PowerShell/PowerShell

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

36

Human commits, 90 days

101

Human commits, 365 days

347

Bot share of commits, 365 days

16%

Last commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

11

Last release

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Median PR merge time

2 hours

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 69% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

347 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

4

Authors for 80% of commits

8

Contributors

371

Top committers

• daxian-dbw: 26% of commits
• jshigetomi: 10% of commits
• Copilot: 9% of commits
• xtqqczze: 9% of commits
• anamnavi: 9% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Aug 18, 2016 to Sep 9, 2016: about 4.3k more stars than usual, peak 1.9k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 11, 2018 to Jan 15, 2018: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 4, 2020 to Mar 7, 2020: about 207 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 18, 2020 to Jul 19, 2020: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 232 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 10, 2020 to Sep 12, 2020: about 480 more stars than usual, peak 205 in one day, a flat block of stars. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 23, 2020 to Oct 23, 2020: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 13, 2021 to Feb 14, 2021: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 13, 2021 to Mar 15, 2021: about 326 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 30, 2021 to Jul 4, 2021: about 832 more stars than usual, peak 323 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 14, 2021 to Aug 20, 2021: about 966 more stars than usual, peak 203 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 6, 2021 to Oct 9, 2021: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 137 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 10, 2021 to Nov 14, 2021: about 360 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 4, 2022 to Jan 7, 2022: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 18, 2022 to Mar 21, 2022: about 259 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 28, 2022 to May 2, 2022: about 325 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 21, 2022 to May 22, 2022: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 13, 2022 to Aug 15, 2022: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 22, 2022 to Oct 27, 2022: about 291 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 10, 2022 to Nov 14, 2022: about 143 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 26, 2023 to Jan 26, 2023: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 15, 2023 to Apr 19, 2023: about 295 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 29, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023: about 891 more stars than usual, peak 432 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Sep 21, 2023 to Sep 26, 2023: about 339 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 28, 2023 to Nov 1, 2023: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 20, 2023 to Nov 22, 2023: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 13, 2024 to Jan 15, 2024: about 126 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 20, 2024 to Jun 21, 2024: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 24, 2024 to Oct 29, 2024: about 435 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 12, 2025 to Sep 18, 2025: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 530 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 24, 2025 to Oct 26, 2025: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 21, 2026 to Feb 22, 2026: about 145 more stars than usual, peak 138 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 22, 2026 to Apr 26, 2026: about 472 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 14 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

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: PowerShell/PowerShell