BurntSushi/ripgrep

Maintenance

Steady

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

24

Human commits, 365 days

136

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Aug 4, 2026 (2 months ago)

Last human commit

Aug 4, 2026 (2 months ago)

Authors, 90 days

5

Last release

Jul 15, 2026 (3 months ago)

Median PR merge time

1 hour

Responsiveness: of 24 recent issues, 58% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

136 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

6

Contributors

438

Top committers

• BurntSushi: 66% of commits
• okdana: 7% of commits
• tmccombs: 2% of commits
• jgarte: 1% of commits
• MichaReiser: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 23, 2016 to Oct 22, 2016: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 537 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 19, 2017 to Jan 20, 2017: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 27, 2017 to Mar 28, 2017: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 23, 2017 to Nov 24, 2017: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 12, 2018 to Feb 13, 2018: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 7, 2018 to Sep 11, 2018: about 312 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 15, 2019 to Apr 19, 2019: about 409 more stars than usual, peak 227 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 20, 2020 to Jan 20, 2020: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 14, 2021 to Jun 18, 2021: about 388 more stars than usual, peak 189 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 19, 2021 to Oct 20, 2021: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 23, 2022 to Jun 24, 2022: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 26, 2023 to Dec 1, 2023: about 363 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Feb 25, 2025 to Feb 27, 2025: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 18, 2025 to Oct 21, 2025: about 331 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 6 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Unlicense (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Unlicense (OSI-approved)

Packages

• ripgrep (CARGO): latest 15.2.0, published Jul 15, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: BurntSushi/ripgrep, deps.dev: Cargo ripgrep