apple/container

A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

50.7k stars · 1.8k forks · Swift

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 31 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

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 33
Human commits, 90 days: 107
Human commits, 365 days: 527
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 2%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 31
Last release: Sep 29, 2026 (16 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 22 hours

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 8% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 13 days.

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: 490 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 4
Authors for 80% of commits: 14
Contributors: 118

Top committers

jglogan: 27% of commits
katiewasnothere: 11% of commits
dcantah: 7% of commits
JaewonHur: 7% of commits
saehejkang: 7% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jan 20, 2026 to Jan 21, 2026: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 25, 2026 to Jan 26, 2026: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 1, 2026 to Feb 5, 2026: about 193 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 8, 2026 to Jul 12, 2026: about 20.2k more stars than usual, peak 3.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a new release.
Aug 23, 2026 to Aug 23, 2026: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 139 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

7 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

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: apple/container

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2