k3s-io/k3s

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

38

Human commits, 90 days

117

Human commits, 365 days

460

Bot share of commits, 365 days

14%

Last commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

29

Last release

Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)

Median PR merge time

19 hours

Responsiveness: of 18 recent issues, 61% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 hours.

• 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

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

431 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

7

Contributors

314

Top committers

• brandond: 42% of commits
• dereknola: 13% of commits
• rafaelbreno: 7% of commits
• manuelbuil: 7% of commits
• mgfritch: 6% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 26, 2018 to Oct 2, 2018: about 472 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 20, 2018 to Dec 21, 2018: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 3, 2019 to Feb 11, 2019: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 26, 2019 to Mar 20, 2019: about 3.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k 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.
• Nov 19, 2019 to Nov 27, 2019: about 552 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 27, 2023 to Jul 28, 2023: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 1, 2023 to Aug 3, 2023: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 1 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

Flags

• Warning: The latest release of the Go package github.com/k3s-io/k3s was published more than 24 months ago, while the repository has had 460 human commits in the last year (deps.dev); the old release has 4 known security advisories (GHSA-jxr7-mqhw-9p98, GHSA-m4hf-6vgr-75r2, GO-2025-3646), which do not show whether the current code is affected. Details

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• github.com/k3s-io/k3s (GO): latest v0.8.1, published Aug 20, 2019
  Advisories for the latest version: GHSA-jxr7-mqhw-9p98 (moderate), GHSA-m4hf-6vgr-75r2 (high), GO-2025-3646 (unknown), GO-2026-5973 (unknown)

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 8.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: k3s-io/k3s, deps.dev: Go github.com/k3s-io/k3s, OSV: GHSA-jxr7-mqhw-9p98, OSV: GHSA-m4hf-6vgr-75r2, OSV: GO-2025-3646, OSV: GO-2026-5973