# Samvera Hyrax

> Samvera Hyrax is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the libraries & repositories category. Front-end for the Samvera framework, which itself is a Ruby on Rails application for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories. It has 202 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/samvera/hyrax |
| Website | https://samvera.org/ |
| GitHub stars | 202 |
| Forks | 140 |
| Open issues | 503 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Ruby |
| Docker image | No |
| Platforms | Ruby |
| Categories | Libraries & Repositories |
| Commits, last 12 months | 565 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | hyrax-v5.3.1 (Oct 2, 2026) |
| Created | Nov 29, 2016 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: repository, sufia, rails, hydra-community, fcrepo, blacklight, hyrax, samvera, samvera-community

## Install

Samvera Hyrax installs natively; follow the README at https://github.com/samvera/hyrax.

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