hyprwm/Hyprland

Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

38.9k stars · 2.1k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 54 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: 92
Human commits, 90 days: 308
Human commits, 365 days: 1.4k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 54
Last release: Aug 5, 2026 (2 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 10 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

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: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 15
Contributors: 428

Top committers

vaxerski: 40% of commits
gulafaran: 8% of commits
erstarr: 7% of commits
NotPppp1116: 5% of commits
danielkrupinski: 4% 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

May 14, 2022 to May 16, 2022: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 8, 2022 to Jun 17, 2022: about 621 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 8, 2022 to Aug 10, 2022: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 13, 2022 to Nov 15, 2022: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 9, 2023 to Jan 10, 2023: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 14, 2023 to Jan 15, 2023: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 24, 2023 to Jan 26, 2023: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 9, 2023 to May 9, 2023: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 15, 2023 to Oct 17, 2023: about 235 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 29, 2023 to Oct 30, 2023: about 107 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.
Mar 11, 2024 to Mar 12, 2024: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 7, 2024 to Oct 12, 2024: about 660 more stars than usual, peak 203 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 17, 2025 to Feb 18, 2025: about 155 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 27, 2025 to May 8, 2025: about 306 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 18, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 555 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 28, 2026 to Mar 6, 2026: about 177 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 20, 2026 to Jul 29, 2026: about 764 more stars than usual, peak 287 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, a new release.

2 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

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
A year ago: BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: hyprwm/Hyprland

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2