caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

77.9k stars · 5.1k forks · Go

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 63 people, 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

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 79
Human commits, 90 days: 136
Human commits, 365 days: 380
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 5%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (23 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 63
Last release: Oct 3, 2026 (12 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 14 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 90% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 380 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 8
Authors for 80% of commits: 61
Contributors: 441

Top committers

mholt: 15% of commits
francislavoie: 8% of commits
steadytao: 8% of commits
dunglas: 5% of commits
mohammed90: 5% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Apr 28, 2015 to May 18, 2015: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 447 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 28, 2015 to May 30, 2015: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 17, 2016 to Feb 19, 2016: about 218 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 9, 2016 to Mar 11, 2016: about 229 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 29, 2016 to Mar 31, 2016: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 19, 2016 to Jul 20, 2016: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 5, 2016 to Aug 8, 2016: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 16, 2016 to Oct 18, 2016: about 314 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jan 9, 2017 to Jan 13, 2017: about 106 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.
Feb 17, 2017 to Feb 18, 2017: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 16, 2017 to Mar 22, 2017: about 370 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 21, 2017 to Apr 22, 2017: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2019 to Jul 5, 2019: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 3, 2019 to Oct 6, 2019: about 290 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 4, 2020 to May 13, 2020: about 796 more stars than usual, peak 227 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 26, 2021 to Feb 27, 2021: about 342 more stars than usual, peak 322 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 25, 2021 to Dec 2, 2021: about 211 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 15, 2022 to Feb 18, 2022: about 283 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 6, 2022 to Apr 7, 2022: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 13, 2022 to Apr 14, 2022: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 11, 2022 to May 12, 2022: about 181 more stars than usual, peak 190 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 8, 2022 to Sep 8, 2022: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 21, 2022 to Sep 25, 2022: about 224 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 6, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 21, 2023 to Aug 26, 2023: about 513 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 30, 2024 to May 31, 2024: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 2, 2025 to Jan 6, 2025: about 530 more stars than usual, peak 278 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 19, 2025 to Jan 21, 2025: about 204 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 16, 2025 to Feb 18, 2025: about 199 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 8, 2025 to Apr 15, 2025: about 611 more stars than usual, peak 290 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 16, 2025 to Jul 17, 2025: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 13, 2026 to Feb 14, 2026: 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.
Oct 4, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 578 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

4 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

github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 (GO): latest v2.11.7, published Oct 3, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 9.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: caddyserver/caddy, deps.dev: Go github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2