Kirby
Kirby is a source-available, self-hosted app in the CMS category, licensed Kirby License Agreement and written mainly in PHP. It has 1,537 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,537
- Forks
- 193
- Open issues
- 108
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,093
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 5.6.1Oct 6, 2026
- Created
- Oct 6, 2017
- License
- Kirby License AgreementSource-available
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 1,093 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,093 |
| Latest release | 5.6.1 (Oct 6, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 224 |
| Open issues | 108 |
| Open pull requests | 28 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 6, 2017 |
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About Kirby
File-based CMS. Easy to setup. Easy to use. Flexible as hell.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/getkirby/kirby.
Topics
- kirby
- cms
- content-management
- cms-framework
- file-based
- php8
- flat-file
- flat-file-cms
- headless-cms
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Is Kirby free and open source?
Not by the OSI definition. Kirby is source-available rather than open source: its code is public under the Kirby License Agreement, which is not an OSI-approved open-source license. This is a custom license: the source is public, but it adds conditions that OSI-approved licenses do not, such as limits on commercial, hosted or production use. Read it before you deploy. Check the license in the repository before using it commercially.
Can I run Kirby with Docker?
Kirby 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 Kirby?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Kirby include Strapi, Payload CMS and WordPress.
Is Kirby actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Kirby was on Oct 25, 2026 with 1,093 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 5.6.1, published Oct 6, 2026. It had 108 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.