Umbraco
The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community.
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Still maintained? Yes: 546 commits in the last 90 days, latest release release-18.3.0 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Umbraco quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,279
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- release-18.3.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Our comprehensive documentation takes you from the fundamentals on how to start with Umbraco to deploying it to production."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Umbraco scores 85/100, #15 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS): 546 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (release-18.3.0, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,279 stars add 14.9 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.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
546 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
release-18.3.0 released yesterday
- Stars 14.9 / 20
5.3k 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
- 546
- Last 90 days
- 2,835
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 48 tools in Content Management Systems (CMS) by health , between Joomla! (#14) and CraftCMS (#16) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | .NET |
| Latest release | release-18.3.0 · yesterday |
| Stars | 5,279 |
| Open issues | 421 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | umbraco/Umbraco-CMS ↗ |
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Umbraco: common questions
Is Umbraco still maintained?
Umbraco had 546 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, release-18.3.0, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.