Outline
Extensible wiki for your team.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 41k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v1.10.1 · 9 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | BUSL-1.1 |
| Built with | Nodejs, Docker |
Is Outline actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 1943 commits, of which 688 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 229 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, v1.10.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Note that Outline depends on a third-party service to work fully. It is self-hosted, but not self-contained: if that external service changes its terms or disappears, your instance is affected.
Among the 24 wikis projects we track, Outline currently has the highest health score.
What Outline actually does
Outline is a collaborative wiki designed for team documentation and knowledge management. It provides a structured workspace where groups can author, organise, and share internal notes and guides.
Best fit: Teams looking for an extensible, self-hosted documentation hub to centralise their internal knowledge bases.
Worth knowing: It uses the Business Source License, which places specific restrictions on commercial use and competitive hosting until the code converts to an open source licence.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to configure Docker containers alongside a persistent database and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination for production use.
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