Gibbon
Flexible school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders.
Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.
Commit activity more than 53% of tracked projects; popularity more than 27%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 633 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v30.0.01 · 6 Feb 2026 |
| Repo updated | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Gibbon actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 303 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 18 of them.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 63% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, v30.0.01, is about 8 months old.
Gibbon ranks #7 of 16 in Learning and Courses, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Gibbon actually does
Gibbon is a self-hosted school management platform designed to organise administrative tasks, learning, and communication for educational communities. It provides a centralised system to coordinate workflows between teachers, students, parents, and institutional leaders. As an open-source tool within the learning and courses category, it handles standard academic record-keeping and course administration.
Best fit: It is well-suited for educational institutions seeking an open-source, customisable administrative platform that they can host on their own infrastructure.
Worth knowing: The project exhibits a slowing maintenance trajectory, which may impact long-term security updates and community support for complex deployments.
Deployment notes
Because it is built with PHP, you will typically need to provision a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, and ensure persistent storage for uploaded user files and documents.
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