UUSEC WAF
Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx).
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Still maintained? Yes: 14 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v7.2.6 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
UUSEC WAF quick facts
- Health score
- 74/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,719
- Last commit
- 10 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v7.2.6, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "⭐Please help us with a star to support our continuous improvement, thank you!"
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
UUSEC WAF scores 74/100, #16 of 19 in Web Servers: 14 commits in the last 90 days earn 16.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v7.2.6, 18 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,719 stars add 12.9 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 commit activity, worth 18.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 16.3 / 35
14 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v7.2.6 released 18 days ago
- Stars 12.9 / 20
1.7k 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
- 14
- Last 90 days
- 71
- Last 12 months
- 10 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between Vinyl Cache (#15) and Apache HTTP Server (#17) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C, Lua, Docker |
| Latest release | v7.2.6 · 18 days ago |
| Stars | 1,719 |
| Open issues | 84 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Safe3/uusec-waf ↗ |
UUSEC WAF vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with UUSEC WAF (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nginx Proxy Manager | 98 | 35k | MIT | 10 days ago |
| SafeLine | 97 | 23k | GPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| BunkerWeb | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Static Web Server | 88 | 2.4k | Apache-2.0 | 12 days ago |
| UUSEC WAF (this tool) | 74 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Lighttpd | 20 | 0 | BSD-3-Clause | 4 months ago |
UUSEC WAF: common questions
Is UUSEC WAF still maintained?
UUSEC WAF had 14 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 days ago; the latest tagged release, v7.2.6, is from 18 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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