microsoft/terminal

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

105.2k stars · 9.7k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 29 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: 34
Human commits, 90 days: 88
Human commits, 365 days: 310
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 8%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 29
Last release: Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 26 hours

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 77% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 13 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 310 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 12
Contributors: 438

Top committers

DHowett: 34% of commits
carlos-zamora: 17% of commits
lhecker: 15% of commits
PankajBhojwani: 4% of commits
zadjii-msft: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Oct 18, 2017 to Oct 19, 2017: about 15 more stars than usual, peak 11 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 6, 2019 to Jun 9, 2019: about 37k more stars than usual, peak 12.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Aug 5, 2019 to Aug 8, 2019: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 28, 2019 to Aug 29, 2019: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 15, 2020 to Feb 15, 2020: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 19, 2020 to May 29, 2020: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 451 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 23, 2020 to Jul 24, 2020: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 237 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 19, 2020 to Dec 19, 2020: about 107 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 24, 2021 to Jan 25, 2021: about 216 more stars than usual, peak 213 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 29, 2021 to Jan 31, 2021: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 29, 2021 to May 30, 2021: about 316 more stars than usual, peak 286 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 16, 2021 to Jul 19, 2021: about 374 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 6, 2021 to Aug 6, 2021: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 2, 2021 to Sep 3, 2021: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 139 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 23, 2021 to Oct 27, 2021: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 17, 2021 to Dec 18, 2021: about 156 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 5, 2022 to Feb 9, 2022: about 557 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 2, 2022: about 107 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 21, 2022 to Apr 22, 2022: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 116 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 85 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 23, 2022 to Jul 23, 2022: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 7, 2022 to Aug 8, 2022: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 15, 2022 to Dec 17, 2022: about 221 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 6, 2023 to Jan 6, 2023: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 26, 2023 to Jan 27, 2023: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 27, 2023 to Oct 3, 2023: about 314 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 1, 2024 to Feb 4, 2024: about 223 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 4, 2025 to Jan 5, 2025: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 8, 2025 to Feb 10, 2025: about 253 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 27, 2025 to Apr 28, 2025: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 27, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025: about 428 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 10, 2025 to Sep 11, 2025: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 19, 2025 to Oct 21, 2025: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 19, 2026 to Jul 20, 2026: about 284 more stars than usual, peak 245 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

8 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: 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/terminal

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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