TYPO3
Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 90% of tracked projects; popularity more than 38%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | PHP |
Is TYPO3 actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 2120 commits, of which 430 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 143 commits a month.
No tagged releases are published, so there is no stable version to pin to — you would deploy from the default branch or a container image built from it.
TYPO3 ranks #18 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What TYPO3 actually does
TYPO3 is a content management system designed for building and maintaining websites and digital publishing platforms. It provides structured tooling to organise pages, manage media assets, and control multi-user editing workflows. Built using PHP, it relies on a traditional server-side rendering stack.
Best fit: It suits organisations requiring a structured publishing platform with strict editorial roles and multi-site management capabilities.
Worth knowing: The platform has a steep learning curve for administration and customisation, and it shares a crowded space with better-known alternatives like WordPress and Drupal.
Deployment notes
Deployment typically requires a standard PHP runtime environment, a relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and a web server like Nginx or Apache with TLS termination configured via a reverse proxy.
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