acmesh-official/acme.sh
A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation
47.8k stars · 5.7k forks · Shell
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 34 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 35
- Human commits, 90 days
- 107
- Human commits, 365 days
- 727
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 34
- Last release
- Sep 20, 2026 (24 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 days
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 87% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 15 hours.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 500 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 29
- Contributors
- 378
Top committers
- neilpang: 47% of commits
- neil: 10% of commits
- achmadalifn4: 5% of commits
- discostur: 2% of commits
- rperper: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Mar 1, 2016 to Mar 4, 2016: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 10, 2016 to Apr 10, 2016: about 32 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 29, 2016 to Sep 29, 2016: about 23 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 31, 2016 to Oct 31, 2016: about 31 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 15, 2017 to Jun 16, 2017: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 27, 2018 to Mar 2, 2018: about 484 more stars than usual, peak 294 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 13, 2018 to Mar 22, 2018: about 788 more stars than usual, peak 242 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 25, 2018 to Aug 27, 2018: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 23, 2020 to Nov 24, 2020: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 28, 2022 to Nov 1, 2022: about 363 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 9, 2023 to Jun 10, 2023: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 3, 2023 to Dec 7, 2023: about 182 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 10, 2024 to Jan 11, 2024: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 3, 2024 to Dec 5, 2024: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 4, 2025 to Mar 6, 2025: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 5 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.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: acmesh-official/acme.sh
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[](https://reporadar.ai/acmesh-official/acme.sh)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2