rustdesk/rustdesk

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

98

Human commits, 90 days

289

Human commits, 365 days

762

Bot share of commits, 365 days

1%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

73

Last release

Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)

Median PR merge time

12 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 45% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 6 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

Personal account

Commits sampled

497 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

3

Authors for 80% of commits

27

Contributors

408

Top committers

• rustdesk: 30% of commits
• fufesou: 20% of commits
• 21pages: 5% of commits
• maisondasilva: 4% of commits
• fxd0h: 3% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Mar 29, 2021 to Apr 30, 2021: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 10, 2021 to May 14, 2021: about 673 more stars than usual, peak 312 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 24, 2021 to May 27, 2021: about 826 more stars than usual, peak 380 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 17, 2021 to Jun 24, 2021: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 568 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 8, 2022 to Feb 14, 2022: about 510 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 5, 2022 to Jun 6, 2022: about 3.9k more stars than usual, peak 827 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.
• Jun 18, 2022 to Jun 21, 2022: about 288 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 26, 2022 to Aug 1, 2022: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 713 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.
• Oct 22, 2022 to Oct 28, 2022: about 664 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 15, 2022 to Nov 16, 2022: about 220 more stars than usual, peak 211 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 9, 2023 to Feb 14, 2023: about 853 more stars than usual, peak 262 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2023 to Aug 30, 2023: about 585 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 13, 2023 to Oct 17, 2023: about 463 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 10, 2024 to Jan 11, 2024: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 20, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024: about 4.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Mar 29, 2024 to Mar 29, 2024: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 137 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 25, 2024 to Apr 27, 2024: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 7, 2024 to May 11, 2024: about 713 more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 18, 2024 to Jun 28, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 286 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 12, 2024 to Aug 16, 2024: about 484 more stars than usual, peak 224 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 8, 2024 to Sep 11, 2024: about 363 more stars than usual, peak 232 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 30, 2024 to Oct 31, 2024: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 184 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 4, 2024 to Nov 5, 2024: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 4, 2025 to Feb 11, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 377 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Feb 24, 2025 to Feb 25, 2025: about 210 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 1, 2025 to Apr 7, 2025: about 922 more stars than usual, peak 463 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 6, 2025 to Jun 6, 2025: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 29, 2025 to Aug 29, 2025: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 2, 2025 to Sep 5, 2025: about 487 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 9, 2025 to Oct 10, 2025: about 198 more stars than usual, peak 211 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 15, 2025 to Oct 16, 2025: about 822 more stars than usual, peak 726 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 11, 2025 to Dec 12, 2025: about 235 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 17, 2026 to Apr 21, 2026: about 916 more stars than usual, peak 445 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 14, 2026 to Aug 18, 2026: about 543 more stars than usual, peak 357 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 17 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.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: rustdesk/rustdesk