microsoft/WSL

Windows Subsystem for Linux

34.1k stars · 1.9k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 34 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: 132
Human commits, 90 days: 379
Human commits, 365 days: 985
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 34
Last release: Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 18 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 93% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 13 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

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 497 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 6
Contributors: 136

Top committers

OneBlue: 36% of commits
benhillis: 14% of commits
chemwolf6922: 9% of commits
ggarzia-MSFT: 9% of commits
beena352: 8% 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

Jul 10, 2016 to Jul 14, 2016: about 190 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 2, 2016 to Aug 13, 2016: about 297 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 21, 2022 to Sep 23, 2022: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 16, 2022 to Nov 18, 2022: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 23, 2022 to Nov 25, 2022: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 18, 2023 to Sep 23, 2023: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 19, 2025 to Jun 21, 2025: about 9.9k more stars than usual, peak 3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 29, 2026 to Mar 30, 2026: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 30, 2026 to Oct 2, 2026: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: 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: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/WSL

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Earlier verdicts

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

Computed 12 hours ago · method 2026.10.2