HumHub
HumHub is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It has 6,758 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 6,758
- Forks
- 1,679
- Open issues
- 739
- Commits, last 12 months
- 845
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.19.0Oct 12, 2026
- Created
- Feb 10, 2014
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 845 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 845 |
| Latest release | v1.19.0 (Oct 12, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 179 |
| Open issues | 739 |
| Open pull requests | 70 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 10, 2014 |
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About HumHub
Flexible kit for private social networks.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/humhub/humhub.
Topics
- social-network
- php
- awesome
- humhub
- enterprise-social-networks
- social-networks
- yii2
- social-networking
- ldap
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Is HumHub free and open source?
Yes. HumHub is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run HumHub with Docker?
HumHub does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to HumHub?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to HumHub include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is HumHub actively maintained?
The most recent commit to HumHub was on Oct 26, 2026 with 845 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.19.0, published Oct 12, 2026. It had 739 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.