Temporal
Temporal is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Automation & Workflows category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 23,987 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 23,987
- Forks
- 2,046
- Open issues
- 586
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,105
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.32.1Oct 8, 2026
- Created
- Oct 16, 2019
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 2,105 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors6 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,105 |
| Latest release | v1.32.1 (Oct 8, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 177 |
| Open issues | 586 |
| Open pull requests | 500 |
| Good first issues | 6 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Oct 16, 2019 |
Health as of , from the GitHub API. A label describes activity, not quality or security. How we label project health · Report a data error
About Temporal
Durable execution platform for reliable workflows and background jobs.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/temporalio/temporal.
Topics
- workflows
- workflow-engine
- workflow-automation
- workflow-management
- workflow-management-system
- distributed-systems
- golang
- service-bus
- service-fabric
- microservices-architecture
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Is Temporal free and open source?
Yes. Temporal is open-source software released under the MIT 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 Temporal with Docker?
Yes. Temporal provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Temporal?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Temporal include n8n, Huginn and Apache Airflow.
Is Temporal actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Temporal was on Oct 26, 2026 with 2,105 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.32.1, published Oct 8, 2026. It had 586 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.