Is TextGen (text-generation-webui) Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
TextGen, by oobabooga and formerly called text-generation-webui, is a web interface for running local LLMs with several back ends.
Short answer: Yes, but development has slowed. Health score 18/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
TextGen’s main branch received 1 commit in the last 91 days, against 233 in the same 91 days a year earlier (−100%). That is less than half of last year’s pace, which the index labels “slowing down”. It has 47,735 stars on GitHub. Its AGPL-3.0 licence requires you to share your source changes if you run a modified version as a network service.
TextGen security practices and adoption
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv4.9
- Published20 May 2026
- Downloads of its 19 files82,686
- Contributors381
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 3.8 / 35 | 1 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 0.1 / 20 | 0% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 7.0 / 15 | last commit 62 days ago |
| Releases | 7.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 151 days ago |
| Community | 0.0 / 20 | 0 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 861. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
TextGen: common questions
Is TextGen still maintained?
Yes, but development has slowed. As of 18 October 2026, TextGen received 1 commits in the last 91 days, less than half of its pace a year earlier; the latest commit is from 17 August 2026. Its health score is 18 out of 100.
What is the latest TextGen release?
The latest GitHub release of TextGen is v4.9, published on 20 May 2026.
How many people contribute to TextGen?
GitHub lists 381 contributors for TextGen. 0 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does TextGen use?
GitHub identifies the TextGen licence as AGPL-3.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
Have you used TextGen? Rate it:
Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 47,734 | 1 | Slowing down |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 47,733 | 1 | Slowing down |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 47,732 | 1 | Slowing down |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for TextGen since then.
Other local llm tools
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama | Active | 184k | 372 | +40% |
| Open WebUI | Active | 156k | 2,142 | +19% |
| llama.cpp | Active | 132k | 1,653 | +94% |
| vLLM | Active | 94.1k | 4,411 | +59% |
| LobeChat | Active | 83.3k | 2,597 | +169% |
| GPT4All | No recent commits | 77.3k | 0 | — |
| whisper.cpp | Active | 54.5k | 621 | +30% |
| LocalAI | Active | 49.6k | 1,482 | +185% |
| exo | Active | 48.0k | 92 | −6% |
| TextGen | Slowing down | 47.7k | 1 | −100% |
| LibreChat | Active | 45.9k | 1,589 | +289% |
| Jan | Active | 45.0k | 1,050 | −10% |
| SGLang | Active | 37.3k | 4,904 | +155% |
| llamafile | Active | 26.4k | 21 | — |
| MLC LLM | Slowing down | 23.3k | 18 | −55% |
| TensorRT-LLM | Active | 14.9k | 2,367 | +79% |
| KoboldCpp | Active | 12.0k | 1,886 | +62% |
| TGI (Hugging Face) | Archived | 10.9k | 0 | −100% |
| LMDeploy | Active | 8.1k | 148 | −5% |
| MLX-LM | Active | 7.4k | 134 | +6% |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.