Is it still shipping?
Yes. kong is maintained. The last commit was 6 days ago, and it scores 98/100.
freshness 98/100
Every night it was read41 nightly readings, August 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026. Bar height is freshness out of 100; the ink is the verdict that night.
65, maintained25, dead
August 1, 2026September 13, 2026
How the verdict was reached
read September 13, 2026 from the GitHub API for Kong/kong| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 100 | 100 | Every row starts at 100, and the effects below move it. |
| Last commit | 6 days ago, September 7, 2026 | none | Pushed 6 days ago. |
| Commits, 90 days | 7 | none | 7 commits in the last 12 weeks. |
| Last release | 3.9.3, 3 months ago | +4 | Released 3.9.3 88 days ago; 2 releases in the last year. |
| Release cadence | 189 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 8 sampled | -8 | 100% of the recent issues sampled have no maintainer reply at all. |
| Committers, 90 days | 7 | +2 | 7 people committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 7 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | not scored | |
| Freshness | 98/100 | 98 | 65 and above is maintained. |