Concrete 5 CMS

Is Concrete 5 CMS actively maintained?

Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 486 commits, of which 152 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 51 commits a month.

The most recent tagged release, 9.5.4, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Concrete 5 CMS ranks #16 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.

What Concrete 5 CMS actually does

Concrete 5 is an open source content management system written in PHP under the MIT licence. It provides a structured framework for publishing and managing digital content through a web-based interface. Administrators can use it to build and maintain websites without directly editing source files.

Best fit: It suits teams looking for an open source, PHP-based content management system for standard web publishing tasks.

Worth knowing: The project's moderate maintenance activity level and heavy overlap with more dominant alternatives mean you should evaluate community support carefully before adopting it for long-term critical infrastructure.

Deployment notes

As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, and persistent storage for uploaded media files.

Links

• Official website
• Source code