Mautic

Is Mautic actively maintained?

Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 5226 commits, of which 3340 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 1113 commits a month.

Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 316% more commits than the one before it.

The most recent tagged release, 7.2.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Among the 12 communication - email - mailing lists and newsletters projects we track, Mautic currently has the highest health score.

What Mautic actually does

Mautic is an open-source marketing automation platform designed to manage email campaigns, social media interactions, and audience segmentation. Written in PHP, it provides self-hosted infrastructure for tracking user behaviour and executing automated communication workflows. It serves as a central hub for handling large-scale outreach and managing contact databases directly on your own infrastructure.

Best fit: Teams with technical resources who want to retain ownership of their marketing data and user lists without relying on third-party SaaS providers.

Worth knowing: Self-hosting a comprehensive marketing platform introduces significant operational overhead, particularly around maintaining deliverability rates, managing bounce handling, and configuring reliable background cron jobs for campaign delivery.

Deployment notes

Deploying this PHP application typically requires a dedicated relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, a web server such as Nginx or Apache, and a properly configured background task queue. You will also need to handle TLS termination via a reverse proxy and ensure persistent storage is available for uploaded media and logs.

Links

• Official website
• Source code