sftpgo Community Edition
Flexible, fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional FTP/S and WebDAV support.
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Still maintained? Yes: 109 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.7.6 (Sep 2026).
At a glance
sftpgo Community Edition quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 12,730
- Last commit
- 8 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.7.6, Sep 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0, ⊘ Proprietary
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Full-featured and highly configurable event-driven file transfer solution. Server protocols: SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S, WebDAV. Storage backends: local filesystem, encrypted local filesystem, S3 (compatible) Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, other SFTP servers."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
sftpgo Community Edition scores 96/100, #2 of 7 in File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers: 109 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.7.6, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 12,730 stars add 16.4 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 3.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
109 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.7.6 released 1 month ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.4 / 20
13k 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
- 109
- Last 90 days
- 268
- Last 12 months
- 8 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 7 tools in File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers by health , between Harbor (#1) and ZOT OCI Registry (#3) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0, ⊘ Proprietary |
| Platforms | Go, deb, Docker |
| Latest release | v2.7.6 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 12,730 |
| Open issues | 165 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | drakkan/sftpgo ↗ |
sftpgo Community Edition vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with sftpgo Community Edition (File Transfer - Object Storage & File Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| sftpgo Community Edition (this tool) | 96 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| ZOT OCI Registry | 94 | 2.9k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Zenko CloudServer | 93 | 2k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Flare | 89 | 138 | MIT | 4 days ago |
| SeaweedFS | 88 | 36k | Apache-2.0 | today |
sftpgo Community Edition: common questions
Is sftpgo Community Edition still maintained?
sftpgo Community Edition had 109 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 8 days ago; the latest tagged release, v2.7.6, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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