 | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Fedora Commons Repository | 65 | 253 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| InvenioRDM | 54 | 185 | MIT | yesterday |
| Islandora (this tool) | 48 | 158 | GPL-3.0 | 2 months ago |
| EPrints | 44 | 45 | GPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
Islandora: common questions
Is Islandora still maintained?
Islandora had 4 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, 2.19.0, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.