balena-io/etcher
Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
34.5k stars · 2.4k forks · TypeScript
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 1 person in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 1
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 7
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 36%
- Last commit
- Sep 18, 2026 (26 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 18, 2026 (26 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Sep 18, 2026 (26 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 21 hours
Responsiveness: of 16 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 7 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 85
Top committers
- thgreasi: 71% of commits
- aethernet: 29% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 8, 2016 to Apr 15, 2016: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 15, 2016 to May 20, 2016: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 27, 2016 to Sep 28, 2016: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 14, 2017 to May 15, 2017: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 27, 2017 to Jul 18, 2017: about 476 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 14, 2020 to Jun 14, 2020: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 6, 2024 to May 10, 2024: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 27, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 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
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.2 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: balena-io/etcher
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 12 hours ago · method 2026.10.2