Bugzilla

General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.

Active Last commit on 2026-11-09 · No releases in the past year · 26 commits in the past 12 months

At a glance

GitHub stars: 866
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Latest release: release-5.3.3
2024-09-05
Commits (12 mo): 26
Releases (12 mo): 0
License: MPL-2.0
Language / platform: Perl

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit on 2026-11-09 · No releases in the past year · 26 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

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