Koha
Enterprise-class ILS with modules for acquisitions, circulation, cataloging, label printing, offline circulation for when Internet access is not available, and much more.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,076 commits in the last 90 days.
At a glance
Koha quick facts
- Health score
- 56/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 596
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Koha is distributed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Koha scores 56/100, #2 of 3 in Document Management - Integrated Library Systems (ILS): 1,076 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 596 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 slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1076 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 11.1 / 20
596 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1076
- Last 90 days
- 3,726
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 3 tools in Document Management - Integrated Library Systems (ILS) by health , between RERO ILS (#1) and Evergreen (#3) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Perl |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 596 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Koha-Community/Koha ↗ |
Koha vs its top 2 alternatives
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Koha: common questions
Is Koha still maintained?
Koha had 1,076 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.