junegunn/fzf
:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
83.6k stars · 5.4k forks · Go
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 80% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 9
- Human commits, 90 days
- 77
- Human commits, 365 days
- 325
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 4%
- Last commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 5
- Last release
- Oct 11, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 8 hours
Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 81% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 20 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 325 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 313
Top committers
- junegunn: 80% of commits
- bitraid: 3% of commits
- LangLangBart: 3% of commits
- Cyrus580529: 2% of commits
- mrclmr: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Feb 18, 2014 to Feb 19, 2014: about 14 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Mar 3, 2014 to Mar 4, 2014: about 27 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 11, 2014 to Jun 11, 2014: about 10 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 17, 2014 to Jun 23, 2014: about 145 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 18, 2015 to Jan 20, 2015: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 11, 2015 to Mar 11, 2015: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 19 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 26, 2015 to Mar 27, 2015: about 28 more stars than usual, peak 23 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 7, 2015 to May 11, 2015: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 11, 2016 to Apr 13, 2016: about 50 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.
- Oct 13, 2017 to Oct 27, 2017: about 722 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 31, 2018 to Sep 6, 2018: about 326 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.
- Jul 5, 2019 to Jul 5, 2019: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 19, 2022 to Mar 22, 2022: about 193 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.
- Mar 21, 2023 to Mar 26, 2023: about 448 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 15, 2024 to Feb 16, 2024: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 27, 2024 to Oct 29, 2024: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 9, 2025 to Jul 10, 2025: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 15, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025: about 167 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 5, 2026: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 16 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
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- github.com/junegunn/fzf (GO): latest v0.74.5, published Oct 11, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: junegunn/fzf, deps.dev: Go github.com/junegunn/fzf
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[](https://reporadar.ai/junegunn/fzf)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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