Superdesk
End-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform.
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Still maintained? Yes: 67 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.5 (Jul 2026).
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At a glance
Superdesk quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 758
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.5, Jul 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organizations of any size. See the Superdesk website for more information."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Superdesk scores 92/100, #4 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS): 67 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.5, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 758 stars add 11.5 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 8.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
67 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.5 released 4 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.5 / 20
758 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
- 67
- Last 90 days
- 299
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 48 tools in Content Management Systems (CMS) by health , between Automad (#3) and Vvveb CMS (#5) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Python, PHP |
| Latest release | v3.5 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 758 |
| Open issues | 65 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | superdesk/superdesk ↗ |
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Superdesk: common questions
Is Superdesk still maintained?
Superdesk had 67 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v3.5, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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