Samvera Hyrax

Front-end for the Samvera framework, which itself is a Ruby on Rails application for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories.

Active Last commit · 656 commits in the past 12 months

At a glance

GitHub stars
201
Last commit
2026-11-05
Latest release
hyrax-v5.3.1
2026-10-02
Commits (12 mo)
656
Releases (12 mo)
–
License
Apache-2.0
Language / platform
Ruby

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 656 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).

Run Samvera Hyrax yourself

  • RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: not detected — install from source or packages

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